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Last night I went out to an Aaron Jae night club experience at Whisper, 535 Florida St. It was more fun than I thought it would be. Danced, drank, met some cool people including some Space Cowboys. I haven’t been to a show in a long time where the DJs were celebrated; I wasn’t expecting much but I was very impressed. They talented and made the dance floor a lot more fun.
Must chill now. Going to bed at 4am will do that.
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:
I donated a few dollars to Alex King for some of his WordPress plugins that I like using so much.
In life, read the back of your ticket.
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
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.
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!
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.
I 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.
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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