Elfquest post up!
Sep. 30th, 2011 09:00 amMy next EQ post is up at the Hooded Utilitarian. Please feel free to go make commentary over there. :) (Even if it's about Cutter's boneheadedness!)
Sep. 30th, 2011
We finally got our bedframe delivered yesterday, although we've had the headboard for quite some time. We put the frame together last night (although didn't attach the headboard because it was 10:30 when we finished and we both wanted sleep more than we wanted the headboard attached).
And then we put the mattress and box springs on, and ... dude. That is one tall bed. Yes, it's because it's designed in the European style to have curved slats as the base, so you don't need box springs, although it said you could use box springs or not as you wished. I'm just glad we got the slimline box springs. (And they were thrown in with the mattress price so that if we get rid of them at some point, it won't feel like we're throwing money away.)
You can't really tell from this pic how tall it is. I should have put someone in there for scale. :)
Headboard goes on tonight!
P.S. The cover with elephants is a gift from a former grad student who worked for me about a decade ago. All the Indian students who worked for me gave us presents when they left (I approve of this custom!), and she gave me that. She told me that it's a thin cotton coverlet they use in the summer to cover the beds so dust doesn't get into them. I'd been using it as a table cover at artist alleys, but pulled it out for its proper use this summer, as it was exactly the right weight.
And then we put the mattress and box springs on, and ... dude. That is one tall bed. Yes, it's because it's designed in the European style to have curved slats as the base, so you don't need box springs, although it said you could use box springs or not as you wished. I'm just glad we got the slimline box springs. (And they were thrown in with the mattress price so that if we get rid of them at some point, it won't feel like we're throwing money away.)
You can't really tell from this pic how tall it is. I should have put someone in there for scale. :)
Headboard goes on tonight!
P.S. The cover with elephants is a gift from a former grad student who worked for me about a decade ago. All the Indian students who worked for me gave us presents when they left (I approve of this custom!), and she gave me that. She told me that it's a thin cotton coverlet they use in the summer to cover the beds so dust doesn't get into them. I'd been using it as a table cover at artist alleys, but pulled it out for its proper use this summer, as it was exactly the right weight.
NONONONO Cat
Sep. 30th, 2011 09:33 amNONONONO cat. Video of a cat with a distinctive way of complaining. (Yes, the cat is scared - according to the commentary it's freaked out by seeing a child for the first time. It's letting its owner pet it, so it's not fully frightened - there are many of us who bear scars from picking up or touching a completely frightened cat!)
And this is what happens when you open NONONONO Cat in several browser tabs and let them play all at once. It's a crescendo of NONONO Cat.
And this is what happens when you open NONONONO Cat in several browser tabs and let them play all at once. It's a crescendo of NONONO Cat.
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Sep. 30th, 2011 12:45 pmJust ran across a Reddit thread where people are playing that game where you remove one letter from a book's title and give a summary of the resulting book. My favorite so far:
"Mansfield Ark: Fanny Price is instructed by God to build a large, wooden boat, into which she must load pairs of impoverished young women and eligible bachelors on no less than seven thousand pounds a year"
"Mansfield Ark: Fanny Price is instructed by God to build a large, wooden boat, into which she must load pairs of impoverished young women and eligible bachelors on no less than seven thousand pounds a year"
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Sep. 30th, 2011 12:59 pmGosh, I love looking through interior design books focused on "the small home." Their definitions of a small home and mine are often wildly divergent. (That room can hold way more furniture! It is so not small!)
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Sep. 30th, 2011 03:38 pmDear Outlook:
You know, it's not that hard to assume, when I open a piece of sent mail, automatically hit Reply, type an additional message, and send it, that I do not want to send the addendum to myself. Even Gmail knows that in this case you usually want to send it to the original recipient.
No love,
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telophase
You know, it's not that hard to assume, when I open a piece of sent mail, automatically hit Reply, type an additional message, and send it, that I do not want to send the addendum to myself. Even Gmail knows that in this case you usually want to send it to the original recipient.
No love,
telophase