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Beans o' Doom!
Dec. 1st, 2017 09:09 pmEvil, ignorant, old lady tries to poison people with ricin. First, trying to extract naturally-occurring ricin is not the same as "making ricin". Secondly, grinding up the beans might reasonably constitute a step in an extraction process, but is not in itself "extracting ricin". I think they can get her easily on attempted murder, but a good lawyer can get her off the ricin charges.
When I was little, I had a bracelet made of castor beans. IIRC, I got that for giving money to some mission project in Africa or the Carribean. They're quite attractive little seeds, and make great beads. I'd have treasured it all the more had I but known how deadly those seeds were!
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So, I bought Alexandra some Fancy Feast cat treats. They were packaged in a opaque little plasticized bag similar to what Ghirardelli Squares come in. I opened it just now, expecting it to be filled with loose cat treats. Instead, it contained a number of small, square plastic envelopes. When you open one of these, it's actual meat inside! I just gave her a little tidbit of cooked white meat chicken that's been sitting on a store shelf at room temperature for however long. Completely fit to eat, if a little bit "aged" (how cats like it). I'm impressed.
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Alexandra continues to enjoy giving me tongue baths with her sandpapery little tongue. I'm told that's a sign that she views me as another (albeit much larger) cat.
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You can now get round, pre-made pizza crusts at the store! I love that they're round, since that works much better with my pizza cooker (one of those rotary sort that spins the pizza under radiant heat). The "thin crust" is in fact paper-thin, rather moreso than I'd bargained for. The crust comes rolled-up in a plastic sleeve, with the crust carried on a sort of oilpaper substrate. You just unroll it, put it face-down on the pan, and peel away the paper. An excellent invention! The crust has a very nice flavour, too.
When I was little, I had a bracelet made of castor beans. IIRC, I got that for giving money to some mission project in Africa or the Carribean. They're quite attractive little seeds, and make great beads. I'd have treasured it all the more had I but known how deadly those seeds were!
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So, I bought Alexandra some Fancy Feast cat treats. They were packaged in a opaque little plasticized bag similar to what Ghirardelli Squares come in. I opened it just now, expecting it to be filled with loose cat treats. Instead, it contained a number of small, square plastic envelopes. When you open one of these, it's actual meat inside! I just gave her a little tidbit of cooked white meat chicken that's been sitting on a store shelf at room temperature for however long. Completely fit to eat, if a little bit "aged" (how cats like it). I'm impressed.
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Alexandra continues to enjoy giving me tongue baths with her sandpapery little tongue. I'm told that's a sign that she views me as another (albeit much larger) cat.
*****
You can now get round, pre-made pizza crusts at the store! I love that they're round, since that works much better with my pizza cooker (one of those rotary sort that spins the pizza under radiant heat). The "thin crust" is in fact paper-thin, rather moreso than I'd bargained for. The crust comes rolled-up in a plastic sleeve, with the crust carried on a sort of oilpaper substrate. You just unroll it, put it face-down on the pan, and peel away the paper. An excellent invention! The crust has a very nice flavour, too.
The Usual Suspect...
Dec. 1st, 2017 12:43 amSo, I woke up this morning with a bunch of little black plastic bead-like things in bed with me. Under magnification they resembled acutely-oblate spheroids, each about a millimetre across, and maybe a third of that thick, made from some very shiny plastic or possibly resin. I haven't a clue what they are, although I tend to blame the usual suspect (the cat) for their presence.
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I have bought a tiny, tiny, nano-drone. It's small enough that the drone and the spare propellors all store inside the remote control, itself about the size of a half-sammich. It's charging now, and I have yet to fly it. I'm eager to see what Alexandra thinks of it. It's only $20, so if she catches and destroys it, it will have been worth the entertainment value.
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I have bought a tiny, tiny, nano-drone. It's small enough that the drone and the spare propellors all store inside the remote control, itself about the size of a half-sammich. It's charging now, and I have yet to fly it. I'm eager to see what Alexandra thinks of it. It's only $20, so if she catches and destroys it, it will have been worth the entertainment value.
