Quote of the Day

"High functioning sociopath with your number...." 

-Sherlock 

Quote of the Day: Corn Syrup

“Very simply, we subsidize high-fructose corn syrup in this country, but not carrots. While the surgeon general is raising alarms over the epidemic of obesity, the president is signing farm bills designed to keep the river of cheap corn flowing, guaranteeing that the cheapest calories in the supermarket will continue to be the unhealthiest.”
-Michael Pollan "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals"

Bees

With all the news lately about mass bee die off from pesticides (http://portlandtribune.com/cr/24-news/155022-massive-bee-die-off-found-in-wilsonville)it is nice to see that they are at least not all gone from our neighborhood. These pics were from a neighbors thyme lawn. It was covered with bees! And this in identified bee like critter.

Quote of the Day: Sailing

It looks lovely at the moment but all the shouting is still to come. - Griff Rhys-Jones, Three Men in Another Boat. 

Devil's Thorns??

I can't remember what these are called but they make doggy walks that fill ones socks with stickers!

Quote of the Day: Wit

Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

– Dorothy Parker, interview in Paris Review, 1956

My GPS has ESP

Driving in today we were on our way to a routine Doctors visit when I noticed something odd. Our GPS was telling us how many minutes it was to the Doctor's office. This was only strange because I had not told it we were going there before heading to work. Come to think of it the thing normally tells me how far work is in the morning and when I head home from work it tells me how far home is.
How does it know??