I finally remembered my etsy password and logged in to window shop for a little while. (Distraction ho!*) It occurred to me that I had never bothered to check for any feedback left about me after any of the maybe half a dozen purchases I have ever made at etsy. (Oh, I have drooled over hundreds of things! But only ever bought a few ( Read more... )

This has to count as proof that dieting can make you crazy. The link below will take you to the first of a series of actual Weight Watchers recipe cards from 1974, which author Wendy McClure found in her parents' basement. (McClure says that no one in her family will admit to being the original purchaser of the cards). It is not at all clear what ( Read more... )

From the new edition of my logic text (I'm pretty sure this example wasn't here last year!):

'In a truth table, two statements are logically equivalent if they have the same truth value on each row. For example, consider the statements If aardvarks aarkle, then baboons babooble and [Either] Aardvarks don't arkle or baboons babooble, which we can ( Read more... )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0Nv-9FpB4s

It took me about an hour to load this video by dial-up. I think it was worth it. Presidentrices and Mailmen agree: the very best part might be the look on the puppet's face when it comes in at the wrong cue. Or maybe when the two ( Read more... )

I didn't use to have any comics aficionados in my flist, so I didn't worry very much about spoilers.  (I'm guessing that, to most of my friends, this is just inane babble or white noise! ;o9)  But now that I do, HERE BE SPOILERS for whatever I'm reading at the moment, some of which is from six months ago, and some of which is from six years ago, ( Read more... )

Last night my friend Janelle got back into town, and after dinner we got a little punchy and ended up buying ice cream and chocolate and soda and having the Indiana Jones marathon we had talked about way back before the end of the semester, even though both of us had already been to see Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.  (And liked it.  I had forgotten ( Read more... )