It seems her post office people really, really, really wanted to believe NM required international postage

I've heard that from others also. The thing that boggled me was that 90% of my "NM!=USA" encounters happened in Texas. Where I'm pretty sure they know Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Louisiana are states.

Ugli is trademarked, but nummy.

Ugli is trademarked, but nummy.

Whenever my brother and I go grocery shopping together, we try to stick as many Ugli fruit stickers on each other as possible, without the other one knowing about it.

I don't mind trademarked fruit. I don't like the ghostly white vegetables - white asparagus especially just looks diseased to me.

white asparagus especially just looks diseased to me.

But oh so delicious!

I don't like the ghostly white vegetables - white asparagus especially just looks diseased to me.

For some reason, I think dead flesh. Which I'm ok with when it is a chicken or cow or whatever, but somehow it becomes unnerving if it is a vegetable.

I might be able to blame it on Bunnicula.

Aw, crap:

Calculations by the Oregon researchers show a wormhole that combines exotic matter with semi-classical space-time would be fundamentally unstable.

This result relies in part on a previous paper in which Hsu and Buniy argued that systems which violate a physical principle known as the null energy condition become unstable.

"We aren't saying you can't build a wormhole. But the ones you would like to build - the predictable ones where you can say Mr Spock will land in New York at 2pm on this day - those look like they will fall apart," Dr Hsu said.

Which reminds me -- I still have some Baby Boo seeds kicking around that I can plant in my garden. Miniature white pumpkins to make little spooky jack o' lanterns with.

I saw yellow raspberries in the store this weekend, and the freaked me right out.

It could be a Bunnicula inspired reaction, now that I think of it.