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I laughed so that I couldn't breath for several seconds--silently because I'm in a library. But there were little tears in my eyes.

I really love this comic.

Illusions...

I found these illusions (NOT tricks) the other day, and thought I had better share. Because if we don't share things like these with each other, we are no better than the animals.

From the article:

The three best visual illusions in the world were chosen at a gathering last weekend of neuroscientists and psychologists at the Naples Philharmonic Center for the Arts in Florida.

Happy brain-breaking.

Dandelions

I have a friend named Dan Pelissier. He's a man with a house. And a yard. He lives in Massachusetts, but his yard has no grass. It has dandelions.

Years ago, he explained to me that having dandelions in your yard makes a lot more sense than grass.

First of all, they don't require any effort or money. They grow on their own, uniformly, wiping out other plant life--something we've never been able to get our beautiful grass to do.

Second of all, they're pretty.

Third (and most importantly), blowing dandelion seeds into the wind is pretty much the bomb diggity.

Tangentially, he informed me that this practice made his neighbor (who keeps an incredibly high-maintenance, expensive grass lawn) furious. But he hated his neighbor, so that turned out to also be a benefit.

So. Dandelions vs. Grass. It's on.

Thoughts?

Air Instead

I was at a party at which cake was being eaten.

Someone choked on the cake (being eaten).

I helpfully suggested the following: Cake is not for breathing.

This is a truism that feels important to me. There are lots of things a person ought not to breath, and cake is, I think I can safely say, among the foremost.