Pressed the search button on my phone and then pressed "c". Autocomplete offered up "can you roast potatoes and swe", which my brain helpfully autocompleted as "can you roast potatoes and swear like a sailor? If so, you're the girl for me! Please reply to enclosed address." But then I actually followed the link and remembered that I had googled "can you roast potatoes and sweet potatoes in the same pan" a few weeks ago. Oh, well. The answer to both questions is yes.
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11:16:41 AM,Friday 31 May 2013
My recorder teacher's teacher, playing Telemann.
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08:44:54 PM,Tuesday 28 May 2013
Okay, so Julius Caesar summons an army of undead British Colonial soldiers to storm Ptolemy's palace, Ptolemy gets killed by Pompey's son, whose mother fingerpaints on his face with Ptolemy's blood, and Cleopatra does the Charleston in jodhpurs and gumboots.
I can dig it.
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11:52:57 PM,Friday 10 May 2013
I cannot handle anti-vaxxers. I cannot handle them. They are more often ignorant than selfish, but their ignorance *is* selfish. They willfully misunderstand how disease and vaccination and herd immunity work, and not only do they put their own children at risk, but they put all children at risk, because of some vague hand-wavy idea that "children have too many vaccinations these days" and "well, who knows what all those chemicals are doing to our kids' development" and "nobody gets measles nowadays, and even if they did, it's probably safer to build immunity the natural way". AGHHHHH. It's becoming part of the liberal parents' party platform: Breastfeeding, anti-circumcision, anti-vaccination. I'm all for breastfeeding, I wouldn't circumcise my son if I had one but I don't think it's my place to dictate terms to cultures that would, but holy hell, anti-vaccination?! It isn't even about autism anymore for these people, as spurious and horrendous as that whole debacle was. They don't say why vaccinations are bad. They don't say what horrible things will happen if they vaccinate. They just think it's counter to the natural, non-interventionist lifestyle that they want to cultivate, and because they don't want to make their kid cry by poking them with a needle. Meanwhile, babies (too young to be vaccinated) are dying of pertussis because the number of unvaccinated toddlers has broken the threshold of herd immunity and provided a reservoir of fatal disease. And what about when these kids grow up, if they do grow up? Because you didn't vaccinate them for chicken pox, you want your kid to get shingles when they're 60? A disease that can cause pain so intractable it can lead to suicide? Do you want your grandchild to be born deaf, blind, and intellectually disabled because you never vaccinated your own child for rubella? The misinformation is staggering. I've seen charts claiming that the startling decrease of childhood mortality and morbidity in the early 20th century wasn't caused by vaccination, but by public hygiene. Public hygiene undoubtedly played a part in it, but the streets were just as clean before the Salk vaccine in the '50s as they were after. The only difference is that children weren't dying or being paralyzed due to polio. The charts also claim that vaccines wear off after a while, so herd immunity is a fictional construct. Yes, some vaccines do wear off. That's why we get tetanus boosters. Even if you only have universal vaccination in children (barring immunocompromised children, who rely on herd immunity to keep them safe) and not all adults retain 100% immunity, you drastically reduce the potential reservoir of infection, because children are more susceptible both to spreading and to contracting (and to dying of) these diseases. Yes, some vaccines carry risks. We stopped vaccinating people against smallpox when the risk of sequelae from the vaccinations exceeded the risk of dying from smallpox. You know when that happened? When smallpox was eradicated. You know why that happened? VACCINATION. You're not willing to assume an infinitesimal chance that your child could have a bad reaction to a vaccine, when by not vaccinating, you're putting both your child and thousands of other children at risk of deadly and catastrophic diseases. All because it makes you seem like a natural-living, trend-bucking, anti-establishment parent. WHAT IS WRONG WITH THESE PEOPLE?!!
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02:42:38 PM,Tuesday 16 April 2013
Welcome to Last Night's Hypnagogic Hallucination Theater:
Perky Receptionist: Hello! Workaday Frosting!
Staticky Male Radio Voice: A Train Tennis Bawwwwlllllzzzzzz... *fizz* *crackle* *hiss*