Harumph

You know what might be nice? Getting paid when I’m supposed to get paid.  Actually, scratch that.  What would be nice is if there was any way to get reliable information about the facts of summer session in general.  Like, say, a manual containing more than beginning and end dates.  Or a bureaucracy that existed [...]

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Anatomy of a pernicious rumor

Wouldn’t it be nice if all–or even most–journalism was like this?

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Music to my ears

This week has been really rough.  I’ve been up to my neck in preparing for classes, and Spouse has been up to his neck in catching up on paperwork, leaving home at 6 or earlier, and arriving home at 9 or later every night.  So last night, neither of us had the will to cook [...]

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Zephaniah Buttermilk Grimsaburger-Doodle

From The O’Zee’s baby countdown widget, replete with information about the various stages of pregnancy, I find this advice on naming during week 35:
Remember that a long last name asks for a short first name and vice versa. A name that is difficult to pronounce can present problems at school and with friends. While you [...]

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Fun with google

People searching for the following phrases wound up on my blog.  Here’s what I have to say about that:
“Windex is harmful”  Got that right.
“Handwritten receipt for a cat”  What, so you can return it when it breaks? Claim it as a business expense on your next 1040? 
“kitten suffocation”  Here’s hoping they weren’t looking for an instruction [...]

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Add one to the family tree

So my sister got married yesterday.  Now what kind of a jerk sister am I to not go to her wedding?  I’ll tell you: a jerk sister specifically instructed by the bride not to worry about it.  It was a parents-and-children only affair, and anyway, if I’d been there I certainly would’ve caused a scene [...]

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Riddle me this.

Say you’ve got a recipe for whole-wheat chocolate chip cookies.  One baker gets a yield of 26-30 cookies.  Using the same recipe, another baker gets a yield of 12-15 cookies.  The second baker’s cookies are only the very slightest bit larger than the first baker’s cookies, certainly not double in size.  And I don’t know [...]

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Day Three (and a half)

Turns out yesterday was the day it really sunk in that I was doing this really hard thing that gets easier as time goes on, and one day I might just be competent at it.  I worked Saturday afternoon through Sunday evening on a plan that would break up Monday’s 2 hours into smaller, more [...]

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The good die first.

But most of us are morally ambiguous, which explains our random dying patterns.
I wish I could take credit for that joke, but it comes from one of my favorite MST3Ks of all time, Escape 2000.  In the spirit of poking fun at death and other serious things, I note with a touch of sadness that George [...]

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Those clouds look awesome! My hand looks awesome!

Reference.
Have you ever looked at a clover flower?

No, man, I mean really looked at a clover flower?

Much like beer (or wine, depending on the story to which you subscribe), the macro lens is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.

No wonder bees go crazy for this stuff.

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