Here at the Big Bad Blog, we are quite certain that this statistical fact about princesses, frogs, and kissing ought to be applicable to our day-to-day life. We are still struggling to figure out how.
Photo is of World’s Best Beard title holder, Elmar Weissar. Found at Beard Revue.
Webcomic is Abstruse Goose.
We begin with something for the collectors amongst our readership. Particularly, the collectors of porcelain figurines. You know, the kind your grandmother keeps in a special display case?
They’re getting more interesting.
(Dead Astronaut, by pacman23)
(Old bananas never die by Senor Tripp)
(Zombie Beatles by Wonderbros, found at the Forbidden Planet blog.)
As we are all here for coffee, each and every morning, we figured we should link to something coffee-related today. So, keeping with a breakfast theme, we present The Oatmeal’s 15 things worth knowing about coffee.
(The Flaming Lips in NY, by Ryan Muir via Dethjunkie)
That banana you’re eating? The one that took a boat halfway across the world to get to your supermarket (and, eventually, your stomache) only has a carbon footprint of 80g of CO2e. By contrast, a pint of the beer brewed locally has a 300g CO2e footprint. Unfortunately, “buying locally” is not a good way to minimize your carbon footprint — the truth is far more complicated.
Oh, and coffee? Anywhere from 21 to 340g of CO2e, depending on how you make it. Despite the fact that it’s not local, either.
Finally, we give you an extremely creepy (but not as Not Safe For Work as you might expect) look inside a factory in which sex dolls are made.
The London Marathon is an annual event. It begins near my new home, in Greenwich. The mid-point is near my old home, in Wapping. And it finishes near the Queen’s home.
With a large event happening so close to home, last year I watched the whole race. Outside a short reprieve for food, water and a toilet, I watched every single runner go by. And I took many of their photos. The result was the most popular post in the history of the Big Bad Blog.
The new home is in close proximity to the race’s starting point, so I thought it would be a great idea to do this again. I learned a few lessons.
You need to wake up earlier to watch the start of a race than you do to watch the middle of a race.
The start line is a more popular for those cheering than the mid-point of the race.
And, most importantly, if you plan to take photos of an event, you must arrive early, set up, and beat the crowd.
If you don’t, you’ll have a view like this to contend with:
Trying to identify runners who would make a good photo, focus, and fire off a couple of clear shots was difficult. And if I took too long, this would happen:
Although sometimes the not-yet-focused shots are not so bad:
Lesson learned. Next time I will be prepared. I will be an early riser. I will figure out where I want to stand to get the best possible photos. Otherwise, once again, my best photo might be a pile of discarded banana peels.
