In my family, I’m likely to actually need this. And maybe a score-card too. 😉 DARK HELMET: Before you die, there is something you should know about us, Lone Starr. LONE STARR: What? DARK HELMET: I am your father’s brother’s nephew’s cousin’s former room-mate. LONE STARR: What’s that make us? DARK HELMET: Absolutely nothing. Which …
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Hear, hear.
The text I quoted above got me thinking. As many of my readers know, I’ve been working on an extremely difficult programming problem for the last seven years. Many really smart people have attempted to solve it before me, and so far, none have succeeded; many others, equally intelligent, believe that it simply can’t be …
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Our friend Don and his girlfriend were visiting for a few days, and yesterday around noon we took them to a nearby beach. It was the first time that we’d been to one in several years… we remembered to use sunscreen, so I only got a very mild sunburn on one shoulder, and GoddessJ on …
A few weeks ago I posted that we had a raccoon raiding our trash. We’ve named him Ralph, and he and at least one of his relatives have been visiting our trash cans so regularly that we now refer to them as “Ralph’s buffet.” As I mentioned then, so long as the worst they could …
Looking for something exciting and new to panic about? Look no further! I especially like this snippet of advice from the “brown bear” page: Never intentionally feed a bear: Monitor your bird feeders, never put meat scraps or fruit in your compost bin, and put garbage out in a bear-resistant container on pick-up day. Bear-resistant …
Ever since we moved a few months ago, something has been getting into our trash can at night. We’d often find it on its side in the morning, with the lid off and trash strewn everywhere. Kitchen trash, of course, which means smelly, slimy, or both, so this was obviously something we’d prefer to stop. …
I find the placebo effect to be utterly fascinating. It’s almost certainly responsible for the successes of shamans, faith-based healers, and homeopathy. And, on the other side of the coin, the documented successful witch doctors’ curses. But it’s literally all in your head. Which means that everyone who has ever been affected by any of …
I used to have a problem similar to this guy: I am the kind of person who takes 30 minutes to an hour to fall asleep, most nights. Falling asleep is an ordeal for me (unless I’m completely exhausted). […] Because of this, I always thought that power napping was not for me. After all, …
I’m a horrible packrat. I’m not holding onto things for their earlier value, like this article suggests, but because they might be useful someday — in my youth, I had one too many instances of throwing something away after a couple years of disuse, only to discover that I needed it the next week. Nevertheless, …
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