Adam Victor Brandizzi

Another possible Grumpy Cat Christmas Card style… thoughts?

Two gay penguins at the Odense Zoo in Denmark have become fathers.

The Toronto Star reports that the two king penguins adopted an egg that had been abandoned by a female penguin. Zoologist Nina Christensen said that the penguins took turns incubating the egg.

Christensen said:

“This year has been extraordinary … With King penguins, they mix it between the male and female. One stands with the egg while the other goes to feed and then they shift … It was the same with this pair. They both incubated the egg.”

Chritensen said that zoo keepers noticed that the gay penguins wanted a baby of their own when they tried to steal an egg from some of the other penguins. The gay penguins were able to get their own egg when a female penguin delivered two eggs and abandoned one of them.

The zookeepers gave the gay penguins a fake egg to practice with and eventually decided to let them care for the abandoned egg. The two king penguins took care of the egg and last month they hatched a little baby king penguin.

According to the Toronto Star, the penguins at Odense are believed to be the first gay adoptive dads. They are not, however, the world’s first gay penguins. That honor goes to Buddy and Pedro, two male Chinstrap penguins at the Central Park Zoo in New York City.

Gay Penguins Adopt Egg, Welcome Baby is a post from: The Inquisitr

rubato:

catladysoul:

how the fuck do cats even work

we just don’t know

tormentaplacenta:

Francisco de Goya - Witches’ Sabbath (detail)(1821-1823)

Villarán battles on IN 1994 Peru’s Congress approved a law allowing recall referendums against mayors. Its proponents no doubt thought this would be a way to curb corruption. Yet this instrument is now being used by a murky coalition to try to eject Susana Villarán, the mayor of Lima, seemingly because she has tried to apply the law and crack down on corruption.Ms Villarán, a moderate, Catholic leftist, was narrowly, and unexpectedly, elected to the job only two years ago. She has not proved to be an outstanding mayor: her party is small and she had no experience of managing a large organisation. But neither has she done an especially bad job: she is honest, and she has slowly proceeded to impose some order on one of Latin America’s most chaotic capitals, home to around 8.5m people.She began by cancelling fat consultancy contracts which proliferated under her predecessor, Luis Castañeda. She proceeded to reorganise the routes of anarchic private minibuses to complement a modern rapid-transit bus system which she plans to expand at a faster pace than Mr Castañeda managed during eight years in office. Despite several disruptive bus...

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Vídeo de desenhos de gente correndo, só isso. Lindos.

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Há cerca de seis meses, pipocaram cartazes na região central de Belo Horizonte, anunciando que se colava bojo de pia e de lavatório, a R$ 50.

A foto é recente, mas esse cartaz tem cerca de seis meses. Originalmente se lia "colo bojo de pia e lavatório"

Já semana passada apareceram novos cartazes (mesma pessoa/empresa) do colador-de-bojo-de-pia-e-de-lavatório, só que agora a R$ 60.

Já esse cartaz foi afixado há poucos dias.

De onde concluímos que:

a - às vezes se anunciam serviços bastante específicos; e

b - a inflação dos serviços (no caso, 20% em menos de um ano) parece estar bem alta.



Belo Horizonte pode não ter o pintor de Jundiaí, mas tem o colador de bojo de pia e lavatório belo-horizontino.

Glub, glub, glub
Quem é que bate aí?
Sou eu, minha senhora,
O colador de bojo de pia e lavatório belo-horizontino


Pode entrar e se sentar 
Conforme as coladuras
Nós iremos conversar 

Lá em cima 
Quero tudo bem colado
Só para evitar
O banheiro alagado


Lá embaixo 
Quero uma pia colada inteira
Só para evitar o transtorno 
Da pingadeira

No porão
Quero que cole sem borrões
Só pra afastar
O problema de inundações

Glub, glub, glub
Já é quase de matina
Adeus, minha senhora 
O colador já vai pro Ouro Minas

Para compensar a tristeza deste lindo poema que minha irmã me mandou, re-reblogo este outro delicioso poema.

honkshu:

St. Jerome in his study kept a great big cat,

it’s always in his pictures, with its feet upon the mat.

Did he give it milk to drink, in a little dish?

When it came to Fridays, did he give it fish?

If I lost my little cat, I’d be sad without it;

I should ask St. Jerome what to do about it.

I should ask St. Jerome, just because of that,

for he’s the only saint I know who kept a kitty cat.

(Anonymous)

The real joke here is that he’s a stick figure and doesn’t actually have fingers to make the quotation mark motion.

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ohmyasian:

(Thanks, misslouisey)

2679. Baby Domo Onesie. OMG, so cute. Can they make one for big kids too? :D 

And here are the other handy tips.

