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[taimatsu]

I am awake and alive. I have my period and therefore ache from the waist down. I feel slightly sick and very cranky. So I apologise if, in my interaction with you in the next day or two, I am sarcastic, pedantic, nasty, and/or intolerant of perceived stupidity. My idiot threshold has lowered significantly.

My dad has gone out without telling me where. The only other people in the house are my mum and some random friend from the rota, who I know by name but not in person at all. So I'm hiding upstairs and feeling really pretty dreadful, as well as being useless.

Please tell me something amusing or interesting if you'd like to cheer me up.

Comments

[mirabehn.livejournal.com]

My niece Rebecca does the best impression of Andy Serkis' Gollum that I've ever heard. And she's not yet 9. It's terrifying. :)

She also does an extremely good Billy Boyd-Pippin, complete with spot-on accent. And not a bad Treebeard. Her Hermione Granger and Hagrid are less good as impressions but show signs that she's going to be a good actor as well as a phenomenal mimic when she grows up. She is excellent at double acts, and she and I together have not a bad line in Crush from Finding Nemo.

My nephew Thomas (Rebecca's younger brother) is following in his sister's footsteps. He has a tendency to imitate whatever anyone has just said. He's only 4 so he's obviously not quite on the same level, but his own Gollum certainly has some game. He also makes a lot of entirely random noises, thereby endearing himself to Nick...

My other nephew, Isaac (my sister's son rather than my brother's son, and therefore R&T's cousin) is only 11 months or so, and his party trick is primarily to reach for hot liquids (especially full coffee cups), while carrying such an outrageously endearing grin on his face that no one can bear to be even slightly annoyed. One is instead torn between concern and giggling. Fortunately it is possible to remove him from the source of danger while collapsing with laughter at the same time. He is currently learning to walk, having never learned to crawl. His current means of ambulation is a "bottom shuffle" involving sliding himself along on his bottom using one of his arms to propel and steer. This leaves the other arm free for Mischief. He is hoping to be a drummer when he is older, and demonstrates this by banging anything within reach. Sticks, cutlery, toys, cats...

We have film evidence of all of this on Nick's digital camera, which will be uploaded at some point in the next few days. *grin*

love you!

Elly

[ixwin.livejournal.com]

I used to bottom shuffle when I was small. My sister bearwalked (hands and feet rather than hands and knees). Only my brother crawled.

[mirabehn.livejournal.com]

Awwwwwwww!!!

*imagines cute shuffling Wiz*

i find this quite interesting but you may not

[kmazzy.livejournal.com]

The University of Delaware in Newark has found a way to make printed circuit boards (PCBs) using the vast quantities of chicken feathers discarded by the poultry industry. The boards are not only strong, light and biodegradable, but also have a novel electrical property.

Keratin is stripped from the quills of the feathers and pressed into thin mats. These are coated with soybean resin to make a strong board that is then etched with copper wiring tracks like any other circuit board.

The project is the brainchild of Richard Wool, the University of Delaware's "green professor", who says the keratin/soybean combination has a very low dielectric constant compared to existing PCBs. This means his chicken-based circuits can switch signals on and off much faster and so support faster processor speeds. Intel is now investigating the technology.

(from New Scientist)

Re: i find this quite interesting but you may not

[compilerbitch.livejournal.com]

Cool. :-)

I shall have to see if NASA are interested!

Re: i find this quite interesting but you may not

[kmazzy.livejournal.com]

it's such a cool idea. i like random technology like this!

Re: i find this quite interesting but you may not

[compilerbitch.livejournal.com]

Indeed. PCBs are quite a sleepy technology -- they haven't really changed much in the last 40 years, other than moving from resin bonded paper to fibreglass, and going to multilayer (which is just basically extra layers of the same stuff bonded to the board anyway).

Excellent. Kentucky fried PCBs! :-)

The Banana Oracle

[ixwin.livejournal.com]

1) Obtain a banana
2) Think of a question with a yes or no answer
3) Cut a thin slice off the bottom of the banana
4) The answer to your question (Y for yes, n for no) will be visible

(the answer is usually yes)

Addendum

[ixwin.livejournal.com]

In case it wasn't clear, you cut the slice off while it's still peeled.

[wednesday]

"Why are you on the shelf parallel to the window, Haro?"
"Vantage point. I am vigilant in case of Zaku."
"What if they come in the window?"
"Then I'm screwed ~haro."

[hfnuala.livejournal.com]

I've made a little handknitted purse to hold my tampons in. It has a small button with a heart on it as a clasp. It's made from a purple wool/silk blend. I'm not a very femmy woman but it makes me feel very girly and a lot less period pissed off. Everyone should have one.

[taimatsu]

Cute! :)

I just bought a Mooncup, which I am trying off and on, but for various reasons it's not proving too wonderful right now. *sigh*

I might try learning to knit again. I can knit but not purl properly, as far as I can tell.

Lush is my answer to everything.

[claire-smith.livejournal.com]

Do you have Lush, or access to Lush?

The Wiccy Magic Muscles massage bar is excellent for dealing with period pains. It's warming and spicy and good.