How I frittered away my Sunday
Jan. 19th, 2009 11:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
todayiamadaisyOh, what a busy day of largely pointless things I had yesterday.
I read an article in the paper about a deep sea research expedition off Tasmania, which found some new corals and such. And that was interesting, particularly the gorgon's head coral. But it reminded me of something I saw a few weeks ago, about a host of new species found in Malaysia over the last decade. I was particularly taken with the idea of a spider as big as a dinner plate, as well as what looks like Barbie's Dream Millipede.
There was a great map on Strange Maps the other day, showing the United States by state motto. This inspired me to create a similar one for Australia, which... well, isn't nearly as impressive. We don't have as nearly many states and territories, and one of them can't even be bothered to think of a motto, so get your act together, Northern Territory.
I like the splendid inanity of New South Wales, though, and Western Australia's rhyming swan motto. They must have thought long and hard about that.
Fifteen minutes of doing that aside, I spent yesterday doing the giant crossword in the local paper's summer holiday liftout. Five hundred and twenty-one clues filled in and three left. So close! Any ideas on the missing words, f-list? (ETA: all solved!)
21 across: Replay (current letters: _ E _ A _ C _ )
8 down: Disdainful ( _ A _ A _ I _ R )
85 down: Perfectionists ( S _ _ C _ L _ _ S )
I also finished my half of a joint craft project with my mother, something I started months ago and, er, dawdled in doing. She claims she'll have her part of it done by the end of the week. We'll see.
I read an article in the paper about a deep sea research expedition off Tasmania, which found some new corals and such. And that was interesting, particularly the gorgon's head coral. But it reminded me of something I saw a few weeks ago, about a host of new species found in Malaysia over the last decade. I was particularly taken with the idea of a spider as big as a dinner plate, as well as what looks like Barbie's Dream Millipede.
There was a great map on Strange Maps the other day, showing the United States by state motto. This inspired me to create a similar one for Australia, which... well, isn't nearly as impressive. We don't have as nearly many states and territories, and one of them can't even be bothered to think of a motto, so get your act together, Northern Territory.
I like the splendid inanity of New South Wales, though, and Western Australia's rhyming swan motto. They must have thought long and hard about that.
Fifteen minutes of doing that aside, I spent yesterday doing the giant crossword in the local paper's summer holiday liftout. Five hundred and twenty-one clues filled in and three left. So close! Any ideas on the missing words, f-list? (ETA: all solved!)
21 across: Replay (current letters: _ E _ A _ C _ )
8 down: Disdainful ( _ A _ A _ I _ R )
85 down: Perfectionists ( S _ _ C _ L _ _ S )
I also finished my half of a joint craft project with my mother, something I started months ago and, er, dawdled in doing. She claims she'll have her part of it done by the end of the week. We'll see.