Archive for the 'Whatnot' Category

A cotton scarf by any other name…

06 April 09 - 02:25am.

I found this link in my Gmail web clip queue. I thought to myself, hm, this scarf looks an awful lot like another scarf I’ve seen.

It’s a jersey knit scarf. T-shirt material. 15$ or 85$. You

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Hornet in bed.

02 April 09 - 12:48am.

The cat was in my room last night. She’s not supposed to be there, my allergies have gotten bad enough that any fur on the bed can aggravate it quite severely. But, she manages to get under the bed, far

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Incidentally…

10 January 06 - 01:18pm.

Evidently, there may have been a bear. Matt has provided some possible proof. It also may have pierced the boat. This issue could not be solved with a paddle. That is, of course, unless it was an exactly paddle

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Water always flows in a particular direction.

Something struck me last night about the phrase “up a creek without a paddle,” and strangely enough, one of my professors used it today in class.

The phrase is used as a euphemism for a situation that is less than

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Gotta love news.

05 January 06 - 12:08pm.

The local news anchor is talking about an execution style hit, a group of kids trapped under ground, and some guy doing something terrible to his infant child, and she says it all with a generally superficial contentedness and ends

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