First, the unfortunate: I watched the local news daily, and always cringed when they covered the number of toddler deaths due to drowning in pools that were ungated, or unsupervised I’d always lament to netfriends, “How many kids need to die before an owner of an in-the-ground pool learns to secure the damn thing?” Augh.

Back when I lived in Phoenix, AZ, my friend Melissa ordered me some chocolates from Dan’s Chocolates for my birthday While I loved the chocolates (18 of them), I found much amusement in the dry ice as well

I have a few bookmarks I’ve been meaning to share with people The ducks in the bathroom are not mine An Australian apartment renter decides to have a little fun with his management. The Helen Keller Simulator – Just like it says

I’m not writing a professional novel or trying to sell something I’m not a professional editor or proofreader I’m writing off the top of my head, there’s very little editing involved before I unleash it upon the world, and I don’t care if my writing style is informal and incorrect.

I tend to do my own thing regarding cooking Yesterday, I spontaneously decided to ask the druid, upon waking up, whether he’d enjoy an iced coffee rather than a hot mug of the stuff It’s pressing upon 100 degrees F here, after all.

He looked at me skeptically, as he does whenever I unveil another video I’ve scrounged up from who knows where I’ve shown him amazing things, and also stupid things that everyone has to see at least once. He sighed, sat back, and bid me to start it. JK Wedding Entrance Dance By the end, he had tears streaming down his face too, hehe. Just neat Take my word for it, it’s not long and very entertaining.

I can’t tell you how many visually pleasing Wordpress themes I’ve had to disregard because the person who coded it neglected to think of screen resolution Some design for a minimal width of 1024×768, which seems to correlate to most older CRT monitors, and laptops which historically have small screens anyway

My dad loved to mod his vehicles. On the truck, he installed a boat air horn Sometimes he’d give it a toot when he passed a bicyclist who was not in the bike lane, was drifting over the shoulder line, or traveling in side-by-side clumps Often the toot would blow out a fuse Oh yeah, and the bicyclist would wobble. On the car, he installed “fog lights” At night when someone followed him too closely and then passed him, he’d turn those suckers on and blast the offending car

Craigslist A meca for community stuff, whether it be household items for sale, houses for rent, housepets needing a new home, whatever There’s a section for free stuff Daily, there’s a subset of people who are not posting stuff that is free, but complaining that along with the advertised free stuff, someone saw something nearby that they assumed was part of the free pile, and took the other item as well Really, people

1 Another day’s sunset is not the end of the world. Sitting here, listening to the sound of rain falling, I wonder suddenly if the kitchen faucet is leaking, a lot, as it is summer and therefore devoid of rain.