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Still tidying up my virtual closets (*cough* *cough* “Some of this old email is really dusty!”) and came across this:

Minutus cantorum, minutus balorum, minutus carborata descendum
pantorum.

That’s Latin for “A little song, a little dance, a little seltzer down your
pants” and it makes me think of my friend Mark.

Just cleaning out a virtual closet and I discovered this handy little creation of mine: PERSONAL REVELATION DISCLOSURE FORM – 1A.

Brrr, Lilly‘s gonna give me nightmares with her vision of the AI Martha Stewart Avatar. Somehow I keep picturing Hal telling me how to redecorate my home…

Welcome Lilly, proud owner of the domain girlhacker.com, to the weblog community. In the first entry to her log she asks a question at the back of all our minds:

Is randomness a useful survival trait?

Fervently hoping,

I remain,

your pal with 18 windows open on my desktop,

Dinah

So, how ’bout them weblogs, huh? I have Peter’s and Ev’s and Meg’s and Justin’s as handy-dandy short cuts in my browser, I read ’em so darn often.

Speaking of handy-dandy, is there a word for words like that? You know, higglety-pigglety, mumbo-jumbo, knick-knack, ping-pong, flip-flop, topsy-turvy (or does that one count?)…

Someone suggested “internal couplets”. Does anyone know of a better term?

[Thanks, Seth, for additional pairs and for pointing me to The Language Instinct. I’ll check it out & see if there’s an answer.]

Woo hoo! Those fabulous rattan laundry baskets are back in stock at Novica. Get ’em while the gettin’s good!

Have you ever heard of Heifer Project International? They are a really great aid organization. Instead of giving food, they give food- and income-producing animals, as well as training in leadership, community development and environmentally sound farming. One thing I really like about them is their insistence that the gift be passed on. Every family who receives an animal signs a contract to pass on the first female offspring to another family in need, and also agrees to pass on to others the training and skills that they have acquired. Actually, I appreciate all their cornerstone values, but that one always stands out in my mind.

Since my grandparents just celebrated their 63rd wedding anniversary, I was looking at some of those lists of the appropriate gifts for each anniversary. I discovered that once you hit the 60th, it’s pretty much diamond from here on out (though platinum appears in a few versions for the 70th). I don’t like diamonds and I know my grandparents don’t have much use for them, so I thought an update was in order.

The Heifersary List

1st – Geese

2nd – Ducks

3rd – Chicks

4th – Honeybees

5th – Rabbits

6th – Trees

10th – Pig

15th – Sheep

20th – Goat

25th – Llama

30th – Water Buffalo

40th – Heifer

50th – The Ark

Naturally, the in-between and 50+ anniversaries can be represented by the appropriate addition. For example, I could give my grandparents a heifer, a goat and some chicks.

So, give it a try. Wouldn’t it be cooler at that 10th anniversary party to be the one who gave a pig instead of something made out of tin?

I’m feeling a little more manly after reading dack.com. Give me a Scotch, neat.

[As of the Internet Archive's first capture of Cardamom.net on this date, the domain is automatically redirecting to MetaGrrrl.com.

Unfortunately the earliest capture of MetaGrrrl.com isn't until February of 1999.]

Photo by Uncle Larry.

 Photo by my mom's cousin Don N.