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Twenty-Eight
Fun facts about the number 28:
– 28 is a perfect number.
– 28 is the atomic number of Nickel
– A baby at 28 weeks eye lashes are developing, as subcutaneous fat is deposited. If it’s a baby boy, his testes will probably begin descending. It’s about 13.8 inches long (35 cm) and weighs about 2 pounds 4 ounces (1 kilogram)!
– There are 28 digits in one cubit. 
– It takes the Moon a little less than 28 Earth days to orbit around the Earth. The lunar day is also a little less than 28 Earth days.
– A 28-sided polygon is called an icosikaioctagon.
– February usually has 28 days, and so does the average female menstrual cycle.
– 28 is a triangle number.
– The string 28 was found at position 33 counting from the first digit after the decimal point in pi.
– XXVIII, 11100, 34, and 1C are all different ways of expressing the number 28.
– Some cod can produce as many as 28 million eggs.
– Our solar system is about 28,000 light years from the Galactic Center
– The primitive marine mollusk the Nautilus has a coiled shell up to 28 cm in diameter, just like its ancestors 450 million years ago.
– Arcturus is the fourth brightest star in the sky and is 28 times larger than the sun.
– There are usually 28 tiles in a dominoes set.
– The color corresponding to the hexadecimal value of #282828 is . The color corresponding to the hexadecimal value of #1C1C1C (hex for RGB values of 28,28,28) is .
– Most importantly, a beautiful, illuminating,talented,sensual,real geek woman is 28 years old on October 14th, 2001. Hubba Hubba.
Happy Birthday, !!! xoxoxo
What ‘Luxury’ Means To Me
I’m a-stealin’ the idea.
Hearing rain on the window, laying in bed
Rubbing Newton with my feet while programming
Clean Sheets right out of the dryer before bed
Learning something new
Teaching Something new
Cool Crisp Sheets on a warm night
Home-made Toll-house cookies
Watching Cartoons on Saturday Morning
Waking in Camp, at dawn, dew on the tent
Backrubs
Butterfly Kisses
Having my hand held by someone who cares, or wants support
Ghost Stories around a flashlight or campfire
Sharing a unique experiance
Deep Belly Laughs
Being a pillow
Hot *HOT* showers
Intelligent Debate / Conversations
Carnivals
Playing with kids
TreeHouses
Eskimo Kisses
Fishing off the pier (with or without fishing line)
Cooperative Storytelling
Chasing Newt all over the house
Fog
Good and bad.
Landlord called in a specialist team in to redo the drywall and outside concrete where the replacement A/C unit is going. I get to put Newton in the other room, and watch as they fix up the hole in the wall, finally.
So much for a little supper with the work crew.
Shaking off the sleepies.
*grunt* *scratch* Late to bed, Late to rise…
Well, I was up pretty late last night, polishing off a programming project, and doing a little futzing around. Reworking my home network, cleaning house, and generally puttering.
I need to dash off to the store and post office. (Get Newt and myself more groceries, and mail a bag of switches to tomorrow’s birthday girl. it’ll get there a little late, but preemptive gifties have made it there a week in advance, so it’ll balance out.)
Going to see Paul, Kevin, Brad, Bheesham and Marjo briefly today, so I’d better get moving.
Be back later, Journal.
*hungry for Asahi Dashi Tofu and Vegetable Tempura*
Anyone want to take me out to dinner?
another word to *not* name your kid.
hector HEK-tur, noun:
A bully.
transitive verb:
To intimidate or harass in a blustering way; to bully.
intransitive verb:
To play the bully; to bluster.
Hector derives from Greek Hektor, in Greek mythology the chief Trojan warrior and the eldest son of Priam, King of Troy.
Happy Birthday
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Straight dope on…Toilet flushie-spray
I read somewhere years ago that when you flush the toilet with the lid open, a plume of contaminated water droplets is ejected into the air and lands on everything in the
bathroom, including (yuck) your toothbrush.
TurtleBaby! Awwww
mulct & horrent
mulct MULKT, noun:
A fine or penalty.
transitive verb:
1. To punish for an offense or misdemeanor by imposing a fine or demanding a forfeiture.
2. To obtain by fraud or deception.
3. To defraud; to swindle.
Mulct comes from Latin multa, “a fine.”
horrent HOR-ehnt adjective
Standing up like bristles, bristling.
From Latin horrent-, stem of horrens, present participle of horrere (to bristle).
due to a slimy little weasel (the old bosses’ son), surfing on my machine is now not an option at work. Fortunately, I have my laptop and a dial up connection. I’m not going to show up on the firewall any more. Stupid kid wrecked it for the rest of us.
He shot himself in the foot, claiming that I was surfing all day, and not doing any work. Now that I’ve pointed out that we have monitoring software installed the big boss is going to hopefully see who the real slacker is. (Downside, no LJ or Amazon from work, unless it’s on the laptop, too)
The Monkey brain edibility probe is now on the market, disguised as a ‘healing massage device’. don’t believe it.
The Jiffy-pop Apes are simply using your desire for comfortable scalps to thier own advantage. Don’t succumb! Next thing you know, you’ll be showing your nipples to complete strangers. Settle on boobypops instead.
Just you wait, you’ll see… but then it’ll be far too late for me to help you.
Maybe it’s time to call in the anti-primate revenge squad… sadly, humans are primates too. I wonder if the kittens in capes can possibly make things right?