Hair
If you do your hair when the mirror is foggy, you’ll always love the way it looks.
If you do your hair when the mirror is foggy, you’ll always love the way it looks.
The New York Times has an article about a family in Akron, Ohio who restored a 1913 house over 12 years:
It was, in fact, as the couple learned only at the closing, about to be condemned. There were large holes in the roof, various furry woodland animals in residence, a barely functional heating and plumbing system. The roof over the master bedroom leaked so badly that the previous owner had placed 55 aluminum baking pans on the floor to catch the rain.
The photo gallery, featuring before and after pictures of the home, offers some more tidbits:
Early in the renovation, Mr. Giffels and the contractor stumbled upon a treasure, $14,000 in $20 bills, wrapped in bank wrappers stamped March 15, 1930.
This Mr. Giffels fellow has written a book about the entire experience, called All the Way Home: Building a Family in a Falling-Down House. It will be released late May of this year.
Cabel Sasser recently posted Japan: Muscle Park & Ninja Warrior; it illustrates some interesting differences between there and here, partly by discussing a TV game show called “Sasuke”:
And to give you an idea of how challenging the fourth and final course is, Sasuke has run for twenty seasons, and only two people have ever actually won. (Cultural note: can you imagine how quickly, say, Deal or No Deal would have been cancelled if there had only ever been two winners in 10 years? But it’s genius: when someone fails you feel it in your gut, and if someone wins it feels like you’ve just watched history unfold.)
As usual, I must ask if Sagert has seen this show? Thoughts?
The 2009 Volkswagen Passat CC looks like the love child of an ‘07 Saab 9-3 and an ‘08 BMW 3-Series. (That’s a good thing.)
Wikipedia’s article about Opus the Penguin is further evidence for why this type of encyclopedia genre interests me so much:
…on several occasions, his “fanny” has fallen off (often with a clanking sound on the floor), and he has also had instances where his nose droops or is taken completely off as a result of sneezing while using dental floss and so on. Sometimes these are combined; he has had either his nose and rear end fall off, or his nose droop while his rear end has fallen off, and so on. He eventually learned that his navel was in fact the screw that attached his rear end to his body.
Where else would you read that last sentence? The internet == win!
The British company “albam” doesn’t use Chinese manufacturers to make its high quality clothing:
We are an independent company so we can listen to you. We develop and produce our clothes in the UK because we think the extra cost is worth the great quality. If we don’t make a line in the UK it is because we haven’t found a quality high enough to hang our hat on.
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As someone told us “it doesn’t have to be radically different, just a lot better”, well we are sticking by this.
Check out their jeans to get an idea of what their products are all about. Impressive company — a bit like a high-end American Apparel, but without a deviant bastard piece of crap for a CEO.
P.S. I still think American Apparel makes quality clothes.
Jason Kottke’s twitter stream:
Seen in a torch protest sign: “Would we have allowed Nazi Germany to host the Olympics?” Ummm….
Terrifying ignorance! Anybody remember 1936? Anyone? Bueller?
Randall Munroe’s xkcd continues to supply so much insight into love. “Wait a second. Are you asking me to show her a mediocre time?” An instant classic.
About nine months ago, I really got into the musical stylings of Paolo Nutini, a 20 year old Scottish singer/songwriter busting out some alternative hits. I think I first heard the music because a guy in my P-Chem class was playing “New Shoes” (fantastic song). Anyhow, after taking a break from an album for a while, I find it’s really useful to go back to it and see if the music has any staying power. Well… Nutini’s album holds up really well. Take a listen to Jenny Don’t Be Hasty to see what I mean. Go ahead, turn it up and jam, I’ll wait.
Good stuff, no? Be sure to catch his new album this June. Oh, and if you’re a girl you’re probably attracted to Paolo. To the (I’d guesstimate 4) women reading tumbledry: you’re welcome!
My German prof (Professor Paul A. Schons) from freshman year of college has a “German History” mailing list in which, on weekdays during the school year, he sends out historical German facts and current events. He has got to be one of the nicest people I have ever met — sharp witted, too. So, I never unsubscribed to his mailing list… so, four years later, I’m still receiving it. Today, he writes:
Guten Morgen am 9. April! I hope your Wednesday is excellent…even better than you had anticipated!!
I remember why I stayed subscribed for all this time. I think the world needs more people like Prof. Schons.
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