| Fun Facts About Me |
| - I sleep with at least a foot or hand dangling off the bed. - My favorite color is teal. - I have 3 beauty marks: cheek, back, lower cheek. - I like Kraft mac & cheese and hot cocoa on cold days. - I love old romantic comedy musicals. - I have big feet. 
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| P'an-Chin-Lien |
| The Chinese Goddess of prostitutes. As a mortal, she was a widow who was much too liberal and inventive with her favors, and her father-in-law killed her. In death she was honored by her more professional associates and eventually became the goddess of whores. |
| Baklava Cups |
1 (2 1/8oz) box frozen miniature phyllo cups
2/3 c. chopped mixed nuts
1-2 tsp. sugar
1/4 c. honey
1 tsp. water1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees.
2. Place the shells on a baking sheet. Mix the sugar and chopped nuts and fill the shells. Bake for 8 minutes or until the shells are lightly browned.
3. Mix the honey and water in a small bowl and drizzle over the nuts. Serve warm or at room temperature. |
| Kujiga: Korean Chant |
| Song sung by the nine elders of Kaya when summoning King Suro. One of the earliest (if not the first) recorded instance of a shamanistic ritual (kut) in Korea. Keobuga, Keobuga
Meorireul naeeora
Naeeonoch'i aneumyeon
Kuweo meogeuri
"Turtle, Turtle
Stick out your head
If you don't
We'll roast and eat you" |
| Cortigiana Onesta |
| In Italy, known as honest courtesans, the cortigiana onesta were usually well-educated and worldly (sometimes even more so than the average upper-class woman), and often held simultaneous careers as performers or artists. They were typically chosen on the basis of their "breeding"--social and conversational skills, intelligence, common sense, and companionship--as well as their physical attributes. It was usually their wit and personality that set them apart from regular women. They were prostitutes in the sense that sex was one of their obligations, but unlike the average prostitute, sex constituted only a facet of the courtesan's array of services. For example, they were expected to be well-dressed and ready to engage in a variety of topics ranging from art to music to politics. |
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| Tuesday, November 06, 2007 |
| Rube Goldberg format site! |
This delightful German site selling... I'm not sure.
Just let it load, don't click anything, and enjoy the show!
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| Wednesday, October 31, 2007 |
| Happy Halloween! |
Found on eternallycool.com:
"The crypt of the church comprises five chapels, the floors of which are covered with earth brought from the Holy Land. Friars that were part of the Capucin community at this church were buried in that holy earth, but when the space was filled, bodies of the long deceased were dug up and dismantled to make room for new occupants. The bones of the disinterred - from some 4000 bodies dating between 1528 and 1870 - were then used to create intricate designs that cover the walls and the vaults of the chapels."
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| posted by Coddswaddle @ 9:51 AM |
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| Monday, October 22, 2007 |
| Brilliant!! USB Disk Dock lets you plug in hard drives |
Now you can hook up a dirt-cheap SATA disk drive to your PC or Mac by simply plugging it into this USB desktop adapter that works just like an iPod dock. Until now, if you wanted to add a bare hard drive to your computer, you either had to put it in some sort of enclosure, or open up the hood of your PC and install it next to the other drive in there. That's not easy for the uninitiated.
This disk dock couldn't be simpler, accommodating 2.5-inch and 3.5-inch disks that you simply plug into its top. It's a cinch to connect it to your PC or Mac, too, because all you need to do is hook up a USB cable between this dock and your computer, just like you do with your digital camera. Then that naked hard drive acts just like any more-expensive external drive. All this convenience is relatively cheap, costing you just $46.79. — Charlie White, Geeks4U
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| posted by Coddswaddle @ 11:15 AM |
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| Friday, October 19, 2007 |
| Orbiting Frog Otolith |
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
The Orbiting Frog Otolith (OFO) was a NASA space program which resulted in the successful launch in 1970 of the Orbiting Frog Otolith spacecraft (OFO-A mission), sending two bullfrogs into orbit for the study of weightlessness. The name, derived through common use, was a functional description of the biological experiment carried by the satellite. Otolith referred to the frog's inner-ear balance mechanism.
The Orbiting Frog Otolith Program was a part of the research program of NASA's Office of Advanced Research and Technology (OART). One of the goals of the OART was to study vestibular organ function in space and on the Earth.
The OFO experiment was designed to allow researchers to collect neurophysiological data on the response of the otolith to prolonged periods of weightlessness. The otolith is a part of the inner ear that is associated with equilibrium control: acceleration with respect to gravity as its primary sensory input.  The Orbiting Frog Otolith (OFO) spacecraft.
(This is what happened when I was wiki-ing the names of various encryption codes.)Labels: frog, link, otolith, space |
| posted by Coddswaddle @ 9:53 AM |
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| Monday, October 15, 2007 |
| And another one |
Odd, isn't it? Ya'll don't hear from me for ages and you get three... count 'em: THREE (3) posts in one morning! Why? Because I dread the fiscal year-end refiling and archiving I have to do. Prastination.
