Category: daily drivel
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chills
Yeah, so … it’s gonna get a little cold. Not sure if that’s tonight, or tomorrow, or when hell freezes over. “Future” is a little vague, don’t you think? Read.
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flagged
Last night I called Verizon, our cell phone service, to add my new Kindle Fire to our phone service. Did I tell you I got a Kindle Fire for Christmas? No? Well, I did. My Darling B put one in my stocking so I would have books to read or movies to watch while I… Read.
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wallet
Well, I found my wallet. I didn’t think there was a wallet to be found any more and then yesterday, while I was looking for my keys, I found my wallet. Isn’t that just the way it goes? Almost two weeks ago, while I was getting ready to take My Darling B to the farmer’s… Read.
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Seven Psychopaths
I have just finished watching the most bloody comedy I think I have ever seen. At least, I think it was a comedy. There were plenty of scenes that seemed to be intended to make me laugh. And I laughed, so that’s comedic, right? But my god, the gore! I mean, like, more gore than was… Read.
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heating cycle
I’m not 100% sure, but I think the furnace has been running all day. It doesn’t run non-stop: It starts with a sound like a jet engine winding up, some kind of a ventilation fan, I think, that’s supposed to keep gas from building up in the flue. The burners kick in after a minute… Read.
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fission chips
What’s a physicist’s favorite food? Fission chips. From Scientists tell us their favourite jokes in The Guardian Read.
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upper body
Tom Bowman reports for NPR that the Marine Corps will delay enforcing the 3-pullup requirement for female recruits, prompting crotchety old coot and misogynistic retired army colonel Robert Maginnis to say the delay shows that women just can’t meet the same standards. “Young women, in spite of all the training and all the best intentions,… Read.
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tongue
So that you might feel, I don’t know, unclean for the rest of the day, here is a 24-inch long disembodied tongue licking a snail: Or, it could be a Florida Horse Conch. You decide. Read.
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my second brain
I really want to like my smart phone. And for the most part, I do. It can do some pretty awesome stuff I never asked for or even expected it to do. Besides the obvious extras – texting, browsing the internet – it’s got GPS, for instance, so when I call up a Google map,… Read.
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great big Christmas
We had a pretty good Christmas here at Our Humble O’Bode — how about you? I was the first out of bed this morning. My Darling B was the second, and after that it really didn’t matter because we ended up waiting until about ten o’clock to open presents on account of Tim’s cat barfing.… Read.
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