This is why I love having a librarian here. Most book recommendations on the internet are either new books or books we already know about. I'm going to have to "check these out," so to speak.
That goes with the rest of the post so well. Several commenters in the thread said it wasn't nice to make fun of a little girl ...but then realized it was a grown man making fun of his own past, so then it was suddenly okay.
Not having seen the NPR link, perhaps they orient themselves in the same direction that mice normally defecate, and so the mouse will run in the same line as the fox is oriented, making it possible to catch the mouse during the dive.
My kids got me started watching Adventure Time. Now it's our weekly show that we all watch together.
If you're not watching it, please give it a try, although at this point the mythology is getting deep. The basic story is that 1,000 years before there was an apocalyptic event. Two people survive from that time: Marceline, the vampire queen (the little girl sewing the eye on her doll in the link), and the Ice King, whose real name is Simon. Simon rescued Marceline, who was the child of a demon (who has also survived the apocalypse, but he only shows up now and then), and discovered a magic crown in their wanderings. Simon used this crown to prevent the complete destruction of the world, and it warped him into the Ice King, who is really more sad and messed up than evil.
After this apocalypse, certain objects gained sentience. One of these objects became Princess Bubblegum, who is quite intelligent and developed the Candy Kingdom of creatures through science. Finn, who is about 13, is the only known human (his origins are still not clear), although a human woman appears later in the show for a couple of episodes, but then goes on her way. Jake the dog is Finn's adoptive brother.
Finn loves to go adventuring with Jake, and is a bit of a hero. There are many kingdoms with many princesses, and all types of interesting characters.
OK, I am pretty sure this applies pretty well to my dog. It's not all the time, but seems to be the case most of the time I've looked. Speaking of looking . . . I hate to think of what those two years of research were like, with the thousands of observed 'events'. That is one sad, sad graduate student somewhere there.
What a fantastic piece, Neatorama. I've been a huge Rev War buff for 2 decades of my life. One thing we've learned over the last 50 years or so is that second-hand accounts of battles and history through 1950 or so can be somewhat unreliable. Until that time, inaccuracies propagated from all but the most primary of sources and politics often colored "tributes". There are a great number of fantastic leaders - yes Daniel Morgan among them - but less than a few regard Schuyler, Gates (the man who lost Camden and fled the battlefield, leaving Von Steuben to die with the valiant 1st and 2nd Marylanders) or even Arnold in that light. A great many more consider Nathaniel Greene and George Washington to be the war's greatest leaders and bravest souls. Nathaniel Greene waged the southern campaign that led to Cornwallis` surrender at Yorktown. George Washington's victory at Trenton and Princeton yielded the largest surrender of troops on our soil up to that point in the war, and his management (coming in like a bullpen relief pitcher) of the battle of Monmouth - a draw - was a feat of logistics and bravery not equaled by many during any point in the war and done whilst British snipers with rifled barrels tracked him. Arnold, on the other hand, no doubt benefitted from the country's immature news transmission capabilities of the period and his own political connections, as there was no shortage of brave American soldiers - white, black and native. Their stories would not be fully revealed or even discovered until many years later. -You guys rock, love your site. Happy new year!
If you're not watching it, please give it a try, although at this point the mythology is getting deep. The basic story is that 1,000 years before there was an apocalyptic event. Two people survive from that time: Marceline, the vampire queen (the little girl sewing the eye on her doll in the link), and the Ice King, whose real name is Simon. Simon rescued Marceline, who was the child of a demon (who has also survived the apocalypse, but he only shows up now and then), and discovered a magic crown in their wanderings. Simon used this crown to prevent the complete destruction of the world, and it warped him into the Ice King, who is really more sad and messed up than evil.
After this apocalypse, certain objects gained sentience. One of these objects became Princess Bubblegum, who is quite intelligent and developed the Candy Kingdom of creatures through science. Finn, who is about 13, is the only known human (his origins are still not clear), although a human woman appears later in the show for a couple of episodes, but then goes on her way. Jake the dog is Finn's adoptive brother.
Finn loves to go adventuring with Jake, and is a bit of a hero. There are many kingdoms with many princesses, and all types of interesting characters.
Speaking of looking . . . I hate to think of what those two years of research were like, with the thousands of observed 'events'. That is one sad, sad graduate student somewhere there.
-You guys rock, love your site. Happy new year!