It’s Easter…that can only mean Peeps!

I don’t celebrate Easter, and I don’t like Peeps, but I do celebrate the weird and hilarious things that people do with Peeps.  As a science nerd, this is one of my favorites.

Glad Abz doesn’t have a phone…

Gotta love dogs…

Only in Kansas

For all my home-state peeps.

 

Badges!

(No, that is not supposed to say “badgers”.  I may be a bad speller, but not that bad.)

Girl Scouts recently announced a new system of badges that brings scouting into the 21st Century.  Some of the old ones are still in there–badges for cooking, interacting with nature, etc–but now girls can also earn badges like the “Digital Movie Maker” or “Computer Expert” or my favorite “The Science of Happiness”.  These are a big step up from the badges I was earning almost 30 years ago, but they still aren’t as cool as these:

Looking through this list, I think I get to add a couple since the last time I posted on this:

I think I should qualify for the “I’m pretty confident around an open flame” badge in which recipients have demonstrated proficiency around open flames in laboratory settings. ***my mom might counter this since I did manage to start a small fire in the backyard with some sterno as a kid, and recently started a fire in my kitchen with some errant broiling.  However, both fires were put out without too much damage, so I think it counts.

The “will glady kick sexual harasser’s ass” badge.
(And we mean “ass” in the most holistic of ways). In which the recipient stands up to such miscreants in the work place. Places of science should know better. (SF)  ***anyone who knows me well understands why I should get this one. (hell, if I have to put up with his shit, at the very least I should get a badge for it!)

and the “statistical linear regression” badge.
We figured that if you actually know what those three words together mean, then you deserve a badge. Statistics rock! (NG)  ***thank you grad school–I knew those methods classes (yes, classes, plural) had to be good for something!

RIP Steve Jobs

I remember when mom & dad brought home our first computer…the Apple IIGS.  It took me a long time to figure out how to do anything on it except play Q-bert (but I did get really good at that)…

I think President Obama may have said it best, “The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to Steve’s success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device that he invented.”

Cute picture break: That’s got to be uncomfortable

Well, this is one place Abzug the Cat-dog has never ended up.  Of course, that’s probably because I don’t own a plastic skeleton.

Thanks MC for sharing!

All the world’s pennies

When my (not so little anymore) brother was a kid, he loved to collect things…baseball cards, basketball cards, trucks, He-Man action figures, Legos…anything he could get his hands on.  Mom used to joke that his first sentence was “I want the whole collection”.  I ran across this earlier today, and immediately thought of him: when he was a teenager, he decided he wanted to collect all of the pennies in the world.  His rationale was that pennies aren’t really worth much, so they would be easy to amass over time–after all, who really wants to hold on to pennies when they clean out their pockets or purses?…They aren’t really all that useful.  So he set out on a mission.  I’ve always wondered what he would do with all those pennies once he got them, after all, if he cashed them in, his collection would be gone.  Maybe he could expand his furniture business (Measure Cut Cut) to include custom floors like this:

http://revolverindy.com/about-us/the-shop-penny-floor/