The USPS is coming out with Star Wars stamps, and is letting people vote on their favorite stamp, which will come out in a full sheet.

“Jedi Master Stamps”

My favorite?

But only because they didn’t have a stamp of just R2-D2.

(via This is not my blog)

While searching for information on Adobe Acrobat, I found the information I needed in an Amazon review. While scrolling up to look at the specifications, I noticed an interesting recommended accessory for Adobe Acrobat 7.
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Female Occupational Therapy Student: “I’m good to get four showers in a week. He just really likes to be clean, doesn’t he?”

I was highly amused by this week’s e-mail from US News and World Report.

This is not a real ad indeed!

Apropos of Nothing….

Rat King

Just so you know what huge geeks we are, last night watching a Season 1 Babylon 5 episode, the following comment was made:

“Hey! It’s Weyoun!”

Links to various sites that have photographs of abandoned places.

I don’t care whether anyone else finds this interesting or not, I just wanted to save this link so I can come back and look at these sites later.

(via A Sweet Familiar Dissonance)

1. Type in your birthday (minus the year) in the search bar at Wikipedia 2. List three interesting facts, two births, and one death that happened on your birthday.

July 1 is the 182nd day of the year (183rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 183 days remaining.

Facts:
251 – The battle of Abrittus is won by Goths against Romans. Roman Emperors Decius and Herennius Etruscus are killed.
1858 – The joint reading of Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace’s papers on evolution to the Linnean Society.
1963 – ZIP Codes are introduced for United States mail.

Births:
1725 – Comte de Rochambeau, French soldier (d. 1807)
1869 – William Strunk Jr. American grammarian (d. 1946)

Deaths:
1894 – Allan Pinkerton, American private detective (b. 1819)

Also? Canada Day

(via Erin)

Michael and I have been amused by a couple that has been coming to the rec center for the past couple weeks. And I use the term couple, however, for reasons that will soon become apparent, I don’t believe that they are actually a couple.

They arrive at about seven carrying their gym bags, walk to the machines, and stand there and talk. Well, let me clarify. The woman rants and complains, and the guy stands there and listens. Once they stopped at the bottom of the stairs and stood there for at least twenty minutes. One day last week they were standing there when we left the track, then we went to do the weight machines, and then we showered and dressed, and when we got out to the car, we looked up and they were still standing there talking.

Mind you, the machines they are standing near are right beside the track. If they took two steps, they could walk on the track while they were talking, and actually get some exercise. Which is why we find the whole thing amusing. They go to the gym, and then don’t actually exercise.

I bet they leave every day feeling all proud of themselves thinking, “I spent two whole hours at the track today!”

Now, why do I think that they aren’t actually a couple? (Everyone who’s married can chime in here.) Because he’s actually standing there listening to her gripe.

Heck, sometimes, spam really amuses me.

It’s going to be wild and crazy this weekend!

No, not the Virginia Tech game–the Buckwheat Festival!

baldric
noun Historical a belt for a sword or other piece of equipment, worn over one shoulder and reaching down to the opposite hip.
—Origin Middle English baudry, from Old French baudre, of unknown ultimate origin.

Ten points to the person who guesses what first came to mind when I read this.

Me tanks t’ Mad Bess Read oo’ writ a chanty aboot Black Ethel Bonney!

Arr! Mighty fine lass she is, Mad Bess Read!

Happy Talk Like A Pirate Day!