Dammit! I did miss it!

Don't ask me how, but I managed to miss the entire "ring of fire" eclipse here yesterday. Thank god for photography.

How common is your birthday?

Naively, I guess I assumed that all birthdays were kind of randomly distributed. Apparently, this is far from true .

Probably yet another thing that will be affected by global warning...

Captchas

Peter Rozovsky alerted me to this interesting piece on "Captchas", so I thought I'd link to it here .

Deciphering  this stuff can apparently only get harder...

Ah, those crazy Swedes

If you get your news about the Swedes from crime novels, and, well, the news, you might think that the Swedes spend their lives righting misogynist wrongs and chasing down old Nazis on fast motorcycles. Sure, maybe that's what they do when they're working. But what they do on their lunch hour is something quite different. They dance.

Now in addition to being wholesome and inspiring, it also validates a kind of point of mine. Recently on my other blog I was talking about the origin of the whole 4/20 legalize marijuana day. One of my friends then questioned the idea that it could all be traced back to twelve high school kids with a code name for meeting up to smoke weed.

But here we see a much more recent phenomenon where it's apparently well documented that this all started with 10 Swedish office workers. And thus, a movement was born.

Twelve American high school students, or ten Swedes. That's all it takes to rock the world.

Happy May Day, everyone.

H&R Block delivers a game for tax procrastinators like me

I'm not sure if they're trying to help us or bring us to our knees, but just in case you need a little diversion:

Click image to enlargeSource: H&R Block

I'm Han Solo

A bit unlikely for me, I know, but Star Wars and dancing run in the family...

It's April 1st

And that means two things. First of all it's the beginning of National Poetry Month. There are a ton of activities going on around this, but tonight I'll just mention that the April Poem A Day challenge is alive and well. Check it out over at Robert Lee Brewer's blog.

And then, on a very different writing front, Scriptfrenzy has begun! If you have any kind of script you've always been wanting to write, now is the time and this is the place. Check out the plot machine. You never know when you might be inspired...