Monthly Archives: June 2009

Tetris Turns 25

Tetris turns 25 this year. I'm jealous.

Even now, Tetris is the only game I play on my cell phone. And I wouldn't buy a phone that couldn't play it. I play it in waiting rooms, in meetings, at my desk. I love it. And I'm OK at it. But I am not this good:

Better Her Than Me

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Nikon D90, 105mm macro

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Nikon D90, 105mm macro

Dead female black widow on our front porch. We found it after I'd finished picking weeds out of our mulch... barefoot in shorts. Sweet!

I may never do yardwork again. Tragedy.

FYI, I'm basing my identification on this National Geographic pic.

Kafkazine Mist

While walking her dogs in Corolla [NC] last month near their home on Corova Road, resident Ilze Drozds-Russano heard a helicopter fly overhead, then felt a cool mist spray across her body.

Instantly, her eyes began to burn and as the chemicals seeped through from the misting, she was unable to open her eyes.

Making it back to the home, she quickly and thoroughly washed the spray off her body and the dogs, but within hours Russano developed a severe rash and other flu-like symptoms, breathing complications, and nausea for several days.

Horrible, eh? That's not the worst part.

...Russano’s doctor explained that he could not offer her a diagnosis or treatment plan because the chemicals in the gypsy moth pesticide, known as Foray 76B, are trade secret ingredients owned by Canada-based manufacturer Valent Biosciences Corp.

The doctor was stymied. He said, ‘If you don’t know what’s in it, I can’t help you.’” Russano’s husband Frank Russano said. “She cannot be tested, or treated for the rash, and now she’s developed this flu and we have no of knowing if the two are related.”

If this happened to me, I'd have a swarm of ravenous lawyers chewing their way through the company that owns the helicopter, the pilot of that helicopter, the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Sciences and, of course, the pesticide manufacturer. Munch. Munch. Munch. And then my lawyers would leave the brown and dessicated husks of those companies and return to me as butterflies made of fresh, sweet, settlement cash. And there would be pie - assuming I lived that long.

Matters Of Taste

Truffled sheep cheese ? Fuck That Shit. ( i hate cheese )

Russell's Reserve Rye!!

If you've never had rye (as I had hadn't), but like bourbon or Scotch (as I do), you need to try this stuff. It's definitely a whiskey, so think bourbon; but then replace a bit of the typical bourbon sweetness with a spicy, grassy, anise/allspice/pepper zing. Delicious!

Also: fresh cherries ! Holy frikkin yum.