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February 2005



If you think I'm strange...

Monday, 28 February 2005 9:14 P GMT-05
Check out Thalia and Shelby's (aka "jewinfur's") latest post.We here at Normalcy Central don't want to pass blame, but we're pretty sure the problem is not because of jewinfur's senior year college roommate's tendency to harass the goldfish
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The joys of building badly

Monday, 28 February 2005 7:08 A GMT-05
Despite the advice of others, the rickety shack is still going up rickety.  We've been handed new drill bits to no avail, more advice which hasn't been heeded.  The thing still has the look of a demented ice shack, and now there's a small gap in th

Biting the Dog that Leads You

Friday, 25 February 2005 7:08 A GMT-05
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/02/25/dog.bite.reut/index.htmlMaybe the man thought the dog was a hot dog.  No no.  Wait, I got it, um, no.  Nope.  Sorry, I can't come up with a sarcastic one liner on this one.  The question is, will the b

Tired

Thursday, 24 February 2005 7:21 A GMT-05
Car companies must make a fortune on fixing their own cars.  They've made it almost impossible for Average Joe to do it himself.  After relating my jump-start story the other day, a co-worker informed me that he couldn't jump-start his car.  The d

Uncle Sam Wants You

Wednesday, 23 February 2005 11:59 P GMT-05
The imminent arrival of a Walmart in the town next over has the town's residents up in arms.  This is per usual with the arrival of Walmarts, and ordinarily I'd agree with them.  But the piece of land they are going to build on is a bunch of fill,

Jeenius Speek

Tuesday, 22 February 2005 7:29 A GMT-05
"If you want something done right," I found myself saying in an exasperated tone yesterday, "you have to do it yourself."  Then I started wondering, if everyone was operating under that assumption then everyone must think they ar

Monday Rant

Monday, 21 February 2005 7:01 A GMT-05
I would like it noted that it is still February.  I would also like to note that someone forgot to insert the proper two day hiatus between Friday and Monday.  Lastly, I'd like to complain that the snow, which is now falling, is light enough not to

Free Standing Structure

Sunday, 20 February 2005 10:08 A GMT-05
It's got four walls, a door, and a window, a stove pipe exit and soon, it will have a roof.  A peaked roof, no less, with space for steam to escape.  Our sugar house is almost ready to go, and not a moment too soon--tapping season is almost upon us

My Name is Ozymandias

Saturday, 19 February 2005 8:48 A GMT-05
(And other things I've forgotten about)If you ever needed proof that the world is circular, just stay in touch with a bunch of childhood friends.  They will always bring you back to where you started.  If they were good friends that place will gene

Apples and Oranges

Friday, 18 February 2005 7:37 A GMT-05
A friend of mine asked if I could tell the difference between squash pie and pumpkin pie.  I think it was a trick question.  If I couldn't tell the difference, how would I know if I'd had squash pie before?  She said her son didn't like the squas
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Salt in the wound

Thursday, 17 February 2005 7:38 A GMT-05
Do you ever have a superior moment where whatever comes out of your mouth is so perfectly timed, so beautifully intoned, so eloquent, that the group you are with simply looks at you in awe, speechless with envy?I haven't.  But I have managed to knoc

Speaking of libel....

Wednesday, 16 February 2005 7:48 A GMT-05
How come people and companies are off limits, but Presidents and Prime Ministers are fair game?Anyway it doesn't matter:  I saw this picture in a book the other day, and it seemed kind of random (the book was some useless literature criticism thing)
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Philosophy

Tuesday, 15 February 2005 7:36 A GMT-05
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techpolicy/2005-02-07-blogging-danger_x.htmI'm sorry, but wouldn't it be kinda stupid to fire someone for blogging?  I mean, say someone says something about her place of employment.  And say she says something k
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28 Days Too Long

Monday, 14 February 2005 7:13 A GMT-05
I really hate February.  It's too long.Even just 28 days of it.  There are some people I know whose birthdays are in February, and they try to talk me out of naming February as being awful, citing April as the official Cruelest Month, but since my

Like putty in the hand...

Saturday, 12 February 2005 9:39 A GMT-05
I now have incontrovertible evidence that despite myriad backgrounds, histories, decades, hometowns--what have you-- everybody's childhood was essentially the same.  Like all answers it isn't complicated at all, in fact this one is so obviously simp
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snowsnowsnow

Friday, 11 February 2005 7:10 A GMT-05
After lots of futzing around and retracting snowfall totals and then tacking them back on, it turns out that we really did get about a foot of heavy white water.  It's hanging onto trees and power lines.  It's everywhere.  Which is okay.  It's wi

Snow Day

Thursday, 10 February 2005 11:59 P GMT-05
I hate to do it.  I could get there, in my front wheel drive car.  There's some question as to whether I could get back, but getting there I'm pretty certain of.  However, no one else will be there, and when you get down to the skeletal crew there

Tech Monster

Wednesday, 9 February 2005 7:22 A GMT-05
The nice thing about technology is that it makes things easier, like writing.  The bad thing about technology is that sometimes it rises up against you and swallows things, like writing.That's a roundabout way of saying I somehow lost what I was wri

It's all about the Deere

Monday, 7 February 2005 11:59 P GMT-05
I'm a speed demon, I admit it.  I've been pulled over so many times I don't even make any excuses anymore, just hand the license and the registration over and wait for the inevitable.  I've definitely learned my lesson.I got a radar detector.Now I

There goes the neighborhood

Monday, 7 February 2005 8:10 P GMT-05
In a time of cell phones, calculators, handheld computers, access to advice from everywhere and everything you could possibly imagine, why would you possibly want to build a rickety box for a shelter and not even take a level to it?  Why not?We star

Construction Mania

Saturday, 5 February 2005 9:55 A GMT-05
So it's in the forties today, the snow is getting slushy, the sun is shining, and even though we're still a month too early we've got sugaring on the brain.  We have our evaporator but we have no form of shelter for it, so we've decided to build our

Icons of Power

Thursday, 3 February 2005 11:59 P GMT-05
At my company, as with many companies, there are strict guidelines about your status versus how large the square footage you occupy, how tall the cubicle wall, and if you're really high up, whether or not your solid wall office includes a window or n
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American Idle

Thursday, 3 February 2005 11:59 P GMT-05
Unfortunately Fox does have some good shows, which means I'm lured to the channel by promises of the Simpsons.  But the commercials are killin' me, man.  Today it seemed they were really pushing their own newscasts and all the other sordid entertai

Ultimate Fly Catcher

Wednesday, 2 February 2005 7:03 A GMT-05
Somewhere in our house is a secret den of fly iniquity, and when they are cast out of their abode they always fly straight into our room.  Actually "straight" is not quite how they fly, they kind of bump and buzz their way in, which is th