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9274 – Saturday

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Shots, and off to southern states to grab a couple of pepper plants – saw an adorable pair of kids. Little girl in riding pants and very friendly, and her little brother who reminded me of JD at 6 years old. We also picked up some thistle seed for the finches (so Pye and Newt have a little outside wildlife to watch)

 

After that a lovely church wine and craft show… We got a Christmas ornament with a pair of origami cranes (cherry blossom pattern paper) inside of a rounded cube…. and a lovely packet of bake sale goodies. Aggression cookies (oatmeal), molasses and chocolate chip.

 

Episcopal church had the following on the bulletin board:

The comedian Robin Williams is an Episcopalian, and he has created a funny “Top Ten” List of reasons to be an Episcopalian.

 

10. No snake handling.

9. You can believe in dinosaurs.

8. Male and female, God created them; male and female, we ordain them.

7. You don’t have to check your brains at the door.

6. Pew aerobics.

5. Church year is color coded!

4. Free wine on Sunday.

3. All of the pageantry, none of the guilt.

2. You don’t have to know how to swim to get baptized.

And the number one reason for being an Episcopalian:

1. No matter what you believe, there’s bound to be at least one other Episcopalian who agrees with you.

I can dig that.

 

After the Church shindig, we Shakespeare on the Boardwalk – Much ado about nothing. TM’s neighbor Kevin was in it, as was Guppy (twin beach players )

 

after a bit of local and classic culture, we headed home to catch up with The Office and My Name is Earl.

 


Added a syndicated feed of BHK’s favorite meteorolgist – Kim Martucci – I should notify Kim that she’s being syndicated here, just so she knows to check. It’s not a full feed, just a clip and a link to the main site – which is *quite* active and colorful, if you follow my fonts. Her journal gave BHK a quickie girl-crush on Kim.


also via BHK –

“Artist made a plastic whale skeleton from plastic deck chairs! Also made recreations of native ceremonial masks out of Nike shoes—-pretty cool art!”

Friday Five on a Saturday –

1. Who do you adore?
BHK, Newton and Pye

2. Who adores you?
BHK, Newton and Pye

3. What’s in your pockets?
Wallet holding a red thread, trinkets, petty cash and ID, inhaler, keys

4. Who can you talk with for hours?
BHK, Danny, GP and Kat (haven’t in a long time, though), Dave, Kev… most nice people with common interests, I guess!

5. What sounds great today?
Playtime with the family!


1 year ago – Elephant escape doodle, payday, Calvert County work info, dream fragments, books: both digital and paper, weather love, shaved ice / “dumb ol’ cherry”, railway museum trip

2 years ago – red mood doodle, super power desire as a lad, waiting room pic, newton and I on the porch pics, sand art

3 years ago – story stuck, food cravings, national ID, locla lj leads to illegal sex, anti-abortion extremist Neal Horsley admitted to engaging in homosexual and bestiality sex.

4 years ago – net out, bro bonds out, walkabout pics, sci-fi cliches, gabbed with sedef, bee vs wasp massacre.

5 years ago – Nature vs Pringles, Dan delivers Groceries, menstrualhut breaks 1000 users (now a bit more than twice that), Bush’s Military Record

6 years ago – J-bee points me at CBS Mystery theater, Sat tracking, Newtie yawn icon source, Friday five

7 years ago – swollen uvula (side effect of no cpap, snoring beat me up), dumbass Astley late with his bargain basement hardwareGeotarget

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9273 – Friday!

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BHK is continuing to make great gastronomic strides with her “meatball” and bean soup. The veggie meatballs got a little crumbly, but they still added excellent texture and flavor to the spicy bean brew. Had more of the salad from yesterday as well, and it was a tasty counterpoint of cold crunchy to the hot and spicy.

Watched the first half of Rataouille (hey! got the spelling in one!) over our supper, and it looks very cute thus far.

Rainy outside… tornado warnings for Calvert and Prince Georges Counties.

Lunch today will be more fajitas and salad – tasty and very healthy.


CCTV boom has failed to slash crime, say police.


