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NonyX Nail Gel

I was in a Walgreens today in the footcare aisle. I’ve had yucky toes from a nail fungus for a long while so I was checking out the latest products to rid myself of the yuck. I found NonyX Nail Gel. It claims to get rid of built-up nail keratin, which has been a yucky side effect of the yucky fungus. I was interested.

I noticed that NonyX was by far the most expensive product on the shelf at $25. “Hmm, “I thought,” it must be powerful stuff if it costs that much.” I almost walked out with a bottle. But since I’m such a comparison shopper, I decided to do a little homework first…

Ingredients: Water, ethanoic acid, xanthan gum, fragrance.

Hmm.. What is “ethanoic acid”? A google search says it’s just another name for acetic acid… the main active ingredient in vinegar!

They are selling 4 oz bottles of vinegar for $25. What a country!

I’ve started my toes on $2/gallon vinegar treatments. I’ll tell you in a month how it went.

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Update 9-5-12:
Over the years the posts and discussion on my site have grown. Here is a large sampling:

      1. Nonyx Nail Gel
      2. Nonyx Nail Gel: Part 2
      3. Nonyx Nail Gel: Part 3
      4. Fungal Nail Infection Treatment
      5. Zetaclear
      6. Fungavir
      7. Fungavir Review: Meh
      8. Fungisil is a Scam
      9. Funginix is a scam
      10. Search my blog for the word “fungus”

Donated to Alex King

I donated a few dollars to Alex King for some of his WordPress plugins that I like using so much.

Read the back of your ticket

In life, read the back of your ticket.

What I got on Amazon.com Today

Items not yet shipped:
Delivery estimate: April 6, 2006 – April 10, 2006

* 1 of: Breaking the Spell : Religion as a Natural Phenomenon – for my discussion with TJIC
* 1 of: The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster – all proceeds go toward the purchase of a missionary pirate ship
* 1 of: The Morrow Guide to Knots – a present for a friend
* 1 of: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers – The Movie – a present for me
* 1 of: Canon Powershot A610 5MP Digital Camera with 4x Optical Zoom – because pictures are good
* 1 of: Shall We Dance? (Full Screen Edition) – a present for a friend at the office (M.S.)
* 1 of: SanDisk SDSDB-1024-A10 1 GB Secure Digital Card – more with the pictures

Pirate Riding a Tyrannosaurus Rex

Dearest Lazyweb,

I have no graphic arts artistic talent at all. Would someone that -does- have some please contact me about drawing a pirate riding a Tyrannosaurus Rex. It is for a good cause and if it takes more than 5 minutes to draw, we’re doing it wrong.

Golden Gate Milonga

I went to the Golden Gate Milonga with Vixen tonight… a real Argentine Tango milonga with dancing and everything. It was great fun. We’ll both be back to this milonga and others!

Todays Important Links and Commentary

The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie review by Matt of X-Entertainment.com captures a lot of what I love about the movie. Maura and I had a great laugh reading it and remembering how totally true to the original is.

Rovang.org has more information about the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers than you need. But not as much as you want.

RuinedEndings.com will ruin the ending of most any movie you want to see :-)

Black Ranger Rules.

Dear friends can make you happy.

Tarot as a Meditation… and Power Rangers!

card70I give little creedence to the thought that Tarot draw upon supernatural powers (maybe a tiny bit of creedence, but certainly very very little). But they are certainly good as a meditation on a subject. It can be something that helps you focus your thoughts on a matter.

And then this comes along… This is the card Charlotte recently drew from the Voyager Tarot when meditating about her uncertain future and the thoughts of moving west.

This is the trust card… You may notice the Golden Gate bridge and the SF skyline… and it’s probably nothing but I mailed her a little plastic frog a few days before she pulled the card.

I’m reminded of the famous scene in the 1995 Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Movie just after the Rangers got their powers. One is embued with the majestic powers of a giant mechanized crane, another gains giant ape powers. And Adam… well… Dulcea looked at the forlorn new Black Ranger Adam. She asked, “Adam, what is wrong?”

Adam responds with a sullen expression of frustration and futility saying, “I’m a frog.”

I’m glad I saw it in the theater. Heck it was way better than Star Wars I.

Ben Stein, Anne Graham and Fear Mongering

I recently got one of those “forward this to all your friends” emails. It offended me so much that I wrote a response and sent it to all 100 or so people I found in the Forwarded by… list.

First the letter, and then my response.
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Firefox Shortcuts

Firefox has a gazillion keyboard shortcuts.

Here are the ones I use (or want to remember to use…)

Quick Search – Right-click on any input box (IE: the search bar on my blog). You’ll see “Add a keyword for this search”. You can make it so that searching my blog for fun is as easy as typing the following into the Firefix address bar “l fun”

My searches are:
g – google.com
l – lee.org/blog
w – wikipedia.org

Alt-D – jump to the address bar

/ – find ( ‘ and ctrl-f are other types of find commands)

Here’s way more keyboard shortcuts