Which one of you subscribed me to Blender magazine?

It just occurred to me, for no discernible reason, that a whirlwind of priests charged with the duty of crowning a group of statisticians interested in the relationship between those who dislike spuds and those who raise certain hothouse vegetables would be a… tornado of potato-hater/tomato-cultivator correlator coronators. Which, of course (and I probably don’t even need to point this out), in some dialects would be a t’nader o’ p’tater-hater/t’mator-cult’vater corr’lata cor’natas.

I’m not sure why, but I want to dedicate this entry to Cordelia. I hope she appreciates it, but I hope even more she might offer suggestions for improvement …

No one reading this will know what I’m talking about now, thirty-one years after the fact, but that’s never stopped me before:

That song I wrote when I was four, you know the one, the one with only four lines, the two most memorable of which were

You gotta STEE-ple
to get PEE-ple

?
You remember that? And you remember how you thought it was cute and nonsensical, like completely nonsensical? You remember how you thought it made zero sense and you looked at me funny when I couldn’t explain what it meant either? Well, today, while I was, ah, mailing a package, …

Any sentence that starts, “I don’t want to be impolite or whatever, but…”

Sorry to be so absent, just been busy getting self and presents ready for the holidays. Almost done, if not exactly as punctual as I might have liked. That’s homemade ginger cranberry sauce and spiced nuts, about five or six quarts of each. Looking forward to next week, when I can be done with this humbuggery and get back to my weight training, which there just simply hasn’t been time for. They’re right when they say that once you’ve been exercising for a while, you miss it if you don’t do it.

I have a blog! Forgot about that! Ha ha.

What do you want? It’s the holidays. I’m very busy! Doing… stuff!

GROW “ver.1″ has just been released. If you’re a fan of the first few GROW games, you might find this one a little too short and easy, or you might not. If you’ve never played a GROW game before, this’d actually probably be the best place to start (then try the holiday one next).

Heather was shopping for garbage cans online today and found this one, which, as Heather kind of pointed out, seems to kind of sorta strongly indicate/prove that something of a very aluminimal nature has happened to none other than the Captain of the Gravy Train himself, Homsar (more about whom here and here). Nice, nice, nice.

When I’m not eating them, I have a hard time not thinking about LARABARS. They are yummy, they come in a bunch of flavors, they are good for you, they make a perfect in-between-meal snack, I feel good about eating them, and they are made by an independent company. Best of all though, the LARABAR is made entirely from whole, raw, vegan foods! Nothing added or taken out, no precious enzymes or nutrients destroyed by heat. I’m a big believer in the overwhelming health advantages of whole foods, and raw foods, and I never thought I’d find …

Last you heard from me, I was about to go play me some Scrabble, pumped on yesterday’s discovery that my scores are starting to edge into champion-level territory. I met up with Andrew and Rachel (who I’ve only recently started to get to know), at a Scrabble night Rachel coordinates and Cambridge hip joint The B-Side Lounge. Only one other person showed up so we had two pairs. Rachel and I were anxious to test one another’s mettle, so we paired up and had ourselves a couple games.

The first game’s tone and tempo was fairly accurately predicted by …