Bornfamous

I made two apple pies from scratch last night. I have a lot to learn, apparently. The juice from the apples, mixed with brown sugar, lemon and cinnamon, was still runny when the lattice crust was done, so I thought maybe I shouldn’t have poured it over the apple slices in the first place. I [...]

It’s a lovely, chilly morning after Christmas. Robby’s still sleeping. Mesha’s playing quietly with her dollhouse and her mother is yelling at her to be quiet [!] because she can’t help murmuring as she plays. [I don't understand why some adults can't stand that. Robby's kindergarten teacher used to call me and ask me to [...]

Dave writes:
“Do you know, dolphins spend something like 90% of their time just PLAYING? Not building or cleaning or for God’s sake FILING anything, just swimming around, riding waves and doing flips in the air. And no one calls them lazy, or unproductive. Now you tell me which is the more intelligent species.”
I’ve been thinking [...]

By JOAN LOWY
Scripps Howard News Service
16-DEC-03
At Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Dr. Martha Herbert is seeing younger and younger children who have been prescribed powerful drugs because their behavior is “so extreme.”
One 4-year-old was treated with Risperdol, an antipsychotic drug usually prescribed to adult schizophrenics, because she tried to kill a sibling. “I’ve had several [...]

Luscher color test
My results are disturbing, to say the least.

It took a couple of days to realize that the itchy rash spreading across my face and now to my arm is nothing more than hives. I’ve had them before, but I didn’t make the connection until I noticed the outbreak on my arm about an hour ago. Last time, I suspected it was the [...]

My face itches. My lips are painfully chapped. There’s a Santa Ana and I’m having an allergic reaction to something. I have no idea what.
It started with the chapped lips a couple of days ago. My eyelid began itching like crazy yesterday at the bus stop on the way to see LOTR [good but too [...]

Thanks to nakedjen, I now know which Muppet I am:
You are Kermit the Frog.
You are reliable, responsible and caring. And youhave a habit of waving your arms aboutmaniacally.
FAVORITE EXPRESSIONS:
“Hi ho!” “Yaaay!” and“Sheesh!”
FAVORITE MOVIE:
“How Green Was My Mother”
LAST BOOK READ:
“Surfin’ the Webfoot: A Frog’s Guide to theInternet”
HOBBIES:
Sitting in the swamp playing banjo.
QUOTE:
“Hmm, my banjo is [...]

LOTR: The Return of the King (Review): “Only if you’ve never seen a decent epic would you praise this overblown ‘Lord’”
I don’t care. I want to see it anyway, if only to watch Viggo wage war so attractively, and to see Gollum trip and fall. GOLLUM!

I don’t remember ever feeling this exhausted for so many days in a row without actually feeling sick, like with the flu, you know? It’s not like that. I just can’t get enough sleep. Of course, spending a post-flu Sunday at the movies doesn’t help.
Yesterday I felt better, so Robby and I took advantage of [...]

Okay, then! (not work safe)

Killer Whale Dies of Pneumonia
“OSLO, Norway - Keiko, the killer whale made famous by the “Free Willy” movies, has died in Norwegian coastal waters where he remained after millions of dollars and a decade of work failed to coax him back to the open sea, his caretakers said early Saturday.”
Shit.

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…doesn’t mean they aren’t out to get you. Witness the postings of alleged time traveler John Titor. He says we’re going to have a civil war starting in 2005 that will erupt in a short, nuclear WWIII around 2012.
Do I believe it? Heck, why not?
Perhaps it’s time to get out of Dodge. Let’s see… [...]

Pharmaceutical giants hire ghostwriters to produce articles - then put doctors’ names on them.
Read the full story here.