Fat free Valentine’s alternatives for the Now: Resin “chocolate/candy” key caps. Hand designed “candy” forms crafted around Cherry MX compatible key board buttons. -no calories -they will last forever -a constant reminder of the sweetheart -no giant sized (and expensive) teddy bears hanging by the dumpster like abandoned freak orphans- by the…
Required Reading
In the years to come, an astounding number of us, worldwide, will be subject- or have loved ones subject- to laws concerning the disabled. A serious read of this United Nations Convention on the “rights” of disabled people is in order. Don’t you think? Since the Constitution doesn’t seem to cut it anymore. For us.…
A DYI Video on Binding Off
With the grandchild arriving early, I looked for a quick refresher on the binding off technique. I needed it for a knitted cover that needed to be brought to a quicker finish. I found this thorough and easy to understand video by a young woman. What a delight it was to find a modern…
Flip Flops and Baggy Pants
Warning; the inserted slideshow of pics could be best described as looking like a sort of pornographic Ad-libs. It didn’t come from some lo grade amateur video or some rogue adolescent site. It lives in the body of a recently updated federal 2018 Amendments to the Manual for Courts-Martial, United States covering pages 347-348-349-350-…
Unfair Like That
Unfair like that What kind of Unfair do I mean? When you’re on the field of battle with armor and weapons modified to the teeth. A couple of cheat codes stashed away for a couple of peeks. And maybe a sweet and sleek joystick outfitted with so many shortcut keys that the brain boggles over…
this One Question
I only have this one question. Does the door swing both ways in this “training to detect and find ASD children”, or whatever it’s called…. https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/actearly/autism/case-modules/identifying.html Do we get to investigate and scrutinize each detail of the lives of those who visit our homes and those who call the shots from the office? Do…
Like, Really
(just in case the shortcut didn’t take, start at 1:02) This scene in the Lost Boys movie is one of the more humorous counterpoints to when The System starts in with that whole “your parents are unfortunate victims of a much more bigoted era” thing. When they stir up talk of “homophobic fear” and verbal “hate…
Truth Is As Love Is
A Bucky (Fuller) For the Day
Too Early to Diagnose
Obtaining a diagnoses of a mental illness for a baby is like stamping a final grade on a story while it’s still in its roughest draft form. Forming an opinion and damning something for the rest of its existence. Making judgements and making final decisions on scribbled notes, unpolished sentences and incomplete thought fragments. Any…
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