Virginia puts kids first.

If it can’t make me a sandwich, then it isn’t a real robot.

Keep your cat away from my bird feeders!

Favorite quote: “It was crouched, as usual, under one of our bird feeders & I fired from some distance with bird shot.”

Inspired by an XKCD comic strip, several people have secretly brought chessboards onto roller coasters and gotten photos of the results.

Arr.

Thanks to Heather, I came across this career matching quiz. Boy have I ever been in the wrong line of work.

My results with commentary in parenthesis: 1. Makeup Artist (heh - for horror films maybe) 2. Costume Designer (also heh - ditto) 3. Set Designer (hmm) 4. Baker (Sure) 5. Butcher (Nah) 6. Cook (I love to cook, but don’t want to make it a job) 7. Hydrologist / Hydrogeologist (No interest) 8. Special Effects Technician (Sure!) 9. Carpenter (Possibly) 10. Industrial Designer (Put more blinking lights on it!)

Select other entries: 12. Dietitian (for the See Food Diet) 19. Fashion Designer (Have you seen how I dress?) 25. Interior Designer (With a specialty in Steampunk interiors) 27. Pet Groomer (Specialty in shaved cats) 38. Food Scientist (Just like Clark Griswold)

Try it for yourself. 1.) Go to Career Cruising 2.) login nycareers; password landmark 3.) Take the career match maker quiz and list the top 10 responses

This just in from London: Safe Bedside Table

Looks like a reasonable way to defend the home in Britain. In Texas, we have other ways.

There’s a little bit of a trail to follow here, but I came across the web site Baptists for Brownback via a post on Bible Versus linked to by the Real Live Preacher. Oh the paths that the Internet leads you on.

This site reads like something you might find on the Onion, but it appears to be the honest opinions of the writers [Update - many friends think this is a humor site - please let it be so!]. Regardless, it is some of the funniest stuff I’ve read online in a long time. The best article is the one which gave me the title of this post.

Update: Some kilt-wearing men might be heterosexual after all

Some of the comments on the post (and on the initial post) have really funny quotes as well such as:

When you put on a kilt you are stepping out of God’s laws. You might just as well wear wizard robes and read Henry (sic) Potter.

My only fear is that they’ll read this post and decide that I belong on their list of “People Who are Probably Going To Hell”. I’ll just have to risk it.

Another Update: Most importantly, I forgot to add a link here to my favorite kilt wearing buddy.