April 2011
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Apr 29th
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Food
After an Easter weekend filled with ham and turkey (at different parents’ homes), back to the mostly-vegetables diet. Made a delicious mashed-potatoes and beet and mushroom casserole the other night that was great, and had steamed broccoli with a cheddar Bechamel sauce for a side. Tonight is grilled salmon (not technically a vegetable, I know…) with rice and a broccoli souffle.
Apr 29th
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Apr 28th
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Another List
This is another list of “Stuff to Look Up” that I found. Like the previous one, I’m guessing it’s rather old, since some of what I put on here are things that I now know. This list is probably from Foucault’s Pendulum, or something else that’s Templar-related (Holy Blood, Holy Grail?). It’s an interesting look into what I was curious about and what I...
Apr 28th
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Apr 28th
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Kiltwear
The kilt is made of 8 yards of fabric, with 27 pleats; all handsewn. The edge of the kilt is never hemmed; it’s the woven edge of the fabric. Kilt should be worn about an inch above the knees. The origin was the filleadh-mhor, where you laid a belt down, pleated the fabric on top of it, laid down and folded the fabric over you, belted the belt, then swung excess fabric over your shoulder....
Apr 28th
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Tuition
Robert Ramirez, the lone Latino Republican in the Colorado House, voted the deciding vote to kill a bill that would have allowed illegal immigrants to pay in-state tuition. Way to go, asshole. It was so close to passing, too. Story in today’s Denver Post
Apr 28th
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Apr 27th
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Hive Update
Okay, so Tuesday I opened up the hive for the first time since putting the bees in there. I think my feeder clogged, because it doesn’t look like the bees drank much of the syrup. I poked a few holes in it, hopefully that will work for them. It’s been really cold (hail last night!) and rainy pretty much since we got them, so they haven’t had much of a chance to go out and...
Apr 27th
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Oh Oprah! You shouldn't have!
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Apr 27th
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Security
When shopping for an eyeball-scanning security checkpoint system, I accidentally ordered a “rectal scanner.” Luckily, it keeps out the strangers just as well.
Apr 25th
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Travel Tip
Here’s a tip: Next time you do some international flying, don’t bring along extra confectioner’s sugar. And definitely don’t bring it along in large, duct-taped plastic bags.
Apr 25th
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Riddle
Little Nancy Etticoat In her white petticoat And her red nose. The longer she stands The shorter she grows. Question: Who is Nancy Etticoat? Answer: She is an old woman with osteoporosis.
Apr 25th
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FURTHER EXCELLENT PURCHASES
Todd’s Soup Woodlouse-Firing Mosquito Cannon Grim Oop North, The Game Of Cultural Belittlement Pocket Gentleman The Era-Ender Because Miners Are Paid To Take Risks: The Miniature Canary Gas-Mask Drubbing! The Fake Clock The Fish Boot Aunt Dismantler 5000 Face Cladding Bad Fido! Pet Whipping Kit
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Garden Status
On Saturday, April 23, planted these outdoors: Nasturtiums Lettuce (Black-Seeded Simpson) Swiss Chard (Bright Lights) Cilantro Wildflowers Radishes (three different types) Dill Chives Turnips Italian Parsley Still to plant outdoors: Lettuce (Grand Rapids) Carrots (Parisian) Need to start from seed indoors: Cantaloupe Eggplant Basil I know it’s a bit early—conventional...
Apr 25th
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Tumblr
Damn…I went right over 3,000 posts and didn’t even realize it. Ah, well. I shall have to remember to celebrate my 4,000th post properly.
Apr 25th
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Apr 24th
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Bees!
Yesterday we got our package of bees! It’s so cool having bees in the hive, watching them flying in and out…it just feels so…I don’t know the best word. Productive? Fertile? Agricultural? I wonder if there’s a word for “the pleasure one gets from growing things or raising things (like bees, chickens, etc.).” Not so much the pleasure of having all the...
Apr 24th
Ratings: Aspects of Easter
Colored Eggs Yeah, sure, garishly pastel hen ova are fun and all, and it’s reasonably diverting to run all over hell and gone looking for them. But then when you’re done, what do you have? Maybe a dozen hard boiled eggs. Either these have to be eaten—no small task for those of us who consider hard-boiled eggs to be just this side of inedible—or chucked into the trash, which hardly seems to be an...
Apr 24th
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Apr 23rd
Obama Sends Armed Drones to Help NATO in Libya War →
wilwheaton: President Obama has authorized the use of armed Predator drones to attack Libya government forces fighting the rebellion against Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi as NATO struggles to regain momentum since taking command of the operation from the United States. Can we call it a war now? I’m so fucking happy that we’re pouring even more fucking money into this fucking pit of a civil war on...
Apr 22nd
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Apr 22nd
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