Birthday Gift

What birthday gift do you give a good friend who is the self-proclaimed King of Carbohydrates? A crown (presented on a velvet pillow) of course. 

Where do you fit?

It seems that the busiest birthday season of the year has just passed... did you know there was such a thing?

photo courtesy of Gawker.com

This data (collected entirely in the USA between 1973 and 1999) was compiled by Harvard professor of public policy Amitabh Chandra and published in the New York Times. Interesting, huh?

Infographic

This graphic of Canada has been making its way around email and social media (sorry, I'm not able to cite an original source).  According to this, my old life in smog has been replaced by life as a hippie.

Thoughts, anyone?

Drives me up a wall

In 2008, furniture designer Lila Lang sofa presented this sofa at the Parcours Saint-Germaine exhibition in Paris. It became a sensation, showing up in many home decor magazines and circling around even more (every?!) home decor blogs. I read an article about it again last week (apparently, it's one of the most monumental furniture designs in the past decade) and all I could ask was... WHY?  I just don't get it.

Photo from Decor Fair

West Jet Humour

With Sunday being April 1 this year, we were more focused on Palm Sunday than April Fools. West Jet, however, posted a hilarious new promotional video on their website on Sunday. If you've not already seen it, it certainly is a giggle. 

What's the point?

Recently, someone asked why I don't hang out or contribute much on Facebook. I struggled justifying my answer- how is it that Facebook does not feel like a safe space to me while this blog does?! In the end, this was the best way to articulate my answer:

That was the wonderful Australian Voices with The Facebook Song.