Various amusing or interesting topics, or things that shock and appall me. Kind of a miscellaneous bin.
Ah, the infamous duct tape. How is duct tape like The Force from Star Wars? They both have a light side and a dark side, and they bind the universe together. A roll of duct tape and a can of WD-40 is all you really need for most household repairs. If it moves and it …
I hope everyone remembered to update their clocks just now. (What, you mean you didn’t stay up until 2am today just to do that? 😉 )
GoddessJ and I recently visited an Ikea store to get some furniture for our new house. As always, my attention was drawn to the fake computers and TVs they have in their display rooms. You’ll be as sad as I to learn that one of the manufacturers of such props (I think it’s the one …
One of those neat things I’ve always wanted to know but had never had a chance to learn. The ‘net really does have everything. 😉
I’ve seen lots of “squirrel-proof” bird feeders before. In most cases, the squirrels managed to work around them and get the bird food anyway. But this one looks like it just might work. And it’s a lot less expensive than the others I’ve seen too. 🙂
Doom, despair, and agony on me! Deep dark depression, excessive misery! If it weren’t for bad luck, I’d have no luck at all. Doom, despair, and agony on me! — Recurring skit from the TV show Hee Haw This sounds like a great idea. But I have to wonder about it. I know a woman, …
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I had trouble believing this headline when I first read it, but when you read the entire article, it makes a lot of sense.
This is from yesterday’s Dilbert Blog entry: A Muslim, a Christian, and a crazy guy walk into a room. The one thing you can know for sure is that at least two out of three of them organize their lives around things that aren’t real. And that’s the best case scenario. Atheists would say all …
I’d tend to agree with this. I have an old battery-powered analog office clock, not so that I can see the time (that’s what I have a watch for), but mostly so that I can listen to it tick while I work… I find it soothing. But the main reason I wanted to write about …
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Sheesh… I wouldn’t want to be a drug dealer these days, if this is what they have to go through to get their product. I wouldn’t want to be one of the policemen who had to dig through the crap to find it either. They don’t make a Bunnysuit strong enough that I’d ever feel …
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