Q:What's the sweetest thing you've ever seen or heard from someone?
A (by David D'Esposito): I need to preface this answer with the explanation that I am, and always have been, a major comic-book geek. My particular pantheon of comic gods has a very specific hierarchy,which made this moment all the more special to me. After a little argument with my then-8-year-old daughter, I sullenly said to her, "I miss the days when you thought your dad was Superman". She looked up at me, puzzled. "No, Daddy." She said. "You're not Superman. You're much cooler than that. You're Batman." I cannot even imagine ever getting a more powerful compliment." (Read more here: https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-sweetest-thing-youve-ever-seen-or-heard-from-someone)
Heaveno's day gone with Leonso
Leonso Canales of Kingsville, Texas, began his campaign to replace the greeting "hello" with the less satanic "heaveno" in 1988, but he got serious about it in 1997 when he placed ads in the local paper showing the word "hello" scratched out and replaced with "heaveno". That same year, his campaign received official support when the commissioners of Kleberg County voted unanimously to designate heaveno as the county's official greeting. Canales died in September last year, and his departure seems to have taken the wind out of the sails of the heaveno movement.
At 64 years of age, Wisdom, a Laysan albatross, is the world's oldest known banded bird in the wild. These large seabirds range across the North Pacific and have unusually long lives, but most are dead by 40. Last month, Wisdom returned to Midway Atoll with her current boyfriend, Mr Goo. Soon after her arrival, Wisdom laid an egg. An albatross will lay only one egg a year, and it's believed Wisdom has raised at least 30 to 35 chicks. Male and female Laysan albatross couples take shifts, and the male makes the first very long shift (up to three weeks), which allows the female to replenish her fat reserves. After the egg hatches, they continue sharing the responsibility of feeding and rearing their chick. (Source: Amusing Planet)
Courier mind block
A reader writes: "How does one explain to a courier company the difference between a postie and a courier? After repeated phone calls and emails, answered with repeated promises that are never kept, I'm out of ideas. Even deliveries marked 'Do not leave in letterbox' get left in the letterbox, including, recently, expensive computer hardware and books."
New tan.
Picture this:
French illustrator Jean Jullien - who created the "Peace for Paris" symbol after the Paris attacks - mocks the modern addiction to technology.
Good Read: In a new regular column for The Spinoff, Alex Casey will look at a week's worth of how women are portrayed in the media (it aint going to be pretty).
