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Wow. Not pulling any punches with this one! (The Angry Bird strip for Labor Day. I didn't grab the direct URL, and am too sleepy to fix the issue.)

I gave the kids the choice between going to the National Zoo (and seeing the new Pacific Northwest trail -- seals, sea lions, otters, beavers, and some of their friends) or going to the Catoctin zoo and seeing the giraffe. Herself chose Catoctin, Himself chimed in with his agreement, and so we went to Catoctin Wildlife Preserve and Zoo! (It's 45- ( Read more... )

YAWP ( Read more... )

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It's all about password security.

Occasionally I come up with a good quip that I just have to share. This time, it was in response to someone posting the Cupcake Periodic Table, and someone commenting that "cooking is chemistry". Because:

Baking is chemistry, cooking is experimental physics. 10 points if you blow up dinner!

*impish grin*

I have found, in the course of locating "stuff I want to keep but don't need cluttering up my office ( Read more... )

So I'm in my office, working off a bout of insomnia (I haven't had enough sugar today for it to be a sugar high; this one's 100% guilt-fueled, yay), and start hearing strange electronic noises. Computer? No, wrong tonal quality, it's busy copying number 2 of the last 6 CDs to be ripped. iPad? No, it lights up. iPad? No, likewise. (Yes, there ( Read more... )

Most days, when I walk into the bathroom the toilet is clearly in a "used but unflushed" state. So I, being the reasonable and understanding mother that I am, bellow out the door "Who used the toilet and didn't flush!" In short order a small child, usually Himself, pitter-pats into the bathroom, tidily closes the toilet, flushes it, makes sure it ( Read more... )

Yay! My very own CMS, built by me from scratch (using a couple plug-ins such as CKEditor), is now live! I'm not done with the Calendar widget, and I next need to integrate the Image Rotator widget, but the framework is done! Fini! Completado! YAWP ( Read more... )

Happiness is me, I've managed some really good things with my Calendar widget. Yeah, sure, I could've just used an existing calendar widget and saved my client a lot of money... but all existing free widgets are utter crap, at least for CF, so I made our own. And dang it's a nice little whiz-bang! I even have ideas of how to expand it for later ( Read more... )