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Westminister Butterfly Pavilion: Strange

The Westminister Butterfly Pavilion has a bunch of great exhibits featuring all kinds of creepy crawlies, flying beauties and even swimming invertebrates.

Mantis! Nice pic, Tony the Misfit on Flickr!

Its mission seems to be to inform people about creatures they might normally be afraid of in order to protect them and maintain their natural habitats.

The place is basically a big pavilion of propaganda saying: “Hey! Quite squishing, smooshing and flushing bugs! They’re really not that bad!”

It’s a noble quest.

Which makes it strange then, that their gift shop offers a fairly wide selection of bug-trapping devices. Sure, science might be at the heart of little Johnny’s insect-catching endeavors, but let’s be realistic: How many of those suckers actually make it out of the prison alive?

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Triple Bypass reminder

Ya gotta love Google.

Just got an e-mail from that search engine par excellence.

“Reminder: Triple Bypass tomorrow.”

Thoughtful, but really? How could I forget?

Yup. This is pretty much what Cassie and I will look like. Great pic, Global Jet on Flickr.

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Question

Thanks GorillaSushi on Flickr.

What are the rules to replacing an empty toilet paper roll in a public restroom if a backup roll is in full view?

Thoughts?

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Department of Motor Vehicles, Boulder

A few distinct personality types seem to be ever revolving through the DMV doors. Here’s a short run-down for you:

Yup ... this is pretty much the crowd. Thanks to Zoom Zoom on Flickr.

1. The talker: She (it’s likely to be a she) is the person carrying on a conversation (often quite loudly) with another person who quite obviously has no desire to be in said conversation.

2.The techy: This is the person juggling multiple electronic devices at once–iPhone and iPad; Blackberry and Kindle; Android, Macbook  and iPod; etc.

3. The whiner: Likely an individual who stands only hip height, this little person got dragged along on Mom or Dad’s errands.

4. The peeved: Irate because of even the most minimal line, he makes his irritation obvious by eye rolling, foot stamping, talking under his breath and perhaps an outburst of some sort.

Who’d I miss?

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