grown inside a plastic box

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For some reason the recent Garden XKCD won't load on my work computer, probably because complicated campus firewalls or something - you go to the page and all it gives you is a revolving tree silhouette with the word "LOADING" and a flashing ellipsis, with the mouseover "Relax." I thought that was the whole strip, and it was perfect - that's

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[wolverine_nun]

Okay.
Am reading that really long Machete Order blog post. Loving it. Segued into watching that video of children's faces upon hearing "I am your father".

HAVE TO STOP! HAVE MARKING TO DO!

[wolverine_nun]

Bother. Continued reading anyway. Now see a link at the bottom to blog post on Episode VII.
Argh! What have you done to me?! As if marking wasn't hard enough anyway!

< retires muttering into tottering piles of test scripts >

[extemporanea]

Does it make me intrinsically evil that my occasional ability to distract you with random geeky shit from the internet is one of my little joys? because it really is...

[wolverine_nun]

Not exactly *evil* as such...

I planned to save that page for later reading over a cup of coffee but had to actually close it and throw my hands in the air, shouting "marking!", hopefully not to the distress of anyone passing by.

I Grew a Bush, then gave up!

[bronchitikat]

All the best at keeping the tomcat off. They sell plants over here reputed to keep cats off - apparently they're pretty stinky. As we, at present, have no cat problem, only snails, I've not bothered to investigate further. Now if they had a plant to deter snails . . .

I've been carefully nurturing seeds and seedlings in our front room windowsill (augmented with glass shelves) for a while now. Soon I shall have to commit them to the garden - where they will be at the mercy of the snails and, possibly, get eaten off at or near ground level!

As for CGI in films. Too many modern films seem to be but a showcase for the CGI 'artists' and have even less plot than your average pre-CGI used to. Hmmm.

And the Holotypic Occlupanid Research Group obviously had too much time, and money, on their hands. Both of which could have been better used. Reminds me of a paper I heard about on different ways to wash a cup!

How can Education scream about 'cuts' when people turn out such?

Re: I Grew a Bush, then gave up!

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Currently a makeshift spiked pit trap is not in any way keeping the tom from landing on the spring onions, very neatly between the bamboo stakes. I am moderately hypersensitive to scent and am profoundly disinclined towards stinky anti-cat bushes, alas! But I have discovered that snailbait also seems to kill cutworms...