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New what-can-I-eat-at-a-turnpike-rest-stop? favorite: Cajun Hot Sticks. One by itself isn’t very hot, but they ramp up fast, and after a few of mouthfuls, I need to stop for a while. At the current rate, an 8 ounce package of this snack will last me about a week. Unfortunately, not everything unhealthy has this effect, […]

Walking home from The Independent last Sunday, we espied the new-to-the-hood Hub Comics, from which we emerged with a slightly-inconvenient-to-carry-home mix of goodies.
They had a couple compliations of Mike Allred’s Madman, and I bought both in a fit of nostalgia.
If you don’t know Madman, “the world’s snappiest comic magazine”, the titular protagonist is one […]

Six years ago, I met my love in person for the first time (although we’d corresponded for years before that).
Shortly thereafter, olives acquired special significance (or maybe enniccafigis) in our relationship, and we started giving each other olive-themed presents.

At left, chocolate olives (again), from me, for Christmas. At right, incredibly awesome crocheted olives and […]

Yesterday’s weather wasn’t like weather so much as like weather special effects. We got mmmmaybe a quarter inch of snow total, but it all came down in two five minute mini-blizzard bursts — with sunshine and puffy clouds in between. (And the second snow was pretty much scoured away by fierce overnight winds — the […]

Buy nothing days:
January:7 (1, 5, 17, 18, 21, 25, 27)
February:5 (3, 8, 10, 11, 28)
Full-on sushi:
February: 1
Donuts:
February: 1

i followed yellowjkt’s directions except I used Flickr’s Creative Commons Attribution/Non-commercial filter to pick IMG_4894 (which really looks much better uncropped), by noswonky.
My quote was Ernest Hemmingway’s “Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.” (I think I’d heard that before and suppressed it, as I probably will again.) My random wiki page, […]

Surprisingly musical! Reminded me of both Copying Machine Music and Symphony for Dot Matrix Printers. Two scanning routines were reminiscent of the bridge of “Won’t Get Fooled Again” — the end, right before Moon’s two massive fills and Daltrey’s epic scream. The best section had one head (presumably) making a witchita-witchita sort of noise at […]

This worked pretty well for halloween candy, so let’s try it again, shall we?

I will start no more than two on-line Boggle sessions a day (one a.m., one p.m.)
I will quit as soon as I get a score that’s better than “Gold.”