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Pack a lunch. And your Ray-Bans.

I plan to get extremely drunk tonight.

Fresh, sweet canteloupe and blueberries are pretty good together.

In the original Transformers cartoon, the main villains' respective lieutenants from both the pre-movie and post-movie episodes were both voiced by actors who were infamous for their real-life wild antics and died in early middle age of drug-related causes: Chris Latta (Starscream,) and Roger C. Carmel (Cyclonus.) The latter actually died before recording all of his scheduled episodes, and was replaced by Jack Angel.

I kind of envy that poor guy in Weird Al's "Skipper Dan" song, because at least he's working.

Bow ties are cool

'The Hungry Caterpillar' is now my most read book ever.

The vet wants $900 to clean my dog's teeth.

"The antecedents of random are somewhat murky. It originally meant ‘impetuosity, sudden speed, violence’, and only in the mid 17th century emerged as an adjective meaning ‘haphazard’. It was borrowed from Old French randon, which was probably a derivative of the verb randir ‘run impetuously’. This in turn was based on Frankish *rant ‘running’, which was apparently descended from prehistoric Germanic *randa. This originally meant ‘edge’ (it is the source of English rand (OE), now obsolete as a term for ‘edge’, but reintroduced in the 20th century via Afrikaans as the name of the basic South African currency unit), but it was also widely used for ‘shield’, and it is thought that the link with ‘running impetuously’ may be the notion of soldiers running along with their shields."

http://www.word-origins.com/definition/random.html

Took a day trip to Mt. Hood yesterday. Very pretty, but also very scary to see how much less snow there is on the mountain now, compared to twenty years ago.

Next April will mark the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic...

And that iceberg is still at large.

...but not as large.

Black Spruce trees outnumber White Spruce (and all other kinds of) trees in Newfoundland and Labrador.

The boubou is a passerine bird found in Africa

The harder you look for 4 plums without a single bruise on them, the farther and farther away that dream becomes.

Pres. John Tyler (1841-1845) who died in 1862 has 2 grandsons who are still living. His youngest daughter died in 1947.

The evolution of feathers has traditionally focused on insulation, flight and display. Discoveries of non-flying Late Cretaceous feathered dinosaurs in China however suggest that flight could not have been the original primary function.

Guimaras Island is known for its succulent mangoes.

Anthocyanins make apples red.

Burj Khalifa in Dubai, United Arab Emirates holds the record as the current tallest man made structure in the world.

In my career, I have managed approximately one quarter of the libraries in the system for which I work.

Elvis Presley died on Madonna's nineteenth birthday.

Google Maps says that to drive from Glasgow, Scotland to Stavenger, Norway via Halmstad and Oslo would take 1 day 9 hours to cover the journey of 1852 miles.

Who's Elvia Presley ... Elvis's sister??