Get Ready to Waste Some Time

Thanks so much for all of your emails and tweets asking about Andy. He is slowly but surely getting up and around, but he still has a long road ahead of him. This week will be the last that the physical therapist comes to the house; next week he'll start going to his old PT place. He's been going to work for a couple of hours at a time a few times a week, but he's really too tired to do much else. The PT is practically a full-time job in and of itself, and he's still having trouble sleeping because of the pain.

But ... I owe you a little something more interesting than all that, right? How about a bunch of links I've been collecting over the past few weeks? Some of them are old (particularly if you follow me on Twitter—and if you don't, why not?) but may be new to you.

Everyone knows to send me their Pantone sightings! I've recently seen Pantone jewelry and Pantone storage tins (via @califmom) and Pantone VISA cards (via @MsRedPen)!

For some reason, @sethlipkin immediately thought of me when he read an article that featured both tampons and vodka. Speaking of tampons, I think I'll move to Canada so my beloved can sing to me of my beloved discontinued o.b. ultras (via @mir).

This is the perfect family Christmas card to send when you love your iPhone more than your family.

Someone in my Torah class passed along this link to a TED talk about being grateful for the gift of today. I made it sound sappy, but it's not—and only 10 minutes, so go watch.

You have to see Jimmy Fallon doing Jim Morrison singing the theme from "Reading Rainbow."

Here are some reviews of pepper spray from the clever folks at Amazon.com.

I got a kick out of these bar jokes involving grammar and punctuation (via @grammar_girl). And, oh, look—punctuation floor lamps!

I think I actually LOL'd at "When Used Books Attack: Banana Edition" (via @lkblackburne).

Check out these classic album covers featuring kitties. I'm particularly fond of "Londong Calling."

What would it be like if Cormac McCarthy posted on Yelp?

Finally, Merriam-Webster presents some words that spiked in their search engine stats according to their use in various news stories throughout the year.

Comments

[Wendy]

I am glad to hear that Andy is doing a bit better. Still sounds awful, though. In other news, it is my personal opinion that both "drink" and "leave" are transitive verbs. Never heard of a comma splice before, I live and learn.

[Wendy]

Oh god, I am going to steal the banana book post. I practically spat coffee into my keyboard, so convulsed with laughter (the salting-the-ground-where-it-stood line was what did me in) was I. Thanks, Karen, good score!

[Elena]

Glad to hear that Andy is making progress. I have been wondering how he was doing.

[Catherine @ Nitpickers' Nook]

I enjoy a good Pantone sighting too! Have you seen this one: http://blog.oliverphillips91.co.uk/post/13871044680/pantone-rubiks-cube? Cheers!