Truth in death

In ancient Greece, libeling someone who was deceased was considered so wrong that it was punishable criminally. When I was growing up, I heard the old warning, "Do not speak ill of the dead."

One woman's family, however, found themselves completely unable to mouth platitudes about her life, and so ran an obituary which is sadly honest.

Every day, I count myself blessed to have my very special, loving, wicked smart, and cool mother.

Truth in death

In ancient Greece, libeling someone who was deceased was considered so wrong that it was punishable criminally. When I was growing up, I heard the old warning, "Do not speak ill of the dead."

One woman's family, however, found themselves completely unable to mouth platitudes about her life, and so ran an obituary which is sadly honest.

Every day, I count myself blessed to have my very special, loving, wicked smart, and cool mother.

Turning our children into lab rats

This chocolate reward clock will dispense chocolate every hour on the hour, and teach the little mice children to stick close at the appropriate times...and all for £19.95. (For the more clever rodents subjects youngsters, there's a "cheat" button.)



Via Random Good Stuff.

Turning our children into lab rats

This chocolate reward clock will dispense chocolate every hour on the hour, and teach the little mice children to stick close at the appropriate times...and all for £19.95. (For the more clever rodents subjects youngsters, there's a "cheat" button.)



Via Random Good Stuff.

Unclear on the concept

There's doing the job right...and then there's being a bit uncertain what the job really is all about.

Bite me, Diebold.

Unclear on the concept

There's doing the job right...and then there's being a bit uncertain what the job really is all about.

Bite me, Diebold.

Don't mess with librarians

As a student at Ohio University, I paid enough library fines that they probably named a new wing after me...but OU wasn't as rabid as the library in Grafton, Wisconsin:

A Grafton woman has been arrested and booked for failing to pay her library fines. Heidi Dalibor, 20, told the News Graphic in Cedarburg she ignored the library's calls and letters as well as a notice to appear in court.

[...]

The incident cost Dalibor about $30 for the overdue paperbacks "White Oleander" and "Angels and Demons" and her mother nearly $172 to get her out of custody.

Harsh.

Don't mess with librarians

As a student at Ohio University, I paid enough library fines that they probably named a new wing after me...but OU wasn't as rabid as the library in Grafton, Wisconsin:

A Grafton woman has been arrested and booked for failing to pay her library fines. Heidi Dalibor, 20, told the News Graphic in Cedarburg she ignored the library's calls and letters as well as a notice to appear in court.

[...]

The incident cost Dalibor about $30 for the overdue paperbacks "White Oleander" and "Angels and Demons" and her mother nearly $172 to get her out of custody.

Harsh.

How you know you're home

When Weather Underground lists your weather (well, Boxford's weather, but they're pretty close, if a bit more inland) as:

93% humidity,

elevation 105 feet (we're rather lower than that in Middleton),

temperature 56.6°F, and

the dewpoint is 58°F.

In Espanola, NM, where we stayed for three nights last week, the weather tonight is:

24% humidity,

elevation 7,172 feet

temperature 75°F, and

the dewpoint is 36°F.

Granted that since we've come back, the ragweed has decided to bloooooom...but, all in all, I think I'll take lower, cooler, and damper. It's all what you're used to.

New Mexico was beautiful, awe-inspiring, eerie, and in spots it looked a bit like those photos the Mars probes are sending back.

How you know you're home

When Weather Underground lists your weather (well, Boxford's weather, but they're pretty close, if a bit more inland) as:

93% humidity,

elevation 105 feet (we're rather lower than that in Middleton),

temperature 56.6°F, and

the dewpoint is 58°F.

In Espanola, NM, where we stayed for three nights last week, the weather tonight is:

24% humidity,

elevation 7,172 feet

temperature 75°F, and

the dewpoint is 36°F.

Granted that since we've come back, the ragweed has decided to bloooooom...but, all in all, I think I'll take lower, cooler, and damper. It's all what you're used to.

New Mexico was beautiful, awe-inspiring, eerie, and in spots it looked a bit like those photos the Mars probes are sending back.