Stuffed butternut squashed (lentil filling), jalaneño cinnamon corn muffins, porcini mushroom tortellini, creamy pesto sauce with pink peppercorns, purple corn, baked purple potato, beets, halloumi, and decaf earl grey.

I felt like eating Easter colours.

It's almost ready. :-)

Note to self: stop saying, "But it's a Jaguar, in my price range." Even if it weren't for Jags' reputation for needing frequent maintenance and the "needs work" in the ad, there's just no way the double bass is going into a two-door Jaguar unless that sunroof is way bigger than any sunroof I've ever seen.

But I could strap the bass to the roof ( Read more... )

"Everybody was admiring a woman who is able to tie crocodiles to her body." -- Maria Telleria, spokeswoman for the European observers who run the Gaza-Egypt border crossing, as quoted in an AP story about a crocodile-smuggler (posted 2007-03-26, describing events of 2007-03-22) [thanks to merde for pointing out the story]

I wonder what my body's rate of hair growth is in grams/day.

But no, my curiosity is not quite strong enough to impel me to perform the obvious experiment.

Google maps provides directions from NYC to Dublin. Note step #23 in the directions.

( Thanks to merde, who in turn got it from boutell.)

Talking on the phone to the Sheepie, she veered into one of her recurring criticisms of my diet (Sheepies are emphatically not vegetarian). She said, "We were meant to be omnivores! These claws! These teeth!"

My first thought in reaction was, "I don't know about that ( Read more... )

In all the decades I've walked this Earth, I've never completely gotten used to the fact that my legs have fewer nerve endings than my fingers.

It occurs to me that "guddling" (and likewise "guddle") is a funny-sounding word.

Yeah, it sounds a little like "cuddling" as spoken by somebody with a bad cold. A cold they caught, perhaps, lying half-in/half-out of a stream, doing something fishy. But I've no clue as to the actual etymology.

Error
There are multiple users with the same UID ("0") in the file /etc/passwd.
Correct them manually before running the YaST users module again.

Oh yeah? Pbbbbbbt! There are two users with UID 0 because there ( Read more... )

I need to find a way to grow two more arms. And maybe another lobe of brain, I'm not sure.[1]

So far, the only objection I've heard to my playing the double bass in the Homespun Ceilidh Band is that I'm needed too much on guitar. So if I had four arms, suitably arranged for playing both instruments at once ...

And on those occasions when I'm ( Read more... )