Birds in general are weird, but our friendly neighbourhood reiger (heron? crane? stork? whatever) is especially so. What in the name of all that’s feathered is he doing on the roof of the houseboat next door, spreading his wings, wobbling his throat and stepping around in circles?
A couple more pics below the fold.
They’re made out of meat (via). Also, “They’re made out of meat”.
LibraryThing might not be “all the wonderful”, but it’s a lot of the wonderful. Still, it’s pretty scary when it knows more about the state of my relationship than I do.
Sifting through my recommendations I found Changing Babies by Deborah Moggach. You can bet I clicked that button labelled “Why” in double-quick time, and found: [...]
Someone (who I won’t name, but she’s given me permission to use the quote) answered my question about her love life the other day with the following:
“I’m in a complicated relationship on facebook yet single on bebo.”
They’ve given me a new desk. They being the university, and the stated reason being that health regulations require everyone to be able to adjust the height of their desk.
Now this is obviously nonsense. We already have height-adjustable chairs, which give you the full range of body-to-desk relative positions. The real motivation, I suspect, is [...]
So here’s an unconventional way of catching that certain someone’s eye. The following notice was written in pink highlighter on a sheet of paper strapped to the back of a woman’s backpack, as she cycled off the ferry (I’ve anonymised the address, but I’m pretty sure I have the vagaries of grammar correctly):
> To man [...]
This morning’s internal post brought a dynamic initiative from the university: they’re going to enhance my employability by a modest capital investment leveraging my existing information processing skills.
No, really, they’re making me more employable … by giving me money to buy books with.
They have no idea what they’re in for…
(For those who really need the [...]
It’s not news that the English band I Am Kloot has an unfortunate name if you speak Dutch.
So it takes some serious cojones (so to speak) to wear one of their t-shirts around Amsterdam, like the bloke I saw in Centraal Station the other day. I like to think maybe he just didn’t realise, and [...]
Via languagelog comes this magnificent retelling of a well-known story. Do listen to it, and see if you can read along at the same time.
“This has been a suspiciously covert attempt to hide the bungalow from officers.” And yes, I checked that date, and no, it wasn’t yesterday.
And I was checking the status of a book order, and was told: “Drop ship sent”. A bit worried by that “suppression fire”, me… (Yeah, ok, there’s an explanation. But it’s boring.)