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daily arts and crafts with a hungry hippo.

I used to bake cupcakes for a living, but I still knit my dog dumb hats on the side.

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Hustle Rose by Metric

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Did ya know?

If you are sending an e-mail to a gmail account, you can write @googlemail.com instead of @gmail.com and it still works!

This is probably old news, but I am easily amused and fascinated.

Nov
4th
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We finally adopted Muffin!!  She’s 9 years old, and she’s really sweet and quite a talker!

We finally adopted Muffin!!  She’s 9 years old, and she’s really sweet and quite a talker!

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Drudge Report

Drudge Report

Nov
3rd
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Do they not sell beer in PA grocery stores?  I live in VA and the beer selection at WF is always excellent.  However, MD banned grocery stores from carrying alcohol, so I can only imagine their selection is non-existent.
rewbog:

The Whole Foods in Tribeca sells beer. GOOD beer. These are just the domestics!

Do they not sell beer in PA grocery stores?  I live in VA and the beer selection at WF is always excellent.  However, MD banned grocery stores from carrying alcohol, so I can only imagine their selection is non-existent.

rewbog:

The Whole Foods in Tribeca sells beer. GOOD beer. These are just the domestics!

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an observation

Art school kids are either in huge debt or they’ve got wealthy parents.

I spent $150 this week alone on art supplies.

It makes me happy that I’m not an art major.

Nov
2nd
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This was on our way to the Animal Shelter.  We were going to look at cats.  My dog was in her pumpkin costume (Target $9.99!!) and everyone asked if she were up for adoption.  Psh, as if!  My dog is spectacularly groomed by my retired mother lol.

This was on our way to the Animal Shelter.  We were going to look at cats.  My dog was in her pumpkin costume (Target $9.99!!) and everyone asked if she were up for adoption.  Psh, as if!  My dog is spectacularly groomed by my retired mother lol.

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Invasion of Privacy

I’m usually not very open with my parents.  This doesn’t mean we don’t get along, I just don’t tell them stuff about my personal life.  No matter how hard they probe!

But anyway, I figured, bf and I have been together for over 18 months, it’s probably time for me to bring him home.  So I will.  For Thanksgiving Dinner.

Nov
1st
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Like all men not really up to their job, he was a stickler for externals and petty quotidian things; and in lieu of an intellect he had accumulated an armoury of capitalized key-words like Discipline and Tradition and Responsibility.  If I ever dared - I seldom did - to argue with him, he would produce one of these totem words and cosh me with it as no doubt in similar circumstances he quelled his subalterns.  If one still refused to lie down and die, he lost, or loosed, his temper.

John Fowles- The Magus.

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The Chinese inject clouds with chemicals in order to make it snow

Oh yeah, they’ve been doing it for a while.  They also make it rain too.

randyhaddock:

And, apparently, they’ve been doing it for years. What the…

Chinese meteorologists covered Beijing in snow Sunday after seeding clouds to bring winter weather to the capital in an effort to combat a lingering drought, state media reported.

The unusually early snow blanketed the capital from Sunday morning and kept falling for half the day, helped by temperatures as low as minus 2 Celsius (29 Fahrenheit) and strong winds from the north, Xinhua news agency reported.

Besides falling in the northeastern provinces of Liaoning and Jilin and the northern province of Hebei, the eastern port city of Tianjin also got its first snow of the autumn, the report said.

“We wont [sic] miss any opportunity of artificial precipitation since Beijing is suffering from the lingering drought,” the report quoted Zhang Qiang, head of the Beijing Weather Modification Office, as saying.

Chinese meteorologists have for years sought to make rain by injecting special chemicals into clouds.