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 (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.


















