From the entertaining George Says website – your very own custom political photo-cartoon. For $5 + shipping, they’ll make the image you create into a refrigerator magnet. Imagine this one showing up in the White House kitchens, eh? Via Pale Blue Dot.
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Well, it was a fairly productive weekend. I did somehow manage to get up early-ish and dig the bed along the side of the garage. All the daylilies are packed in black plastic bags and will become compost. Most of the plants my TL gave me are planted in one of the front “hell beds.” Need to decide what to do/where to stick the lilies-of-the-valley tomorrow after work. Probably the shadier bed on the other side. All the tools and trash and things were put away just before the lawn guys came to mow. Napped most of afternoon and evening.…
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Kuri, aka Kristen at mediatinker.com, wondered about nicknames. What nicknames have you collected? “Collected” is right. Once someone’s given you a nickname, it tends to attach itself to you forever. For example, my given name is Virginia, and my hair is red. Those two facts generated a dizzying array of not-very-original nicknames (with one or two startling exceptions). Also, nicknames tend to be context-sensitive – family-childhood nicknames often don’t survive your childhood, but occasionally they do. Sometimes you find yourself saddled with (or stuck with) a new nickname when something about you changes, or when you make a change from…