Hippo, birdie, two ewes...

... to the lovely and talented daisy_knotwise!!! Have a great one!!!

If I Had a Hammer

Comcast: 75-Year-Old Sends a Hammering Blow to Comcast's Customer Service

If there is one 75-year-old you do not want to piss off, it's Mona Shaw. Ms Shaw was in the process of switching her phone service from Verizon to Comcast's Triple Play, but after multiple failed attempts, she went ballistic—with a hammer! Ms Shaw vented her fury by smashing up the local Comcast payment center in Manassas, Center Street, Virginia.

As Mona went ape shit with the hammer, destroying inanimate objects around the office, she was reported to have been screaming, "Have I got your attention now?"

Reminds me of the old story of the mule and the 2x4.

Not-so-instant Ramen

Robo Ramen: Japanese Rube Goldberg Machine Makes Ramen in Six Long Minutes

Six minutes in the making, this Japanese Rube Goldberg-esque machine uses skittles, model cars and what looks like miniature junk sails to make a bowl of steaming noodles with an egg on top. The commentator should have got a medal for keeping up the excitement levels.

They don't mention the wax-paper fuse, the crossbow, ...

Walkies

(Cross-posted to mdlbear and healthy_fen.)

Started out at what I hoped was a sustainable pace, but some incipient pain in my left leg soon disabused me of this notion. I did take in the hill on the way out, so got a little actual exercise even without going very quickly: it's a steep hill. Once around the pond, so as not to push my luck on either the legs or the knees.

Stats: time: 46:27; avg: 118; max: 149.

Heard from chumby.com this morning

My chumby is currently in a UPS warehouse in Hong Kong. It will, of course, arrive Friday while I'm at OVFF. So I won't actually have it in my hands until a week from tomorrow. Grumf.