Between work, mandatory overtime [ptui ptui] and school, there will be little time in the next several weeks for my usual bulging-vein-in-the-forehead posts. There may be one from time to time, when I can't take it anymore, but for the most part, here's what I'm gonna try to do. I will try, a couple times per week, to find a few interesting links to post here for those readers who like to check in frequently. At least I'll be posting something so you know I'm not dead; and at least it will be something remotely interesting instead of seventeen consecutive entries of "I'm still here! Gotta get back to work! Bye!"
I could go into a detailed rant about one of the classes I'm taking, whose topic is how to be successful in work and school, and whose curriculum mostly consists of stuff that, if you didn't already know it, you should never have graduated high school in the first place. But I don't really have time. So here's some links instead.
Here's a page about fused and slumped glass sculpture.
Hm...here's a brief article about a train conductor found critically injured in an accident nobody saw.
This is a paper which will probably be of little interest to anybody but me, one of my readers who is also a coworker, and possibly some other people who do shift work. [Psst: recognize any familiar phenomena in the first paragraph?]
Ever wonder what a syzygy is? Ever see it on your Scrabble tray and wish you could use it? Well, you can.
Here's a page on Loch Torridon Country House Hotel in Scotland. Looks like a nice place to stay.
Yahoo tries to explain, to some enquiring mind in New Jersey, why we have toenails and fingernails. [Frankly, I'm amazed that anybody in Jersey still HAS fingernails and toenails. Maybe the toxic waste has caused the questioner to evolve giant yellow crusty mutated talons, and he's wondering where they came from.]
You know the eBay ads that show up in the sidebar of your search engine page, advertising "New and used" of whatever your search term was? I'm thinking they should change that. Not just because of the "new and used cute kittens" I saw once on a kitten-related site, but because of what I saw in the sidebar when I googled "toenails":
Toenails
Discount new and used items.
Search for toenails now!
www.ebay.com
Used toenails on eBay? I'm there!
I wonder if eBay has any idea how stupid that kind of ad makes them look.
On that vaguely distasteful note...
same bitch time, same bitch channel...
Posted by Frida Peeple at August 3, 2005 09:29 AM