I just got my Penzey's spice delivery--yay! Opening this box was like Christmas, with all the little bottles all wrapped up in paper and wondering what was in the next wrapping. I did order several empty bottles for the spices I have in envelopes at home, so a lot of those little packages were blanks, but that's okay. They tossed in a free sample of their Bouquet Garni, a nice extra, as well as the freebie Minced Garlic I ordered, and the bag of bay leaves was much larger than I imagined it would be.

Jesse, you might have been confused by the fact that young!Jake Gyllenhall was the vic's son in an early Homicide, (it was a really good episode, despite what happened to Robin Williams' acting in later years)

That one I remember!

though I didn't know that NPH ever did a CI, so...

Oh yeah, really creepy.

I just got my Penzey's spice delivery--yay!

That's like me and Mario Badescu. Which is pretty sad. I'm not out of anything--I just want to order something because I love receiving their shit in the mail.

I don't think this necessarily qualifies for the Good Stuff tumblr, but it's certainly making me happy this morning.

(shrift, you'll especially like it.)

I'm tired of having the same frustrating discussion every 6 months or so. Unless someone comes up with funding for at least 2 developers, it's a procedural matter and they are the ones who need to publicize it. Ahrg.

ION, we're supposed to get rain, wait snowy rain, no, waitrainy snownonono OMWTFSNOW. Wednesday night. Maybe.

I'd prefer another bust with a dusting, thanks.

Amy, that's a link into gmail.

Crap. Someone sent it to me, and I don't know how to make it not. It's Craig Ferguson cracking up, too! Damn.

The current state of the Web:

The Tumblr beast thing is awesome.

Well, now I know what happens if you forget to put a filter in the Aeropress. I hope that's it for today's lessons.

List of slang terms for police officers

Blue Meanies
This is a 1960s hippie slang term for the police, it was used in the Beatles film the Yellow Submarine, although many viewers may not have realized its significance. First used during the Free Speech Movement about the Alameda County Sheriff's Office.

Huh.

Cop or Copper
While commonly believed to be an acronym for Constable On Patrol, the term refers to "one who captures or snatches". This word first appeared in the early 18th century, and can be matched with the word "cap", which has the same meaning and whose etymology can be traced to the Latin word 'capere'. (The word retains this meaning in other contexts: teenagers "cop a feel" on a date, and they have also been known to "cop an attitude".) Variation: Copper. It is also believed that the term Copper was the original, unshortened word, popularly believed to represent the copper badges American officers used to wear at the time of origin, but in fact probably used in Britain to mean "someone who cops" long before this. It is also believed to come from the Latin word 'Corpore' meaning body, i.e. a body of men.

Huh. I had only heard that cop and copper derived from copper badges....

Tit-Heads or Tits
Rarely used derogative British term for uniformed police officers originating in the shape of traditional UK police custodian helmet worn by patrolling (male) officers which are or were a similar shape to a large female breast - as in the phrase (to a policeman) "take the tit off your head" meaning "relax" or "imagine you are not on duty".