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July 28th, 2010 | 
Author: I’ve never been able to wade my way through any of Jane Austen’s stuff. The whole upper-crusty, heaving bosom and propriety genre just bores me to tears.
So I was really quite interested in Pride And Prejudice And Zombies was released. What a great way to liven up some interminably dull prose! No such luck. Same old dreck, with the odd bit of brain-munching. I couldn’t even get through the comic book. Bleah. I kept hoping for the “unmentionables” to overrun the house and kill everyone, but it didn’t happen. At least not as far as I read.
Today, I was working my way through some back posts on the blogs that I read (terribly behind, sorry) and this was posted to BoingBoing on Saturday. Jane Austen Fight Club:
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Greg and I had an interesting day with some new-to-us bees yesterday. We did what’s called a cut-out: removed a colony from the outside walls of a house. Suffice it to say that it took twice as long as we estimated and we both got stung more than we expected: 5 for Greg, 6 for me.
The good news is that I appear to have built up a nice immunity to bee venom. With past stings, I’ve swelled quite a bit afterwards. Bridget was a bit concerned when I got three on my right hand last year and it swelled enough that I couldn’t see two knuckles. With these ones (three between the left side of my chest and my left thumb and another three between my right knee and ankle), the swelling is negligible. They’re tender and bloody itchy, but that’s it. 
Anyway, I’ll work o n the video and pics and try to get something posted at SFA tonight.
I may be a little extra loopy this afternoon, but there’s something compelling about this:
Blame William Gibson’s wife if you don’t like it.
Well, isn’t this nifty? Kyle Conroy ran the numbers and it looks like all of you Apple fanboys would have been better off buying stock instead of your toys.
For instance, a prof here at work has an Apple XServe server in his lab. He bought it in 2003 and if he paid the suggested retail of $3800US for Apple stock instead of the hardware, that stock would be worth a bit more than $143,000 now. Snicker. I don’t think I’ll tell him.
If I’d bought Apple stock instead of my iPod touch, it would be worth just over $400 now. An increase of 33%. Instead, I have the Clash and Ramones blasting through my office. I’m not sure which is better. 
h/t Laughing Squid.
With haggis?
According to this Reuters article:
Commissioned by the online takeaway food service Just-Eat.co.uk, the survey found that 18 percent of Britons believe that haggis is a hilltop-dwelling animal.
Another 15% think it’s a Scottish instrument.
So much for the British education system.
My eldest son, Philip, showed me a few of these videos last year on YouTube. It’s a guy in a lab coat stuffing assorted weirdness into a Blendtec blender and seeing what happens. Kind of interesting, but I really hadn’t taken much notice.
Then, I was just checking out the “What’s popular” page on YouTube and saw the latest victim: an iPad: