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[sovay]

Cool things with words:

time_shark has been interviewed at Enter the Octopus.

John Stuart Mill did many more awesome things than be particularly ill on half a pint of shandy, especially the way Adam Gopnik writes about him.

That someone who up through college stuttered so severely that he was nicknamed "Dash Biden" not because he was lightning on the field but because that's how you spell out "B-B-B-Biden" can grow up into a politician whose prevailing silly faults are rambling on like there's no tomorrow and a tendency to blurt out whatever drops into his head as though he has no brain-to-mouth filter? Hell, yeah, and God bless Demosthenes' pebbles. Not to mention handing the governor of Alaska her hat, her head, or her ass, complete the metaphor of your choice. Obviously, the next step is to get him to speak at the Michael Palin Centre for Stammering Children.

Comments

[sovay]

You're certainly still on high revs, given that it's 4:30 am or so....

I am basically nocturnal. Every now and then I wonder what would happen if I moved to Kyrgyzstan, but I suspect I'd only readjust.

I think for me it would be the bread maker. The whole point of fresh bread, for me, is that you get to make it.

I'm not so enamored of the automatic spellchecker. Which is not really an appliance, so let's insult the ice cream maker—we always make ice cream in the summers, mostly strawberry, always churned by hand. Just leaving the device to chug away on the countertop for an hour, without salted ice melting on the front steps and streaks of heavy cream on people's palms, is nowhere near as fun.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

I'm totally with you on the ice cream maker. So did you have one of those old-fashioned ones that essentially a wooden bucket with a metal pot on the inside, with a crank? We borrowed a neighbor's a couple of times when I was a kid and made delicious peach ice cream. I would love to find one of those but have had, in the meantime, to settle for one where you freeze the pot part in the freezer, then put all the ingredients in and turn by hand.

Oh, and leaf blower: LEAF BLOWER! A more stupid appliance I never did see. Why substitute a quiet, calorie-using (and therefore healthy), effective method of gathering leaves together with a noisy, smelly, gasoline consuming method? I ask you???

[sovay]

So did you have one of those old-fashioned ones that essentially a wooden bucket with a metal pot on the inside, with a crank?

We still do. It was last used on the Fourth of July. It's whiskey-barrel ancient and sounds like quern-stones grinding and will probably someday soon fall apart completely while in use, rather to the detriment of the ice cream inside, but I love it. And it's pretty awesome ice cream, too.

Oh, and leaf blower: LEAF BLOWER! A more stupid appliance I never did see.

Someone on my street when I lived in New Haven had one and always turned it on around seven in the morning; I couldn't even sleep through it with earplugs in! Amen!

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

Electric lawn mowers. For when the old stereo-in-the-bathtub routine isn't good enough for you.