30 random things

The 16th of 30 lists of 30 things.

I made a plan for my 30 lists at the beginning of the month, but some of them are proving to be way too time-consuming to get together considering that another list has to go up every day.

So tonight I went to Google, typed in ‘random pages’ and was sent off on a journey. Here’s a sentence from most of the pages I visited. My daughter thinks it’s like one of those continuous stories you do on school camps, where you write a sentence and fold the paper over, and the next person writes a sentence.


1. Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Olive Oil But Were Afraid To Ask.

2. Yes, we know you’ve been neglected.

3. A bunch of Canadians.

4. The Arsenal have wrapped up a signing so unexpected that it has taken everyone by surprise.

5. Which is the main goal of having spy cams: to discover what you're doing when you believe nobody's watching.

6. High school students interested in becoming gunsmiths should take woodworking, metalwork, and technical drawing courses at school.

7. Plantains are always packed by hand in cardboard boxes, 50 pounds to the box and shipped in refrigerated holders to maintain freshness.

8. This is the thing, a conversation that in Australia would take half an hour takes two or three hours here because of communication problems.

9. Are you interested in learning how to DJ, mix at home or in a club?

10. Sandy Smith woke up to the annoying and familiar sound of the alarm clock.

11. Minnesota's clawback law is a good example of best practice.

12. The Desert Dog Troglodytes have regular meetings at the Ace hardware store.

13. It is very discouraging to newcomers to have to ask for every single thing on the list.

14. Estonia is unique among nations in its heavy use of oil shale.

15. Michel is an inscrutable young man - neatly dressed, mild mannered, intelligent - hardly the type whom one would suspect to be a pickpocket.

16. A popular account, I would have thought, ought to be terser and tell more of a continuous story.

17. Are you tired of spending time vacuuming at home?

18. The people were super nice and everything was in walking distance, which was very convenient for us.

19. Multiplying a vector by a scalar will get you a vector with the same direction, but different magnitude, as the original.

20. Have no fear, drongos, dickheads and ratbags of Australia!

21. I'm an Anglophile.

22. My husband is getting more and more angry and saying I have to get rid of her if I can’t get her trained.

23. The results of calculations based on the observed data show that the dragonfly performs low speed flight with ordinary airfoil characteristics, instead of adopting an abnormally large lift coefficient.

24. Knowing it was the finale, you kept waiting for someone to die.

25. If a nobleman or collector dies, who values his pictures but Mr. Seguier?

26. "The Earth cannot wait 60 years. We need everybody capable of discovering an answer to put their minds to it today," Branson said.

27. He laughed, but also pointed out that “Well, the fact that we appeared in a political cartoon on the editorial page is proof that the event was newsworthy.”

28. Less also means more when it comes to reliability.

29. It is for the reader, and ultimately history, to decide which view is correct.

30. Let’s cut straight to the chase.