Category: *heh*

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Things That Make My Lil Mind Go “Huh?”

…mind, such as it is.

All my pants (including some bought w/in the last month) are falling off. Yes, all of them. I like to wear lots of pants at once. *heh* In some ways that’s good news. Having to wear a belt when I go out in public or get arrested for streaking is another. Long story.

So, I googled “Waist sizes for men”. Hey! It’s a googleworld, and the voices in my head were clamoring for attention. Had to shut ’em up somehow…

From a site that said it got its figures from the WHO (like I believed that), “ideal” waist sizes.

(Don’t get all excited gals; that’s the men’s chart. And don’t throw things at me when you look the women’s chart up. I didn’t make it.)

Anywho… by this chart, I was in anorexic territory 30 years ago when I weighed about 155 soaking wet. With clothes on. Now, 30 years and 30 pounds later–not obese but definitely in the “overweight” category by WHO standards (yeh, I looked it up, but who believes WHO anymore anyway?) I’m about 2 inches over “ideal” waist size for my height. Continue reading “Things That Make My Lil Mind Go “Huh?””

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I Usually Get Away With This, But…

…not today. My Wonder Woman’s ethnic heritage is pure Norwegian (20th Century grandparent immigrants on both sides). While I usually get away with it because it sounds–the way I deliberately pronounce it–like “Sweetie”, today when I called her my “Swedey” she didn’t let it slide… *heh*

Oh, well, another lil grinner down. *sigh*

😉

In related fun, while reading an article on PixelQi’s transflective display retrofit kit for netbooks, I ran across this in comments:

…which earned this response:

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They Just Won’t Give Up

Reuters, full time publicity flacks for leftwing wackos, just won’t slack in its due diligence to the Hivemind’s narrative:

Yep. To the Mass MEdia Podpeople Hivemind, Algore was once President. He had to be. After all, didn’t the Hivemind vote en masse for him?

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Chill

Since temps only reached about 95°F at the high school reporting station (a little cooler in the bottoms by the area creeks and rivers, of course), it felt almost like Fall today. *heh* So, July and August were hot this Summer. I wonder why? (Hint: it’s called “Summer”.) It looks like it’ll be even cooler the rest ofthe week, so… spare time = outdoor chores! 🙂 Looking forward to that. 😉 Deck cleanup and rehab, some chainsaw work, and with luck some prep for next Spring’s garden.

Sounds like fun.

Of course, “spare time” might not be a lot, what with gigs and some family projects*, but a guy’s gotta have goals, right?

* Continue reading “Chill”

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Expiration Dates *heh*

Yeh, I really ought to check ’em. Bought some cream, but before I could use it, it’d soured.

Oh, well. Made butter. Yum. Better than lemonade from lemons.

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Great Scene

Just saw the end of an episode of a show that I sometimes watch with my Wonder Woman. It tends to give me a rash *heh* but it’s not as bad as some. The greatness of this scene was the fruity lawyer going around a room telling folks that if a case ever came to trial, no matter what, “I win.” *heh*

I kept expecting him to say, “Even if I have to hit [the other lawyer] with my purse, I win.”

Great scene, even if the best part was in my imagination. *heh*

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Sometimes, I Just Have to Say, “No”

A while back, I decided to give a Windows “news and tips” site a whirl and submitted a secondary email address in order to receive notices of site updates. Since then, it’s yielded a few interesting tidbits, but sometimes, “a few interesting tidbits” just doesn’t cut it.

Recently, a portion of a topic line stood out, as at least 2/3 of the topic lines received in updates from the site have. Again, not in a positive light. The portion–this time–that made me wince: “The reason behind its name revealed !”

WTF is with the (usual and customary, from this source) space between the last word and the punctuation? It’s stupid. And, as I said, usual from this source. But that’s just the normal quality of punctuation usage from this source. What about word usage and grammar?

In the same email update: “Not why it a browser.”

?!? Yes, that’s the entire sentence fragment posing as a sentence. Where’s the verb?

And then, “…to make it running as fast and stable as new.” No, dumbasses, “to make it RUN as fast and stable as new” would at least be marginally acceptable, although “fast and stable” in this context is problematic.

“Since the last couple of days I’m seeing… ” Obviously English is a second language for the writer. Either that or the writer is a recent American college graduate.

I’ve only scratched the surface of the ear-grinding English constructions in just this one email. I can’t take it anymore. Unsubscribing, with prejudice. *heh*