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The guys over at Amazon.com have been feeling playful.

“I buy Apple products. It just makes me feel special.”

(Cute Parody over on Gizmodo.)

This weekend Emily and I made something almost as fun as Gooblek &#150 homemade slime! This is similar to the Slime&#153 that was sold by Mattel back in the 70s in a green plastic garbage can. Here’s the recipe:

• &#188 cup white glue (Elmers)
• &#188 cup warm water
• 1 tsp. borax
• Another &#188 cup warm water

Dissolve the glue in the warm water and dissolve the borax in the other warm water, then mix them together and knead to a slimy consistency. Have Fun!

I know a lot of you are probably working on some New Year’s resolutions, so I’d like to pass along a thought I have every year around this time when I’m working on my own:

I’m sure you’ve heard the old saw, “The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak?”

Well, my version is, “The spirit is fleshy, but the will is weak.”

(And you can quote me on that.)

This picture makes my brain feel good.

I think it would be really cool to be in a car crash where you got hit by a tow truck, ’cause, you know, you wouldn’t have to wait for a tow truck.

Happy New Year! Later…

This is a listening exercise and a bonus question for the four people I sent free copies of Elliott Smith’s CD From a Basement on the Hill, but anyone is welcome to play. Can you make anything out of the background vocal around about the time in King’s Crossing where he sings, “Give me one good reason not to do it.”? I think I know.

There’s an article over on the New Scientist website about a new calendar system that keeps the same days on the same dates, but it looks completely useless to me, as it requires arbitrary decisions about lengths of months, and also requires an “extra week – which is not part of any month – about every 5 or 6 years.” Huh?

I have long been an advocate of a lunar based system of 13 months of 28 days each, which comes out to 364 days, so every year would have a leap day, plus the standard “every four years unless the date is divisible by 400” leap years. The beauty of my system is that every month is the same, and every month is exactly 4 weeks. It’s so elegant that all I can think of is they liked 12 a whole lot better than 13 for superstitious reasons. I would also name the months “First,” “Second,” “Third,” and so on, so that you’d never have to do that awkward “August is the 8th month” conversion.

I’m sorry I’m just linking to Excite News today, but I honestly can’t decide which of these two “news” items disturbs me the most, Old Elvis Water worth $455? or Court Backs Firing of Waitress without Makeup.