snuffles wednesday!

sufjan stevens - majesty snowbird

hey, check out this road.

just kidding. it's not a road. it's a waterway in louisiana. its surface is just covered in dead sea animals. SICK!

nErD aLeRt!

reference desk made of books, architecture library at delft university of technology. in the netherlands, of course.

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i want that.

snuffles wednesday!

sufjan stevens - the upper peninsula

backwards wednesday!

upside down wednesday...

actually i'm just gonna animal-bomb the fuck out of you....get ready....

bearz!

black nose, white toes.

oh hey guys. what ARE you?

lemurball.

puppipaw.

is it winter yet?

zing!

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finally, an explanation.

on saturday, aka september 11th....gulp. we were up on my roof checkin' out the ol' towers of light, when we noticed that something was happening in the beams. they appeared to have been glitter bombed. both light shafts from the ground up to where they terminated into the low clouds were full of little specks moving in the light. from our vantage point in brooklyn, it was hard to gauge the scale of the objects, and they did look sparkly, so we just assumed they had shot some confetti off or something, during the 9/11 party tribute down at ground zero.

anyway, i've been scouring the internet ever since looking for an explanation, and gawker just gave it to me:

They were thousands of birds, trapped into the beams, confused by the intense light while trying to go over New York City, en route to warmer climates. The birds saw the intense light from the distance and, lacking any other navigational reference in the sky, they went into it.

According to John Rowden, citizen science director at the Audubon Society's New York chapter, "it has only happened once before. It's a confluence of circumstances that come together to cause this. Some of it has to do with meteorological conditions, and some with the phase of the moon."

About 10,000 birds were estimated to enter the beams, wasting time and energy that now can't be used in their migratory trip. From the ground, people were surprised and confused by the display. Nobody could tell what the swarm of glowing points were. Ornithology experts recorded the bird voices, as they called in the middle of the night.

To liberate the birds, the NYC authorities had to turn off the beams five times over the night. By dawn, on September 12, all the birds were gone, on their way to their winter promised land. (via)

it was BIRDS!! ten THOUSand of them!

snuffles wednesday!

sufjan stevens - jacksonville

"guess he can sit on his new girlfriend's couch."

this crazy lady in nashville is selling all her boyfriend's (or her?) shit on craigslist, including a couch with "reclining foot rests all the way across", because she found his match.com profile. ctm.

thx melissa!

this is making my day.

UPDATE!!
guess who found the mp3 of the kat dansar song!! now you can have it on your ipod!! check out the swedish band, fulkultur's myspace for more awesome songs.

fulkultur - fuldans
right click and save.

YOU'RE WELCOME.

if you are in need of a desk party for one, click this.

i found it over on carly googz. stepp rulla is my fave right now. what's yours?

did you know?

santana from glee (naya rivera) has a younger brother named mychal rivera and he is a university of tennessee volunteer football player. she has been tweeting about the games, but i failed to notice that. my mom is the one that told me. go vols! go santana! go glee!


VOL news:
Sophomore tight end Mychal Rivera has been a quiet but steady performer since arriving in Knoxville this summer. The transfer from California's College of the Canyons now finds himself solidly in the mix for playing time behind seniorLuke Stocker. "He'll play and we'll throw him some balls," Dooley said of the 6-4, 240-pounder. "He's really doing well. That was a good pickup for us." Rivera caught 35 passes last season for 330 yards and three touchdowns. The Valencia, Calif., product originally signed with Oregon out of high school before transferring to the junior college route for 2009. He has three seasons of eligibility remaining."That was a big pickup for us, it really was," Dooley said. "I feel like we've got two tight ends now."

OMG GUESS WHO I MET!

No, for real, guess!

Bruce Pearl himself. JICYDAK, I work as a teacher at a school known for their basketball team. Today, I took one of my classes outside to work on landscapes and who should saunter by, but the Vol Men's basketball coach. Details of our meeting:

He walked by with some other scouts, and I thought to myself, OMG! that's Coach Pearl!

When he walked by again I greeted him with a smile, a nod and a "GO VOLS!" (just like Keekee taught me)

He smiled and said, "alright! go vols" and we shook hands. (see artists rendering below)

then he asked where i was from and I said Boston but I had some good friends who wet to UT (that's you guys)

He told me he went to BC and then he continued on into the gym.

I'll never wash this hand again.

You use too much dishwasher soap. and laundry soap.

youre probably doing just about everything wrong without realizing it. find out why if you would rather not be wrong your entire life.

omg can you just imagine

Horsey is an attachable bicycle ornament/accessory which makes one’s bicycle look horsey! the ‘horsey’ package includes wooden ornaments (horsey shape body), metal parts, and screws. The manual is very simple so that anyone can easily arrange it according to one’s needs. Through this ‘horsey’ project. I wanted to give a special look to bicycles so that people would care about cycling not only as transportation but also as a lovely pet. via