Month: March 2004
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AOL Presidential Match Guide. I had an 88% compatibility rating with Kucinich. Huh, I didn’t know that. Kerry’s second with 77%. Bush is 5%. He was the absolute opposite of me on everything. The only thing I agreed with him about was limiting malpractice suits against doctors. Oh, and we both like pretzels. That’s about…
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Belated Friday Five: 1. What was your first grade teacher’s name?Mrs. Weir. As in WeirD. She was this really scary mean old lady. I remember that one little boy had to transfer into our class from the other first grade class, and she made him stand up at the front of the room and admit…
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“What’s important about these findings… is that they show you people can actually get killed from something from out of space.” Did a comet trigger the Great Chicago Fire? Pretty neat. Maybe it’s time to exonerate poor Mrs. O’Leary’s cow!
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Day 2 of Cat OwnershipI’m tired. I feel like Dooce. Okay, that’s not true. If there’s a scale of maternal misery, she’s at, like, 100 and I’m at 7. But my level of sympathy for her is going way up. I spent the whole night lying awake listening to Amy meow pitifully in the bathroom.…
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Introducing Dr. Amy Jones! And just like that, we’re a family. The cat’s name was originally going to be Dr. Alowicious Jones, but that’s really more of a boy’s name and she’s a girl. So then we came up with the idea of naming her after my sister, for the pure comedy of saying, “Amy…
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Get well, orangecat! Huge hugs and warm thoughts to Robert, who often posts here. He had a headache that wouldn’t stop and started affecting his vision. According to the comments on his last post, he was rushed to hospital and had some sort of surgery. His mom reports that he’s feeling better now.
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Smells like Albania.Okay, these Texas sayings from MetaFilter cracked me up. They’re hilarious. I was trying to think of any regional Indiana expressions but we don’t seem to have much colorful slang.
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Another FO!(That’s “Finished Object” for you non-knitters.) After doing two pairs of simple basic socks, I was ready to expand my skills. So I cracked open my copy of Socks Soar on Two Circulars* and picked out the “Columbine Peaks” pattern. The leg of the sock has a lacy pattern that forms little v-shaped mountain…
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Australian sheep produce world’s finest wool. That’s not a generalization, like saying that Aussie wool is the best. They really have produced a bale of the finest – in terms of thickness – wool ever seen. It’s worth thousands of dollars and will probably be sold to a top fashion house. Gee, you could make…
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The Movie Alphabet Game. Identify movies based on these letters from their posters. I suck at this today. I’m missing B, C, E, F, J, K, P, S, U, V, and Y. How many can you get?