Peace Dividend

an acorn is a chav

[touch wood]

but not shotguns

This is a test.
Had this been an actual post, you would likely have seen it.

whew! just in time, I guess?

Thanks, peacedividend component gnomes.
If step 2 could be "post something with my deadline embedded", that'd be awesome. Motion = slothlike,

neither shall ye call me Shirley

"Don't allow necessities to be non-decorative and boring."
And don't call a platerack a floor towel holder, unless its function is the holding of floor towels.

not even great big gnarly blood clots clogging up one's ulnar artery

... can sway adoration of Rod Serling.
Happy Twilight Zone Marathon Day

Trying to avoid thinking or talking about the traumatic event
Self-destructive behavior, such as drinking too much
Hopelessness about the future
Trouble sleeping
Memory problems
Trouble concentrating
Being easily startled or frightened
Not enjoying activities you once enjoyed

useless is as useless does

As much as I WANT O YES DO WANT to add shape of... a typewriter! waffles to my list of simple pleasures, this makes me very sad.

Friends don't let friends hurl epithets like "useless" at functional mechanical beasties, esp. if those beasties are typewriters. There's nothing more useful, to me, than the thing which serves a fundamental purpose many many many many decades after first seeing action.

Chris Dimino, please tell me you went to agonizing lengths to make wax casts, then peeled away the gunk to reveal a supershiny awesome set of 100% dustproof mechanisms. Everyone knows there's a special muzak-enhanced circle of hell reserved for trifling keycutters. Convertible-Corona[really? in beige?]-Waffle-Iron inventors might get special dispensation, but only if they make me some custom [Adler Meteor, circa '79] dried-blueberry-character-stencilling keycaps, on the side.

history shall not be talked over: live feed, no pundits

[Seems my templates all went walkabout, and I don't really have the carpals to deal with it at the moment.]

vote what you know

"I wanted to see the next vice president of the United States," said Josh Simmons, Gators for McCain chairman.

Simmons said he voted for Obama about two weeks ago.
"I've seen a different John McCain than the one I signed up to work for," he said. Simmons said he submitted his resignation Sunday night and will no longer be chairman for the group, which has more than 1,000 members.

Let's do it.

Be Smart. Vote Obama '08

watch who you're calling bird-brained

"The rabbit screamed loudly when it was hanging helplessly in the bill of the big heron. I managed to make two photos of this and the bird flew away with the rabbit in its bill [and] landed in a water-place nearby.

"The heron tried to kill the rabbit by putting it under water. After about half a minute the rabbit was almost dead but as it moved it was put under water by the heron again.

"When the poor little rabbit had finally died the heron swallowed the rabbit completely."

we're gonna need more chalk

vote pointy-headed elite

Barack Obama

Columbia, Missouri
University of Missouri
Mel Carnahan Quad
Gates Open: 7:30 pm (CDT)
Program Begins: 9:30 pm (CDT)

John McCain

Defiance, Ohio
Defiance Junior High School
10:00 am (EDT)

true.

That's what's up.

we fight crime

Liquor store robbers led dozens of San Jose police cars on a chase Tuesday through rush hour traffic on northbound Highway 101[...] until it crashed on Donohoe Street.