No dancing

Some people call satellite dishes "West Virginia wildflowers." I find that extremely quaint, endearing, and just about right. I used to spend a lot of time in West Virginia, and it really is a state where a person could, with very little irony, call a satellite dish a wildflower. Because West Virginia has both, and its a state of extraordinary beauty and extraordinary poverty.

Some people like engaging in massed battles with broadswords and maces.

The picture is from the "Pennsic War", presumably fought by the East Kingdom and some other kingdom. There are apparently seventeen kingdoms in the Society for Creative Anachronism. Personally, I find it a bit odd, but, again, charming in its complete lack of irony. I'm not the sort of person who could do something like that without being overwhelmed by the irony of what I was doing, but I think there's something very interesting about the activity and the people who engage in it. Usually, I like to poke fun at and condescend towards things (condescension, aloofness, and irony mix very well), but this is just interesting (oh, and really, really nerdy), at least when you're wasting time at work.