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I'm in agreement with Edna from The Incredibles in the dangers of superhero capes. They're a liability.

Also, toddlers in parking lots give me hives. I won't even set my own on the ground if I can avoid it. I park next to the cart corral and pretty much move the kids from car to cart without having to put them on the ground. I've actually driven away from stores if the cart corral is empty.

I like you people.

I think ita would much prefer superhero shoes. Or maybe I'm projecting. You know you must have interesting shoes when the head of facilities remarks on your shoe habit. And the funny thing is, I probably only wear 3 regularly in rotation. But I guess they are different enough to gain notice (two fluevogs and the sketchers mjs.)

Jack Palance, the craggy-faced menace in Shane, Sudden Fear and other films who turned successfully to comedy at 70 with his Oscar-winning self-parody in City Slickers, died yesterday. He was 87.

Someone in FL apparantly used a very rare stamp (worth about $200,000) to mail in an absentee ballot. [link]

God, that is someday going to be me, what with my lousy mailing stats.

OK, so my safeway card (I'm nominally neutral negative on shopper cards, but..I shop there regularly) says I get a 10cent/gallon discount on gas through the end of the month. But doesn't tell me how. Lame!

I'm now subjecting myself to local news to hopefully figure out why there were police helicopters over me for over 2 hours. Was freaky. And I gotta admit, I was maliciously hoping it was after my neighbor's son and his friends. They are loud jackasses. I've called the cops on them once, witnessed 2 other cop visits and and planning on reporting it to the leasing office (hey, I've gotten one other resident evicted, right?) The neighbor and her husband are nice. But their teenagers? Jackasses.

Someone in FL apparantly used a very rare stamp (worth about $200,000) to mail in an absentee ballot.

The fact that the stamp has been cancelled lowers the value. So it's probably worth between $50K-$100K. Still--I hate to think of some absent-minded old person pulling out a stamp from the back of a desk drawer that is worth that much money and not even be aware that they had it.

According to CNN, the envelope had no name on it (so the vote doesn't count). Which means they probably can't trace the owner.

On the one hand, she saved a life. On the other, she didn't get to beat the crap out of anyone to do it.

I have to start somewhere, right?

The poor guy driving the car. I look over, and there's this little kid reaching for the tires of a moving car in a parking lot. I run over and scoop him up, and the driver's looking panicked and asking if he's okay. Which he was. Then some other guy, who if not the father looked to be in a supervisory role, comes from the other side of the car/truck and says that the kid's mother is in the cafe. I say "Crazy person" (not sure about whom) and hand the kid to him (kid starts squalling about now).

Later we see the kid, the mom and the same guy leaving together.

According to CNN, the envelope had no name on it (so the vote doesn't count).

Oh, man. So they blew $200,000 unknowingly, and for nothing. That's lemon juice in a paper cut right there.

have you ever worn their shoes?

No, but I'm sorely tempted. If I cave, I'll report back here. I mean, some of the shoes are just plain cute before I even consider the sole.

Tommy, I don't think they work on ice--wet and greasy surfaces. But this site has a range of slip-resistant shoes for sale.

Gotta go see who that guy from NUMB3RS was. Not the one noted upthread, I think. I'm guessing at the whitefont. The balding one with the big ears. And could the ep have been more steroid after school special? Dayum. Also the stuff they did with the email looked highly iffy.

What other show did sabermetrics come up in? CSI?

Aha! The guy's been on everything--Buffy, Angel, Firefly, X-Files, Strange World. I'm doing an Angel rewatch, so that's what he was pinging me strongest on.

Damn, that's an impressive collection of shows he has there.

Did Preston Burke have to choke a bitch?

t inappropriate goatbark of laughter

My toddler is not set down in parking lots. Though she really, really wants us to do so, just like she wants everything else that's bad or dangerous for her.