So, turns out Mario's mushrooms are real. Amanita muscaria is an adorable little red cap found throughout the world. Also known as fly agaric or Fly Amanita it has a strange ability. No, it won't make you triple in size, but it'll make you trip balls... or die. You know, whichever.
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| posted by Coddswaddle @ 9:59 AM |
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| Wednesday, September 26, 2007 |
| How I’d Sink American Vogue |
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| posted by Coddswaddle @ 10:25 AM |
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| Friday, August 03, 2007 |
| Age Inspires |
The world doesn't stop. Not for you; not for me. And amazing things come with age: experience, history, discoveries...
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| posted by Coddswaddle @ 8:04 PM |
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| Age Inspires |
The world doesn't stop. Not for you; not for me. And amazing things come with age: experience, history, discoveries...
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| posted by Coddswaddle @ 8:04 PM |
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| Tuesday, June 05, 2007 |
| A Pox on your History- Reviewed by E. Michael Jones, Ph.D. |
At some point during late 1967 or early 1968, I decided that in order to complete a novel I was attempting to write, I needed the help of a creative writing instructor. I had already shown some of the stories I had written to Hiram Hayden, who was teaching at the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, but decided that I needed advice on a weekly basis, and Hayden, who was at the end of an illustrious career, wasn’t available. That’s how I met Bob Summers. He was an ad man turned playwright who was, I would estimate, 20 to 25 years older than me. His most famous play was The Seeds in the Passes. It had been performed, which is accomplishment enough, in both theaters and on TV. For the next year or so, we met on a weekly basis. He was, as I remember, a sympathetic listener who always had something encouraging and intelligent to say. We became friends. He introduced me to the woman he was living with at the time, who had a dance troupe and had just had a child by him. Bob was involved in fighting the city of Philadelphia’s ill-fated cross-town expressway at the time, a 10-lane monstrosity which was planned to go down South Street in Philadelphia and would have permanently altered the relationship between the center of town and the Italian and Jewish neighborhoods to the south. As part of those efforts, he was also instrumental in the founding of The Painted Bride, a coffee house ahead of its time in its anticipation of the rebirth of boho South Street out of the ashes of the former retail garment district. Bob scheduled poetry readings at the Painted Bride and brought the same sympathy to that operation that he brought to the creative writing classes.
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| posted by Coddswaddle @ 12:57 PM |
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| Tuesday, May 29, 2007 |
| Tea Time |
The story of tea began in ancient China over 5,000 years ago. According to legend, Shen Nung, an early emperor was a skilled ruler, creative scientist and patron of the arts. His far-sighted edicts required, among other things, that all drinking water be boiled as a hygienic precaution. One summer day while visiting a distant region of his realm, he and the court stopped to rest. In accordance with his ruling, the servants began to boil water for the court to drink. Dried leaves from the near by bush fell into the boiling water, and a brown liquid was infused into the water. As a scientist, the Emperor was interested in the new liquid, drank some, and found it very refreshing. And so, according to legend, tea was created. (This myth maintains such a practical narrative, that many mythologists believe it may relate closely to the actual events, now lost in ancient history.)
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| posted by Coddswaddle @ 8:18 AM |
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| Monday, May 07, 2007 |
| Dog owners 'fleeced' in poodle scam |
(Is it a lamb? Is it a poodle? Can you spot the difference?) Thousands of people have been 'fleeced' into buying neatly coiffured lambs they thought were poodles. Entire flocks of lambs were shipped over from the UK and Australia to Japan by an internet company and marketed as the latest 'must have' accessory. But the scam was only spotted after a leading Japanese actress said her 'poodle' didn't bark and refused to eat dog food. Like hundreds of Metro.co.uk readers, we also think this has a whiff of the 'urban myth' about it - but hey, it's a good story. Maiko Kawakami, who starred in the Japanese thriller Violent Cop, showed photographs of her pet on a television talk show only to be told it wasn't a dog - but was in fact a lamb. The discovery prompted hundreds of women to contact the police with similar problems and the authorities believe as many as 2,000 people have been conned. 'We launched an investigation after we were made aware that a company was selling sheep as poodles,' a police spokesman told The Sun. 'Sadly, we think there is more than one company operating in this way. 'The sheep are believed to have been imported from overseas - Britain and Australia.' Poodles are famously used by the rich and glamourous on the continent but are extremely rare in Japan, with many people having little idea what they look like. The company, which translates as Poodles as Pets, sold the 'poodles' for £630, about half the cost of a normal poodle but is now understood to have been shut down. Labels: japan, lamb, link, poodle |
| posted by Coddswaddle @ 2:51 PM |
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| About Me |
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Name: Coddswaddle
High Priestess of the Dark Lord Internet
About Me: I was hatched long ago by a slightly neurotic squirrel. It was from that rodent that I cultivated an interest in shiny objects and innovative design. Marketing is a trial for me as I navigate the aisles of plastic-wrapped promotional products. At home I like to shoot aliens while smack-talking, cuddling my cats, and causing my fiancée grief.
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