Monthly Archives: July 2009

Wallpaper Psychology

I don’t often write a post about my Lady Laurie, not because she isn’t interesting (she most certainly is) or that she isn’t rather unique (she has the uniqueness market cornered) or that she isn’t even somewhat unusual at times (I plead the fifth), it’s simply because she’s promised me that if I did write [...]

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Too Wet to Burn

The amazing and wonderfully comfortable thing about most vets is that when you happen to meet up with another vet on the way to wherever you need to be,  say at my local VA medical facility, conversation is often picked up as if you’d been good friends all along. No preamble or awkward hellos as [...]

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DoFollow Spam and Other Comment Type Improvements

Within the last several months there’s been a change in the comment spam that’s plagued bloggers ever since the dregs of society first found out how they could benefit from leaving their crap in the comment sections of posts. You know the type; 20 offers for prescription medications along with another 15 offers to [...]

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Ever have days when you feel like this?

Sometimes there are days when the “stupid” just overwhelms.

Ever have one of those days?

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I wish WordPress could do this

I have to admit that when it comes to browser bookmarklets, the WordPress “Press This” has evolved into a very usable, slimmed down, pinch hit publishing version of the TinyMCE editor that’s complete with all the basic features of the full WordPress editor at hand. Very usable indeed:

But man, I wish it had this kind [...]

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The 2nd coming is at hand and commenting on blogs?

A tree was cut in Ireland in the town of Rathkeale. And within the patterns of the rings along with the unique shape of the stump of the tree someone stated that they saw the Virgin Mary.
It only takes one you know.
Okay, so another stain in the cloth, shadow on the wall, puddle on the [...]

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People living longer | Thursday ponderings

I read an article in the New York Times today that stated that researchers have discovered an antibiotic that appears to prolong life in mice:
Rapamycin treatment had the remarkable effect of extending life even though it was not started in the right dose until the mice had lived 600 days — equivalent to a person [...]

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Spending the 4th of July in Island Pond

We took Long Meadow Farms Quilts to Island Pond, VT this forth of July just to see if the tent would blow away this time. Actually that’s not true since we brought both her old station wagon and my old Jeep Cherokee, the latter to which we secured her display tent. The wind did indeed [...]

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