"I've heard people dying from drinking energy drinks and alcohol simultaneously... though, that is heresay, so I'd check it out." Hearing people's death gurgles... how macabre. Since I've been reading historical novels, the mis-spelt word looked to me like "heresy ( Read more... )

Autumn is the season for apples and feijoas, and right now I live on a section which has two trees of each. Free food, whenever I want it. I can't wait to get into my own house and plant heaps of food ( Read more... )

I was expecting bad things from this bunny, especially after struggling so much on the maths questions (I consider myself to be good at maths), but no, this bunny likes me slightly more than Tickle does.


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A person with no preconceived ideas of what an assassin robot should look like can come up with a better design for one than someone who has known (and feared) IG-88 since infancy. I couldn't imagine any sort of assassin robot other than tall, black and humanoid with lots of red eyes, or else a little floating orb; moonpower scribbled for five minutes and ( Read more... )

An excellent find: a Hubble Space Telescope calendar for $5. Now I know what day it is AND I can research how to draw a picture of a nebula at the same time. Next to it, a horse calendar for $2; five out of twelve pictures are not of Arabs, Thoroughbreds or Quarter Horses, a very impressive proportion. In fact there are even Fjord ponies ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was looking after my little brothers for a few hours. We played Set (the world's greatest game) and then they wanted to play Cluedo. I find Cluedo a little tedious, but I'm happy to play it with them because I remember how much fun I had with the game at their age ( Read more... )

I decided to do a quiz on Blogthings and saw a strange flashing on the left-hand side of the screen. It looked like the half-seen blinky bit that comes up when I'm playing Diablo and someone signs in on MSN Messenger. Now it could have been a glitch, but it's more interesting to the conspiracy theorist in me to believe that it was subliminal ( Read more... )

"I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned." - Lucy Stone

I should tell that to my "anti-feminist" sister. It probably wouldn't help at all.