Happy day of green beer - 17 March 2007
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silveradeptI didn’t do a whole lot today, but I did get the object that’s due Monday done (need to e-mail that to the prof), have put down more thought on the object due Thursday. Need to remember to buy binders for the object due on Wednesday, to look over and take notes on the other thing going to be done Monday, and to start working out answers to the last remaining things in my way. Should be a good week for getting a lot of my other work done. What I did end up doing was watching curling, hockey, hockey again, anime, and then playing a 292-point game of Literati (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
2dlife, you’d be proud. Found bingoes of gangrene and language.) Oh yes, and killing about three score of ants, if not more.
I can count myself lucky that I wasn't robbed while in the toilet and had to chase my thieves while holding my trousers in hand.
War is immoral. Gays are fabulous. That’s putting your priorities in order. As it turns out,Col Ted Westhusing, who believed strongly in morals and the justness of the war when he signed up, committed suicide because of how Iraq has been handled. Even the true believers are having trouble with this one. Shouldn’t that be a sign that things need to change?
For people looking to make their food choices healthier, read the finalists of a contest where people wrote break-up letters to their favorite bad foods. Or you could read about food recalls for pets because they caused kidney failure and wonder what sort of things food approved for humans can do.
In terms of another favorite, books, Tom's Glossary of Book Publishing Terms may be a slightly more accurate guide to the book world than most other glossaries out there.
Doing a lot with images to make for fun and exciting stories, I offer two of Dark Roasted Blend’s postings: Big Fish Extravaganza and We Dare You to Play These Scores. You have to read them to make sure everything is properly rehearsed. If, instead, you’d like to look at toy robots and sci-fi objects made from materials just found about, Lockwasher Design could be just the thing for you.
Internationally, Iran's President bit his thumb at the U.N., shrugging off the likely occurrence of more stringent sanctions. Those kinds of moves may have helped to foster a potential rift between Iran's president and the Iranian government and religious bodies. In Iraq, al-Sadr, after a quiet period, urges a peaceful resistance against the United States.
Amnesty International put out an edgy (not in the hip sense) advertisement from an artist in Puerto Rico. The image itself can induce quesiness, but the point is accused torturers and rapists get due process. Why don't Guantanamo Bay prisoners?
Blogs occasionally get the drop of the mainstream media, because of their ability to be informal and to get readers to help do legwork, the Los Angeles Times reports. Specifically, about the Talking Points Memo and how it helped to break the story about U.S. attorneys being fired, but in general, I’ve found that things do spread faster across the blog world than the journalist world. No guarantees as to the accuracy of such data, which will always semi-segregate the two, but for those looking for the edge in reporting and commentary, blogs are the place to go. (Possibly even compilers of odd things like me are useful in one way or another in transmission to the public consciousness.)
In a rather WTF moment, a motorist beat an older person to death after the old man refused to buy his CD. That’s just disturbed. Something potentially odd (if you look at it right) is this Jesus-type cover platefor a light switch. And still ranking in the oddities is a movie being made of Dante's Inferno.
The biggest oddity is the one I’ve saved for last, and yes, it’s a collection of animal image macros. (Meaning, pictures of animals in certain situations or poses, photoshopped to some degree, and then having some sort of semi-sensical, often chatspeak-and-bad-spelling caption added to them that is supposed to make them funny. Which, for some of them, actually succeeds. If this isn’t sufficient warning for you to stay away, then go to I can has cheezburger? and look for yourself. But don’t say I didn’t warn you.
2dlife, you’d be proud. Found bingoes of gangrene and language.) Oh yes, and killing about three score of ants, if not more.I can count myself lucky that I wasn't robbed while in the toilet and had to chase my thieves while holding my trousers in hand.
War is immoral. Gays are fabulous. That’s putting your priorities in order. As it turns out,Col Ted Westhusing, who believed strongly in morals and the justness of the war when he signed up, committed suicide because of how Iraq has been handled. Even the true believers are having trouble with this one. Shouldn’t that be a sign that things need to change?
For people looking to make their food choices healthier, read the finalists of a contest where people wrote break-up letters to their favorite bad foods. Or you could read about food recalls for pets because they caused kidney failure and wonder what sort of things food approved for humans can do.
