Archive for October, 2008

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Olympics Lego™-ized

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

And I thought I had too much time on my hands sometimes. Take a look at what these Lego™ enthusiast-nuts created.

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I give them a gold medal just for the effort!
Enthusiasts from Hong Kong created their own Olympics developed exclusively with more than 300,000 Lego™ bricks.
Around 4,500 Lego™ people from [...]

Making scenes with food

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

You probably know I do like food — of all kinds.
But I remember my mother’s admonitions “don’t play with your food!”
I didn’t.
Bananas were opened carefully and the peel discarded. Peas and carrots, no matter how squishy, were shoveled dutifully into my mouth.
Even liver, tough as shoe leather the way my mother cooked it, I chewed [...]

Your science teacher would never approve

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

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Sweet treats for me

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

Last year, my PhotoHunt friend Hootin Anni started a tradition of handing out “treats” and not tricks for her commentors.
She’s continuing the tradition. All you have to do is to leave comments for her anytime during the week. She’ll then choose three to five of those that leave a sweet treat for her [...]

You really need to know this stuff

Sunday, October 5th, 2008

Here’s Unnecessary Knowledge to clog up your already stuffed brain.
My favourite, and I swear by it, is #8 on this list.
1 - It would take 1.2 million mosquitoes biting you simultaneously to drain all your blood.
2 - the average person’s left hand does 56% of the typing
3 - Americans, on average, spend 18% of [...]

102 Canadian women will die this week

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month
The Canadian Cancer Society statistics may be just numbers to some. When breast cancer affects someone you know, it is the survivor statistics and the decline in death rates that gives hope that some day breast cancer will no longer be a statistic.
On Sunday, October 5, 2008, unite with all [...]