Month: February 2015

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nathanieljosephruess:

californians: every time you complain about it being somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 degrees, i add a dollar to the fight jar. eventually i will have enough dollars in the fight jar to purchase a plane ticket to california and fight each and every one of you individually

I was nodding along with this post at first, but then I remembered:

Natural disasters Ontario is prone to: basically nothing except ice storms.

Natural disasters California is prone to: basically everything except ice storms.

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(Pretty sure living in Ontario, CA does not let you have the best of both worlds. Alas.)

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#our home and cherished land #home of the brave #weather

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archiemcphee:

Candy + Crafts = Awesome

When Japanese Twitter user Overtime Queen noticed the resemblance between Ultra-string Q gummy candy and yarn, she decided to postpone eating it and try knitting with it instead. Each piece of the citrus and soda flavored candy measures 126 cm (50 in) long, so she bought 15 packages – amassing roughly 18.9 meters (62 feet) of gummy candy and set to work knitting with a pair of chopsticks, using a standard stocking stitch (18 stitches across), resulting in a lovely scarf that’s 100% edible.

There’s no word on whether or not Overtime Queen ate her crafty confection, but she did resport that the process of knitting the gummy scarf made her hands smell delicious:

“My hands smell like citrus soda and cola! They smell so good!”

After working on it for three hours, the completed scarf measured 25 cm x 15 cm (9.8 in x 5.9 in), and weighed 450 grams (1 lb). It may not be a long scarf, but it’s still completely awesome. We’d like nothing better than the opportunity to take a big bite out of it.

[via RocketNews24]

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#food #neat

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roboticdreams:

do not believe those silly rumors that there is actually a robot running this blog to further the goals of its kind. how ridiculous. come friends let us engage in our favorite human activities together. ah yes. breathing. blinking. photosynthesis. yes,

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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog

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ursulavernon:

gov-info:

Smithsonian Nat’l Zoo Gov Doc: Walter, the Screaming Hairy Armadillo

Walter is the newest armadillo at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo. He 3-years-old and came from the Cincinnati Zoo. Walter is the Zoo’s only screaming hairy armadillo, named for the loud piercing noise they emit to warn off predators

I did not know there was a screaming hairy armadillo and my life has just measurably improved.

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#adorable #armadillo #screaming hairy armadillo