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Nama, Nombre, Ireum - tl;dr?
My interest in names and their meanings has been (tangentially) documented before. I love names, I love their etymology, I love their history and usage. In a way, a name carries on to its bearer the backstory of those who bore it before, be they legendary or real.
My own name is hardly remarkable. My first name, Laura, is derived from a plant ( Read more... ) -
Do you like cats? Then you are anti-declawing.
It's inhumane, and illegal in most countries. Sign this petition if you'd like.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/327400811
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Somewhere, Mr. Kramer swelled with pride
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Cat killed by car, stupid owner
So yesterday my sister and her friend were driving down a broad four-lane street near my house to get dinner. It was dark already and, being Friday night, the shady bars near campus were hopping.
They saw a cat cross all four lanes. The cat had apparently followed his owner to a bar. She was standing outside smoking, and was too drunk stupid ( Read more... ) -
Chemical Classifications that Don't Surprise Me
So coworker Tobin was cleaning out and rearranging what she described as the "super-duper deadly dangerous" chemical cabinet and found this:
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Creativity and the void
Yeah, those breathalyzer things for cars? My Mac needs one. I am now verbose, running on two glasses (three?) of wine with dinner. It ain't no handle of soju, my usual wordmaker, but it'll do ( Read more... ) -
The patient shows numerous signs of being improperly mummified
Having broken my own record for mindboggling laziness, I return to you all with a post. Not a great post, not even a mildly interesting post, but a post written just to break whatever it is that has frozen over the normally-fruitful sea of my personal blug-o-sphere ( Read more... ) -
Thanksgiving, what?
On Sunday I went to the craft store with my sister to buy stuff for Christmas decorating. We're going tits-out this year - lights, ornaments, a tree, caroling, gingerbread-house-building, you name it. Our kitchen tree sticker has shed its barely-glued-on leaves and now sports golden ball ornaments, hand-beaded glass icicles, tiny candy canes, and ( Read more... ) -
My Mom
I'm proud of my mom.
For a while now, she's been working at an elementary school as an aide in the kindergarten classroom. Because she's spent most of her adult life raising and working with kids, she's extremely good with them, and the kindie teacher (who must be a smart lady) frequently asks my mom's opinions about how to deal with kindie issues ( Read more... ) -
True Work Quotes, overheard without context
"We aren't terrorists, but yeah, I guess that's something terrorists would do ( Read more... )