candy and ghosts day

[postrodent]

For the first time evar, I'm playing the role of the grown-up householder this holiday, and giving away candy. I think I'm trying to buy karma, as well as trying on one of the more trivial and easy adult responsibilities. I think the reason that I've never done this before is principally that I've never previously been willing to let strangers peer

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[pyat]

Isambard Kingdom Brunel thinks those goggles make you look French.

[postrodent]

A _stinging_ riposte. :)

[eriscontrol]

Wait, kids these days don't like the mary janes? Damn, they were always among my favorite cheap candies and I would have taken them over snickers any day. :)

[postrodent]

I actually am getting a taste for them myself, although the peanut butter is a bit nast. I actually knew them under an earlier guise simply as "halloween candy" -- chewy tan lumps in cheaply printed three-color wax paper. These didn't have the peanut butter, and I inhaled them by the handful.

[orb2069]

...I remember one year when I was protesting the commercialization of all the fall holidays - I was decorating by using a bunch of cardboard boxes - Started in halloween with boxes carved like pumpkins with light strings in them, moved on to a christmas tree made out of a pile of empty unadorned boxes with lights strung around it...

I seem to remember you wanting to do some sort of eco-hackery at some point - While researching a house buy, I stumbled across Build It Solar, which has a lot of nice projects, particularly the thermosiphons. I realize the pacific northwest is actually one of the worst places to set up solar equipment, but it might be amusing to look at, at any rate.

[postrodent]

Oh nice, that site is juicy. Thanks for the tip.