Victoria, B.C. yet again demonstrates that they need to be pressured to deal with their waste: they’ve made an even bigger (accidental) attempt to poison Puget Sound, this time with fish pathogens. Way to go!
Keep your (admittedly weak) tourist dollars away from those poop-where-we-eat-ers.
An article on how the keyboards at 2 University of Washington computer labs are super disgusting mentions that “At the [Seattle Public] library’s Central Branch, all 378 public keyboards are wiped daily, cleaned thoroughly once a week and put through the dishwasher once a month on a rotating schedule.”
At my library, no keyboard cleaning is done whatsoever. Now wash your hands.
CORRECTION! Apparently there is keyboard cleaning. Now lick your hands.
Driving to work this morning, passed 2 cops at the end of my street, one wearing blue nitrile gloves, maybe for evidence collecting? Also a big City of Redmond Police SUV. What terrible crime has occurred???
Outside the Ipanema Grill in Manhattan, we saw a sign reading “[n] kinds of meat”. I think n was eight or ten. Here’s what we could reconstruct of the several sword-borne meat options they brought by:
We think maybe there were some other beef loin things. All in all, a carnivore’s yum-fest.
I’m so glad I don’t have to deal directly with these people:
We found big differences in transactions registered …. [Your] platform report about 103,105 [items], while [our] platform indicates that deliver [items] about 112,547. As indeed we have a difference of 9,445 [items] in favors of [us]. You know because this difference is so great?
(the answer is, of course, that we’re counting [items] differently; fortunately, the people who ask me understand the answers I give them)
From a review of a currently EU/Japan only DS product (not really a game) Cooking Guide:
We’d recommend putting your swanky new red DS in a Ziploc or something if you’re going to fry pork next to it.
From a Kirkus review of Baker’s The Numerati:
The propellerheads with whom Baker converses seem a pretty benign bunch, far from the Panopticon-loving Dr. Evils the conspiracy-evoking title suggests.
It occurred to me after Craig’s post about tipping milk that he should be worried about Nominative Determinism, since my name is Sarah TheMostDangerousGame.
In other news, happy birthday, Mom TheMostDangerousGame!
Nominative determinism is a recurring theme on the BBC News Magazine Monitor (which also has a Twitter presence), so I am perhaps primed to see it in this story about the new blocky milk jugs:
“Just tilt it slowly and pour slowly,” Ms. Tilton said…
But then, she would, wouldn’t she?
Cecil’s take on the second amendment largely holds up, even after the recent Supreme Court ruling. I have long been in accord with his last sentence:
[W]e should concede that the Second Amendment means what it seems to mean and that if we want to control guns to the point of prohibition, amending the amendment is the honest thing to do.