kmkat and her kneedles

Sharing iz caring, right?

From the draft folder. You get two linky posts this week, you lucky people.

Imma share some sites wit' youze guys.

Daniel is a student at NYU who is really, really into making his teeny-tiny apartment awesome. That sentence doesn't even begin to describe him, though. Manhattan Nest.

I found this one when I looking for stuff on American Gods, my pick for my book group's November (2011) book. Mark Reads.

Guaranteed to enliven your news-loving self: The Morning News.

Not to get all obscure and niche-y on y'all, but Game of Thrones/Song of Ice and Fire groupies (and foodies) need to know about this one: Inn at the Crossroads.

Always funny, even though she may well be my worst nightmare of a person. Jennsylvania.

Funny in an Onion-y kind of way: The Borowitz Report.

It's lonely in the modern world: Unhappy Hipsters.

I'm a visual kind of person: The Big Picture.

Now, y'all already know about these, right? Cuz youze is all cool and stuff. But Iz kewl too so this proves it.

• The Oatmeal.
• Hyperbole and a Half (currently (9/2012) on hiatus).
• Better Book Titles.
• Unquotables.
• xkcd.
• boingboing.*
• Gizmodo.*
• Lifehacker.*
• Ikeahackers.*

There. Now haz completely runed yur plans fr productive dai. Yur welcum!

* I read -- at most -- about 10% of their posts. To read them all would mean never doing anything else.

 

Saturday links. On Friday.

Nutella is forever.

Twitter is soooo useful.

I kinda like the before models better.

The annual gourd post.

Fans of the Dead: link alert.

Alzheimer's: type 3 diabetes? (via martinimade.com)

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Not a link, but something that made me shake my head in despair for the English language and clear communication. Not to mention the whole global thing.

Professionals across all offices may experience slowness or intermittent issues on Data/Voice/Video network, owing to multiple fiber-cuts on the service provider network, due to the ongoing beautification work in Hi-tech City for the Bio Diversity conference in Hyderabad. 

 

Fluid earth fly-by.

From my draft folder; November 2011.

This is time-lapse flyby taken from the International Space Station. The original was very jerky, but someone interpolated the original frames and made this smooth version. Lights! Lightning storms! Sunrise! All it needs now is some accompanying music -- somebody get on that, wouldja please?

Things organized neatly.

Things Organized Neatly is a site I look at occasionally. These two photos had to be shared.

Words to live by.

 ...especially when dealing with hedge fund K-1s.

Here is my printout of the sign hanging by my desk (in a place where it is not immediately obvious to everyone walking by -- never a good idea to broadcast one's ignorance at work). I had to print it in b&w and go after it with colored markers.

See that bag of Udi's granola on the desk? It came with a story. Let me tell you it. 

I stopped at the grocery store on the way home from work* last night to pick up some breakfast and snack and dinner provisions. I was idly watching the screen on the checker's terminal while she scanned the items and noticed a $634 total at the bottom of the screen. At first I thought that must be a shift total or her personal total on that machine, but as I scanned the column of scanned-in prices I saw that my bag of granola came in at...

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(wait for it)

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$618!

I pointed that out and she rescanned it, with the same result. She did a price check, same result. But this time she was laughing and telling the other checkers about my $618 bag of granola. Apparently the price had been input wrong on the front end. In all the hysteria and laughing and trying to correct the error she reversed the entry for a box of crackers (normal price of $2.42), but I was so disgustingly honest I pointed it out.

* Yes, Smokey is well enough now that I can leave him for days at a time. He walks with just a cane now, has been able to cut way back on the pain meds, and will probably return to work sometime in the next month.

Catch!

But first, this week's mutterings.

Desire :: Elms
Paint :: house
Sides :: laughing
Gauze :: bandage
Telegraph :: Hill
Slip :: nylon
Recommend :: movie
Amused :: tee-hee
Sorted :: arranged
Canvas :: oil painting

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From  YouTube:

Practice made perfect! This is an Indian dish named 'Parotta'. The man makes it flat and throws it to the cook who will cook it in a hot and flat iron top.

I am wondering why the front guy hits his surface twice. The first hit is to alert the guy at the cooker that the front guys has just tossed a parotta to him. Why the second stroke? Maybe to let the back guy know that there will be another parotta coming momentarily? Front guy would only hit once if he were, say, going to scratch his nose. Or something...