An ode to Bacon.
I love Bacon.
Truly – it is the food of the gods, and should really be classed as a food group all on its own, along with coffee and chocolate. It’s a low-carbers dream, even if we don’t actually eat a ton of it at every meal as some suggest. And bacon has had a huge resurgence in popularity over the past few years, possibly because so many low-carbers are seen guiltlessly tucking into a breakfast of it rather than trying to eat a bowlful of straw and dust covered in milk without gagging. And because less and less people are buying into the nonsense that saturated fat will kill you.
It has become so popular you can get bacon flavour toothpaste, soap, and chocolate. (really want to try that if it comes in Sugar Free!)
I have just gone 2 weeks without eating any bacon. Actually coffee too but that probably deserves a blog all of it’s own for the sheer improbability of it all.
Anyway – in celebration of the food that can turn Vegetarians into carnivores – here is the Bacon Song.
Genius !
The art of supermarket bag packing
Get used to having your supermarket bags packed for you. Badly.
Some humour from the guys at XKCD webcomic – for those who despair at the inabilty to pack items into as few bags as possible. Hat tip to Nigel.
Blogging is not …
Blogging is not writing. It’s just graffiti with punctuation.
Dr. Ian Sussman: Contagion.
Went to see this last night – and the quote just cracked me up. So staying with the theme of self deprecating humour – there’s also this from the geniuses at Despair.com
With many, many thanks to those of you who continue to read my (properly puntuated?) graffiti.
Occupy Humour
While the original basis of the “occupy” movement has a very powerful and (I think) necessary message (anyone wanting to see it in stark clarity – I suggest watching a film called To Big To Fail – currently showing on the free SoHo channel in NZ) – it has spawned a huge amount of humour.
I got this from Motley Fool via Twitter. It’s not a new cartoon – but as they say you can always rely on Calvin and Hobbes as much as you can Dilbert for condensing complex issues that us mere mortals can understand. This clearly explains one of the main issues I see behind the original movement.
Then theres the calls to Occupy Sesame St
And OccupyMordor
And Occupy The Death Star
And on a slightly more serious note – because I really don’t believe that blaming all this mess on a few people when the rest of us have indulged in many years of rampant overspending and gleefully taken every bit of credit we can get our hands on to enjoy lifestyles we couldn’t hope to afford:
Less writing more pictures.
Due to the horrific dangers involved in ongoing gym membership – I have buggered up my shoulder. My right shoulder. Which makes typing for more than a few minutes pretty painful. So there may be a lack of posts that include my usual at-length rambling about stuff for a while until the Physios get me sorted.
In the meantime – enjoy one of the secrets of successful investing – ignorance.
The New Toyata Advert
Cos these guys just do the best ads ever.
Employee goal setting…
Really gave me a good laugh this morning. I am thinking maybe I should set some work goals for Hubby, on which would be determined whether or not I pay him a bonus.
I wonder how well that would go down?
Post-It War comes to Wellington.
For those readers whi are not self-confessed geeks – Post It Wars seems to have originated in France of all places.
Welcome Post’it of War ®, the creative phenomenon of the summer 2011 in the open spaces French.
You also declare war on your neighbors!
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Well, I was wondering down Lambton Quay in Wellington the other day when I came accross our very own artistic battles.
These were all taken from Capital on The Quay – thank you for bringing a huge smile to my face.
Ode to Cumbria (or Wellington).
It rained and it rained and rained and rained
The average fall was well maintained
And when the cracks were simply bogs
It started raining cats and dogs.
After a drought of half an hour
We had the most refreshing shower
And then the most curious thing of all
A gentle rain began to fall
Next day was also fairly dry
Save for the deluge from the sky,
Which wetted our party to the skin
And after that the rain set in!
No Idea where that came from – but mum and dad found it and it made me chuckle 
Rugby World Cup – by Lego :)
Well, this might actually get me slightly interested!
With a Tip ‘o the hat to Fran for sharing on FB this morning. Brought a smile to my face
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