Today I have introduced the shimmeringjemmy to “Benny Hill”
Yup… So… anyone else remember that trip down amnesia lane :?)
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Picked this up from gootmu who I probably haven’t seen or heard from in close to 5 years.
1. Post a list of ten TV shows or fandoms you follow (current or cancelled).
2. Have your friends list guess your favorite character from each show.
3. When guessed, bold the line and write a sentence about why you like the character.
4. Post in your own LiveJournal.
The list:
1. Doctor Who (Mwa ha ha)
2. Babylon 5
3. Firefly (two answers)
4. M.A.S.H.
5. Wonderfalls
6. Red Dwarf
7. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
8. Family Guy – Brian (solved by matialis93) I like the sarcastic wit and cultured sophistication
9. You can’t do that on television
And, for the final challenge:
10. Space Academy
By now we’ve all be 419’ed in our email. If you’re really lucky, someone has tried to 419 you via IM.
Today I learned about a new 419 variant. Now, a 419 no longer has to do with dead relatives. It is simply a scheme designed to extract money illegally from you as an overseas business arrangement. The reason they are called 419 is because they typically originate from Nigerian Cybercafes where people are told what to type and how to run them.
They are becoming more and more effective because they prey on holes in our system.
This was today’s experience: click and return here to comment.
So, a few nights back I had the opportunity to do some work with some friends. A couple of us in the group really like Port so that was the drink of choice. Personally, I love Port.
Another friend brought over Havarti cheese.
Now, I am violently lactose intolerant. I used to term it lactose incompetent. The former meaning you couldn’t stand something; the latter meaning you couldn’t do something basic like other people, like in my case… process it.
However, over the last few years I’ve transitioned from incompetent into full on intolerance. Now the strong smell of cheese will make me queasy.
But back to the Havarti. See, some cheeses are made from goat’s milk. One example of this is Feta. Actually, most Greek and Mediteranian cheeses are this way. Goat’s milk based cheeses don’t have the lactose sugar in it. My body doesn’t have the enzymes to break down the lactose sugars. Effectively, I get a milk product and it spoils in my stomach. Goat milk based product? No problem.
Once again to the Havarti. Well, I’d had one more glass of port that I typically would in an evening and was feeling…well, happy. I noticed the cheese was Havarti and I was very… VERY happy. I used to love, strike that… ADORE cheese. Not anymore. So I sliced off a wedge. Heavenly. Okay..maybe too heavenly. The Port helped it taste that much better. I had about 3 healthy slices.
Did I mention my spiderman-like cheese sense. See if a cheese has lactose, the smell is repugnant. Well, most of the times. Sometimes I build up a small stock of enzymes. They aren’t really enough to do much but they make the suffering a little less annoying. When the enzymes build up, lactose cheese isn’t quite so horrifying. Lots of Havarti. Yum.
So… later, we go do some temple work. This usually involves sitting in a nice, quiet temple like room while people recite poetry or some such. Towards the end my body got…weird. REALLY weird.
And now some TMI…
See, if your birthday falls on February 29, then you really only age one year out of every 4.
I was born at 5:16 am Eastern time. On the West coast that figures out to be 2:16 am. But this is one of those years where the clocks roll forward. So there was 1:58, 1:59, 3:00. Effectively… there was no 2:16 am where I was…
So I didn’t age this morning.
There may be those on the east coast who disagree with me on this 😉
Yay. Lesser Feast. G’night
2 more posts tomorrow I hope
Weird sudden spontaneous sickness on the 2nd
and a thrilling sole to sole (sic) conversation.
Note the latter will fall under my S&F filter.
And if you haven’t done the poll yet, please do that 😉