Today is time to Deal With Things. I’d been planning to spend the day working, but yesterday’s car accident and my ongoing sore throat have changed the plans. The new plan is to try and work through the morning, and then head out to do some car-shopping, then to the doctor, then perhaps some more car-shopping. Why the car-shopping before the doctor? Well, strangely enough, I have an appointment to look at a car, but none to see a doctor. Yeah. I don’t quite know what to make of it, either. Anyway, if I’m lucky, I’ll find something I like and can afford quickly, and can maybe even get home and attempt to mow the lawn before the rain starts again on Friday.
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So while life is being less than fun (I especially don’t like the “shopping for another car” part), I’ll try and provide some lighter links. It may not be what you were hoping for today, but it’s what I’m in the mood for. I’ve also got a picture of the flowering volunteer onion plants that are on one end of my garden. They’re growing as thick as grass, and I probably should do something with them, but I’ve decided that not only do I like their wild spirit of just taking over part of the garden, but I’m too lazy to figure out what to do with them anyhow. Thing is, this isn’t the first year for these volunteers, since it takes onions two years to flower and go to seed. In any case, they’re a pretty addition to the backyard right now, so they get to keep growing in the space they’ve appropriated.
- Christoper Walken is Odd Man In in Hollywood. This is a decent profile of him. [nyt]
- Mark Lentczner presents a Periodic Table of the Operators in Perl. Very geeky. I like it. [slashdot]
- Here are Ten Things Women Should Know About Men. Funny, and mostly true, but most of us won’t admit to number five.
- Minnesota’s breweries were Tapping Sales up last year, even as the consumption of beer declined. That’s good news for the local boys. [press-patch]
- In Ur Blog Rulz, it says there are 32.3 Dave’s Picks to the hogshead. Since there are 63 gallons (or 238 liters) to the hoghead, that means a Dave’s Picks is about 2 gallons. Or, as I figure things, about a case of beer… Coincidence? I don’t think so. [jr]