i discovered today that you can inhale a lot more paint dust that you might think you can. we’re repainting our house and i spent the day scraping our cedar shake siding. normally i might consider Doing The Right Thing and wearing some sort of mask to keep out particles, but today it was way to hot to be concerned such practicalities.

so i’ve got scads of paint dust packed into every nook and cranny of my upper respiratory system and i’m thinking that maybe a face mask wouldn’t have been so bad afterall.

i’m sure there’s no long term health effects to inhaling paint dust for eight hours. uh, huh.

what weighs as much a 200,000 elephants and is
the size of missouri? it turns out, your average

hurricane

:

“Let’s start with a very simple white puffy cloud — a
cumulus cloud. How much does the water in a cumulus cloud weigh?
Peggy LeMone, senior scientist at the National Center for
Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado, did the
numbers.”

matt haughey

asks
“Is
it possible to produce a wiki that offers all the power of a wiki
while at the same time looking like a regular website?”

from the looks of it, i’d say the answer is
yes

[ and incidently, i’d say he handily defeats the

wikis are inherently ugly criticism

].

now, for the low, low price of nothing, you can get your hands on

haughey’s omninously sized 666kb phpwiki code changes

.

so, let’s just say you’re allegedly imitating that canary in the coalmine of cultural decline, jackass and you fall down while trying to shove a firecracker in your buttocks what happens next? nothing good:

“”By virtue of the fact that the explosion was confined in an upward direction, it went up into his pelvis, blasted a great hole in the pelvis, ruptured the urethra, injured muscles in the floor of the pelvis which rendered him incontinent.””

it must be a slow day since wired news has seen fit to write a lengthy article on the tdi club.

i’m loving my jetta tdi wagon. with gas prices what they are you just can’t beat getting 45-50 miles to the gallon [ and diesel is cheaper the regular gas anyhow ]. and it would seem that biodiesel must be catching on, since you can even get it in the perpetually-behind-the-curve area of west michigan where i live.

oddly, i haven’t joined the tdi club yet, although i did just join the galaxie500 club.

interesting. google has pulled removed from its index eight sites that distribute kazaa lite at the request of kazaa. welcome to the wierd world of the dmca. i suppose at least google is transparent about the situation [ see the footer of the search page].

somehow i almost missed that the thunderbird 0.2 candidate builds are available for your downloading pleasure. see the release notes of sorts for the lowdown on new stuff.