Gosford, Australia is considered a major commercial center of the Sydney Metropolitan Area. Until European settlement, the area around Gosford was occupied by two groups of Australian Aborigines, the Guringai and Darkinjung peoples, with the Guringai being principally coastal-dwellers and the Darkingung occupying land to the west.
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Save cursive! I admit to getting a little thrill when I get a letter or card from a friend or loved one that is written in longhand. I should remember and do that more myself.
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I liked this. “A Girl Is Standing Roadside Selling Live Grenades Painted as Apples“ , by Matthew Zingg.
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This is why neither the GOP candidates, nor the President, nor the Pope is going to control gas prices.
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More on cashlessness: “Back in 2001, on a visit to Tokyo, I witnessed an incident that shook my conceptual framework to its core. I saw a teenage girl use her cell phone to buy a can of soda from a vending machine.”
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The US needs a Death Star. A little expensive, though.
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Scott on home design: “An important part of the home design would involve figuring out ways to reduce or eliminate ongoing operating and maintenance costs. Ideally, you’d want to avoid any Homeowners Association Fees, and you’d want to reduce cleaning, energy, and repair costs as much as possible. We already know how to build homes that will never need exterior paint. We already know how to bring energy costs to nearly zero. We know how to install artificial turf that needs no mowing and no water, and we know how to design landscaping that needs little or no irrigation. I don’t think we need to invent anything new.”
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A new use for dead bodies: “Redditch Borough Council is set to become the first local government body in England to use heat from a crematorium to warm a pool this spring, the newspaper reported.”
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The most common cooking mistakes:
1. You don’t taste as you go.
2. You substitute improperly.
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This can’t possibly be a real commercial.
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Late Night Jokes
Rick Santorum is claiming that Mitt Romney and Ron Paul have teamed up against him. Which is kind of ironic — that Santorum can be brought down by two men forming a civil union.
The Academy Awards are on Sunday night. Side effects include nausea, headaches, and sexual dysfunction.
The Academy Awards — you sit there for four-and-a-half hours waiting to take off, like a Jet Blue flight.
The reality is earth contains only so much fossil fuel. So the solution is obvious. If oil comes from fossils, then we should genetically engineer more dinosaurs. What could possibly go wrong?
I think we’re going to be seeing more hybrid cars. The Prius is known as a hybrid because it can run on either electricity or the smugness of the owner.
J.K. Rowling, author of the “Harry Potter” series, is set to publish her first novel for adults. You can tell the book is for adults from its title, “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Activia.”
A new survey found that the tooth fairy left about 42 cents less in 2011 than it did the year before. When kids lose teeth now, they’re like, “Ehh, I’m gonna hold onto this until the market improves.”
A company in the U.K. is selling a new device that lets you know if you’re driving badly. It’s called a windshield.
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It ended up being in the mid-60s yesterday, so I went for a bike ride and did 18 miles, down to Hygiene and back. Going west was a b*tch against a strong wind, but I figured I would fly coming home, which is due east. I made a left turn at Hygiene and hit strong winds from the south (sigh). At some point I came back along the same road. Going south I averaged 7-8 MPH, going north I averaged 20. Gives you an idea of the wind strength. Anyway, about 2 hours, good for about 600-700 calories or a bottle of wine.
