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The Real "Best Thing Evar"
Jonzo sez "The internet has lied to you. People on the internet will often say they have found the best thing ever. They are wrong, unless they are referring to this." He's absolutely correct.
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Proof That God Is Not A Dog
If I had any gumption I would shampoo the carpets. Alas, I have been rendered temporarily gumptionless.
Why do I need to shampoo the carpets, you ask? That would be because my dog is 15 years old and can't always make it to the door in time. Spot-cleaning leaves, well, spots, and I need to do the whole thing once a week if I want it to look ( Read more... ) -
Indiana Jones And The Dentures Of Doom
Now this is just...odd. When I heard they were doing this, my initial reaction was "Oh god, please don't." The trailer, which seems kind of pompous ("He saved the cradle of civilization! He single-handedly beat the nazis! He rescued god! He invented chocolate! And gravity! And now...SOME MORE SHIT HAPPENS!") somehow does not reassure. And I ( Read more... ) -
Now Visible From Orbit
I don't know if I mentioned this, but our lovely winding country road is being widened to accomodate all the **$&^#%$ traffic from all the &%$**#$^$ subdivisions that have sprung up since the old-timers have been dying off and/or selling out their farmland. Our place is screened from the road by a thick strip of fifty-year-old black pines, so even ( Read more... ) -
Urgh.
It was my turn to teach the little kids' history group today. It went well. It bloody well should have, she grumbled, considering I spent six hours teusday morning preparing for it. It was less stressful than usual, even though we have even more kids since a couple of the little siblings have now aged into the class (which translates to "they ( Read more... ) -
Web Scrapings
Some interesting thoughts from Elizabeth Bear on how the internet has changed the nature of fame and entertainment - clicky, clicky - and the piece on "corrugated media" (great term, that) referred to, also a good read.
Scroogled is Cory Doctorow's excellent short story, from Radar online, about search engines, government surveillance and what ( Read more... ) -
Domestic Snapshot
Played hooky from history group today. I've been fighting off a sinus headache/impending migraine since yesterday morning, and last night I caved in and took half of one of the really vicious muscle relaxers they gave R. when he was having back spasms a few months ago. As a result the headache is somewhat better, except for the lingering nausea ( Read more... )
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