Surely you'd enjoy A WEINER OMNIBUS.

Marcel Bénabou dreamed of producing a book-length literary work, but something always prevented him.

So in 1986 he wrote a book called Why I Have Not Written Any of My Books.

"The conceit produces a kind of large-scale demonstration of the principle of antonymy," notes Harry Mathews in The Oulipo Compendium. "His failures as a writer are what make his success possible."

Ela é muito bonita, mas me dá muito medo porque assisti O Anticristo.

wildthicket:

Charlotte Gainsbourg by Richard Dumas

Muralist Richard Haas had a romantic notion in 1975 -- he proposed painting the shadows of vanished Manhattan architectural landmarks on the city's modern buildings.

Above, the Singer building, built in 1908 and destroyed in 1967, was briefly the world's tallest; Haas would have restored its shadow near its former site at 149 Broadway.

He also proposed restoring the shadows of St. John's Church, on Varick Street below Canal, and the tower of Madison Square Garden, which once stood on the corner of 26th Street and Madison Avenue.

Alas, the project never went forward.

WE ARE SEVEN --------A SIMPLE Child, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death? I met a little cottage Girl: She was eight years old, she said; Her hair was thick with many a curl That clustered round her head. She had a rustic, woodland air, And she was wildly clad: 10 Her eyes were fair, and very fair; --Her beauty made me glad. "Sisters and brothers, little Maid, How many may you be?" "How many? Seven in all," she said And wondering looked at me. "And where are they? I pray you tell." She answered, "Seven are we; And two of us at Conway dwell, And two are gone to sea. 20 "Two of us in the church-yard lie, My sister and my brother;

fer1972:

Raymond Lemstra

1. The Oak

2. Mercedes Benz

3. Fur

4. The Interior of the Forest

fer1972:

Kathleen Lolley

1. Can’t Let Go

2. She’s My Spirit

Por increça q parível, hoje consegui encafifar nosso extrapolante doutor. Ele é um exímio lavador de louça e já ganhou vários prêmio de prestígio internacional nas categoria Pratos Elíptico e Copos de Requeijão. É um dínamo da detergência. Mas hoje, fiz uma pergunta e ele –q não é obrigado à saber TUDO, né?– não soube responder. Talvez os leitor aqui possam ajudar.

¿Já viu, caro leitor, aqueles programa de investigação policial em q os detetive jogam luminol numa área aparentemente limpa, iluminam com luz ultra-violeta, e aí o assassino descobre q não lavou e enxaguou o sangue da vítima lá muito bem, apesar de ter ficado horas esfregando?

Então. Antes das refeição, vc lava as mão com sabonete, e ele deixa aquele cheirinho gostoso de limpeza, não deixa? E todo dia vc desjejua, almoça e janta com xícaras, copos, pratos e talheres limpo a comida feita em panelas limpa, não? Hm. ¿Tem certeza?

Quando surgiram no mercado brasileiro, uns 30 ano atrás, os detergente de louça faziam aqueles anúncio dizendo q eliminavam 99% das bactéria q podiam (!) causar doenças, &c. Mas… ¿quê elimina o detergente? Depois de ensaboar a louça com esses detergente, ¿será q o enxágüe tira o detergente todo? Pois ¿lembra do cheirinho gostoso de limpeza na mão? Então. Si vc sente o perfuminho do sabonete, quer dizer q vossa mão ainda carrega moléculas dele. Si, após o enxágüe, o cheiro do detergente persiste por algum tempo, quer dizer q ainda há moléculas dele na louça. (O cheiro é útil até pra escolher CDs virgem e outros produto eletrônico: não compre CD virgem q tem cheiro; si tem, é pq sua superfície tá soltando moléculas e, portanto, vai perder a transparência em menos tempo do q um CD sem cheiro.)  A maior parte das lavagem deve deixar traços de detergente nas panela em q vc vai cozinhar e na louça em q vc depois vai pôr comida. Então todo dia vc deve ingerir moléculas de detergente.

O corpo tem vários mecanismo de detecção e eliminação de bactérias, mas certamente não é muito eficiente pra detectar e eliminar os detergente, sapólio, desengordurante e até resíduo de BomBril q certamente restam na louça e panelas. No entanto, não achei quem fale disso. Percurei e percurei e não achei nenhum estudo q quantifique o detergente q costuma permanecer na louça e panelas após o enxágüe, nem estudos sobre o efeito à longo prazo q essas substância causam no organismo. A ingestão diária de moléculas de detergente não é exatamente uma receita pruma vida saudável, né? Mas não consegui ainda determinar o q é pior: ingerir os detergente ou ingerir as bactéria.

