There’s a mineral called jasper that is often reddish brown, but it can also appear in a lot of other colours. So unlike malachite, ruby, or emerald, it’s not a great name for a colour.

One of my molars is capped in gold and there are titanium screws with a matching plate on one ankle, so I figure I could get more.

No in-flight movie? Cheapskate owners couldn’t spring for business class?

Does any German actually want to drink it?

Ducks and runs for cover

When I lived in Calgary, I sometimes used to pass a unicycle rider downtown while riding my bike to work. When I moved here, I started riding to work in the first spring and found myself passing a unicycle rider one morning. Then I came out to the bike rack at the end of the day and saw a unicycle chained to it.

“Holy hell! Did he follow me here!?”

Tastes fine to me. Far better than when I do it with a French press.

My little 4 cup drip coffee maker does this without me having to hold the filter.

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Oh, that’s me. Sorry, I’m just feeling a bit crabby this morning.

I for one am thankful that the creator of Spiderman did not make him too spider-like.

Some spiders still don’t spin elaborate webs. I see a lot of crab spiders in my back yard. Their hunting strategy is just to sit motionless in the middle of a flower and grab pollinators, which why they come in floral colours like yellow or white.

On a similar note, when the Covid vaccines were introduced in 2021, Facebook was full of people loudly proclaiming that there was no RNA in their bodies and never would be, because they weren’t gonna be “jabbed”.

It’s never crawled out of the fridge and come to wake you up for feeding at 5:00 a.m.?

So I no longer have to hire a sourdough sitter and give them a house key?

A trebuchet, but made with modern materials.

“Now with extra cancer!”

Ideally you want to be out in a rural area, far from city lights.

Same in Saskatoon. We seem to miss all the good night sky experiences.

My best aurora experience took place in August, oddly enough. It was a warm night, so I went out on the deck and laid on the chaise lounge, my big cat of the time flopped out on my chest. The moon was about 3/4 full and for some reason a small prop plane was circling overhead (there’s a flight school out at the airport, probably it was from there). Then I saw the ghostly curtain of an aurora to the north. Very poetic experience.

Didn’t someone do this with vampires a few years back? Pride And Prejudice And Vampires comes to mind.