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Cheap or ingenius

It’s a fine line …

My phone battery is dead as a doornail (which makes it rather awkward when I accidentally hang up on people like my Dad, my friends, the person I’m interviewing, etc), so I retrieved the battery from my old phone to save myself the $30 cost of a new battery.

Alas, the old battery was too small. So in a stroke of genius, I took a small piece of paper, folded it accordion-style to make it thicker and jammed it into the small spare space.

It now fits!

It’s now charging!

And I don’t have to buy a new battery!

Wahoo!

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Bear on CU campus

Mike sent me to an article that described a bear on the University of Colorado campus.

In his words: “I know that it’s a serious story, but somehow, this picture doesn’t convey the gravity of it.”

Pic from the CU Independent. And a hearty "Well done" to Andy Duann for catching this action shot!

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Going pro (in journalism)

How about this for the lede (first sentence) for my next article: “According to Wikipedia, Marc Chagall was a very important person.”

Hmmmm, maybe not …

Although it makes me wonder how many high schoolers begin their term papers that way.

Le Poisson dans le ciel (Flying Fish) by Chagall. Pic from Cea on Flickr.

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No frills

Mike cracked me up this morning when describing the things he’d accomplished before 9 a.m.

“Well, I woke up and read the Internet for a while …”

OK, so maybe you had to be there, but the idea of “reading the Internet” cracks me up. It’s accurate for sure, but perhaps a bit, er, ambiguous.

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New talent

I am, self-admittedly, a horrible photographer.

However, because Popular Photography was the only magazine available to read today at the gym, I’m now an expert at taking up close pics of great white sharks.

Buh-yah!

OK, OK. So I didn't take this picture. hermanusbackpackers on Flickr did.

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