Yo!

Bye-bye gallbladder! Then you can use that space to store things, like your keys, or an iPod.

Then you can use that space to store things, like your keys, or an iPod.

Wouldn't it be awesome if they took out the gallbladder and put in a pouch to store things! I have always wanted a pouch!

I imagine billytea would approve that - marsupial Buffistas!

And a fertilizer plant exploded in Texas.

A day after the anniversary of the 1947 fertilizer explosion that leveled Texas City [link] (In Annals of Government is Stupid, one of the main underlying reasons for the disaster was that the DoD classified ammonium nitrate as a weapon, even though at this point it was being used as fertilizer to win the hearts and minds of Europe, and therefore bags of ammonium nitrate weren't labeled as such and had no hazard warnings, so the people on ships full of ammonium nitrate had no idea there was a giant bomb beneath their feet.)

The warning really should be: "Beware the Ides of April."

I hope the surgery goes smoothly, Strix, and your insides stop troubling you.

I just posted this on facebook as well because I am fascinated by it- my student workers, almost all of them over the years, get confused about envelopes and folders-- they use the words interchangeably, they put things in envelopes when you ask them to put them in folders and vice versa. I think it is because there are manila envelopes and manila folders, but it is still funny. Also, my student today needed to be taught where the address and return address went on an envelope (and she is not the first one)

my student workers, almost all of them over the years, get confused about envelopes and folders-- they use the words interchangeably, they put things in envelopes when you ask them to put them in folders and vice versa.

WUT. I can't even comprehend how you can confuse a folder and an envelope!

(Although I work with people who refer to folders on the network server as "files," so there you are.)

Jesse, the Good Stuff tumblr may see a lot more hits soon. I shared the link on FB with a friend of mine, who works with Katie Goodman and Hal Sparks. She just told me it's been shared far and wide.

A good while ago I worked with someone who thought you needed a zip drive to read a zip file ... nothing would convince her otherwise. Or maybe she was just trying to get me to unzip files for her.

And I was once in the post office where someone wanted to send a package, but they'd reversed the position of the to and from addresses - the address of the person they were sending the package TO was in small writing in the upper left of the package, the return address was larger and in the center. The clerk managed to not "go postal" at having to explain that that wasn't going to work.

Surgery~ma, Strix!