Note to self: "Big Green Stirfry" /= Big Green Stiffy. Why you have to go there with me imagining the Jolly Green Giant?

How dumb do you have to be to use a tiny car to pull a big trailer up a big hill? I don't know the answer to that, but here's a video with the results: [link]

Note to self: "Big Green Stirfry" /= Big Green Stiffy. Why you have to go there with me imagining the Jolly Green Giant?

OMG! Too funny!

I am glad for the good Dad news, Kat! Also, I used to be obsessed with the mocha nips, but I forgot about them for some reason.

Pictures of a bunch of cars with very bad damage from a hailstorm: [link]

“If we just went running out of the cave as little cave babies and stuck anything in our mouths, that would have been potentially very dangerous,"

I like this image of cave babies blasting out of the cave and shoving stinging nettles and pine cones into their mouths.

Aims, Trader Joe's has some excellent stir fry sauces that I like to add for flavor. Like Five Spices sauce or General Tsao's. If you don't have a TJ's look around for those sauces.

Yay, Kat's Dad!

I tend to be fairly picky, mostly about vegetables and especially cooked vegetables. I don't remember my brother being nearly as picky.

On the other hand, not liking tomatoes in chunks means the tomato recall is pretty much a non-event, for me.

Aimee, my usual stirfry sauce is white wine, soy sauce, ginger, a pinch of sugar and a pinch of cornstarch. Whisk those together and toss in the wok about a minute before everything is done, cover, and let that steam.

I can expound further upon stirfry if you like, as that is my main dish as home.

Speaking of picky eaters, I'm a bit puzzled as to why this story ended up in a newspaper at all, but whatever: [link]

She's only 18 months old, but Courtney Boswell's diet of chips - and not much else - means she weighs as much as the average four-year-old.

Remember the Pluto controversy?

Pluto Now Called a Plutoid

The International Astronomical Union has decided on the term "plutoid" as a name for dwarf planets like Pluto.

Sidestepping concerns of many astronomers worldwide, the IAU's decision, at a meeting of its Executive Committee in Oslo, comes almost two years after it stripped Pluto of its planethood and introduced the term "dwarf planets" for Pluto and other small round objects that often travel highly elliptical paths around the sun in the far reaches of the solar system.

The name plutoid was proposed by the members of the IAU Committee on Small Body Nomenclature (CSBN), accepted by the Board of Division III and by the IAU Working Group for Planetary System Nomenclature (WGPSN), and approved by the IAU Executive Committee at its recent meeting in Oslo, according to a statement released today.

Here's the official new definition:

"Plutoids are celestial bodies in orbit around the sun at a distance greater than that of Neptune that have sufficient mass for their self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that they assume a hydrostatic equilibrium (near-spherical) shape, and that have not cleared the neighborhood around their orbit."

In short: small round things beyond Neptune that orbit the sun and have lots of rocky neighbors.

The two known and named plutoids are Pluto and Eris, the IAU stated. The organization expects more plutoids will be found.

Plutoids - the curiously rocky dwarf-planets....

Speaking of picky eaters, I'm a bit puzzled as to why this story ended up in a newspaper at all, but whatever:

Because of the OMG! Obesity Scare! Won't SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!!