Category: Everyday Stories
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The citizens of which nation are semi-obsessed with finding meteors?
Swedish people, for whatever reason, are very interested in whether or not the rock they found on their last hike could be a meteorite. Don’t believe me? Follow the link. And Washington University in St. Louis is sick of it. They don’t want you contacting them any more and asking if you have a meteorite,…
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In which I beg for ideas on how to maximize our kitchen counter room
Witness the kitchen of our apartment. Most of the time, on blogs, people show pics of really cool looking kitchens which, if not bodaciously spacious, are aesthetically pleasing. They show pics of their new tiled floors or new ceramic tiled backsplashes. Not many people put up pics of ugly kitchens which don’t have a title…
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Trying to not terrify H.o.p. with worries over sustainablity and resources, while endeavoring to nurture awareness
For many years now I’ve been trying to impress on H.o.p. an attitude of being somewhat content with not pursuing, in the name of Green, superconsumerism. This has fallen on deaf ears with respect to toys…and when he first saw the large houses in which his friends live, and their expansive backyards, I worried that…
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Fleeting time
Bizarre how this week went flying by, and then I realize it’s because of the movies. Spent Thursday night watching “Salome” and spent Wednesday night watching “Nights of Cabiria” (twice) and spent all Tuesday night watching George Pal shorts with H.o.p. plus the documentary and discussing it all at length.
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Unappreciated
We’ve a houseguest for the next several days so I bleached the bathroom good and he in turn gave me shortbread cookies from a bakery in NY that I love. I like the personality that old buildings have, but one of the drawbacks of living in a 90 year old apartment building is the bathroom’s…
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Vampires Should Not Eat The Camera!
With Dubai becoming the new Houston and citizens being so conveniently cut off from Medicaid and all the other assorted horrors in the world, I thought some more humor wouldn’t be a bad thing. In other words, yes I did indeed think the previous post and its home movie to be humorous. And this movie…
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That Almost Hurt Me
Just plain silliness from this past summer/autumn. H.o.p. was having me film him jump off the dresser. I ended up in the way. I can’t believe I’m putting this up on Youtube.
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Ride the Time Machine
What fun. BoingBoing points to the below Atlanta access DANCE-O-RAMA bit o’ episode from the early 1980s in which RuPaul teaches all how to dance the Timothy Leary inspired “Freakout!” to The Glass Family’s “I’m Losing it”. I’ve not seen anything this funny in a while.
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The Amazing Aquasaur!
Now this is how you do (or don’t) start blogging again. You write a post and go to save it only to find your website has gone down and said post falls plunk into the void. Said post wasn’t about the new bookshelves (yes from IKEA) that we got, which we’ve needed since October for…
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A nod to a remarkable photo
This is my last post. For it I wanted to use this photo by The Voice of Eye, at Flickr, but I was unable to get Flickr to recognize my blog, which it needed to do if I was going to post the picture. The Voice of Eye has been loading pics up to Flickr…
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The DIA kids website, where inquiring children can learn about old Soviet howitzers
Continuing my glance throughs of of the kiddy sections of government websites, at the Defense Intelligence Agency children’s website they don’t even try to offer an explanation on what they’re about to inquiring children. There are no whats, hows, whys. One gets straight to the games, a soldier in camouflage fatigues standing in front of…
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Synchronistic Search Query
I got a search query for a “JKearns 02 UFO” from a Hungarian Military Defense Institute. Thought that was funny because I don’t think I’ve ever had a search query for Kearns hit my blog. And thought it was funny since the new book I’m working on begins with a UFO sighting. But what made…