Think around 2nd or third grade the younger daughter's class had invention day. With parent help. My daughter came up with a toothpaste dispenser for old arthritic folks. One of her classmates was grinning from ear to ear with wipers on her glasses for walking in the rain. It was a fun good day!
Robyn, most mornings when I head off to work the frozen fruit that mostly defrosts by breaktime (currently mango/pineapple/strawberry/peach, medium largish chunks) has cinnamon sprinkled on it.
I mean, I’m pretty sure that I invented putting Special K on ice cream (with cinnamon! it tastes like fried ice cream!)
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Weirdly enough, it tasted like fried ice cream because that's how they *did* "fried" ice cream -- rolled in crushed cereal (usually Special K) to make it look fried.
I know it is weird that the peace prize winner surrendered her medallion to a toddler and I am not saying she did the right thing.
But perhaps we should remember that there is an extensive wikipedia piece detailing how OJ Simpson once did very bad things to "recover sports memorabilia" that he claimed had been stolen from him.
Who amongst us can say we wouldn't do the same thing as Machado if there was an even more dangerous person running around out there making noise about how the medal was really his and he was already murdering fishermen in the Caribbean Sea?
"Young aspiring inventor Milo Weatherby -- who wants to be the next Thomas Edison -- has doggedly worked on his latest device, a kind of "reverse microwave." But things don't seem to be working as well as he'd like... until he realizes that his reverse microwave is actually a time machine.
"But then when his teacher realizes that Milo has been writing his best friend Levi's papers, the pals must go back in time using Milo's invention to remedy their mistake, leading the pair through an adventure through time that tests their wits and powers of invention.
Yesterday I was asked what it was like being retired.
I replied that I now live The Al Bundy Lifestyle.
Do not disturb me while I sleep for 8 hours. Then when I get up I have 2 cups of good coffee. After that it is time for me to be the King Of England and do The Speech From The Throne.
Those three things happen and I don't care what happens the rest of the day.
Her end was tragic. Had a nasty fall in her apartment at 83 and was promptly devoured by the 278 stray cats that she cared for. It was a 600 square foot apartment. They were all indoor-only cats. One cat box. But they were loved, and that is what is important.
I watched the cat massage video and now all I want to do is to start my own podcast. I would use the time to critique/sneer at the various problems found at my local museum-industrial complex institutions while failing to offer any concrete suggestions about how to fix / improve anything.
Any time spent on such a podcast would necessarily cut into my time spent reading the only mommy blog that TELLS IT LIKE IT IS!
Ignoring the mommy blog to whine about the plexiglas vitrines at the art museum needing a more robust schedule of cleaning to remove finger, hand and nose prints left all over the damn things so I cannot even see the art inside is out of the question.
And that is how I tamp down any sudden urges to start such a podcast.
The missed opportunity of my 40s was making the instructional video me and my bar pal Chris plotted out (yes, bar behavior was involved): "How to Teach Your Cat to Make a Martini." We were going to charge 19.99 for this, shipping and handling included, sorry no refunds. We realized around the 3rd drink (me) or maybe the 5th (him) that the cat didn't actually HAVE to make the martini, it just had to LOOK like the cat had made the martini.
Our biggest dilemmas were (a) how a small animal with non-opposable thumbs was going to get the cap off the gin, and (b) how to keep cat hair out out of the drink.
The criticism of Donald Trump's wife comes as it was just revealed that nobody is buying any tickets to her upcoming documentary, MELANIA, which hits theaters on Friday, January 30.
Per a new report, barely any pre-sale tickets for the movie have sold, despite the president claiming otherwise.
"It's a very hard ticket... everybody wants tickets," Donald told the press aboard Air Force One on Sunday, January 11, referring to the Thursday, January 29, premiere event at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
Didn't they do that for that stupid "Sound of Freedom" movie? Claiming it was always a "sellout" but it was because right-wing groups were buying up all the tickets at theaters to give away and STILL no one wanted to see it?
It’s how George Will, Glenn Beck, Newt Gingrich achieve “best selling author” blurbs when their books get published.
