Feats of Sleep

Last night I got home from work and was feelin' a 'lil weary, usin' lotsa apostrophes and such, so I decided to take a nap. I didn't wake up until 11 pm. So since it was past my bed time, I went to bed.

Orange you glad I puched myself in the face?

Thriller

Royal Flush

So basically I've been trying to decide what makes our modern civilization the most advanced ever thus far. How did we get here? I mean, we were already way more advanced than the Egyptians by the time electricity even came around, and I'm pretty sure Spinning Jenny kicks the crap out of anything the Romans ever did. You might say, "Rob, you're pretty awesome, though maybe not very humble, but this is not a new question and is unlikely to be answered in any meaningful way in a short blog entry." and you might be right, but might not be, because the answer is plumbing and democracy.
I know, I know, A couple of Egyptian Pharaohs had something akin to a flush toilet, and there are a few instances of pipes in Roman and Chinese palaces and such, and even what you think about when talking about plumbing wasn't even maturing until the end of the 19th century. But holy snooks, you couldn't build a steam engine without plumbing, and you couldn't proliferate water and gas to the population without plumbing. And really, it's infrastructure that make places great to live in.
How awesome is it to take a shower and be clean. Pretty friggin awesome, and you just have to look at the Egyptians or Romans to see how bad life sucked for the average Joe when there is no plumbing or democracy, or if you want to look at a more recent example, there's any number of examples in the 3rd world. Oh and you can build a potato cannon out of ABS like snap.

Get Shorty

Well the results of the Favourite Shortbread Cookie Shape poll are in. A four-way tie has us scratching our heads. Perhaps all shortbread are created equal. Or at least equally yummy. I myself and me especially, partook in a great deal of shortbread this Christmas season. Now with the new year I shall resume my in-some-ways Spartan lifestyle.