In terms of another favorite, books, Tom's Glossary of Book Publishing Terms may be a slightly more accurate guide to the book world than most other glossaries out there.
Doing a lot with images to make for fun and exciting stories, I offer two of Dark Roasted Blend’s postings: Big Fish Extravaganza and We Dare You to Play These Scores. You have to read them to make sure everything is properly rehearsed. If, instead, you’d like to look at toy robots and sci-fi objects made from materials just found about, Lockwasher Design could be just the thing for you.
Internationally, Iran's President bit his thumb at the U.N., shrugging off the likely occurrence of more stringent sanctions. Those kinds of moves may have helped to foster a potential rift between Iran's president and the Iranian government and religious bodies. In Iraq, al-Sadr, after a quiet period, urges a peaceful resistance against the United States.
Amnesty International put out an edgy (not in the hip sense) advertisement from an artist in Puerto Rico. The image itself can induce quesiness, but the point is accused torturers and rapists get due process. Why don't Guantanamo Bay prisoners?
Blogs occasionally get the drop of the mainstream media, because of their ability to be informal and to get readers to help do legwork, the Los Angeles Times reports. Specifically, about the Talking Points Memo and how it helped to break the story about U.S. attorneys being fired, but in general, I’ve found that things do spread faster across the blog world than the journalist world. No guarantees as to the accuracy of such data, which will always semi-segregate the two, but for those looking for the edge in reporting and commentary, blogs are the place to go. (Possibly even compilers of odd things like me are useful in one way or another in transmission to the public consciousness.)
In a rather WTF moment, a motorist beat an older person to death after the old man refused to buy his CD. That’s just disturbed. Something potentially odd (if you look at it right) is this Jesus-type cover platefor a light switch. And still ranking in the oddities is a movie being made of Dante's Inferno.
The biggest oddity is the one I’ve saved for last, and yes, it’s a collection of animal image macros. (Meaning, pictures of animals in certain situations or poses, photoshopped to some degree, and then having some sort of semi-sensical, often chatspeak-and-bad-spelling caption added to them that is supposed to make them funny. Which, for some of them, actually succeeds. If this isn’t sufficient warning for you to stay away, then go to I can has cheezburger? and look for yourself. But don’t say I didn’t warn you.
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the ants just want to read ;)
Date: 2007-03-18 01:08 pm (UTC)Buy more vinegar! although...at this point i'd justcall the landlord and demand an exterminator. between the ants and stuff you guys need one, and it sounds like no one else in your house can be arsed to call him/her.
Re: the ants just want to read ;)
Date: 2007-03-18 01:32 pm (UTC)As far as Argentine ants go (and at least in California, they're by far the most predominant household ant), you really don't have too many options. The best way to deal with them is to pack up all the open food in airtight containers, take out the trash daily and scrub every surface down so there's no food residue. Ants don't stay long when they're hungry. The next step is to trace back their feeding trails and find where they're coming in and plug up the cracks with putty. I've had mixed results from feeding the ants dyed sugar water (works and once they're full, they head pretty much straight for home) that's laced with a florescent marker and using a blacklight in the dark to make the ants glow. It's cool but it's often easier just to follow them back in the daylight. The last think to try is a spray of some sort and spraying that along the trails. (The all natural ones work fine, vinegar or windex evaporates quickly but is good for quick fix. It's better to use something with a strong residual odor like strong spices, cloves or cinnamon that have been extracted by soaking in a little cheap vodka) It masks their scent trails and forces the ants to make new ones. Repeating three or four times a day (new trails will spring up, but eventually, they'll be spending so much energy foraging (and if you followed step one, finding nothing) that they'll be discouraged and leave.
And all this, I learned from Deborah Gordon who is an ant neurobiologist who specializes in social behavior. She also suggests spraying your (plastic) table legs with Teflon spray and resting them in about 2 inches of water laced with a drop of scented detergent. You'll need to change the water often as it evaporates or fills up with ant bodies but this should stop ants from crawling up the legs of the table. She also taught the sugar water trick for tracking ants... it's pretty cool.