Yes, the kids are back in school and the germ soup is bubbling away- it’s time to start fruitlessly avoiding colds. The CDC and the American Society for Microbiology have some hand-washing tips to help you:
“Wet your hands with warm, running water and apply liquid or clean bar soap. Lather well. Rub your hands vigorously together for at least 10 to 15 seconds. Scrub all surfaces, including the backs of your hands, wrists, between your fingers and under your fingernails. Rinse well. Dry your hands with a clean or disposable towel.”
They also recommend that crazy turn-off-the-tap-with-the-towel thing which never works out for me. They also like those alcohol-based hand sanitizers.
Bloggers love slit-your-wrist musicians
sounds like
Book title that sounds like a euphemism of the day: Tempting the Highlander.
From the back cover: “Catherine Daniels arrives in Pine Creek, Maine, at the right time for Robbie MacBain. She is on the run from her ex-husband, and Robbie is a sexy, single foster parent who needs a housekeeper while he travels back in time to medieval Scotland.”
Do you just put a card up at the co-op for that?
Unhappy Anniversary
Since I have to work on September 11, can I commemmorate the anniversary by throwing unattended bags into the dumpster?
Need any heavy equipment? A used car?
Mondo auction tomorrow in Kenmore.
More difficult-to-believe spam quotes
In a piece of spam advertising a famous drug to treat a condition that I had no idea was so common until the drug became so famous:
No more excuses, no more frustration, no more having to solely satisfy my girlfriend orally.
Dude, if you were satisfying your girlfriend orally, she wouldn’t care if you couldn’t get it up.
Prithee, check this shit out
The British Library (we [heart] libraries) has put working scripts of Shakespeare’s plays online. One of the features reportedly allows you to track changes in the text from version to version.
I'm not sure you appreciate the gravity of the situation
Next time I’m in Southeast WA on the second Saturday of a month, I should tour the Hanford Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory.
That might be worth getting the infernal box
If this is true, I’ll think hard about getting a TiVo. I don’t think my tv has any spare inputs, though…
Friendster cuts its throat while shaving
I have to believe that this was an appallingly stupid thing for Friendster to do.
I have not yet cancelled my account, though (especially since I haven’t used it all that much lately) I may very well do that.
Update 10 Sep: No more Friendster for me.