Month: March 2012
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rant
Laughed my ass off. Really. I have no ass. Read.
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DNA
Still makes as much sense today as it did then: [An extraterrestrial robot and spaceship has just landed on earth. The robot steps out of the spaceship.] “I come in peace,” it said, adding after a long moment of further grinding, “take me to your Lizard.” Ford Prefect, of course, had an explanation for this,… Read.
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spring?
Everybody who’s out walking today is wearing short sleeves and most are in shorts. It’s the typical reaction to an unseasonably warm day in Wisconsin, but instead of “unseasonably warm” being in the high forties or low fifties, this afternoon we’ve got temps in the seventies! So instead of saying just “unseasonably warm,” I should… Read.
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in the eye of the beholder
“That is the ugliest thing I have ever seen,” B said to me this morning, while we were enjoying a delicious breakfast at Lazy Jane’s Cafe on Willy Street. “I’ve been looking at it all this time, and it just keeps getting uglier.” I turned around to see what she was looking at, a decorative… Read.
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casemod
What I’ve always wanted is to have a model train layout like the old-timers used to have: A tangled pile of spaghetti in a small corner of the basement with simple block control from a master control panel that has lots and lots of switches with toggles as thick as your thumb and a throttle… Read.
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correlation
About two weeks ago, I was chatting with a coworker about going to the doctor when she told me about the pain she had in her upper arm. It sounded just like the pain I had in my upper arm, I said. It’s probably a rotator cuff injury like mine, she said. A couple days… Read.
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bonk
The old Bonkity-bonk-bonk ain’t doing so well these days. A couple weeks ago he came down with what seemed to be an ordinary head cold, but when he couldn’t shake it, we took him to the vet. She gave him some low-grade antibiotics that seemed to help him shake the cold at first, but then… Read.
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after
After the Thin Man is a movie so unlike The Thin Man that it hardly counts as a sequel. In the first movie, Nick and Nora drink more gin than any two people have ever drunk at any time in human history. And, incidentally, there’s a murder mystery that gets solved more or less accidentally… Read.
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thin
When THE STORM OF THE CENTURY blew into town yesterday afternoon, I was a little worried we wouldn’t be able to get to the library before it closed and we’d have to postpone our Nick and Nora weekend until next Friday. But no! My Darling B’s winter driving skills prevailed against the snow and slush… Read.
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pinched
I pinched a tendon in my rotator cuff. Not on purpose. I didn’t even know I had a tendon caught in my rotator cuff. If I did, I certainly wouldn’t have kept pinching it in there. That hurts. I found out about this when I visited a physical therapist yesterday morning and told him about… Read.
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