12/21 My Sweetheart(09:27:21 PM): I love you

warms my heart.

12/21

Thank you zoe for pointing me to The Surreal Gourmet! (The Fries w/ ketchup looks especially great!)

I'm having the toughest time loading lj-icons... I wonder what's causing that little burp. All other images are coming up fine.

Bro's being a buddy and doing laundry for me. (I pay for both of our duds to get suds, and he does the dirty work. I'm for that! He's also picking up the bagels for lunch! Same deal.. I buy, he flies)

Newt's sleeping on top of the computer monitor... I'm watching with fascination as his toes wiggle.

The A/C fan crapped out last night... I called the Landlord, and he'll be by Monday morning to fix it. I'm glad it's cool out! (I was running just the fan on low to keep the air circulating.)

Thoroughly enjoying a reread of Don Quixote today... I'm returning to that now that chores are done. The book is huge!

?! I went to make that link, and on the page was -

Customers who wear clothes also shop for:

• Clean Underwear from Amazon's Target Store (Does that imply they sell soiled undies somewhere else at Amazon?)


• Ladybug Rain Boots from Amazon's Nordstrom Store


• Pet Socks from Amazon's Urban Outfitters Store


• Puppy Footed One-Pieces for Newborns from Amazon's Old Navy Store

Well, I admit that I'm wearing clean underwear, but I fail to see the connection to The Man of La Mancha. Even less so, Ladybug rain boots.

Back to the book, dear journal.

12/22

My sweetie really warmed my heart last night...Spending time with her is always a delight. I love her so much! We spent some time surfing anomalies unlimited, a huge mass of great weird photos and commentary.

I'm strangely hungry for deviled eggs. Do golden raspberries taste significantly different than regular red ones?

Casketfurniture.com wants to reduce the cost of dying. They sell furniture made of caskets, casket novelties, casket merchandise (some of the naughty kind for Mom and Dad only), and, should you be feeling under the weather, actual coffins.

One out of every fifty gold fish is a secret audio and visual monitoring device which transmits directly back to diligent listeners secluded in hidden Atlantis.

It amuses me that they have a website devoted to Sinanju....(Based on the bits from the "Destroyer" books / the Remo Williams Movie... I used to eat those up as a kid.) A shame they saw fit to embed annoying midis in every page.

A year ago - stray fugitive lotr thoughts, my fondness for orange/yellow foods, rejection letter, where there's a whip, there's a way (I sing it now when I use orc mage knight armies)

Two years ago - My beloved's voice, My wanting a long weekend, dark days (link broken)



New smart billboards sniff your radio-preferences from leakage from your car and tailor themselves to your taste. The next generation will network with one another to chase you from one segment of the road to another.

Girl Fires on Freight Train Crew Who She Claims Had Annoyed Her.
Huntington, W. Va.—With a double-barrel shotgun, Miss Emeritt Adkins of Leet, a small lumber town in Lincoln county, answered some would-be flirts on a Guyan & Coal River railroad freight train.

Miss Adkins was standing on the porch of her home as the train approached. A shotgun was standing at a corner amid the herbs and tobacco hanging from the roof. Several men of the train crew, it is claimed, waved to the girl, and threw kisses. "Hello, sweetheart," cried one of the trainmen. In a second the shot gun was in her hand. She jumped to the edge of the porch. The gun was pulled to her shoulder. It spoke once. Some of the small shot took effect in the face of a brakeman on the train, who is alleged to have started the attempt at the flirtation.

The engineer of the train pulled the throttle wide open and the train leaped forward. The girl leveled the gun again and fired. By this time, however, the train was too far away for the bird shot to take effect.

-Minnetonka Record, January 5, 1912

Also - Lego Bible Scenes.

A few hours ago, it was put to me that superglue was developed for the express purpose of providing surgical sutures. He assured me that that is what he had heard, although he couldn't tell me anything more authoritative than that. So I got curious, did some research, and offer now for your edification, the following:

Superglue was discovered by accident -- twice!

Superglue is used for just about anything, including surgery.

Here are the facts. (According to Popular Science, February 1989 article by A. J. Hand)

Superglue (cyanoacrylate) was discovered by accident! During WW II Dr. Harry Coover (president of Loctite Corp's new Business Development Group as of February 1989) was working for Kodak Research Laboratories to develop an optically clear plastic for gun sights. To quote him, according to Hand, "I was working with some acrylate monomers that showed promise. But everything they touched stuck to everything else. It was a severe pain."

Well, in 1951 Coover was supervising research at the Tennessee Eastman Co. to find a "tougher, more heat-resistant acrylate polymer for jet canopies" according to Hand. There was a fellow named Dr Fred Joyner (!) who spread a film of ethyl cyanoacrylate between a couple of prisms of a refractometer. Of course, he discovered that he couldn't pry the prisms apart again. So Coover realized that he was onto something. A good thing, too, since those prisms were a pricey thing to ruin...

The stuff hit the market in 1958 as Eastman #910. That year, according to Sterling, Dr Coover appeared on TV's "I've Got a Secret," where he hoisted host Gary Moore off the floor with a drop of the stuff.


a year ago - old english rudolph, looking at the sky, 9 of wands, aunt jemima creepy, sealab 2021.

two years ago - not french-canadian, angry beavers, a deal link I can't remember, cookie mah jongg, and an oliveresque welcome .

Random Scotto factoid: I sometimes like to have my text to speech program read me my friends page and web news sources while I'm getting ready for the day, or playing with newt.

It’s strange to hear that tech-voice assigned to all the writers...I hear different vocal styles when I read than when it reads to me... (Plus, the tts reader is a masculine voice, which is weird, considering a healthy percentage of the folks I read are not.)

I do find myself returning later to skim for photos / lj cuts / and to make my replies.

Abbreviations are odd, especially lotr, <3, any series of dots more than 3 in a row "....." and some user names.