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it's a Honda CR-V and far and away the most money I've ever spent on a car. Love it, though. - teleken from BuddyFeed

Love it! Sadly I'm about to be dropped (I mean extinguished) by leveled-up knockout drops, or I'd have a clever Chfistopher-White-referential name for the car. But BlacoBlanco isn't yanking my chaiiiiii.............n.n.......n........n......... - Mary B: #TeamMonique

Snowy Elvis! - Shannon - GlassMistress

We saw an interesting trio at Walmart today. - Kelli H. from Android

If not, wanna start one with me? - Stephen Mack #TeamMomo from Bookmarklet

Thanks, Stephen. It just came through! - Anne Bouey

Larger. - Anne Bouey

A little smaller - Todd Hoff

Parking lot. Empty. Departmental offices. Empty. Studios. Locked and empty. It's really creepy to walk through an entire 3 story building and not see another soul. Now, given that it is Memorial weekend, no one will be around until Tuesday. I will call the departmental office first thing Tuesday morning and say something like "IS ANYONE GOING TO BE THERE AT ANYTIME DURING THIS COMING WEEK?" (This assumes, of course, that someone will be there to answer the phone.) - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ

UCLA tossed my art once. I didn't even have it in there at the wrong time. In general, art departments could not give two shits about students' artwork. - Spidra Webster

Hey Sarah, you have leadership skills. - sglassme

Okay, but there were some girls in my class in 3rd grade who were just plain BOSSY! And their leadership skills, based on objective evidence and no visibly attentive subordinates, were seriously under-developed and possibly non-existent. But other than that I would only say "Right on!" #HaveiRedeemedMyself #AtAll? #Anything? #AhWell... - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ

4) Even at a 30 - 50 percent off sale, you can spend $100 really quickly, and still barely make a dent in your intended landscape configuration. - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ

I'm sure I learned a lot more, but that's all my tired brain can muster right now. Feel free to contribute any pearls of wisdom you may have acquired in your own botanical exploits. - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ

"The evidence from psychological research suggests instead that we tend to think of our appearance in ways that are more flattering than are warranted. This seems to be part of a broader human tendency to see ourselves through rose colored glasses. Most of us think that we are better than we actually are — not just physically, but in every way." - Eric - seven eleven from Bookmarklet

"Vanity. It's the devil's favorite sin." - Al - David Lounsbury

Not that I'm a total expert, but I'd opt for sanding. Any new cuts you make are likely to splinter as well so I think doing things on a finer level is needed. - Spidra Webster

Having sanded our entire deck two years ago - rent a commercial sander. I burned out the three we had here and tore many belts of our very old craftsman. - Janet:#TeamMonique

That breaks down to payments of $88.56 for 24 months. Crazy. "Don't do me no favors!" - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ

Of course I should point out that they also offered me $7500 at an almost giveaway rate of 23.99% APR. Over 48 months that works out to about $245 a month... or a car payment on a decent (aka not too shabby) used car Crazy. These people ought to be ashamed of themselves. - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ

I feel ya - it's 54 here and I've put away most of my sweaters and gotten out my t-shirts for the year, but I'm keeping some heavier clothing handy. This spring sucks. - WebGoddess

I pulled out all of my summer clothes on Sunday evening. Today I was scrambling for warm clothes :( - Hedgehog from Android

What's in the mug? - c.a.j.

hooray! I wondered what you looked like! - RudĩϐЯaЯïan from YouFeed

"The Obama administration Wednesday for the first time acknowledged killing four U.S. citizens in “counterterrorism operations” abroad. The deaths of three of the Americans — Anwar al-Awlaki, his 16-year-old son Abd al-Rahman Anwar al-Awlaki, and Samir Khan, all of whom were killed in drone strikes in Yemen in 2011 — had been previously reported. The death of the fourth, Jude Kennan Mohammad, a Florida native apparently killed in Pakistan, had not been." - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ

This headline and article bothers me because the suggestion seems to be that this is only important because innocent *U.S. Citizens* were killed while in other countries. In my mind that point of distinction is essentially irrelevant. If innocent people are being killed by U.S. drones, in other countries or here in the U.S., *that* is the critical point. The fact that they are U.S. citizens doesn't magnify the already tragic nature of the abusive deployment of force. #neededtobesaid - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ

Look out plants. Here I come. - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ

I just repotted a bunch of things last weekend. So far, everything's looking good. - Kirsten

Sophie, sensing the frustration in my voice, dropped whatever she was doing, ran downill after the horses and towards me, yelling: "DAD! DADDY!! I come and rescue you!!!" She tripped several times, but just got up and kept running. - Stephan Planken

Thanks Nemo and Eivind! - Stephan Planken from iPhone

If so, I've "got the hots" for someone on my Dragon Boating team :) - Brent Schaus from FFHound!

The older I get, the more crushes I have :P - imabonehead

Now there's a sharply dressed man! Tim isn't that shabby either. - Micah from FFHound(roid)!

I would never have the guts to allow that man to see me in person. (Tim Gunn, that is.) #NotaSlavetoFashion --> - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ

0_o - SAM

I believe that Inhofe is also the guy who stood before the Senate a few years ago and railed on and on about CFL bulbs being made in China, so promoting their use as an conservation measure in the US was a huge sinister conspiracy to undermine US security. (Of course, I'm sure his close ties to the fossil fuel industry in Oklahoma and elsewhere had nothing to do with his position.) - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ

Tomorrow is going to be a "happenin' day" around here! Of course, they're also forecasting an overnight low in the mid-30's, so I won't be setting them out for another day or two. - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ

Also, am I missing anything? (Yes, I have pots.) - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ

*lures pandas* ;P - Anika

Your kitty-kat is saying "Let go of my ear you maniac!" - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ

Ah yes... Chicago politics. - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ

"Thomas Sohmers, 17, of Hudson, Mass., has been working at a research lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology since he was 13, developing projects ranging from augmented reality eyewear to laser communications systems. This spring, his mom, Penny Mills, let him drop out of 11th grade. She says she "could see how much of the work he was doing at school wasn't relevant to what he wanted to learn." On Monday, Thomas and his mom learned that he is in esteemed company as a high-school dropout with a knack for computers: David Karp, 26, sold Tumblr, the online blogging forum he created, to Yahoo for $1.1 billion. Examples of tech geniuses who lack college degrees are well-known — Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Mark Zuckerberg among them. But Karp left high school after his freshman year, with his mother's blessing, at the tender age of 14. Critics say dropping out of school to pursue a dream is a terrible idea. Vivek Wadhwa, a fellow at Stanford Law School who teaches and advises... more... - Anne Bouey from Bookmarklet

I feel like I'm missing something - didn't he homeschool for two years before fully "dropping out?" Apparently self-guided, but responsible for proving learning, was just as limiting as his elite high school. There are always going to be some people who chafe against requirements, and it isn't a mark for or against genius. - Jennifer Dittrich

"Hong Kong on Tuesday joyfully welcomed the return of a giant inflatable rubber duck, which drew tens of thousands of visitors before it was abruptly deflated for maintenance for almost a week. The southern Chinese city has taken the 16.5-metre-tall (54-feet) yellow inflatable duck, conceived by Dutch artist Florentijn Hofman, to its heart since it was towed into the harbour on May 2 to cheering crowds." - Jessie from Bookmarklet

I'd like to see some metropolitan area with a large bay (or harbor) deploy a duck in "tip-up" position. Then all you would see is the ass-end of a duck pointed toward the sky as it floats to-and-fro. #ButThatsJustMe - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ

But they'll pay taxes on the revenue in the Bahamas? (Or Ireland which, honestly, makes absolutely no sense to me. Is Ireland really a tax haven compared to the U.S.?!) - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ

Really couldn't answer any questions about corporate tax methods. It's all so complicated. - Eric - seven eleven

{hugs} - Starmama from FFHound(roid)!

*hugs* - Tamara J.

I know how tough that is. It's one of those situations where words seem wholly inadequate. I try to speak from the heart at such times. The brain "don't do so good on its own." - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ

I had one large pile that took up half of my driveway, and another in my back yard about half that size. I would've been trying to burn stuff in my 36" fire ring for 3 or 4 days, as weather and fire ban conditions would allow. I didn't realize how much this issue of branch/tree disposal had been weighing on me until they were gone. WHAT A RELIEF! My neighbor's yard backs up to the wooded area in our neighborhood (which mine doesn't) and there's a spot where several of the neighbors place their leaves and brush. Since my backyard is fenced in by 6 foot wooden fences, and the yards of my neighbors on either side box me in, I don't have access to the woods as they 'wrap' around our side of the cul-de-sac. Plus, I haven't been able to meet either of them (one on either side of me) since the seem to be working ALL THE TIME! The neighbor across the street is the one who came over to help me (at 9 o'clock at night!) He's the same one who comes over and clears the bank of plowed snow from the end of my driveway in the winter. Neighbors like that are hard to find! - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ

Also, I'm exhausted. Cutting up evergreen branches is a crappy crappy task, even with a small chainsaw. The just don't cooperate like 'normal' branches do. It was like being in a 3 hour long wrestling match. At that point I was 'wiped out' and when my neighbor came over with his offer I was tempted to say thanks but no thanks, too tired. But he insisted, and by the time we'd hauled the... more... - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ

Two days later and I'm still sore and stiff. Seriously, I'd rather chop and haul firewood any day. Wrestling with bendy, scratchy, pokey, sinewy evergreen branches, and trying to get them down to a size that fits a 36" fire ring is no fun. NO.FUN. I'm never gonna let that many branches accumulate before I do something about 'em. Kind of like letting dishes or laundry pile up. The longer... more... - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ

but what I was most surprised to learn is that Hieronymous is the source of the derivation (in Spanish) of Geronimo. Didn't see that one coming. - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ

When I was a kid Wisconsin had William Proxmire and Gaylord Nelson as our U.S. Senators. That seems almost unimaginable now. Proxmire was a spending watchdog, offering up his "Golden Fleece" award to mark particularly notable instances of wasteful government spending. But he was doing so as a champion of the common man, his true constituency. Gaylord Nelson was a champion of the environmental movement, the founder of Earth Day, the protector of our natural resources in the face of rampant, mostly unchecked industrial pollution. My how times have changed. - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ

#EndofRant - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ

Do the planter boxes in question have drainage holes? If so, you'll probably want to line it with landscape fabric to keep the soil from running out. - DAMMIT, MR. NOODLE

Well, I do have some gophers in the backyard. I was planning to situate the boxes on the railing of my balcony deck. I know I've seen squirrels get up there once in awhile, but don't think I've seen any gophers do so. Also I checked the boxes and they are cedar, so I'll just drill a few holes for drainage and lay some sort of mesh down there, and maybe some poly film (read: trash bag plastic) for good measure. Daveeza, how do your chardonnays get their 'oaky' color and flavor finish? ;) - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ

My nun friends are always remarking about this enigma. Thankfully they are all in their early 70's. I don't believe age was specified, right? - Janet:#TeamMonique from FFHound!

I'm pretty sure a virgin nun could take on a terrorist any day of the week (up there.) A terrorist in 'Nun's Heaven' is like a snowball in Hades... way out of his element. - Jkram|ɯɐɹʞſ