Aliás, ¿que bactérias? Si vc cozinha numa panela e come dum prato, e menos de meia hora depois já tá lavando tudo, ¿que bactérias têm q ser eliminada si não as q já tão em quantidades mastodônticamente maior na comida q vc ingeriu? Pode-se dizer q deixar louça pra lavar dum dia pro outro cria uma coleçãozinha de bactérias ali. Pode-se tbm dizer q as bactéria tão na pia –q, si não for detergida, vira uma colônia de bactérias assassina. Mas nunca vi evidência disso; só há evidência de q o *ralo* é insalubre, com seu cheiro nojento.

Na maioria dos caso, talvez baste lavar a louça com água e mão; alguns caso pediriam uma esponja abrasiva; pra óleos &c, talvez baste tirar o grosso com as mão e espalhar algumas gota de desengordurante.

Enfim, si o doutor ficou encafifado, ¿quê dizer de mim? ¿Alguém aí conhece algum estudo sobre isso? A questão é: ¿eliminar bactérias com detergente de louça é gargalhável ou não? ¿Seria razoável estimular um pânico público contra os detergente cancerígeno e mortífero, e assim engendrar uma violenta e total revolução nas base prática e teórica da higiene, q levasse a civilização à um novo patamar em nossa longa jornada pros cafundó da pureza?

It's not news that the mainstream horror game is in a bad way: Resident Evil 6 was an atrocity, Silent Hill hasn't been relevant in years, and the Dead Space series (which, to be fair, is excellent) seems to be moving in more of a pure-action direciton. At FMV, Matt Butler takes heart in a groundswell of indie horror games like The Dark Descent and Slender:

What is most fascinating about this new wave of indie horror is how utterly ruthless and uncompromising it is. At a time when the mainstream’s so-called horror titles are nothing more than shooters with a few zombies in them – falling over themselves to empower and entertain the player with gung-ho gore and bravado – the indie upstarts in question are doing everything they can to render the player utterly impotent and powerless.

I would add to this group of games the biofeedback-enhanced Nevermind and the audio-only horror masterpiece BlindSide. Butler looks for causes:

The question of why horror has found new inspiration in the hands of independent developers is an interesting one. Obviously, it is likely to be something of a backlash against the decline of psychological-led experiences in the mainstream, and the rise of action-centric shooters in their wake...But there can be little doubt that there is a real commercial appetite for psychological-horror, too – and this is the key hook for entrepreneurial teams and individuals.

It's a cliche, but I've always found that the less a horror narrative shows me and the more it implies, the more frightened I become. The new mainstream horror games are orgies of visible gore and violence. In this sense, the technological limitations of the new indie horror games may be an advantage: they simply can't show everything. They have to suggest.

gaksdesigns:

Realistic Acrylic Body Painting by Alexa Meade

Elysium | 2013

Neill Blomkamp, the creator of District 9 has written and directed a new film which is now in post-production and scheduled for release in August 2013. The Film stars Matt Damon and Jodie Foster, as well as Sharlto Copley who played the leading role in District 9.

“In the year 2159 two classes of people exist: the very wealthy who live on a pristine man-made space station called Elysium, and the rest, who live on an overpopulated, ruined Earth.”

I personally thought District 9 was an excellent film, I can’t wait to start hearing some more details as the release date approaches.

dogshaming:

Partners in crime: Watson (left) has a taste for socks, so we don’t leave them out where he can get them. Mesa (right) fishes them out of the laundry and smuggles them to the puppy. Sneaky kitty.

Something about the look of the handwriting combined with the expressions on these animals’ faces is 100% perfect.

The Skinhead Hamlet. Brace yourself.

WALK into a restaurant in Mexico mid-morning and you will find a surplus of idle waiters. Return at lunchtime and you will find the same number of staff rushed off their feet. Like many Mexican businesses, restaurants are alternately over- and understaffed because the ancient labour laws restrict part-time work.The labour code was last overhauled in 1970, and it shows. Mexico is the only country in Latin America where it is legal to sack a woman for being pregnant. Probationary periods are not recognised. The rigid rules are intended to protect workers. But they are so cumbersome that many smaller businesses ignore them, leaving workers with no rights at all. Mexico has one of the largest informal economies in Latin America. The World Bank reckons that less than 30% of workers pay into a pension (one indicator of formal employment), compared with nearly 60% in Brazil and Chile.Firing is as awkward as hiring: sacking an employee after a year costs three times as much as in Chile, and eight times more than in Brazil. The generous payouts bankrupt some small companies. Others shirk the rules. With no unemployment...