My name is Jen, and I'm a physicist who loves gin. So, I decided to do a play off of sloe (the berries are my avatar) gin (jen) fizz (phys).

BoC: Excuse me, waiter, I'll have an Arnold Palmer.

Twat would you like in your coffee?

CALGARY SUCKS or something. I'm told that I'm supposed to hate Calgary, though I've never been sure why.

Only if you went to Harvard.

Wait, I thought Brown people were for fun, and Princeton people were for settling?

I have plenty of my own, hence my staunch, hardened character.

WELCOME TO MY WORLD

I'm having the best winter ever in Alberta. It was the warmest January since I've lived here. It was -30C only once. There's been no wind. No snow. It's even gotten above 0 a few times and I'm only about a foot of snow away from seeing my lawn now. Sure, it's meant the entire place has been one sheet of ice for a…

"I've lived in good climate, and it bores the hell out of me. I like weather rather than climate."

Ah, right, sorry, I forgot to include the link. We always post a bare-bones nuts-and-bolts version of the recipe over at my personal Kinja blog, for people who are just looking for a recipe and don't want to do a bunch of reading. Here's this week's:

Nutella.

i was trying to find a funny, related, image for this article but could find anything good enough. so have this:

I don't know that it's a joke - it seems a rather modest proposal to me.

God is a Packers fan? That will come as a surprise to my Cowboys loving friends...

"What's so funny about the name 'Biggus Dickus'?"

Bikini Bridge is so last week, you guys. The next big thing in Thinspo is obviously Elbow Macaroni, which, for those of you who don't know, is there the points of your elbows are perfectly round, and covered in orange cheddar cheese sauce.

Curses, I was going to drop the culinary knowledge-bomb, but you beat me to it!

The Poehler Vortex is even chillier than I'd imagined.

Do NOT spoil "Titanic" for me! I still haven't seen it and I don't want to know how it ends.