Being Daddy: I'm back baby!

Being Daddy is back.

Gormanesque

Marc Horowitz carefully placed his name and cell phone number on a piece of furniture in the Fall 2004 Crate & Barrel catalog. He's having dinner with 33 of the 100-or-so people who phoned him.

I love this sort of genius, which I shall christen "gormanesque".

FYI: CSS, Accesibility and Standards Links

CSS, Accesibility and Standards Links

The Interwebnetthingy

Is this you? - I found some of your life!

Exponential growth

Exponential growth: "Take a sheet of paper of the ordinary variety - letter size for the Americans, A4 for the rest of the world - and fold it into half. Fold it a second time, and a third time. It's about as thick as your finger nail. Continue folding if you can. At 7 folds it is as thick as a notebook. If you would have been able to fold it 10 times, it would be as thick as the width of your hand. Unfortunately, it isn't possible to do so more than about 7 times. Try it for yourself. At seventeen folds it would be taller than your average house. Three more folds and that sheet of paper is a quarter way up the Sears tower. Ten more folds and it has crossed the outer limits of the atmosphere. Another twenty and it has reached the sun from the earth. At sixty folds it has the diameter of the solar system. At 100 folds it has the radius of the universe."

Amazing...

There's a story further down the page about rice and exponential growth that my dad told me a variation of when I was younger. We calculated that placing one grain of rice on the first square of the chessboard, 2 on the second, 4 on the third, and so on, would produce enough rice by the 64th square to cover the whole of the UK in 8 inches of rice! (I forget if that was the total on the board, or just the last square. (We assumed perfect packing of the rice, too; with gaps where it didn't fit exactly, we'd be even deeper in rice.))

kapowaz | words on the web

kapowaz is back.

From the cruftbox

GLAT - Google Labs Aptitude Test

The Morning News - Trailers for Everyday Life

The Morning News - Trailers for Everyday Life:

"In a far-off land.
Where nothing is as it seems.
One exchange student.
Will wander for hours in a supermarket.
Baffled.
By the lack of mayonnaise."

Oh-Cayman: Ivan the terrible

Oh-Cayman: Ivan the terrible

Web beats news services

FlickrBlog: "photos of the Australian Embassy bombing in Jakarta appeared on Flickr before any of the major news services had gotten it up on their sites"

Vicky Knox's Diary

An entry for the Giltsharp Swiss Army Knife writing competition.

01 July

The bf gave me a v odd gift today. A Swiss Army knife, for goodness sake. What use is a Swiss Army knife to me? He really is frightfully odd, but terribly cute. Still, I’ll pop it in my handbag, just to keep him happy. It’s pretty teeny, so it doesn’t take up too much room in there and it has a keyring to fasten it to my keys.

13 July

The bf decided that he'd surprise me with a romantic picnic in the park today. What's romantic about sitting on the ground to eat, I don't know. He had gone to a lot of effort though, which was sweet. Of course, he had to forget something, didn’t he? He’d tried to be exotic and European by bringing a baguette (he thought it looked good sticking out of the end of the basket) and some a block of cheese (which smelled), but he’d not brought a knife to cut them with. Luckily, I remembered the Swiss Army knife bf gave me a few weeks ago and could use the thin blade on that to cut the bread and the cheese! At least he’d remembered the corkscrew…

15 July

Had v embarrassing getting-stuck-in-toilet-at-party incident at the barbecue we went to tonight. The lock just came off in my hand, silly thing! I tried shouting through the tiny window to the few people still outside that late but the music was far too loud, even in the garden. Even bf didn’t hear! Typical! Luckily, I remembered the Swiss Army knife bf gave me a few weeks ago and could use the pressurised LED laser pointer to attract his attention. The host was fetched and I was rescued. Still v embarrassing though, especially as boss was there.

18 July

Snagged a nail at work. Phoned bf, but got no sympathy! Luckily, I remembered the Swiss Army knife bf gave me a few weeks ago and could use the small scissors and nailfile to tidy myself up ready for v important lunch with boss. At lunch, boss dropped his glasses, popping out a lens. He was going to have to cut short the lunch (or miss his plate with the fork trying to eat). Luckily, I remembered the Swiss Army knife bf gave me a few weeks ago and could use the screwdriver to repair his glasses for him! After triumph of spectacle repair, boss asked me to prepare v important presentation for tomorrow’s meeting; I’d have to work on that at home, but my computer is broken after bf “fixed” it and I can’t check my email. Luckily, I remembered the Swiss Army knife bf gave me a few weeks ago and could use the detachable USB memory chip to take the work home.

19 July

Boss loved presentation and I’m getting promoted. Met bf for celebratory lunch and told him how useful his pressie was. He asked to see it and told me I’d not used one feature yet. He took out the ballpen, wrote something on the napkin and passed it across to me.

I read what he’d written, smiled and said “yes”.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. Ha.

That's the sound of me laughing. Lots.

(Third photo down.)

(Outside the window.)

Presented without further clarification

1. Mike
2. 27
3. Right of the middle, up a bit
4. Ellie
5. Construction work
6. Yes, but the looooooooong paragraphs make my head hurt
7. Cos I know you
8. I'm 1/4 Scottish
9. Yes, muchly
10. anywhere
11. "Actually..."
12. Yes, but which one? Fred's Ears (the BlogSpot version), I think

1. Whichever one I enjoyed last
2. "His Dark Materials", by Phillip Pullman
3. Varies - The Flaming Lips, at the moment

The Artist's Statement

The Artist's Statement: "Humiliated, Angry, Ashamed, Brown"

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