The books never even hit the bookstore. They just sell truckloads of them right off the press to the paper pulp industrial complex and split the take between the author and the publisher on a 10 - 90 % basis.
I wonder what these people all do after he shuffles back to wherever in the plane? They have access to the same information we do. They know he's lying to them. It's probably not even worth noting by now.
So, what do they talk about amongst themselves after these mini shitshows? Their stock portfolios?
Think around 2nd or third grade the younger daughter's class had invention day. With parent help. My daughter came up with a toothpaste dispenser for old arthritic folks. One of her classmates was grinning from ear to ear with wipers on her glasses for walking in the rain. It was a fun good day!
Isn’t giving your cat a massage just petting them?
Robyn, most mornings when I head off to work the frozen fruit that mostly defrosts by breaktime (currently mango/pineapple/strawberry/peach, medium largish chunks) has cinnamon sprinkled on it.
I keep waiting for Cat massage lady to burst out with Toonsis the Driving Cat!
I forgot to mention that Doppelganger the cat is beautiful!
Thank you
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I mean, I’m pretty sure that I invented putting Special K on ice cream (with cinnamon! it tastes like fried ice cream!)
//
Weirdly enough, it tasted like fried ice cream because that's how they *did* "fried" ice cream -- rolled in crushed cereal (usually Special K) to make it look fried.
I thought Special K was the stuff Elon does.
The proper way to safeguard a Nobel Prize https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2011/10/03/140815154/dissolve-my-nobel-prize-fast-a-true-story
That's just science.
I know it is weird that the peace prize winner surrendered her medallion to a toddler and I am not saying she did the right thing.
But perhaps we should remember that there is an extensive wikipedia piece detailing how OJ Simpson once did very bad things to "recover sports memorabilia" that he claimed had been stolen from him.
Who amongst us can say we wouldn't do the same thing as Machado if there was an even more dangerous person running around out there making noise about how the medal was really his and he was already murdering fishermen in the Caribbean Sea?
I still would have had a copy made from lead for the heft and then dipped in gold-plating.
He'd go to his coffin convinced it was real.
Home Depot gold spray would be sufficient
I'd go the extra mile simply because Home Depot gold spray might chip or flake, and he's got nukes.
Machado is an opportunist. And evil.
The cat massage lady was high on catnip for that entire video.
On the matter of Kid Inventors:
The Misinventions of Milo Weatherby by Bill Whirity (23+ minutes)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GglEvkYLoqI
"Young aspiring inventor Milo Weatherby -- who wants to be the next Thomas Edison -- has doggedly worked on his latest device, a kind of "reverse microwave." But things don't seem to be working as well as he'd like... until he realizes that his reverse microwave is actually a time machine.
"But then when his teacher realizes that Milo has been writing his best friend Levi's papers, the pals must go back in time using Milo's invention to remedy their mistake, leading the pair through an adventure through time that tests their wits and powers of invention.
Yesterday I was asked what it was like being retired.
I replied that I now live The Al Bundy Lifestyle.
Do not disturb me while I sleep for 8 hours. Then when I get up I have 2 cups of good coffee. After that it is time for me to be the King Of England and do The Speech From The Throne.
Those three things happen and I don't care what happens the rest of the day.
With your hand in your waistband?
😈
For your snowy, cold Caturday, we have two things:
"I don't GAF." Bodega Caturday https://bsky.app/profile/bodegacats.bsky.social/post/3mclneec3322u
and
Jim Acosta on "I've Had It" ... worth a listen for its hopium and the nickname "Cocaine Mitch"
https://youtu.be/LV0ZTabC1qU 𝗙𝗮𝘀𝗰𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗙𝗿𝗮𝘁 𝗣𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘆 [1hr 20min] A good listen.
If I were in the same room as the cat massage lady I would not turn my back on her.
Her end was tragic. Had a nasty fall in her apartment at 83 and was promptly devoured by the 278 stray cats that she cared for. It was a 600 square foot apartment. They were all indoor-only cats. One cat box. But they were loved, and that is what is important.
