In honour of Mai-Britt, who tends to garble words when tired, here’s a tidbit from Wikipedia on spoonerisms:

A spoonerism is a play on words in which corresponding consonants, vowels, or morphemes are switched (see metathesis), named after the Reverend William Archibald Spooner (1844–1930), Warden of New College, Oxford, who was notoriously prone to this tendency.

During a college reception, he remarked to one lady “You’ll soon be had, as a matter of course”, when he meant to say “Mad as a Hatter, of course”.

My favourite: “We’ll have the hags flung out.” Poetry!

I’ve uploaded another spider clip to YouTube… Jonnay and the spider spinning right round.

Click the leg shot (sweet suspension, hey?) to watch the video:

Man, is that thing cool.

By the way, here’s a small but growing gallery of shots from the unveiling that you can check out. (The embedded gallery is kind of messy at time of writing, but I’ll clean up the stylesheet soon… promise.)

Lindsie and I spent most of a week interviewing wedding photographers a few weeks ago, and we met one named Leanne Pedersen who is absolutely awesome.

If you’re getting married in Vancouver, I don’t think you can do better. And anyone who shoots exclusively with a 13MP digital SLR gets my respect right away. (Because I’m kind of geeky and I love big numbers.)

We didn’t wind up going with her because we got a killer deal elsewhere through a friend of a friend, but it was a really hard decision to make. We spent about two hours just chatting with Leanne and she is an outstanding photographer and all-around cool girl.

On the bright side, well, now I’ve plugged her site — and we’ve invited her and her boyfriend to this week’s Hump-a-que too. Ha!

A couple years ago, my crazy and wonderful friend Jon Tippett came back from Burning Man with the idea that he was going to build a big bipedal walking machine. Sounds insane… but that’s Jon.

About a year ago, he started mucking around with plans for a giant mechanical spider… and at a Junkyard wars event, the homely yet awesomely promising 2×4 spider prototype was unleashed.

Now, after thousands of hours of toil, he and a merry band of engineers and weirdos have pulled it off: The Mondo Spider!

More to come on this absolutely incredible piece of work…