Plans for a small trebuchet for Pentathlon 2008
Remember Mode Tutorial Hah! Thank you for explaining the remember-mode templates so clearly (via Sacha).
Thankfully, that snow globe factoid is a complete fabrication. #
I am given to understand that snow-globe enthusiasts drain the water from their globes in order to preserve them. Wtf!? #
"Nobody's perfect" is the least of consolations. #
Preliminary
Yesterday I managed to piss off my friends (e.g.,
Part the first
I was at (read on...)Aardvarchaeology reviews Pandemic. Nice to see the science blogs give some (qualified) love to Pandemic.
"Just this once" is the death knell of any enterprise dependent upon willpower. #
Flip flips your text downside up.
More than you ever wanted to know about swiss chard (or silverbeet, which sounds cooler).
Most legal problems do not age well. #
[Elin:] A unicorn is like a horse with a big big horn and STEAM comes out of it! [Cool!] #
[Elin on the subject of seagulls:] They sleep in the clouds. [Me: What do the clouds feel like?] Kitty fur. #
[Elin, waving magic wand:] Bang, your boobs are now sparkly, mom! #
[Elin, waving magic wand:] Bang, your pumpkin turned into your crotch! #
Realization #1,034: By the time one notices that something is wrong, that condition will almost certainly get worse before it gets better. #
Emptiness: the coloring book.
The Tom Selleck Cake seriously disturbs me.
@CalebXanadu Corollary: utilities that make it possible to do many things very quickly are of no use if they help you do them incorrectly. #
My attention span for self-improvement is exactly _three_ months. (Spell checking was provided by gnefspell). #
vimirgin: one who has never used vim (and my googlewhack of the night). #
Creating the todo list, it turns out, is the lesser part of productivity. #
My attention span for self-improvement is exactly thee months long. #
Belated realization # 1252: I'm only just now cluing in to how critical net neutrality is to our supposedly free society. #
Tofu linked to poorer memory, but tempeh linked to better memory. Wth!?
I think I'm turning curmudgeon. #
Indication #78 that Elin's mind is working properly: "... and then the bats turn into fireworks!" #
Realization #613: I spend too much rushing to relax. #
Wordle makes "beautiful word clouds."
Tamarind Popcorn sounds really good.
















