Category: daily drivel
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google b-day wishes
I have my browser home page set to Google, so the first thing I see when I open a new browser window is whatever cute Google logo they drew to celebrate somebody’s birthday or anniversary. Today it was “Google” spelled out in birthday cakes, so I figured it was the birthday of whoever invented icing… Read.
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psyche
Oh, man, I thought it was Friday night just now. I was loading the dishwasher with dirty dishes, singing my Happy Friday Song and thinking that I wouldn’t have to put the heavy-duty insulated coffee mugs in the top rack because we wouldn’t need them tomorrow. Toodle toodle teee, Happy Happy Friday … And then… Read.
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funhouse
Yet more proof that you can’t believe everything you see: “The flashed face distortion effect is an optical illusion involving the fast-paced presentation of eye-aligned faces. Faces appear grotesquely transformed whilst one focuses on the cross midway between them. As with many scientific discoveries, the phenomenon was first observed serendipitously … The phenomenon … also… Read.
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spontaneously generated boo
Recipe for cats: When folding clothes fresh from the dryer, stack them on the table. Within the hour, cats will begin to appear. Read.
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seven
Holy freezing shit! It was eight degrees when we got in the car tonight, a temperature so cold that whoever named it made sure it had just one syllable so they wouldn’t have to suck in any air while saying it. The only way you could come up with a better name for temperatures this… Read.
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no chance of not snowing
It’s finally snowing. The cold weather that has been freaking out everybody who lives south of Illinois has been freezing the rivers and lakes solid here but hasn’t dumped any snow on us until today. Newly-fallen snow can usually tempt me to go kicking through it, but I won’t be going for a walk today… Read.
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employees must wash hands
Stopped at a Gas-N-Go just outside Eau Claire. While Mike filled the tank, I went in the store to use the john. A kid in a beanie cap came out of the toilet stall while I was standing at the urinal. He left without washing his hands. After I was done washing up, I wrapped… Read.
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dinosaurs!wtf?
This is the blog my oldest son would’ve written if there had only been such a thing as blogs back around 1989 or so: Nanotyrannus was only about a third of the size of the biggest tyrannosaurs, which you might think would preclude it from this list [of the 5 most awful Tyrannosaurs]. The problem… Read.
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rudolph
Finally, somebody else said it too: When I was a kid, I used to watch the old Rankin-Bass version of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer same as everybody else without thinking much about it. Then as a grown-up I started showing it to my kids and when we got to the scene where Santa tells Rudolph’s… Read.
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