Si vous demandez à une femme, "Comment vas-tu?"

Elle dira, "Triste à propos de x, heureux à propos de y, et un peu frustré à propos de z. Comment vas-tu?"

Si vous demandez à un homme, "Comment vas-tu?" 

Il dira, "Soif."

Cine-files: Separated at Birth?

Miley Cyrus' new haircut magically reveals that Hannah Montana's alter-ego is actually... Draco Malfoy??  Seriously spooky.

Miley Cyrus/Twitter

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Miley Cyrus/Twitter

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Underneath We're All The Same

Cine-files: Separated at Birth?

Were Star Wars' Princess Leia & The Hunger Games' Katniss Everdeen separated at birth?? 

The heroines of these trilogies are smart, independent, sarcastic, rebellious survivors, thrust into scary life & death adventures.  Both have ambiguous relationships with two attractive male sidekicks - one more aggressive, and one more contemplative.  Both know their way around weapons, hang out in forests, run for their lives, and fight for freedom and revolution in strange new worlds controlled by a powerful and creepy evil overlord.  (Not to mention that serious braid fetish...)

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And the strange similarities continue...

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Spooky.

Cine-files: Separated at Birth?

Were Loki from The Avengers and Lisbeth from The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo separated at birth??  
Besides the physical resemblance, they're both impatient, stronger than they look, favor a similar hair & wardrobe palette, and don't play well with others...

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photo by Claire Newman Williams

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©Columbia Tristar

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I Spy

Jenna Adams

Walking past a market on the street: is it weird that these fennel remind me of human hearts?  Not sure if that's a flashback to my university experience with the cadaver lab, or if I've just seen too many vampire movies lately?

Secret longing inside The Hunger Games...

via Pinterest, movie still © Lionsgate US

Well that's one hypothesis for President Snow's grumpiness...

"Taking one’s chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck."

- Lemony Snicket

via talknology

Sometimes... it's good to have a little reminder.  "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." ;)

I'm smitten: My Avatar, The Bureau Cat

"The Bureau Cat: she ties people up in red tape, then plays with the loose ends."

My hilarious & creative staffers at work made me this avatar.  Ha ha I love it!  (And them.)

Concept by Bryant Reil, and Art by Amy Cripps (with Jessica Cheng)

I'm baffled: Daylight Savings Time

Can I just say it?  Daylight Savings has never made sense to me.  Different locations do it at different times, and some locations don't do it at all.  Must be a nightmare for the transportation industry!  As far as I can tell it was originally adopted during World War I, to save energy from incandescent lighting. But what might've made sense back then, doesn't seem to make sense anymore - it just messes with schedules and equipment.

(image via wikipedia)

The orange regions on this world map used to use DST but have stopped, and only the blue regions still use it.  (The red ones never used it.)  Wouldn't it be good for us to consciously evaluate why we do things, and not just trudge robotically, unquestioningly forward?  Just because something's always been done a certain way, doesn't mean that's the best way to continue doing it.  (I've said this before, haven't I?  ha ha)

"I have a nagging suspicion that the hour I just missed may have been a crucial, life changing, glorious 60 minutes. ...Or an extra hour in bed." 

- Edgar Wright

"Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, “Is life a multiple choice test or is it a true or false test?” 

…Then a voice comes to me out of the dark and says, “We hate to tell you this but life is a thousand word essay."

- Charles M. Schulz

Continuing with the er, pizza theme...

(photos via Bit Rebels)


New foodie trend: "portrait pizzas" 

(Papa John's Pizza UK)

I'm cool with chomping on some Star Wars characters.  Those look funny/yummy.  But Prince Will & Kate?  Uh, I can appreciate that it's impressively artistic...  But wouldn't eating that just feel a bit creepy?! :S
Unless you really want to say, "I'm biting off William's head!"  ha ha

I'm smitten: Punk Rock Research

Infographic by Dan Gneiding

These are the kind of charts I don't mind studying.
ha ha  Mmm... punk rock pizza!

(via Critiques4Geeks)

Nerd humour makes me smile.

Apple-thoughts on flash

"As you partake of the world’s bill of fare, that’s darned good advice to follow. Do a lot of spitting out the hot air. And be careful what you swallow."

- the always genius Dr. Seuss, reminding us not to believe everything we hear

Divert Your Course!

Sometimes... silence is golden. ;)