Category: daily drivel
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my son is a boss
This is nothing new to me. Our eldest son, the Sean-er-ator, has always eaten apples entirely, even the stems. My favorite part of the video is when he wipes his hands on his shirt. Read.
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the wave
Who doesn’t love sitting in traffic? Especially when there’s no apparent reason for it: no crashes, no tolls, no flaming mattresses. Wait, what? Flaming mattresses? That’s a thing? Because if it is, I feel cheated, having never, ever seen any flaming mattresses in any of the traffic jams I’ve been caught up in. How have… Read.
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it’s behind you
Obligatory reposting of moon joke in today’s XKCD: Read.
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Bugs, Mr. Rico!
There’s been a lot of publicity lately for a book I just finished reading, “Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo,” and all of it has been along the lines of “From Bras to Space Suits,” or some such nonsense. It’s a much more fascinating book than all the hype makes it out to be, not least because it… Read.
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puzzling memes
According to today’s puzzling meme, I’m supposed to feel secure in the national sense because of deer hunters: A blogger added up the deer license sales in just a handful of states and arrived at a striking conclusion: There were over 600,000 hunters this season in the state of Wisconsin .. Allow me to restate… Read.
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puzzling memes
Maybe I’m missing the point of this meme, but to me, your argument is invalid when you start with the premise that North Korea, Afghanistan and Iran are better than the US because they shoot people who cross their borders. Read.
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Manic Monday
The song stuck in my head all last week was The Bangles’ Manic Monday. Pick just about any one of their songs and I’ll tap my feet or sing along with it, so ordinarily I wouldn’t be bothered if one was stuck in my head for days on end, but Manic Monday is arguably the… Read.
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brokeback
I don’t know what I did to wrench my back, but whatever I did to it, it’s still pretty mad at me. I crawled into bed early last night, around eight-thirty, because my back felt best when I was lying flat on it. Sitting up, even in the recliner, was not making it feel better… Read.
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distraction and dissipation
Main goal today: Clean up the back porch. Tasks to complete in order to achieve that goal: Store the deck chairs and the hoses away in the garage attic. Store the cold frame in the garden shed. Take the composter down to the basement. Sweep the leaves off the deck. Goal: Achieved! Distractions along the… Read.
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fall colors
It’s raining golden leaves in Monona. I walked down to Crema Cafe to meet My Darling B for breakfast, then walked back to Our Humble O’Bode. Temps were in the mid 30s and leaves were raining down from the sky both ways. Maples seemed to be especially busy shedding their leaves. Read.
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