The entire Pat’s Papers team is taking a long weekend to celebrate the holidays with our families. That means Pat’s Picks will also be on vacation until Tuesday, December 27. We hope you have a wonderful holiday and we’ll see you next week!

It’s a busy time of year for package delivery services. But throwing a computer monitor over a fence to speed up the delivery seems careless to me. (VIDEO)

Meteorologists say the chances of a white Christmas this year are slim. So Google’s stepped up to fill the void. If you type “Let it Snow” into the search bar of Chrome, snow will begin to cover the screen. Once you’ve had your fill—just hit defrost to start over.

New York’s Port Authority has been sending out some stunning pictures of progress at the World Trade Center. One World Trade Center has reached its 90th floor—there are just 14 more to go. I especially loved this one taken from the 80th floor—New York swathed in fog.

Someone posted a link to this video on Twitter yesterday. And it’s quite great. Justin Lancy, who tweets under the handle @Veritrope writes: Thought before the :45 mark of this BBC video: “The fish in the middle will survive.” After: “Hmm…” Watch it and find out how wrong he was.

As city dwellers we all have a pretty good mental map of what’s on our own block. But what about 10 or 20 blocks away? Or if you have to pick somewhere to meet in an unfamiliar neighborhood?

I’m a couple of days late seeing this, but it’s just so bizarre that I couldn’t leave it alone. Two 73-year old retirees from the Canadian Football League rekindled their rivalry with an on-stage brawl.

You’ve got to see this video. It was shot by two crews of the International Space Station earlier this year and shows several stunning shots of the Aurora Borealis. Amazing.

Served with today’s alter ego, we get a little insight into the mind of a barista from former Starbucks employee, Meg. She writes: “My name is Meg (easy enough to spell), but someone at Starbucks decided to write my name the cool way, apparently, and spelled it like this. As a former Starbucks employee, I kind of enjoy the creativity of the double-g.  When the write-the-customer’s-name-on-their-cup initiative began, my coworkers and I decided to designate names for willing customers to avoid misspellings of our own.  This led to us serving drinks to ‘Brad Pitt,’ ‘Bart Simpson’ and ‘Rainbow Brite,’ just to name a few.”