Tanooki HeadQuarters: June, 2008

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June 16

Need BRaaAAaainSss...

I was in Chapters tonight standing in the Fiction/Literature section without a clue. Wanting something with a solid adventurous storyline I was left judging books by their covers and titles, having no knowledge of decent authors or series. As luck would have it an employee walked up in the midst of a conversation with a guy about my age but even more clueless than myself.

Employee: ...right over here, World War Z - a story of humanity's war against the zombies.

Mr. Genius: Is it fiction?

Me: Pffft *giggle*

Employee: ...yes, it is fictional.

Mr. Genius: So... that means it didn't happen? Or-

Employee: No, it's not real history.

Mr. Genius: Oh... k.

At this point the guy took the book from the employee and wandered off. The employee then turned and asked if I needed help finding anything. Still trying to hold back the laughter I responded "No thanks, I've found what I'm getting!"

As I was exiting the store zombie apocalypse book in hand I overherd the employee telling a co-worker the tale of Mr. Genius, and the ensuing mockery warmed my heart.

Twas the best Chapters visit ever.

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June 02

Dinosaur Hunting

There is no way to casually carry a machete.

I learned this today as I had to walk from one end of the research centre to the other machete in hand

I was sweating and looking about nervously for fear people would get the wrong impression and send the station in to lockdown.

I did not end up on the 6 o'clock news, but did get a couple double takes.

I had been using the machete (along with my awesome skills) to magically turn 14 plants in to 56 plants.

It was like when that Jesus guy started with 1000 hungry people and a bit of bread and fish and managed to feed all 900 people.

Being surrounded by plants and hacking my way through them with a machete made me feel like Indiana Jones (not the one that chases little green men), or Turok (not the disney version), or Dr. Grant (not the Jurassic Park 3 version) which was pretty cool.

I did some other more sciencey stuff but nothing as cool as flaling about with a blade the size of a cat.

Anyway the real reason I'm blogging is cause I came across this amazing quiz that combined the two of the best things from childhood - Super Mario Bros. and Dinosaurs (not the tv show)