Things I learned today:

While ashes often are scattered at sea, full-body burials are uncommon and highly regulated. State and federal protocols demand the body be in a coffin of noncorrosive metal that weighs four times the individual's body weight, said Gary Collins, burial at sea coordinator for the Environmental Protection Agency's ( Read more... )

Listening in on a conference call and I'm munching away on my little container of nuts.

I noticed on the label the following warning: "Packed in a facility that handles peanuts, tree nuts, milk, soy, wheat and egg products."

I'm pleased to learn that my nut provider packed these in a facility that handles nuts. Litigious much?

It's been a long time since I laughed so hard at political humor on SNL. Well done, Samberg. Well done, indeed.

Don't tell my wife, ( but... )

I've finally put together the last piece of furniture for Jackson's room.

I thought you might appreciate this particularly creepy piece that will not be used with his bassinet.

I thought I'd share a few of the pictures I took immediately following the big snow we had in November.

( ...just four this time... )

Despite my long held distrust of self medication, I decided to give Lactaid a try. My cereal in the morning just doesn't taste as good with soy milk, and is occasionally too sweet due to the added flavoring in the soy milk ( Read more... )

I had read this joke many times before, but it really came to mind with our most recent snow. I had a hard time remembering any relevant components to identify it in Google, so I'm posting it here to help me find it in the future.

( ...ha... )

Taken from Precision Blogging:

You're probably talking about this terrible security disaster already: the largest database leak ever. Arweena, a spokes-elf for Santa Claus, admitted a few hours ago that the database posted at WikiLeaks yesterday is indeed the comprehensive 2009 list of which kids have been naughty, and which were nice. The source ( Read more... )

I saw the poster for this when thenik and I caught a film at the Arclight last month.

It seems to be almost identical to the original. It begs the question: are Frank Oz and a few British actors really so high-falutin' that we had to remake the movie in three years like this? Complete with the original poop jokes ( Read more... )