Jenn Martinelli Blogging in Boston

These photos are really cool! Click on the one below to see the article from Wired and more photos.

Oh Japan, sometimes you're so strange.

I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert.

Demetri Martin

I miss his show. When will your show be back on TV, Demetri? It's hilarious.

My friend Jess posted this article on Facebook and I think it's so interesting!

Parasitic Flies Turn Fire Ants Into Zombies

There's your fun news from the animal kingdom for today!

Anybody use liquid fabric softener? Congratulations, your clothes are coated in animal fat!

Gross.

What about dryer sheets? Are they fat-free or not? I really don't enjoy clothes washed and dried without any fabric softener but I don't want animal fat on my clothes because that's gross. So if it's everywhere I need to do something else like get one of those dryer balls or something.

I think I posted about Alex once before, maybe last year when he died. Anyway, I remember learning about him in high school biology. I thought it was the coolest thing that his trainer figured out parrots were so much smarter than people thought.

In any case, she's written a book called Alex and Me and there's an interesting excerpt from it on NPR's site.

Really. This guy built a Tesla Coil. Not sure exactly why, but being someone who's always had weird issues with thunderstorms/lightning/tornadoes, this is strangely fascinating.

I'm not sure if they show it on this video but on one I saw they show the guy's checklist of what he double checks before turning it on and one of the items is "dogs inside". I'm glad he's not electrocuting his dogs with his lightning machine.

I don't even really know what to say about this except, have you seen the commercial? Maybe there's more than one but I've only seen one. Thank goodness for DVRs because Rob and I were like, WHAT? and had to rewind it and watch it 2 more times.

This is wicked funny! Oh Durex, you jokesters.

Thank goodness Hashbrown gave me a topic to steal because my mind is not coming up with my usual wit and charm today but I do want to post something.

So, here are 5 things you may not know about me:

1. I can drive a three-on-the-tree pickup truck.
2. I hate wearing shoes and socks. If my feet wouldn't get frostbite and fall off I would wear sandals and/or go barefoot all year long.
3. I have had grey hair since I was 16.
4. I am the only person from my high school class to go to college more than 150 miles away.
5. I have 3 holes in each of my ears. I know. Gross. I only use 1 in each now.

Note: I had to edit #4 to be 150 miles because I underestimated how far Columbus (and Ohio State) was from my lame-ass town.

I always forget to add a link to Post Secret on my sidebar.

Here's a quote from it today:

"Every single person has at least one secret that would break your heart. If we could just remember this, I think there would be a lot more compassion and tolerance in the world."

What do you think? Do you ever read this site? Some of the secrets are funny or silly, a lot of them are sad.