Monthly Archives: August 2005

Alas, a wine glass has bitten the dust. Hard. We had visitors at the House of Q last night, including my in-laws and my sis, and during the post-dinner wine and movies I managed to transform a glass full of shiraz into a sharp-edged collection of shards and powerful staining liquid. Fortunately, I missed getting any on the new sofa cover, and we got the spill cleaned up before it could soak too badly into the floor.
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I wonder what the latin names for some of these cartoon character skeletons would be. The birds would be fairly easy. I’m pretty sure they’d be Avis Pipilio and Avis Infantus Huey. And Felix Salutatrix might be right too. But what would the overall categories be for some of the human figures? Would we have Homo Nucis Schultz for the Peanuts characters and Homo Silexicis for the Flintstones?

August Strindberg was a Swedish playwright, novelist, and short-story writer. He lived a strange and tormented life and had several psychotic breaks in the 1890’s. So far as I can tell, none of them involved a talking pink helium balloon.

Let me tell you about the new Nordic Track workout…

And no, this isn’t going to become one of those ‘blogs where the author obsessively catalogs their diet and exercise routines. That’s been done.
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Ok, now this is strange… Almost exactly a year ago, I was talking about some found-sound music that I’d stumbled across, and now I’m listening to another batch of the similar. In this case, it’s remixes and songs from video games, all available for download from OverClocked ReMix.
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