September 2011
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Mama = construction worker.
Josh: Look at her dimply little elbow.
Sabine: I made that elbow.
Josh: We made that elbow!
Sabine: No. You provided half the blueprints. My body did all the construction work.
Josh: Fair enough.
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supersecret replied to your photo: IKEA has a rocking moose. This just went on my…
the nose ring is disturbing though, isn’t it?
Whatever. Have you ever encountered a moose? They are dangerous. Gotta be able to rein them in somehow.
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I'm not bluffin' with my muffin
This banana muffin recipe is not just any banana muffin recipe. It’s the recipe that started me baking.
Christmas of 1988, I got a cookbook. I was almost six. It was a gift from our family friends Mike and Trixie. They’re from South Africa and Mike was really Dr. Mike. Many of rural Saskatchewan’s doctors came from South Africa. I remember three who came through Indian Head in...
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Luisa's bag of tricks
It includes:
waving hello! and byebye! (also hallo! and tschüsssi!)
clapping
face palm
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Queen — I want to Break Free
The treadmill with...
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Arrr, mein hearties! →
Yesterday The Pirate Party, dedicated (awkwardly) to free information and rigid privacy protection, won nearly 9% of the vote in elections for Berlin’s city legislature. Its representatives enter a German state parliament for the first time.
via theeconomist
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Aretha Franklin — Baby I Love You
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“Berlin is a dispirited city, enduring the reaction of an arrogant pride that...”
– NYTimes article titled “Bored in Berlin” from January 1920
(via appropriation)
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In which I go off topic, and Hannah succeeds in...
Hannah: google shatner singing rocket man
Sabine: As a Canadian, I am already aware of this hilarity
Sabine: He has an entire album and its all like that
Hannah: amazing - mr tambourine man!!!!!!!!
Hannah: you must be so proud
Sabine: Never have I been prouder of a fellow countryman
Sabine: other than the time that Lester B Pearson founded Peacekeeping
Hannah: not sure this is helping my hangover
Sabine: Or when Tommy Douglas created socialised health care
Hannah: nah, go with the shatner tambourine man
Sabine: Or when the Walkie Talkie was unleashed on teh world
Sabine: Or when Alexander Graham Bell developed the telephone from his home in Brantford, Ontario
Sabine: And then there was the snowblower
Sabine: clearly, necessity was the mother of that invention
Sabine: Insulin!
Hannah: now you're googling other things
Sabine: I (L) wikipedia lists
Sabine: its a very impressive list
Sabine: the garbage bag!
Hannah: is shatner on it?
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Wilco - Color Me Impressed
(via...
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...and I did... →
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“We have a simple choice. We can depend on Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Venezuela,...”
– Newt Gingrich at the Tea Party debate.
Just so you know, Canada exports nearly twice as much oil to the U.S. than Saudi Arabia.
(via)
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Gillian Welch & Allison Krauss —...
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A "fortnight"
Is just “Fourteen nights” abbreviated into a “Fortnight”, meaning two weeks.
Now you know.
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