love my car
it sends me caring messages
hello, goodbye, check your backseat, be safe…
and now this one:
(no) /eyesight
it felt a bit judge-y
i’m wearing my glasses!
until I realized it meant
my backup camera was covered with road salt
and not able to see.
still feels judge-y.
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two more winter storms coming this weekend
i wish i had a pet snow chicken
no need for it to pull me on a sled
instead
we could fly downhill on a toboggan together.
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‘snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood.’
-andy goldsworthy, artist, naturist
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image credit: sled chickens of the north, from the far side, by Gary Larson
as many of you already know, i have been challenged by technology, time and again.
i accept that and hobble and click way through it all
and sometimes it somehow untangles itself and even works.
below are a couple of posts i found online that really are good examples
of an inside look at my technological life, and i so love them.
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You can be having the nicest day and then you have to print something and you know your day is about to fall apart real fast.
Shoutout to ppl who save documents every 2.1 seconds while working on them because you lost one file 21 years ago & won’t be caught slipping again.
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thank you for your kind service, people who left the above quotes, and, yep.
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image credit: linked in
driving home next to a lit-up christmas car
way deep in the holiday spirit
is that santa
out for a night on the town?
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‘following the well-lit path, offers little in the way of magic.’
-seth godin
many of us learn by trial and error
myself included
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“the problem with people is that they’re only human.”
— hobbes, from “Calvin & Hobbes,” on the limitations of humanity
– bill waterson
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image credit: gary larson, the far side
the water squirting doll is a pretty hard no for me,
but i’m sure they’ll find a good home
i know i would have loved using this
to annoy my sibs
had it been invented when i was a child.
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‘sometimes late at night, if you listen real carefully,
you can hear parents removing batteries from annoying toys.’
-r.a. dadss
when you get this message from your car
you have startle response
turn around very carefully
and see this
ah, just another pinata
clearly my car doesn’t know me well enough yet.
i was picturing one of those scary old tales
we used to terrorize each other with
it would be either a guy with a hook
or a pumpkin head with no body.
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look out! behind you!
-ralph waldo emerson
JELL-O is no longer a staple of potlucks and dinner parties nationwide, but the product is still popular. Even if the age of jiggly “salads” was before your time, you may have fond memories of packing a JELL-O cup for lunch or having one as a snack after school. Now, you can return to those simpler times with the brand’s new inflatable furniture line, The Jelly Collection.
The comfy seats come in four colors: red (meant to evoke JELL-O’s strawberry flavor), green (lime), yellow (lemon), and orange (orange). Designed to look like giant gelatin molds, the chairs may spark your appetite. Luckily, they each come with a built-in JELL-O cup holder for your snacks.
“For over 150 years, JELL-O has been at the heart of joyful family moments, big and small,” Tyler Parker, brand manager of desserts at Kraft Heinz, said in a statement. “With The Jelly Collection, we’re not just celebrating our rich history; we’re bringing it to life for today’s families. By blending our heritage with a modern twist, we’re inviting consumers to embrace the playful spirit that has made JELL-O a beloved favorite for generations.”
After launching on Amazon on September 10 for $30 apiece, the chairs sold out quickly. It’s unclear when—and if—Kraft Heinz plans to restock the limited-edition home decor item.
Jelly is having a bit of a moment in popular culture. The resurgence of the Y2K aesthetic has ushered in a new wave of the jelly-inspired trend, with jelly makeup that makes skin look glossy, translucent home decor, and jelly shoes all making a comeback on social media and in the real world.
*Peg Bracken was an American writer of humorous books and articles on cooking, housekeeping, etiquette and travel. She graduated from Antioch College in 1940, got married, and worked as an advertising copywriter along with Homer Groening, father of Matt Groening. Groening and she also made a comic strip, Phoebe, Get Your Man together.
During the 60s and 70s, Bracken’s writing reassured women that they did not have to be perfect to have a happy home. Her best-known book is The I Hate to Cook Book, written in 1960. The book came about when she and some other working-women friends came up with a core of recipes strong on ease of preparation. It was followed by The I Hate to Housekeep Book and The Appendix to the I Hate to Cook Book. The recipes are distinguished by unusual names and peppered with sardonic comments. For example, one recipe is for “Wolfe Eggs,” which are for eggs the way the fictional Nero Wolfe would cook them. “Stayabed Stew” could be left to cook by itself and was perfect “for those days when you are en negligee, en bed, with a murder story and a box of bonbons, or possibly a good case of flu”; mashed potatoes topped with cheese and baked in a casserole become “Spuds O’Grotton’. Her selection of simple main dishes is “30 Day-by-Day Entrees, or, The Rock Pile”.
The recipes themselves were written in much the same style (“Brown the garlic, onion, and crumbled beef in the oil. Add the flour, salt, paprika, and mushrooms, stir, and let it cook five minutes while you light a cigarette and stare sullenly at the sink”).
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no one is happy when their internet goes out
but i am always amused
by the list
of my neighbors’ router names
that scroll by
when trying
to get mine up and running again.
last night’s winners were:
billclinternet
thelanisterssendtheirregards
routerihardlyknewher
some people are so clever
my goal was
to create a name i would remember
now if feel that i’m letting them all down a bit.
not giving back.
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‘the internet is a great way to get on the net.’
-bob dole, former republican senator and presidential candidate
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image credit: google images
I didn't have my glasses on.... 