Monday Therapy: Gummy Bear + Fire = Hilarity

Rules for Duels

Check out the Code Duello and then watch the Firefly episode "Shindig."  Here's the clip if you're in a hurry.  Dueling with swords is so much more fun to watch than dueling with pistols.

Monday Therapy: Coffee Plumbing

800-Pound Snowball 1, Campus Housing 0

You've got to see the photos of the monster snowball that got away from its two math-major creators and smashed into a Reed College dorm, cracked its wall, and knocked it off its studs.  Nobody was injured, so we call safely laugh out loud at this!

I personally love this caption on one of the photos: "Runaway 800-lb snowball puts dent in RCA #7.  Math majors were involved."

You know, as a teacher I'm not supposed to say things like this about pranks that cause damage to campus buildings, but this was my honest reaction:

"I'm impressed."

Who Needs Flying Reindeer? Santa Parkour

Quirky Euro Files, Holiday Edition: the Gävle Goat of Sweden

Let's see how long he can hang on this year before somebody burns him down! Here's a webcam and even a blog and Twitter account for the gigantic straw goat. You gotta love a holiday tradition that involves ritual arson.