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Gilmore Girls!
tersa and I had a Gilmore Girls on Netflix marathon today. We started with coffee (of course), and then picked up Chinese, in homage to their favorite late night food. I was really touched by how they worked in Edward Herrman's death so respectifully, and oh my god they really did get everyone back. At one point they panned to a young woman playing, ( Read more... ) -
Happy 90th birthday to one of my favorite naturalists
So at certain times of the year, a small cloud of tiny flies hangs out on my porch in front of the door. I hadn't spared them much thought before, except to wonder why they were there when there wasn't any food for them. But today I sat and properly watched them while cooling off after transplanting an aloe vera. And I noticed something familiar ( Read more... ) -
First night of Passover
I went to a seder last night held by katchoo_too and tnalpgge, and it was the first seder that the three year old had attended when she was old enough to get what was going on. So the afikomen was duly wrapped and hidden by her father, she went and looked and came back disappointed. Where upon she broke the matzah on her plate into half, wrapped a half in her ( Read more... ) -
Discovery of the day
Things I did not know: finches eat flowers. I was sitting outside eating breakfast, and saw one ignore the tray full of black sunflower seeds to start working away at the peach tree. I thought it might be eating bugs or going after the pollen, but no, it came up with petals in its beak and snapped them down. -
One win for the dead trees
I do like having a lot of books on my tablet, but every once in a while I am reminded of why I still love my hardcopy library. I idly remembered a science fiction story I read a very long time ago. A little googling wangled the name and author: "Low Grade Ore", Kevin O'Donnell, and isfdb told me it had only been published in four places; Isaac ( Read more... ) -
The art of UI design, if you are a moron
My god, sometimes UI designers are idiots. I was downloading some mp3s from Amazon on my extremely seldom used Windows laptop. The relevant parties at Microsoft decided that what I really wanted was Windows Media Player automatically opened every time a new mp3 was downloaded. And even after I annoyedly gave up and left it opened, it decided it ( Read more... ) -
Watching an older New Tricks...
I try not to apply American standards of self-defense to the rest of the world, because we are kind of insane, but I am not convinced that even in the UK 'I came home and found my friend tied up and a guy with a knife torturing him, I punched the guy once and he died' would actually result in significant legal trouble. Generally the 'eggshell ( Read more... ) -
Guardians of the Galaxy thoughts
Guardians of the Galaxy
Saw Guardians last night with folks. Enjoyed it a great deal, enough that I’ll buy it on DVD.
Spoilers below.
[Spoiler (click to open)]Pros ( Read more... ) -
Victory!
For once I used up everything in the CSA box with no wastage, and even the extra stuff I ordered (fresh corn!) and a cantaloupe left over from last week. I know that doesn't sound like much of a victory for those of you that get all 17 of your daily servings of fruit and veg without effort, but I had work or social dinners for three nights, my ( Read more... ) -
Things I have learned today
If you buy a butane torch to burn hog hairs off, Amazon will think you are a drug manufacturer. I was wondering what the hell the "oil slick balls" to help "you concentrate" were, and the mats, that kept turning up on my recs list. Apparently they are for the manufacture and storage of THC concentrate.