flamingos, the idiot box, Russian stuff, and a little mold

Today I learned that flamingos are considered geriatric when they're fifty and that you can get kids to tell you tv makes them stupid. Also, there's a blog about all things Russian that has a post consisting of pictures of buildings taken 60 to 100 years apart.

In other news, there is enough mold in this one package of flooring that neither one of us can get anywhere near it:


So ick.