FDA: Don't Eat E.Coli Spinach - that is, any spinach.

Thanks for all the generous offers - as it turns out, B has one in the house. It's a bit late for me to actually want to use it still tonight, but now at least I have it available.

Who in Seattle has a hacksaw that I can borrow, for the purpose of cutting a few pieces of light-weight metal piping? I can come to your house to use it, and would be extremely grateful.

Well, this part is completely on time. Happy birthday to gement! And congratulations to her for surviving and excelling in her first year of grad school ( Read more... )

For the last couple of years I have been hobbling along with a pay-as-you-go cheapie Tracfone, which is expensive, annoying, and doesn't get good coverage, in addition to the phone not including basics like an alarm. It is notoriously unreliable, and is also still an Olympia number, so mainly I use it as a pager or voicemail system. The point is ( Read more... )

(some of this text borrowed from loree's description, then shamelessly changed for my own purposes ( Read more... )

Okay! Okay, all you people on OKCupid, yes, someday I will actually write a profile. Just not today. Yeesh.

(Note: This is not actually directed at anyone I know. It's all the strangers who keep harassing me. However, if you harass me about it, I'd be happy to yeesh you as well.)

So we got together this evening for some games and a blind taste test of various orange juice brands. Thoroughly unscientific, comments and ranking were based on pulpiness, color, flavor, tanginess, and other variables. 6 tasters, 6 juices.


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Happy 19th Birthday to Miss garillama!

( Happy Pi Day! )