Per the always aware flying_blind – “I was surprised to see not only how many Betty Boop cartoons there are in the Internet Archive, but how much other stuff the Film Chest cartoon collection contains. 66 cartoons! That’s like eight hours worth!”

The problem with bio-art is that it’s often made of living tissue — and sometimes living tissue gets out of control. That’s what happened late last week at a New York MoMA exhibit called “Design and the Elastic Mind,” where a tiny living jacket made out of stem cells had to be put to death for growing too fast and trying to burst out of its container.

The art piece was called “Victimless Leather,” and according to The Art Newspaper:

The artists, Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr, say the work which was fed nutrients by tube, expanded too quickly and clogged its own incubation system just five weeks after the show opened . . . Paola Antonelli, head of MoMA’s architecture and design department and curator of the show, says she had to make the decision to turn off the life-support system for the work, basically “killing” it.

Ms Antonelli says the jacket “started growing, growing, growing until it became too big. And [the artists] were back in Australia, so I had to make the decision to kill it. And you know what? I felt I could not make that decision. I’ve always been pro-choice and all of a sudden I’m here not sleeping at night about killing a coat…That thing was never alive before it was grown.“

Link via seedmagazine.com, original story here.



1 year ago – Pictures: Steve the Caterpillar is missing, Lime vanilla Ice, Kitty hugs, and green leaves – also lasagna, not shown.

2 years ago – allergies, ultraman, money scans, feng-shui phone, map thingie

3 years ago – little scotto, work, spanish, bimini boatyard, hot dog water, missed free comic book day, Carnivale, rufus, tv, dan and kev scarce, blood donation factiods/excuses, sweater fashion, work form

4 years ago – MD, Nat’l Lampoon, RPG database mail (never came to fruition), Celestia, DIE DUCKS, added by kscare

5 years ago – owie sleeps, There Quest victory, telecommuting, clear channel hubbub, Hala finished Portalzilla, CitizenX closed down

6 years ago – cleanup, and milk crate shelf, did new code that’s all over Ramada,playing with Newtie, real estate invaders. newt pics I need to locate and rehost

7 years ago – menstrualhut grows rapidly, journal types, mp3s in rotation, illegal confessions (feel free to keep adding to it.)Geotarget

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9272 – Thursday-

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BHK made a fantastic and healthy supper of bean/spinach salad and spicy stir-fry tofu “beef” and broccoli. Delicious and nicely filling.

Chris and Larry are heading out of town this weekend… and they’re taking Tigger with ’em. No real Mother’s Day things happening this weekend after all – maybe a nice day of painting some pottery, instead?


The latest and greatest version of VZ Navigator (4.0), which tosses in traffic avoidance for 75 cities, along with 3D view plus some other nifty stuff is live right now. (Includes Baltimore and Washington dc!)

I’m looking forward to seeing how solid it is!


I’m still on the phrase “STEAMED CATFISH IN BANANA LEAVES!”

Sorry.

More info on ITALIAN SPIDER-MAN.

Not Sorry.


I’m alternately happy and sad that LJ has finally disabled this stalker feature – Users will only view the number of entries they are allowed to read in calendar views. (Source)


Volcanoes spewing lightning? Wizard war, more like.

Speaking of same… I forget if I’ve mentioned it or not, but save for a little too much fanboy junk, I pretty much dig the Dresden files books… but I can’t seem to get into Jim Butcher’s Codex Alera “Horse and Swords” fantasy stuff.


1 year ago – saltine bandit, rockin’ sleestaks

2 years ago – mongolia head, sleep, black hat, hurricane info, battle of the beasts

3 years ago – Mother’s Day, Bro, heath, hugs, a sticker, walkies pics – graffiti, mission field, vehicles, bernie dexter, hitler’s ghost

4 years ago – Laser belt, mental health supporter, quiz of Doooooom, busy bee, nice night out, Disney tour, naked mole rap, duality issues, Newt pic

5 years ago – PT gig jkg, mr rogers asteroid, x2 good reviews, mh about half what it is today (997 vs 2196)

6 years ago – Neuro appt, my magnetic head theory, original thoughts, MRI

7 years ago – weird news, slow wake, old paranoia, bad food from my childhood, ljer herd pollGeotarget