tommyrot, are you under a tornado watch?

"Isolated tornados" are possible, but no watch as of yet.

Also, I think there are warnings of large, pterodactyl-like creatures swooping down and carrying people off to feed their young....

eta: In what the National Guard is referring to as "a Sci-Fi Channel Original Movie scenario".

That's so weird. It's got to be for newly-observant folks, right?

It's sold by the Jewish Learning Group, so yeah. The little icons are pretty cute. And the "Bonus Prayers" - act now and we'll throw in a Sh'ma. I can see giving it to kids. And it's something that would benefit me - it's taking me forever to learn the handwashing one because I can't hold a book while I wash my hands.

Eta: Jeepers, be careful tommyrot!

I was just looking at the regional radar link at the Tribune, and it looks like the line of t-storms that were in Des Moines when I last checked about 90 minutes ago are approaching the Quad Cities. The forecast of "storms starting after 6:00 tonight" is pretty much on track, it looks like. I'm going to make sure I get out of here in an hour, stop by Jewel for the shopping I should have done earlier this week, and get home by 6:00.

Wouldn't that just be a keychain that says "Fuck! Fuck! Fuck!"?

Dude, I have never in my life forgotten the word "Fuck!" You affront me, sir!

Oh, man, I thought I was over my iPhone envy but I just saw an ad and it's all rekindled. Damn you Jobs!

So it turns out that the coworker who rec'd the dentist will get $25 off her next visit! And so will I!

OK, I'm trying to be enthusiastic about this... I'm calling tomorrow, I swear. Feeling a little less intimidated.

That's pretty cool, sarameg.

It's good for business, that's for sure.

Awww... this is sad:

Pamela Low, Cap'n Crunch creator, RIP

Pamela Low, who created the flavored coating of Cap'n Crunch cereal, died on Friday at age 79. After graduating in 1951 from the University of New Hampshire with a microbiology degree, she took a job as a flavorist at Arthur D. Little. The Cap'n Crunch flavor was inspired by a treat made by her grandmother.

"Grandma would make this concoction with rice and the sauce that she had; it was a combination of brown sugar and butter," Ms. Low's brother William of Westerville, Ohio, said with a chuckle. "It tasted good, obviously. They'd put it over the rice and eat it as a kind of a treat on Sundays..."

Taking a job at Arthur D. Little (in the early 1950s), she became a flavorist, a scientific connoisseur of the artificial tastes that tempt consumers to return for more. She tinkered with flavors of products such as Almond Joy and Mounds, but her biggest achievement came when Quaker Oats developed a new cereal.

"I developed the flavoring, the coating," she told UNH Magazine in 2002.

That is sad, tommy. I've lost count how many times the Cap'n shredded my soft palate with that sweet & crunchy combination.