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Tired, grumpy, cat will not leave me alone (I am a catbed) and I still need to do some serious work on the build system for the new project at work before Monday.

Thought I would share.

"Sometimes life hands you lemons, but then you can make lemonade.. . . . Of course, sometimes life pulls down your pants, runs a power sander across your bare bottom, then pours lemon juice on your raw, abraded buttocks.. . . In that case, a cool citrus drink wouldn't really help. . . . . . ."

From the Texts from Last Night site:

Margaritas ran out of lime juice. Substituted Jaeger. Jaegerita not good.

Just snagged this little silver & fossil gem - this will be beautiful on a lapel or hat (so it's a Christmas pressie from me to me):

...or at least as close as you're ever gonna get
Fair warning: This may be a little too real for the squeamish.

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Sneaky Gate

persephone_kore pointed out to me the green light at the bottom. Apparently Real Heterodynes Don't Hesitate. I know somebody suggested this already....

"A Lost European Culture, Pulled From Obscurity"
"Culture of Old Europe is Uncloaked in an Exhibit at N.Y.U."

By John Noble Wilford, New York Times/NYTimes.com

From Wondermark by David Malki (via Karrion) - there's some here that we can use.

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Over the weekend we attended Darkover 32 in Timonium MD. This year there were a number of Steampunk themed panels, and I heard a rumor that there would be even more next year.

After the Con, Guests-of-Honor Emma Bull and Will Shetterly went up to Gettysburg to the studio of Rob Gibson and had a steampunk-themed portrait made with equipment from the 1860's using techniques of the period. coffeeem posted her version of the day, including the resulting picture, over on her LJ page. Worth checking out, in my somewhat biased opinion.

This is just like the Crispy Creme they built very close to my apartment in Fresno. About a month ago I noticed a corner lot area of the huge outdoor mall I'm close to was being worked on at a feverish pace. It really is amazing the difference between govt and private construction projects, especially when something as critically important as the world's best doughnuts or burgers are on the line. None of this 1 guy working, 5 standing around watching crap. They're out there doing their jobs from ass early in the morning until well after 8PM, seven days a week.

Then the sign announcing this was a future In and Out Burger went up. I was transported with joy. For those poor souls out there who have never had one of their meals, you are really missing out. It truly is a very impressive cheeseburger, paired with some of the best fries in the known universe. Everything is fresh and made by an army of smartly uniformed employees right there, you can even watch the low man on the totem pole manhandling potatoes with a giant press to make the fries just moments before they go into the oil.

As this corner is a corner on my standard walking route, I could keep close tabs on the progress. They didn't take long at all and tonight it finally opened. I waited in a 20 minute long drive through line that had to be over 100 cars long but they were ready. There had to be 50 people working tonight. My 2 double-double meals--animal style, of course--were everything I had been hoping for. From the burgers and fries to the cokes with bible verses printed inside the lower band that for some reason taste better than a fountain drink elsewhere, it was an amazing meal.

Like having the Crispy Creme just a quarter mile from my apt before, I do not know how my fitness is going to handle this. They take plastic, for pete's sake. It will be entirely too easy to slip a card into my pocket for my daily walk and pick up a meal on the way. I don't know if walking 3.5 miles will burn off all those delicious calories, though.

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Girl Genius is mentioned on the BBC's website - an article about steampunk lists the comic among its "steampunk samplers" and adds in a link. But only the Professor is credited! What happened to the Professora?

OK, my cat Clint is being a little JERK lately.

Because of some circulation issues, I have a chair which reclines slightly, elevating the feet.
He likes to climb up and curl up on (what he thinks is) my chest. His enormous cat butt with pointy "heelbone" parts is jammed into a pressure point on my left arm, and the 2300 pounds of cat weight benumbs my left hand.
So, I try to shift him.


Lately he has been GROWLING about it. Swearing, in cat. Foul foul language.
Normally I put him on the floor immediately, but today he was squinking and nuzzling, so I let him stay for a while longer - about 15 minutes, before I had to shift, and the growling started, and any movement, even a deep breath, got it going more, so I finally had enough, but when I tried to lift him off, he grabbed my hand and bit.

Not enough to break skin, because he knows better ... but the claws do break skin, so I bapped him (light, open-pawed slap to the head like mom-cats do) and then put him on the floor. No more climbing on me tonight. Cat is in COVENTRY.

Still. Wondering what's up with this recent trend. It's quite annoying.

I must admit, that once the sirens go off, the boys are a lovely shade of sickly.

Actually, a real coffee grinder. Ostensibly from the early 1970's, but I have a feeling it was second hand at that time. Looks more like 1950's to me. Or possibly even earlier. It came from a coffee shop in Japan.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fugutabetai/4004734016/



Could'a come right out of the Mechanicsburg Coffee shop!

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