happysteve posted a link to the BaconSalt website, and it made me think of all the bacon freaks on my friends page. Bacon flavor without as much guilt... hmmm...

Noticed this on the Yahoo news section. Apparently, a historian is referencing some period legal documents as an indication of government / publically sanctioned civil unions between men.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20070827/sc_livescience/gayunionssanctionedinmedievaleurope

The issue of the Jounal of Modern History that they mention in ( Read more... )

So, a couple months ago, Duquesne Light decided that our trees in the backyard were impinging on the eletrical lines and that they wanted to cut them down. In some ways, this was good. There was a heinous sumac tree that I couldn't figure out how to get rid of that they did a thorough job on ( Read more... )

Gakked this from amykb. It's cute, and not the description I would expect for the critter in question. I think the descriptions are based on astrological sign, since all it asks for is your birthday, but I suppose it could be random.

( What Animal Was I In a Past Life? )

So, I thought I'd give the recent meme a try. So I went back to find my 42nd entry... the "meaning of life" entry. Um... yeah. The problem is, I started my LJ career back in 2002 with a ton of memes... most of which are broken now ^_^ Seriously, for a little while my content was probably more meme than real content. Which it sometimes does now ( Read more... )

In case people haven't seen this: New Bablyon 5 Stories coming to DVD

(Passed on from ladypoetess's journal.)

"The most desired gift of love is not diamonds or roses or chocolate. It is focused attention." -- Rick Warren

Amen.

(Thanks to ka3ytl for posting it.)

I am amused that both the Which Philospher Would You Agree With and the If You Were A Beer Test memes are on my Friends page at the same time.

It takes all kinds ^_^

I often tend to glance at the random "news, but not always hard-core news" stories that show up on Yahoo above the really depressing section of important / international news. Today, that means I caught this story: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070522/ap_on_re_us/green_taxis
Now, I'm all for green energy. Absolutely. But I'm confused. I thought ( Read more... )

The distance between the lip and the basin of the slate sink in the lab is longer than the distance the all-glass dessicator lid can fall without shattering. *sigh*

It could have been much worse. It could have been more expensive to replace or it could have hurt someone. But still... not a good way to start an experiment.