Atomic Nerds

Another weekend in warm weather has come and gone, and as usual, that means our slow and steady march to inevitable skin cancer has taken another step forward. So far we’ve managed some long overdue cleaning for parts of the house, and then today was spent helping my folks get ready for the garden show my mother entered her efforts into this year. The good news is that she has asked us all to smack her upside the head if she tries to enter again next year, so at least it’s a one time deal, mostly. We’re returning for dinner and well earned booze muscle relaxants shortly. A camera will be making the trip too, ’cause I want some opinions on some of the day’s efforts from people who aren’t in a company town surrounded by overpriced, undertalented “artists.” If you’re in a generous mindset, that may even qualify as real content!

Between the weekend’s normal workload, and the fact that tomorrow will find us trekking back to Albuquerque for another go-round on my current tattoo project, you fine folks will have to settle for a link roundup. LabRat may have something for you tomorrow evening, but we’re both usually fairly tired after such a trip. Anyway, let’s see what’s caught in the net.

RobertaX makes me glad that a) we don’t have a basement, b) we’ve got decent drainage between the high ground to the north and the canyon to the south, and c) we’ve got a vehicle that can probably make it through any weather we’re gonna run into locally. Given that the monsoon season is supposedly going to be on the heavy side this year, I think I’ll still double check the drainage paths around the house. Our annual centipede and scorpion migration would not be improved by water in the living room.

Tam practices with her reality-altering powers. When she and Roberta eventually use their combined skills to take over the world, I can only hope they’ll have need of folks who can bake.

Finally, we see something that could pass for good news from the place where Great Britain used to be. Finally, someone seems to have cottoned on to the fact that Peace Officers are more effective than quota-driven law enforcement. As hope springs eternal, I’m crossing my fingers that the wild notion these Bobbies are trying to spread will take off, and we’ll eventually see the UK become a civilized nation again. The realist in me figures it’ll be about a month, maybe two if they’re lucky, before heavy-handed and draconian punishment rolls down from on high for their initiative.

In what is perhaps one of the rarest events in nature, a homeowner successfully completed a project! Not only did Breda and Mike manage to complete something that as often as not turns into a “well, we can live with it” situation for homeowners, but they made the room look fan-freakin’-tastic. Go by and give ‘em some love, they’ve earned it.

Last but not least, with a hat-tip to Querencia, we find the tale of a man who lived for a week as a vegetarian. The poor sod’s story is here.

There you go folks. Hope you found something good up there to keep you busy, ’cause if we don’t have the aforementioned “what say you, internet?” post up this evening, it probably won’t appear till Tuesday.

Edit to add: I almost forgot the best link of the day! By way of Coyote Blog, someone very helpfully put together a game to tell Australian kids when they should die based on how bad they are for the environment. I apparently should’ve died when I was 1.3 years old if I didn’t want to harm our dearly beloved earthgaiamotherthing with my evil humanly wasteful ways. The game lives here, and is of course ever so perfectly suited to kids. Remember, if you’re not suicidally guilty about how badly you waste the earth’s resources, you’re not green enough!

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