Sculpin

Actual snippet of conversation from just a moment ago:

Cam: “…And speaking of things to thank you for, you have pants on.”
Josh: “Oh! I’ll go do that.”

When Josh and I first started dating, I said delicately, “You know, some people prefer indirect conversation and some people prefer more direct ways of talking–” He broke in, “Direct is better.” I was delighted, because I agreed completely. Tell you the truth, I’d had my fill of people who’d mince around with indirection and then glare at me for not reading their minds with my magical Women’s Intuition. (Though to be honest, more than once I have read people just fine and have chosen not to act on that for any number of reasons.) So, yes. I held to the superiority of forthrightness all the way.

But I’m rethinking that now. Weird shorthand is my favorite.

These are my links for March 17th through May 1st:

• Numpty Physics – Numpty Physics is a drawing puzzle game in the spirit (and style?) of Crayon Physics using the same excellent Box2D engine.
• YouTube – Depression Cooking Ep:1 – 91 year old cook and great grandmother, Clara, recounts her childhood during the Great Depression as she prepares meals from the era.
• Studs Terkel : Conversations with America – Terkel interviewed hundreds of people across the USA for his book on the Great Depression of the 1930s. In 1973, he selected several interviews to be broadcast on the Studs Terkel Program. Here are the interviews in those programs.
• G6090 Home Fruit Production: Grape Training Systems, MU Extension – I’m almost out of time in which to get around to pruning that grapevine. Yeep.
• Match It For Pratchett –