I love that there's actually a word for the pleasant, loamy smell when it first starts to rain ('petrichor'). I've always loved that smell, and I'm glad to know it has a name.

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Ammon Shea was at a symposium I attended this evening (with Simon Winchester, who wrote The Professor and the ( Read more... )

cherry blossoms and a flowering tree i like (and will spend the next two hours trying to identify. Is it a kind of magnolia???)


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Today, when I came back from lunch, this is what I found:


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This is such a fantastic idea. We should all do this.

Photographs of the "now" you imitating an old childhood photograph:


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It's like Karen's Venn Diagram of Awesomeness: Tina Fey, Christopher Guest, John Hodgman and Ricky Gervais in the same movie! A Ricky Gervais-written and -directed movie, no less!  I am SO being set up for disappointment.

Fey Joins Gervais Comedy 'Truth'
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1. I saw 'Be Kind Rewind' tonight. Awesome.
2. I've taken up knitting. Addictive.
3. It snowed all day today. About time.

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This is really, really funny. It's like David Cross meets Will Farrell. I love how distressed his voice gets, how bitter and put-upon he is, how he's always sighing. So, sooooo hilarious. (If you enjoy episode 1, there are 3 more equally amusing episodes, continuing the failed marriage motif, on YouTube.)

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Here's a very funny British show I just discovered: Posh Nosh ("extraordinary food for ordinary people."). It was on the BBC about 5 years ago but you can watch all the episodes on YouTube (each is only about 9 minutes long). It stars the wonderful Richard E. Grant, and is a spoof of cooking shows. My favorite thing about it is how they personify ( Read more... )

Love this.

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