Category: General

I end up cracking up for a loooong time every time I visit Mike Brown’s site. (aka Cooties) Today it was over the The Five Stages of Acceptance of Blogaholism and The 12 Steps of Recovery. Too funny! A+ there, Mike, I’m loving it! This was me last weekend when I kept losing RoadRunner: “MY CONNECTION IS DOWN!!!! OhmyGod OhmyGod OhmyGod OhmyGod!!!!’ (writes blog by hand on a scrap of paper… twenty minutes later, writes another)” *snort* I have to go camping tomorrow night, and all day Saturday … what will I do? Whatever will I do?

Lookie! An Official Palm Beach County Voting Machine. The perfect Christmas gift! (Thanks to Michelle for the link!)

I tweaked the link color slightly on the Venice skin. Does it show up better now? Is it still “different” enough from the black/gray text that it stands out? Just wanted to make sure …

I have been reading up on all the blogs I don’t normally read too often right now, and I about choked on my Pepsi when I read this tidbit over at Kottke.org. That’s thraxed!

While reading Megnut, I came across her post where she says “So that strange ß is called an “esszet” in German, and apparently there’s much more too it than I realized.” It made me laugh … because when I was living in Germany, one of my friends at the time asked me “What is that Einbahnstrabe sign I see everywhere?” First mistake, she obviously missed the context clue of the one-way arrow. But, even funnier (probably because we had been at the Green Goose for a few hours enjoying a shot or two of Cuervo, or a beer for those who were too wimpy for Cuervo) was that she said it “Ein-bahn-STRAB-a”! We laughed the rest of the way home. It’s pronounced “Ein-bahn-strass-a” … but from that day forward we said it her way! Now every time I see a Germany word with the ß symbol in it, I laugh. Even 10+ years later…