Friday Night Links (12/18/2009)…
After a card game, dessert, and a glass of wine, here I am with the links. I got a bunch, so hold onto your hat.
- English to Foreigners (http://thedig.in/89) – I found this to be completely bizarre. I had never really thought about how English might sound to a person who doesn’t speak it. However, I’ve been on the other end – I always enjoy reading the French instructions on everything I can find in Canada, even though je ne parle pas Français.
- Hoptopia (http://thedig.in/8a) – I’ve mentioned before that I’m a big fan of beer and I’m always on the hunt for something I’ve never tried before. A fellow blogger Lee has taken it one step further: he reviews tons of beer and uses simple language to describe his beers. As he says on his blog, “My reviews might seem a little unorthodox at first, if I smell Cat Pee or Enamel Paint on a beer then that’s what I smell, if I taste Beef Gravy or Strawberry Bubblegum in a beer, then that’s simply what I taste.” I’m heading to the beer store right now to find that Cat Pee beer. Oh wait, I have a can of Coors Light already in my fridge. Never mind.
- Office in the Woods (http://thedig.in/8b) – Sometimes I have to ask myself: Why do I live in Indiana? The weather is all over the place, it is flat as a pancake, and there are no major bodies of water around. Then something like this comes along and completely confirms every single one of those things. A killer view on the side of a hill of the Puget Sound in the notoriously mild-weathered Pacific Northwest. What was I thinking?
- Boeing 787 First Flight (http://thedig.in/8c) – After months of delays, the first 787 flight happened this past week. As I watched the videos (here is a YouTube search), I was shocked that a plastic plane could hold together. Plastic? Yep, carbon fiber is actually more accurately called carbon-reinforced plastic. And most of the plan in built out of the stuff. That makes it super light-weight. Also, check out how much the wings bend upward when it is flying. Incredible.
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