Happy May Day, Happy Beltane

Eye of Sauron?

Nah, it's just the Retina Nebula as seen by the Hubble telescope.

Check out more spectacular Hubble Telescope images in the Hubble Advent Calendar, a new image is posted every day leading up to Xmas.

Autumnal Equinox!

Happy First Day of Fall everyone!

Yaaaarrrr!

In honor of Talk Like a Pirate Day, reinvent yourself with a pirate name HERE.

And while you're at it, you can now view the web translated into pirate speak - check it out HERE.

And if that wasn't enough translation fun, you can translate any web page into pirate speak HERE too.

This is what yesterday's post by Sheyl turned into:


Posted by Cap'n Wilma Pegleg.

Eat, drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die... at least according to this wingnut

Pencil it in your calendars, folks, the doomsday cometh tomorrow, June 12th.

On a totally different note, happy 98th birthday to Jacques Cousteau!

Happy Beltane!!

Or May Day if you prefer.

Happy (insert holiday of choice here)

via Candy Blog

Happy Pi Day!

Also a happy birthday to Billy Crystal, Georg Philipp Telemann and Albert Einstein!

Happy Leap Year!

Los Angeles Times, January 1, 1908

Happy Winter Solstice!

And a merry christmas to those to whom it applies. :-p

Holiday decorating

Perhaps Sheyl might be tempted to decorate her tree with THESE ornaments. The site even offers a free pattern to make this wonderful decoration that could adorn your house year round.

Mythtickle

I thought Sheyl would enjoy this comic, since she yelled at me for decorating our little tree. :-p

The Holidays

Happy Left-Hander's Day!

Yet another obscure holiday - a day to celebrate those of us who write with the wrong left hand.

Happy 4th of July!

Happy Apple Computer Day!

Sorry Owen,
Plus we missed
Yell "Fudge" at the Cobras in North America Day (June 2)
but don't forget
Banana Split Day (June 8-9)