LJ-CUT because of lots of pictures. This was probably made in the very early 1960s (you can read some fascinating things about these at The Mid-Century Modernist

And at

Danishmod.comI really, really don't have floor space for this. And it doesn't go with anything in my house, even if my house is "yard sale eclectic". But I could not, could not ( Read more... )

It feels like a startup dot.com gone "big corporate".

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After a shower, looking at her face and hair in the mirror:

"I look like a wet turnip."

Three black pearls together...poof! I think my high score was a bit over 440,000.

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...pretty dang good picture, really. I didn't take it. It was taken by a fellow with a professional camera, and the picture is copyrighted to him ( Read more... )

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All fixed. Paypal refunded me. My bank also refunded me. I switched my accounts around and when I was sure Paypal wouldn't suck that money back out again, had my own bank square its accounts ( Read more... )

If you have a Paypal account, and that Paypal account is linked to your person household account as the backup for 'if you buy something and your Paypal account doesn't have enough money in it'...disconnect it now. Tomorrow at the latest. Don't delay, don't hesitate. Go get a free checking account somewhere, put a dollar or five in it, and use that ( Read more... )

Emmaline, 11, is doing her math. It's a review of how to calculate the volume of cubical objects. These particular objects are drawn as piles of cubic centimeters, so they're easy to calculate. I check on her. She has the numbers right, but has made them all cm2.

Me: "You're going to have to make those cm3, not cm2. You've made those for area, ( Read more... )