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Should We Talk About The Weather?

The sound of TERROR

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To the Max, manAs I’ve gotten older, I’ve developed an occasional fascination with reading up on stuff that scared the hell out of me as a kid, even if the scare-the-hell-out-of-me factor was impossibly silly and irrational. I’ve gotten to where I value reason, and knowing, over knee-jerk emotional reactions. (Let’s face it, in this house, I kinda have to be the one to do that.) Sometimes it’s something as silly as figuring out why a certain movie freaked me out as a kid. Sometimes it’s about figuring out more about a specific sound used to scare the hell out of me. Something like this sound. … Read more

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Home Base Should We Talk About The Weather?

Dashboard Dinner

For the past couple of summers, it’s gotten to be ridiculously hot at this point in the year; the heat index yesterday around here was 120 degrees. Last summer, I decided to stop wasting all of this solar energy that was pouring down on us from above and start putting it to good use. Mission: cooking without adding one iota (either metric or imperial) of heat to the house.

Dashboard dinner … Read more

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Funny Stuff Should We Talk About The Weather?

Maybe you’d better rephrase that

Let me be the first to say that there’s nothing funny about the severe weather that’s been killing folks by the dozen across the southern states. I’ve seen videos of Alabama tornadoes tonight that make me want to mess my pants, even though I’m on Youtube. Stuff like that makes me feel pretty sheepish about posting cell phone photos of the relatively mousy little rotating wall cloud that drifted over my house last night.

That being said, I’ve always thought that one of the first duties one has after something like this is to find a reason to smile. And the following gem from CNN.com fits the bill nicely. … Read more

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Funny Stuff Should We Talk About The Weather?

Attention snowflakes and ice

Sit on this and spin!Attention, all snowflakes and ice occupying any portion of my property:

The current temperature here is well over 50 degrees Fahrenheit, i.e. 20 degrees above the freezing point of water. You are hereby requested and required to vacate the premises immediately. If you wish to stay here in a liquefied state, that will be an acceptable compromise, but I am hereby banning all frozen water from this property immediately.

If you do not vacate the premises immediately as instructed, you are liable to find yourself dyed yellow by the least hygenic means available to me and my dog.

That is all.

Love,
The Management… Read more