I found a pencil sharpener that is a hippo, and you put the pencil in his mouth and wind his tail to sharpen it. It is made of awesome. And plastic.
Willow: You know what they say. The bigger they are... Anya: The faster they stomp you into nothin'.
'The Killer In Me'
Natter 62: The 62nd Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Allyson - Dec 22, 2008 6:25:26 am PST #7459 of 10002
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
tommyrot - Dec 22, 2008 6:27:51 am PST #7460 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
OK, my present to myself is a theremin kit. It comes with an unfinished wood case, so I'll have to paint or stain it. I think I want to stain it some weird color (bright red?) so it'll look freakish and unnatural, but will still show the pretty wood grain underneath. Any ideas?
I don't know what kind of wood the case is.
msbelle - Dec 22, 2008 6:33:39 am PST #7461 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
my gift to myself is debt reduction which is LAME! Sensible, but lame.
tommyrot - Dec 22, 2008 6:37:41 am PST #7462 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
my gift to myself is debt reduction which is LAME! Sensible, but lame.
That was gonna be my gift to myself. But I decided to invoke the "theremin exception" to the rule of "debt reduction only".
Kat - Dec 22, 2008 6:47:49 am PST #7463 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
psst - Jesse is out of touch with what a 7yo will think is lame, pass it on.
HAHAHAHA. So true.
ita, we're gonna be there around lunching time.
This morning, we've been to Lowe's, Target and Starbucks. I've replaced the switchplate I broke in a fit of temper and now we are getting ready to go see Grace. WOOT. No yoga, apparently.
Ginger - Dec 22, 2008 6:49:46 am PST #7464 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The most easily available unnatural wood stains are probably MinWax's water-based stains: [link] Using their wood conditioner first keeps you from having unnatural and blotchy wood colors.
sumi - Dec 22, 2008 6:50:25 am PST #7465 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Tommy - temperature has gone UP!
To -3.
Woo hoo.
DebetEsse - Dec 22, 2008 6:54:37 am PST #7466 of 10002
Woe to the fucking wicked.
If he likes the making a lot, have you tried other origami?
tommyrot - Dec 22, 2008 6:54:55 am PST #7467 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
To -3.
It's -1 in Chicago, and 0 here in Evanston!
DavidS - Dec 22, 2008 6:59:48 am PST #7468 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
tommy you should stain it blue. So you'd be like Picasso's man with the blue guitar theremin.
so I'll have to think about whether balsa wood flying about the living room is a great idea.
Balsa wood planes are very light. They don't knock things down any more than a paper airplane would.
Emmett and Matilda both got Silly Putty in their stockings too. You can roll up a comic book for a stocking. Gelt is good.