Wait -- is that -- true?
In the history I made up in my head just before vomiting it into a comments box, yes.
*sniff*
I watched the cat massage video and now all I want to do is to start my own podcast. I would use the time to critique/sneer at the various problems found at my local museum-industrial complex institutions while failing to offer any concrete suggestions about how to fix / improve anything.
Any time spent on such a podcast would necessarily cut into my time spent reading the only mommy blog that TELLS IT LIKE IT IS!
Ignoring the mommy blog to whine about the plexiglas vitrines at the art museum needing a more robust schedule of cleaning to remove finger, hand and nose prints left all over the damn things so I cannot even see the art inside is out of the question.
And that is how I tamp down any sudden urges to start such a podcast.
The missed opportunity of my 40s was making the instructional video me and my bar pal Chris plotted out (yes, bar behavior was involved): "How to Teach Your Cat to Make a Martini." We were going to charge 19.99 for this, shipping and handling included, sorry no refunds. We realized around the 3rd drink (me) or maybe the 5th (him) that the cat didn't actually HAVE to make the martini, it just had to LOOK like the cat had made the martini.
Our biggest dilemmas were (a) how a small animal with non-opposable thumbs was going to get the cap off the gin, and (b) how to keep cat hair out out of the drink.
Now I want to make another podcast.
Do you have a photogenic cat? We could probably do a series these days: Martini, Mojito, Tequila Sunrise…
We could do a hybrid podacst where I critique museum hygiene while you sip cat-created alcoholic drinks.
Oh wait….I just googled it and there is good news and bad news.
Bad news: there are already 16 podcasts that already do exactly that.
Good news: the magic number for copycating a premise in America is 527.
That's our loss. We shall abide.
Ain't that a shame...
The criticism of Donald Trump's wife comes as it was just revealed that nobody is buying any tickets to her upcoming documentary, MELANIA, which hits theaters on Friday, January 30.
Per a new report, barely any pre-sale tickets for the movie have sold, despite the president claiming otherwise.
"It's a very hard ticket... everybody wants tickets," Donald told the press aboard Air Force One on Sunday, January 11, referring to the Thursday, January 29, premiere event at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C.
https://okmagazine.com/p/melania-trump-trolled-speaking-robot-ai-event/
Hate to break it to him but the last remaining Pussycat porn theater refuses to show it...
They might consider PAYING people to attend the movie instead of that tired old paradigm where people buy tickets.
$500, paid in cash at the door, might tempt me to attend. George Soros pays about that much to get me to the protests for about 90 minutes.
You know it's $750 for a full two hours, right? I mean, it's just another half-hour.
Didn't they do that for that stupid "Sound of Freedom" movie? Claiming it was always a "sellout" but it was because right-wing groups were buying up all the tickets at theaters to give away and STILL no one wanted to see it?
It’s how George Will, Glenn Beck, Newt Gingrich achieve “best selling author” blurbs when their books get published.
The books never even hit the bookstore. They just sell truckloads of them right off the press to the paper pulp industrial complex and split the take between the author and the publisher on a 10 - 90 % basis.
Waste not, want not.
I don't care, do you?
Imagine saying "It's a very hard ticket" like it means something.
I wonder what these people all do after he shuffles back to wherever in the plane? They have access to the same information we do. They know he's lying to them. It's probably not even worth noting by now.
So, what do they talk about amongst themselves after these mini shitshows? Their stock portfolios?
Trust me my RAZZIE nomination ballot for next year will be filled with votes for this SIN-A-matic dreck!
If he's still alive, he'll insist on attending and accepting the award.
Is it gold?
Our Tacky Trophies are merely spray painted gold on the cheapest bits of plastic we can get our hands on!
“Kid” by The Pretenders
https://youtu.be/a9K14_By3zM?si=GhglpTbcbQJ-ntfT
Man, I crushed on her so hard in my younger years...
I saw them at Mershon Auditorium on The Ohio State University Campus. The original band before half of them OD'ed.