AAAAAAAAA!

Video of a giant centipede grabbing a bat out of midair.

I’m going to name my nightmares after that thing.

Vegetative Persistence

I make a habit of a daily stroll, walking the grounds here at the manor, to keep tabs on the state of the gardens and construction projects. I inspect the various flower beds, deadhead the plants that need it, fill the bird-feeders, and so on. It keeps me in touch with my earthbound roots. Usually, . . . → Read More: Vegetative Persistence

Protected: Lies and damned lies

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Protected: Happiness

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Day

Nice day. Pleasant temperature, and it didn’t rain!

I started off with email, worked through the day on generating web statistics off our many web servers, and then said “this can bite me!” and mowed the lawn. Finished painting the hallway: no more “butt brown,” now it’s “off white.” Now, back to karate.

Yay.

medical education

Sat down and this poured out: Medical Education. It’s a long one. I may have to count it as two essays.

In other news, a batch of Imperial Stout is in primary fermentation.

Essay

New polemic, rant, bitch fest, essay is up.

Goodnight.

Flowers!

I love my garden, and I love my flowers. Here are pictures of both.

This has been your moment of OMG!!! PONIES!!! We now return to your regularly gruff and grouchy fdmts

Energy consumption

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Targeted marketing

Stolen from auddess who got it from Wikipedia: The Forer, or Barnum effect:

“You have a great need for other people to like you and admire you. You have a tendency to be critical of yourself. You have a great deal of unused capacity which you have not turned to your advantage. While you have . . . → Read More: Targeted marketing