It's a cool picture of some cool vaudevillians with cool hair. Probably Hec would like it.

Cool bangs for sure.

Absinthe Cookie

What may look like a typical mint cookie, is really a diabolical and possibly hallucinogenic absinthe cookie. Who wants one? Absinth has steadily been gaining traction as a popular drink since the beginning of the 1990s. It was originally banned from the US and many parts of Europe in 1915, somewhat rashly in retrospect. The claims of any real psychoactive properties have largely been exaggerated, and the drink is no more dangerous than any ordinary spirit.

The fine people over at A Fine Kettle of Ish have the perfect recipe to fill you craving for the mysterious liquid covered cookie. You don't even need that much to make it, just some standard cookie making ingredients, some high quality absinthe, and food coloring. Apparently it also goes very well with strong coffee.

Fingers wrinkle to grip wet stuff better, toes wrinkle to better run in the rain. [link]

As a swimmer I have long wondered about the wrinkly fingers. This just makes so much sense!

Never gotten a flu shot...I'm kind of wigged out about getting injected with things.(Even though I did it with measles and other things to minimal ill effect, so, in theory I know it works.) But a bad case of the flu is a scary thought, too.

Just got my flu shot. Waiting to see if Sara already has the flu, though.

OMG, did we know there is such a thing as a hierarchy to what order you list people in the TO line in an email?

Yeah, I saw that on Corporette, and was befuddled. Other than sometimes making sure there's a difference between who's on the TO line and who's on the CC (people who should know but don't need to answer), no. I don't do that.

I don't care where I come on the email list, but I do deliberately adhere to the CIO/VP/Sr Director/Director/Manager/*my manager*/all the rest of the peons. And I've always done it, without pausing to consider.

I have a friend who works for a big law firm in St. Louis, and her office measures success based upon how many ceiling tiles your office counts. At a recent happy hour, I discovered another hierarchy of which I had previously been blissfully unaware—the email address ordering hierarchy.

Why is measuring success by the size of your office weird? There have got to be a lot of places doing that. And the whole office with a window, corner office, which floor, etc, etc...isn't that what we do, as sapient animals? Organise? And value? (If those two can be separated, that is)

Yeah, I think actually counting the tiles is kind of funny, but clearly office size is a marker of success. I know who can fit a table (my boss) and who can't (me).

Because our school is in an old dorm, pretty much everyone has their own office (not a cubicle) and a window. But people do get weird about the size.

The strangest thing that happened to me was that when we renovated there was a huge to-do about how I couldn't have a certain office (that was next to my student) because it would be "far to large", so I ended up swapping with the higher up person on the other side of my student. Once they created the offices (the student and the one next to it) by breaking up one large office, it ends up that all three offices are within 5" of each other, so we totally didn't need to all move around like crazy. Then, they ended up moving my student office anyway, because after the fact, they decided that her window had too good of a view for a student.

Gris, I'm so sorry.

From watching TV this week, I'd really like someone to go through my closets

I wish I could come do this. I love playing the "go through closets, make new outfits" game with people. (And actually, it's something I need to do myself now that I'm adding long skirts back into the wardrobe mix.)