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Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » Motorized Spray Bottle - Have We Really Become This Lazy?

Karen in Wichita — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:41:08 -0000

I dunno, I know several people with arthritis who'd find it useful. It'd be more useful to have a motorized squeezer to use on existing bottles, though, since I can't imagine buying a different one for every spray product you'd ever want to use.

Re: OhGizmo! » Archive » Inflatable Bungee Ride - Fun First, Safety Second

Karen in Wichita — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:08:56 -0000

It's just an inflatable version of the powerjump/eurobungee thing, which seems to have become a staple with the travelling carnival-ride set. They usually already have an inflatable trampoline at the bottom, so I'm not so sure inflatable towers would be any less risky than the folding sort. Or maybe less so... usually when an inflatable fails it's not as catastrophic as "Whoops, guess we forgot to tighten something when we whipped that together at oh-dark-hundred this morning..."

Re: A California Girl in Kansas

Karen in Wichita — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 22:11:07 -0000

Pug faces. You gotta love them.

When we got a dachshund, I was told we *should* be able to see the last 3 or 4 ribs, and that most housepets are at least slightly fat. It's when you can see too much *spine* that you want to fatten them up.

Naturally, we have one too-skinny dog (elderly mixed-breed with reduced taste/smell issues, not interested in food), and one at-least-slightly-fat dachshund (as far as I can tell, dachshunds have appetite disorders, and would readily eat themselves to death), which makes feeding time ...interesting.

Re: Honesty.

Karen in Wichita — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:15:16 -0000

I think when a ton of people meet who have nothing universally in common except "we live in Wichita and use Twitter," some of those people are going to have nothing *else* in common. In, probably, more cases than not. I don't think you should let that worry you. View the big Tweetup events as a mixer, not as a commitment. Granted, my introversion biases me, but I can't see how the recent density of large events is sustainable for *anyone*.

And I definitely don't think you should change your behavior based on your expectations of others' expectations. That's also not sustainable - it's counter-productive with friends, and ultimately pointless with acquaintances.

Re: My take on the rotating blogroll

Karen in Wichita — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:05:35 -0000

I use Google Reader's ability to share folders, and Blogger's ability to display RSS feeds. I show the most recent ten or fifteen posts in the sidebar, and if somebody wants to see the whole blogroll they can hop out to GReader anytime.

Blogger has some kind of method to display the whole blogroll, too, but I don't like to delete inactive blogs (sometimes they come back) but I don't like to necessarily give them the same standing on my own pages (sometimes they come back as malware/porn sites), so I like my method better.

And of course since I actually use GReader to read blogs, I don't have to go "oh, I started reading a few new blogs, I should get around to putting them in the blogroll."

Re: Blessed?

Karen in Wichita — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:29:25 -0000

As I've heard it explained, everything is a blessing to the believer, nothing is a blessing to the unbeliever. Which in a way seems kind of tautological, but stuff like Psalm 73 addresses the earthly good things of nonbelievers, and stuff like Romans 8 ("All things work together for good..." etc.) addresses the bad things for believers. So it's a theologically defensible position.

It's not an entirely satisfactory answer. Especially when you're considering how others may read the implications. You don't want to have to go around disclaiming things: "God has blessed me with health... though Psalm 73 says 'the wicked' may also be healthy, and Romans 8 says that even if I wasn't healthy, I'd still be blessed..." So... yeah.

I can be more vague upon request.