I got something called Ayr - it's a plastic bottle, comes with packets to mix up with warm water. You squeeze the bottle fairly strongly and it forces the mixture up into your sinuses. I could never figure out how a neti pot could work but this works well for me.

It's in a glass tube. Which, as everyone knows, could be used to make a shiv and cut a bitch. Actually i did not know that but appreciated the suggestion from the officer. The more you know.

Star followed by rainbow.

That's what this woman was talking about, I think. Thanks, Todd!

Knitters make sweaters for penguins.

Brilliant and well-needed site idea.

I just bought four more sweaters, and a sales-priced sweatshirt for wearing around my apartment. I need more warm stuff this year!! After having no actual sweaters for a few years, I now own ten.

I am moderately disappointed that the Khan Academy is not a Star Trek reference. The nerd tag never closes.

ham and cheese

It's fascinating going over the videos for the very basic stuff, addition, subtraction, et al. It's getting the theory for the stuff that was impressed on the primordial ooze of my brain, that stuck without real understanding. (The bit on borrowing in subtraction, where he said, "We don't know how to get numbers less than zero yet, don't worry" was funny)

It's been a long time since I've felt my brain giggling in the delight of intellectual endeavor.

Someone brought in teacakes today.

Oh my god, that cupcake was the best I've ever eaten. Tiramisu explosion in my mouth! NOM.

I love the penguins in sweaters! So cute!

And my coworker in Cleveland never replied. I will bet a beer that she won't. She doesn't track this stuff.

I am trying -- and failing -- to come up with a way to explain, in VERY simple, non-technical terms that a photo/image that one grabs off the internet is NOT going to be high enough resolution to print.

And when I say "VERY simple, non-technical terms," I mean people who don't understand "resolution" as it pertains to image quality.

I don't mean to be snarky; we have authors with multiple PhDs and PharmDs, and I can't claim to understand more than a fraction of what they know. So, in turn, I don't expect them to be on intimate terms with image resolution, dpi, print specs, etc.

But the rapidly increasing problem is that people grab an image from the internet or from PowerPoint (I hate PowerPoint for that very reason alone), and it's acceptable resolution for screen viewing but not remotely close to acceptable for printing.

And our authors reply with "But it looks fine on my screen!"

So we need a simple, non-technical way to explain that print publications need more pixels than web graphics. It's driving me mad.