A Bevy of Miscellania
Oct. 29th, 2017 10:44 pmWoohoo! I'm going again Wednesday to see the My Little Pony movie with friends! It's been a while since I was this happy and excited about something :)
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For the past few days, for whatever reason, I've had "Horatius at the Bridge" stuck in my head, specifically:
Then up spake brave Horatius, the Captain of the Gate.
"For ev'ry man upon this earth, death cometh, soon or late.
Yet how can man die better, than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his gods?"
If, by some circumstance, I manage to get myself killed in even a quasi-heroic manner these next few days, you'll know what was in my head.
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So, I was just at the store, and they have... Bottled water... In Halloween packaging... It's plain that it's intended as something to give trick-or-treaters. It's not even a full bottle of water - it's one of those little ball-shaped bottles. That's just begging for a string of firecrackers through the mail slot.
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I keep obsessing over Tempest Shadow. Such an angry Little Pony, and so hurt and vulnerable beneath that case-hardened steel exterior. She absolutely needs hugging.
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I found all the parts for Flaster's old Cat Tree, and put it up for Alexandra. She absolutely loves the thing. She's put more wear and tear on it clawing it and climbing up and down and up and down and up and down in two days that Flaster did in several years. He was a sweetheart of a cat, but never a climber. I miss him so much.
I'm glad I took Alexandra. She plugs one of the holes in my life.
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For the past few days, for whatever reason, I've had "Horatius at the Bridge" stuck in my head, specifically:
Then up spake brave Horatius, the Captain of the Gate.
"For ev'ry man upon this earth, death cometh, soon or late.
Yet how can man die better, than facing fearful odds,
For the ashes of his fathers, and the temples of his gods?"
If, by some circumstance, I manage to get myself killed in even a quasi-heroic manner these next few days, you'll know what was in my head.
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So, I was just at the store, and they have... Bottled water... In Halloween packaging... It's plain that it's intended as something to give trick-or-treaters. It's not even a full bottle of water - it's one of those little ball-shaped bottles. That's just begging for a string of firecrackers through the mail slot.
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I keep obsessing over Tempest Shadow. Such an angry Little Pony, and so hurt and vulnerable beneath that case-hardened steel exterior. She absolutely needs hugging.
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I found all the parts for Flaster's old Cat Tree, and put it up for Alexandra. She absolutely loves the thing. She's put more wear and tear on it clawing it and climbing up and down and up and down and up and down in two days that Flaster did in several years. He was a sweetheart of a cat, but never a climber. I miss him so much.
I'm glad I took Alexandra. She plugs one of the holes in my life.
Go Cubs, Go!
Oct. 12th, 2017 11:35 pmI love that we have the most dangerous Navy ever seen on the earth, but our best warship is a 44 gun frigate from the Age of Napoleon.
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Cubs are gonna give me a heart attack before the night is over. O.O
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I now have a cat again. Her name is Alexandra, a pretty black and white kitty. Very athletic, likes to climb on stuff, and has a habit of jumping onto the (very) narrow arms of my office chair. I need to take pictures of her to post.
She had been my mother's cat, adopted from the cat shelter, but, despite having had cats her entire life, mom was allergic to this one, so now she's living with me.
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I got her a Litter Genie, which is one of the best things ever invented! I can clean the box several times a day now, without having to worry about plastic bags and such. It takes less than 30 seconds each time, and my wastebasket doesn't fill up with plastic bags. There is absolutely no smell at all from the thing.
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Cubs are gonna give me a heart attack before the night is over. O.O
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I now have a cat again. Her name is Alexandra, a pretty black and white kitty. Very athletic, likes to climb on stuff, and has a habit of jumping onto the (very) narrow arms of my office chair. I need to take pictures of her to post.
She had been my mother's cat, adopted from the cat shelter, but, despite having had cats her entire life, mom was allergic to this one, so now she's living with me.
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I got her a Litter Genie, which is one of the best things ever invented! I can clean the box several times a day now, without having to worry about plastic bags and such. It takes less than 30 seconds each time, and my wastebasket doesn't fill up with plastic bags. There is absolutely no smell at all from the thing.
