It’s Halloween so of course, first thing this morning I see What Your Halloween Candy Says About Your Personality. As with most such things they over-think it but it’s all just for fun anyway. They also criticize Michelle Obama for handing out dried fruit instead of candy. I don’t think that’s so bad and if [...]

Here it is Friday again and I don’t have any quotes to post. I just haven’t done much reading online lately. Oh well. Maybe I will get back into the old routine soon or maybe I won’t. I did find one quote this morning that I like, here, which I would have put on my [...]

No Hope, No Cash… – Ha! Clever, and a little scary Early Music Online – I must take a better look at this site sometime. Matthew Cusik – Map art. Be sure to click on the images to see the larger versions. Age + birth year – An interesting number thing Star Trek vs. Real [...]

I have a bit of comment thread paranoia. I know comments disappear all the time for technical reasons beyond the blog owner’s control but when it happens to one of my comments I always feel a little bad about it and wonder what really happened. And when it happens more than once on the same [...]

LeeAnn has some highly entertaining in-laws. That is, if you find shows like Jerry Springer and Dr. Phil entertaining. Personally, I don’t understand in-law problems. My mother-in-law was a wonderful person and a great friend. The rest of my husband’s family are great too. They are more like real family to me than in-laws. When [...]

The name of a new Ben & Jerry’s flavor is making a lot of people uncomfortable. I don’t even look at the Ben & Jerry section so I might never have known about this flavor if not for humorless prudes, God bless them. But now, I’m really tempted to see if I can find it [...]

I wonder what these people would have to say about my “relationship” with my shoes. Apparently, if you don’t wear ridiculous shoes you aren’t a “real” woman. Honestly, I love shoes as much as any other woman but I know what is reasonable for me to wear and how much is reasonable for me to [...]

I got to pet a shark. Oh, okay! It was less than two feet long and it was in the touch pool at the Oklahoma Aquarium but still… I got to pet a shark! Two actually. I don’t know the exact species. One was spotted and the other was cream-colored or off-white. This was not [...]

Rabbits – Bunnies are not cute. Well, okay, I guess they are sort of cute but the creepy outweighs the cute by quite a bit. I don’t understand it either. I thought they were creepy way before I ever saw Monty Python so that’s not it. It seems like I should like a pet that’s [...]

Or is it? Quick! Someone under 40 please tell me you see John Lennon too. see more Lolcats and funny pictures, and check out our Socially Awkward Penguin lolz! I first saw it here.

Twenty, or possibly more, years ago I found a wonderful lightweight wool knit fabric. I bought some and made a simple tunic top with a mock turtleneck. It was dark red – beautiful, soft, cozy and looked quite neat and attractive, sort of dressy. I haven’t worn it in many years. I put it on [...]

Funny… the perspective – or is it Photoshop? – makes them look nearly the same size. see more Daily Squee

I have to say something about the Occupy Wall Street protests. Sorry but I just have to. I am sympathetic to their cause. Actually, it’s not so much a cause as an expression of frustration but anyway I’m sympathetic. I’m not so much bothered by the fact that wealthy people and corporations get tax breaks [...]

Relevant to the discussion on the previous post:

My younger son – the one who still lives with us, the one who can eat anything he wants and still stay skinny – won a big glass jar full of candy by guessing how many pieces were in it. We are such pigs. We have no self-control. The jar is over half empty now. [...]

Incidentally, during the 2010 Grammys, Stephen Colbert reminded the audience: “This year your industry was saved by a 48-year-old Scottish cat lady in sensible shoes.” — here …it’s like a microcosm of what “civilization” should mean: a place where even if you’re lonely and alienated you’ll still be treated like a person, and have a [...]

I had no idea that there are pink insects. I mean really pink. (I once saw a moth that had a kind of pinkish color on it and I tried to take a picture of it but it wouldn’t be still.) Thanks, Nicole

I just read this two-page illustrated rant about Zooey Deschanel. The only useful thing I got out of it was that I now know how to pronounce Deschanel. (That and having some more nonsense to blog about.) I know that Charles is somewhat taken with Ms. Deschanel because he’s always posting pictures of her but [...]

I’m using my phone right now because my PC is having some kind of a tantrum again. Did you know that in Windows 7 the Blue Screen of Death is a lovely chartruse? That’s spelled wrong isn’t it? Must figure out how to turn on the spell checker on this gadget. Feel free to use [...]

Here’s my latest reason for looking forward to cold weather. Instead of another disastrous attempt at self photography I decided to just display it on the floor. Yes, those are dinosaurs. I saw this flannel in Wal-mart’s little fabric department* and immediately had to have it. The two ladies working there and another customer all [...]

A few weeks ago Jaquandor recommended to me (via email) Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey. It’s space opera so I immediately decided to give it a try. I often find scientifically plausible science fiction tiresome. I want warp drive, artificial gravity and all that other cool, made-up stuff. Come on people, it’s fiction. [...]

Dr. Pepper’s new low calorie soda, Dr. Pepper Ten will have a “No Women Allowed” advertising campaign. It seems to me that this is a “can’t lose” marketing strategy. The only women seriously offended will be those in the Perpetually Pissed Off At Men Brigade. The rest of us will either roll our eyes at [...]

Jaquandor posted the following quote in his weekly Sentential Links: : DC is like Lucy and we’re like Charlie Brown. DC keeps yanking the football away and we keep yelling Aaugh! and landing hard. They’re very sure we’ll keep coming back and try to kick the ball again. And, knowing some of the perps fairly [...]

I wish the makers of air fresheners would be more specific about what their products smell like instead of having cutesy names like “Sunny Meadow” and “Early Morning Breeze”. What does an early morning breeze smell like? Well, that depends on where you live doesn’t it? It might smell like your neighbor’s breakfast or it [...]

Opinions differ on the exact benefits of getting away from direct election of senators, though one of them, at least to me, is never again finding myself in a crowd of people and thinking “Christ, some of these people actually voted for Jim Inhofe.” — here Oh, I don’t know. I rather like thinking of [...]