This is great!

This is great advice. I’m a dog-walker for the SPCA (which in my local branch’s case, requires training and a minimum commitment of a weekly shift for six months), but intermittently I’ve helped with other tasks that wouldn’t require either of those. Once we had some dogs who were very agitated and I was asked simply…

Same here. I’ve seen the aurora twice — in Ontario, Canada — both times in the 1970s, when I was still a kid, both times when the driver (a parent or aunt) decided they didn’t want to stop the car to watch, but preferred to keep driving until we reached our destination and “then we can look”. Of course on both…

Well <oldtimer>, when I was a child and lived out east, I remember snow lasting as late as April </oldtimer> ... but today it was 66 degrees Fahrenheit! We may have skipped spring altogether and gone straight to summer. In which case, please join us in celebrating the solstice this March 21.

“Not valid in Canada.” (for any Canadians that may have perked up hopefully at the news)

Japanese translations are always a little weird. Here are the instructions for the bidet-style toilet (ladies’ stall) in a very proper Kyoto tearoom:

Umm... *clears throat*

Here you go:
Taking children on a plane (from Transport Canada)

In the old days, Black Phillip cremated you!

Looks like it’s USA-only.

Normally I don’t photograph my food, but I do if (1) I want to help out the restaurant with a good review, and (2) the meal I’ve received is exceptionally beautiful to look at. This is likeliest to be the case with Japanese food, especially sushi, where presentation (normally) is almost as important as the taste of…

Aimée, thank you for those links. I was looking for something like this, and you came through. Bless you.

It’s the next best thing to cak?

In Canada, the planes are only being flown by Air Canada and Westjet.

That NatGeo video is filmed in Arnside, Cumbria — that’s the train viaduct just beyond. It’s in one corner of Morecambe Bay, a huge area that includes many sand bars and continually shifting patches of quicksand. Many people have lost their lives trying to cross it. 

Your linguistics teacher was Oliver Sacks?

what symptoms you may experience could be mistaken for other illnesses

The locator provided by “Earth911”only works for the USA. (In case you happen to live outside it, you see.)

I find that, if I tell people I’m sober as a choice, they have a million questions, and will often pressure me to have multiple drinks.

In Canada the 9-set is actually cheaper than the 7-set at the moment!

In Canada the 9-set is actually cheaper than the 7-set at the moment!