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My latest health crisis is also the latest threat to my marriage: dust. Yes, dust. Or rather, the waste product of dust mites. ‘Turns out I am violently allergic to dust, and that the house has lots of it. I kept losing consciousness last week, it was so hard to breathe. The bedroom’s the most [...]

Burgerville wageslave: That’ll be $6.04. Me: (Hands over $20) Me: (After cash drawer is opened.) I’ve got a dime. Burgerville wageslave: Thanks. Burgerville wageslave: Uh, I don’t know how much change to give you. Me: Huh? Oh, sorry. $14.06. Burgerville wageslave: What?? Me: $20.10 minus $6.04? $14.06? Burgerville wageslave: Oh (confused) Right… – Think I [...]

Darn WFMU. I stay away from their blog for a few days whilst working on my job search and get overwhelmed with freaky goodness: * Four– count ‘em, four clips from the greatest propaganda film ever made, If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do? It’s surprisingly violent– bamboo shafts in eardrums, vomiting, shootings, and [...]

TV shows I’d never heard of before, like, yesterday: * The Mighty Boosh, a no-budget drug trip set in a zoo. Any show with Bryan Ferry, the Spirit of Jazz, and talking fish must be good. * Torchwood, a sci-fi thriller that’s equal parts Dr. Who, BSG, X-Files, and Buffy, with plenty of girl-on-girl action. [...]

* I like conspiracy theories, but this is nuts: The government server in Ohio that hosts the Republican party’s email system is the same server used to count and report the 2004 presidential vote. It’s not possible, right? The RNC couldn’t have been, you know, part of the count that helped re-elect Bush, right?? * [...]

In this week’s PotterCast, Steve points out that, on the UK cover of Deathly Hallows, Hermione’s hair is in her face, which would indicate they are getting sucked into that round portal thingie. I blogged that they had just fallen out of that opening, so imagine my embarrassment. It also appears that Harry’s body is [...]

* Portland, please contact the mayor and tell him not to cut funding for our bicycle programs. We’ve never had so many cyclists on the streets, we need more routes, more lanes, more helmets. * New theories on bee colony collapse include neurotoxins, microorganisms, and poor diet. I didn’t know bee populations have been declining [...]

So depressing. I asked three different Magic Eight Ball sites if I would find work in my field soon and they all said no, “reply hazy, try again” or “not likely”. I think I need better career advice than a floating piece of plastic… ————————– Okay, I tried a different site, finally got a “definitely.”

Could we embed a layer of probacteria inside the walls of fast food packaging so that, when the item is crushed– say, by a garbage compactor– they would immediately be released to start breaking down their housing and garbage in the area? I know we have compostable containers but that process is slow, and can [...]

* Radiation detectors are getting triggered by completely harmless things that just happen to have natural radiation. You know– cat litter, pottery, bananas and cocoa. Wait, what?? * WFMU played some of Philip Bimstein’s avant garde soundscapes the other night. This guy messes up your head– I might have to download his album– only $2.32! [...]