The local news is showing a current temp in Gary, Indiana, of 207 degrees.

damn.

End times!

Hanging curtains naked. Never mind the potato...why hang curtains naked?

Tom, I hope the doctor can help you feel better asap. CJ has had a horrible cough all week. We have had to reschedule a dentist appointment twice so far cause he wouldn't make it through without hacking up a lung.

Hanging curtains naked. Never mind the potato...why hang curtains naked?

He's an exhibitionist and there was a potato outside?

why hang curtains naked?

It was the best excuse he could think of on short notice?

I too was caught up in "Why hang curtains naked? Isn't the point of curtains to keep people from seeing you naked?" Sometimes I clean the tub while naked, but that's about as far as I go with naked household chores.

Presumably, he would have spent some time trying to remove the potato himself. He should have devoted some of that time to coming up with a better story.

So actually, only law enforcement and 911 job applicants get asked for Facebook passwords, pretty much. But the reporter had a feeling it was more widespread! [link]

I'm sorry, but if I were in the ER when these cases come in I'd be unable to avoid pointing out to the patients that perfectly good devices designed for safe anal stimulation can be bought from a variety of adult-themed retailers.

Or at least use a cucumber, for fuck's sake.

Moral: never be naked around vegetables.

Don't use a cucumber. They don't flare out, they taper in, and they too can get lost.

Jilli, where is the sterling silver or pewter version of this, the bracelet on the right with the claws? They must be easy to find, no?

somebody (Matt?) suggested gesture drawing - I'd also suggest drawing with something looser: charcoal, brush and ink - it forces you to loosen up.

I had intended to shift to a much darker pencil (went in armed up to 8B), but because the paper was so toothy, ended up at 2B anyway. It felt fairly expressive, but when I pulled back, it felt clinical again. I have too many conflicting goals in my head--too many people I want to draw like, and it's not helping. I need to work on one thing at a time. We'll see what next week's exercise is, and what medium I might be able to use on that.

I'm definitely not confident enough to haul out the brush for anything that's not a T-shirt.

ION, this study is depressing:

Physics Students Reveal Bias for Male Lecturers

Male and female actors gave physics lectures to college students. All students thought the males were more knowledgeable. And whereas female students gave a a slight nod to women teachers, male students thought male teachers were vastly better.

Tom, good luck getting the good drugs!

Moral: never be naked around vegetables

Sneaky bastards that they are.

So I just had a tiny little flashback: back in the mid-90s I had a job working for the guy I call Evil Ex-Boss (everyone has one, right?). It was my first professional gig out of law school, and he treated me like shit and I was miserable and nothing ever got better and eventually I quit and moved across the country.

Well, I'm still working in the same general field, and I was just on the phone with someone about a conference I might be attending (or even speaking at, cool), and she was asking about my experience and I had to say where I'd worked back then and who I worked for, and she was all, "Oh yeah, I see him all the time, blah de dah." ARGH. Then she made a joke about how the field is so small, which is totally true.

However he's no longer doing quite the same kind of work, so hopefully if I do get to go to this conference, he won't be there and I won't have to deal with the low-level PTSD associated with seeing him or hearing his name.