Monday Miscellany

Check out the Harbin Ice Festival in China. We've been having a lot of snow in Seattle this winter, and I actually made most of these sculptures in my back yard already, but it's nice to see others doing their best also...

I liked this show about the power of suggestion and how much our preconceived ideas influence our perceptions...
Warning note: this is from Penn & Teller's HBO show Bull****! As such, it has lots of bad language. Or as as Mom would say: “too many swears...”

Am I the only one who thinks street cleaners are mostly a waste of time? They always leave a trail of water mixed with crumbs of street stuff behind them. I guess some places the streets are dirty enough that the street cleaner improves the situation, but I've always thought it looked like make-work...

It happened again recently: a comment suggesting that lesbian women are my destiny. I'm at a big company social event, and out of 50 women there, the one who told me I was "pretty damn cute" was the only openly gay woman I met. Don't get me wrong, I'm not complaining -- she was attractive and fun and smart, and everyone likes a compliment, but... What would be nifty is if straight women found me attractive in the same proportion that lesbian women apparently do. Not that I'm in the market right now or anything, but it's nice for the ego if nothing else. I have one gay woman friend who tells me the problem is that *I* am a lesbian myself. Except for one important qualification, I suppose she could be right...

And in case you felt like whining today about something bad that happened to you...

Interesting thing about movie-making...

And in case you need to laugh about something, here's A Bit of Fry & Laurie in a very Monty Python-like sketch...

May your week be happy.