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Yams vs. Sweet Potatoes

By ~LS~ On November 24, 2005 · Add Comment · In Fun Facts and tagged Tagged With: Food, Holidays, Obligatory Links, Trivia

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French Kissing

By ~LS~ On June 10, 2005 · Add Comment · In Fun Facts, Link-o-mania and tagged Tagged With: For Wordies, Sex, Trivia

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101 things to do with cling peaches

By ~LS~ On July 17, 2004 · Add Comment · In Fun Facts and tagged Tagged With: Food, Obligatory Links, Trivia

A long time ago (1982 to be precise), I saw “The Secret Policeman’s Other Ball,” which had a hysterical standup comic doing a spiel on “101 things to do with cling peaches.” I should rent that video sometime, if I can get a hold of it. I remember laughing so hard that I spewed my coke.

What made me think of the routine is PEACH SEASON — yay –. Steve has been bringing home peaches and nectarines and they are wonderful. July is the peak harvesting season for peaches and nectarines. So, I had a conversation the other day with Steve about the difference between peaches and nectarines. The obvious difference is the skin: peaches are fuzzy and nectarines are smooth. And the size: peaches are smaller. Somewhere in my retarded life I heard that nectarines were peaches bred with TANGERINES to get the fuzz off the peach. I have no [...]

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CD Obsolescence

By ~LS~ On July 2, 2004 · Add Comment · In Fun Facts, Pop Culture, Technology and tagged Tagged With: Computer, Generations, Music, Pop Culture, Technoculture, Trivia

CDs are obsolete. By the time I got my first CD player and my first CD, back in 1985, CDs were already obsolete. Now, if you think about that, that’s just about the dumbest lie ever. But in 1985, the third generation of CD players were on the market and CD-ROM drives were released. From there, it’s a downhill slide to Napster and Kazaa and DVDs. It’s like, inevitable, teleological.

My computer is in the shop. I’m getting a DVD write drive installed. I’m so behind.

I’m moving offices from one room to the other at home…moving into the bigger bedroom, right? And so tonite I’m throwing out my CD player. It’s old. Crappy. Still works. But crappy.

From Purple Rain (Prince; 1984):

The Compact Disc Digital Audio System offers the best possible sound reproduction – on a small convenient disc. Its remarkable performance is the result of [...]

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Birthday Catchup Blog Entry

By ~LS~ On July 28, 2003 · Add Comment · In Humor, The Quotidian (yadda yadda), The Web, This is my life? and tagged Tagged With: Age, Food, I'm 40, Money, Nigerian Scam, Trivia

I woke up this morning to balloons, a birthday bouquet, and a cup of coffee. Life is good. I got email greetings from a bunch of folks including one from the cleaning chick and another funny one from Joshie. This afternoon I will have Gambino’s gourmet birthday cake. Tonite I am going to Ruth’s Chris Steakhouse. When I lived in Austin as an undergrad, my roommate (coincidentally, her name was Ruth) told me that she heard Ruth’s Chris steakhouse, which was a Texas-based chain, was named after Ruth’s husband (or maybe her son…) who ran the steakhouse and then died, so Ruth kept the name in honor of him. Once, I mentioned this to Tracy who pshawed at me and told me Ruth was from New Orleans. So I looked it up on the web today and found out that not only was Tracy right, but Ruth [...]

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Cuppa Joe

By ~LS~ On January 28, 2003 · Add Comment · In Fun Facts and tagged Tagged With: For Wordies, Trivia

Josephus Daniels (18 May 1862-15 January 1948) was appointed Secretary of the Navy by President Woodrow Wilson in 1913. Among his reforms of the Navy were inaugurating the practice of making 100 Sailors from the Fleet eligible for entrance into the Naval Academy, the introduction of women into the service, and the abolishment of the officers’ wine mess. From that time on, the strongest drink aboard Navy ships could only be coffee and over the years, a cup of coffee became known as “a cup of Joe”. From Yahoo’s LoneSailorShipStore.

Ha, Phrase Finder had cuppa joe in the discussion boards:
“It may be a variant of “java,” also a popular term for coffee since the 19th century, when the island of Java in Indonesia was a major source of the world’s coffee.

There is/was a company here in NY named Martinson’s Coffee which was owned by a [...]

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