I love sculpture, I actually thought of majoring in it in college. This fellow, Jason De Caires Taylor is an amazing sculptor, his underwater garden is haunting and unforgettable. It’s interesting to see the effects of time and nature on his work. You’ll be thinking of his sculpture for a long time after checking out his site.
This winter we’ve gone on loads of snowshoe trips, this past Sunday was our favourite. I mean—it wasn’t Castle mountain (16 k hike with a vertical rise of 700 metres—hoo-ha!), It was an easy 5 K hike. The enjoyable parts were the 100 metre vertical rise right at the beginning of the hike, and a good third of the hike was bushwhacking—not following a trail at all—deep snow trekking. This trail was the Black Prince trail, another trail close by was the Burstall pass.
WHY ASK WHY?
Why do you need a driver’s license to buy liquor when you can’t drink and drive?
Why isn’t phonetic spelled the way it sounds?
Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii?
Why are there flotation devices under plane seats instead of parachutes?
Why are cigarettes sold in gas stations when smoking is prohibited there?
Do you need a silencer if you are going to shoot a mime?
Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations?
How does the guy who drives the snowplow get to work in the mornings?
If 7-11 is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, why are there locks on the doors?
If a cow laughed. would milk come out her nose?
If nothing ever sticks to TEFLON. how do they make TEFLON stick to the pan?
If you tied buttered toast to the back of a cat and dropped it from a height, what would happen?
If you’re in a vehicle going the speed of light, what happens when you turn on the headlights?
You know how most packages say “Open here”. What is the protocol if the package says, “Open somewhere else”?
Why do they put Braille dots on the keypad of the drive-up ATM?
Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways?
Why is it that when you transport something by car, it’s called a shipment, but when you transport something by ship, it’s called cargo?
You know that little indestructible black box that is used on planes, why can’t they make the whole plane out of the same substance?
Why is it that when you’re driving and looking for an address. you turn down the volume on the radio?
This originated in The Netherlands. Elaine Cheslow, Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School. Bethesda, MO