This is really interesting. There were a several times that I wanted a “both” answer, but didn’t have one.

Also, technically, icing and frosting are two different things. Frosting is the thick stuff you spread on a cake, and between cake layers. Icing is the thin runny stuff that you pour over a pound cake or sweet roll that hardens. Just to be technical.

I’m assuming that alphabetical order is the reason Dixie comes before Yankee.

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Social Values Survey

We have diagnosed you as most likely being a member of the:
New Aquarians

You also show a similarity to the following tribe(s):
Security Seeking Ascetics
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Snark practice.

greek myth fell into the water and drowned
Actually, it’s not a myth. People actually do, in fact, fall into the water and drown. This is why swimming lessons are recommended for all children, starting at a young age.

why is there less female heroes
Because the word heroes is plural, not singular.

the garden of stubborn cats by italo calvino
“stubborn cats” is redundant.

ambulances of the 1940 s 50 s 60 s
Okay, that sounds kind of interesting, pictures of old ambulances–and maybe even fire trucks. Did you try google images?

how big is a fat half fabric
They’re fat quarters. And that would be a quarter yard.

how do i feel being a young naturalist
If I were actually a young naturalist, I’d probably feel pretty good about it.

result of adolf hitler s actions
Is this a trick question?

people stomping on bugs
As much as I dislike creatures with too many legs, looking for a website dedicated to bug stomping is kinda creepy.

html codes for resizing pictures
Don’t resize your images in HTML. Resize your images in a photo editor. If you resize them in HTML they’ll look terrible. What you’re probably looking for is how to make a thumbnail image that links to a larger image.

how not to dress
Please see almost every picture ever taken of me. See also: Go Fug Yourself

recipes leftover hamburgers
Boy are you in the wrong place. Unless you’re eating organic and/or local grown beef, I suggest you read Eric Schlosser’s Fast Food Nation.

lions mane jellyfish funny facts
“The venom in the nematocysts of the Lion’s Mane is a powerful neurotoxin. If a human were to get stung enough, it could be fatal, provided sufficient poison had been absorbed by the body” That’s not really ha-ha funny though.

random things to talk about with your boyfriend
How about Lion’s Mane Jellyfish?

Happy Summer Solstice!

It is now allowed to be hot. All those hot days previous? Imaginary.

What Subversive Alternative Paradigm Are You?

I don’t know about subversive…
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Erin sent me the answers to the Latin quiz.
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Happy Birthday West Virginia!

So, we’ve finally settled down to watch Babylon 5. Michael had wanted this is the next TV series he got, and we’d been told by several people, “it’s even better than Deep Space Nine!

Well, we’re halfway through Season One, and I’m not seeing it.

Michael insists that he remember it as being better than this, and I’m having a hard time believing that so many different people were so deluded.

But really. Someone of these episodes are down there with Season 2 of Next Generation. I mean, the CGI is absolutely horrific. I’ve seen better graphics in video games. And some of the acting… (shudder) Though the characters I’m least impressed with apparently don’t come back in Season Two.

I have to admit that some things are improving as the season progresses. There is more of a sense of movement and time to the story–in the first few episodes I couldn’t tell how much time was passing and when people had moved from one place to another. But that has improved a bit as the series has progressed.

But still. There is no way this is better than Deep Space Nine, and I’m not even sure it’s better than Next Generation. (Though it has something in common with TNG–they’re both very easy to mock. Michael keeps referring to it as, “some bad CGI”. As in, “do you want to watch some bad CGI this evening?”)

So this had better get better, considering how much much these DVDs cost.

Happy World Sauntering Day!

Okay, I would really like to know what I missed on this, because aside from the WV State motto, most of the rest of these were guesses (educated guesses, but guesses never-the-less) because the only lauguages I took in school were French and Spanish.

The Latin Sayings Test:
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Happy Flag Day!

Rules for Flying the American Flag

• It is the universal custom to display the flag only from sunrise to sunset on buildings and on stationary flagstaffs in the open. However, when a patriotic effect is desired, the flag may be displayed twenty-four hours a day if properly illuminated during the hours of darkness.
• The flag should not be displayed on days when the weather is inclement, except when an all-weather flag is displayed.
• When the flag is displayed in a manner other than by being flown from a staff, it should be displayed flat, whether indoors or out. When displayed either horizontally or vertically against a wall, the union should be uppermost and to the flag’s own right, that is, to the observer’s left. When displayed in a window it should be displayed in the same way, that is with the union or blue field to the left of the observer in the street. When festoons, rosettes or drapings are desired, bunting of blue, white and red should be used, but never the flag.
• When the flag is displayed on a car, the staff shall be fixed firmly to the chassis or clamped to the right fender.
• When hung in a window, place the blue union in the upper left, as viewed from the street.
• Section 8k of the Flag Code states, “The flag, when it is in such condition that it is no longer a fitting emblem for display, should be destroyed in a dignified way, preferably by burning.”
• Is it okay to have a flag t-shirt with words written on it?
  No, the flag should never be worn and no, the flag should never have marks or words written upon it. Section 8d: “The flag should never be used as wearing apparel.” Section 8g: “The flag should never have placed upon it, nor on any part of it, nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature.”

• Is it okay for an advertisement to use the flag?
  No. Section 8i reads, “The flag should never be used for advertising purposes in any manner whatsoever.”

Since we signed up for Netflix we’ve been watching lots of movies–which is good, since I’ve got a lot of catching up to do. (The last time I regularly watched movies was, I think, high school.)

Of course, my taste in movies tends towards explosions and marshal arts. I’ll watch drama, but what I really want when I watch a movie is an escape from reality. Hence: science fiction, comic book, and heist movies. Plus movies where Brad Pitt gets the beat up. (Snatch, Fight Club, etc)

And I’d pretty much rather eat lint than watch a romantic comedy, and movies about high school are almost universally out, because in real life, the geeks and the unattractive girls never come out on top.

So here’s a list of the movies we watched recently, from most enjoyed to least enjoyed, which should tell you quite a bit about my tastes.
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I leave the amount of squealing I did when I saw these up to your imagination.

JavaScript Enigma Machine

JavaScript Bombe Machine

Another Enigma Machine

(via Making Light)

If you insist on having loud cell phone conversations in public spaces–particularly conversations where you are arguing unpleasantly with your mother/girlfriend/boyfriend/roommate–please be aware that any stupid things you say will become a running joke.

Especially if you say something particularly ridiculous, such as, “Fine! I’ll sell my twenty-seven inch TV!”

It was the way he kept repeating “twenty-seven inch TV” that did it.