LINKFEST Thursday

• I'm vacillating between being horrified and saying this is probably good parenting because I definitely don't want this kid to have a gun.


• The mer people of Lake Michigan. Hee hee. I've been looking at this for a week and it still makes me giggle.


• 5 lunches under 400 calories. How good does that poached egg and lentil business look? Yum.


• Charley Harper is an artist who is really well known in Cincinnati. I was familiar with several of his prints as a kid. Lots of animals. He did a cave print for the museum while I worked there.


• Where's America going? Just for fun, click on King County (Seattle, WA). Then try Detroit. And what's in Dallas that everyone is going there?


• Good news for those of us counting calories. Airplanes won't be too bad. The 2,000 calorie popcorn at the movies is another story entirely.


• Running and stretching... I've actually read a couple other studies saying that stretching before a run isn't needed, or can weaken muscle. Usually I just take a short warm up walk and call it good. I do stretch at the end of the run though. Because if I don't have time to stretch, I don't have time to run.


• The finance reform bill has potentially life altering consequences as I never carry cash and make tiny purchases all the freaking time.