Yeah, your celery lead to a long journey through the history of silverware. (To the WABAC machine!)

Apparently at one time practically everything had its own fork. Even ice cream; turns out an ice cream fork is just a high-class, fancy spork though. I also found out about other crazy-specific silverware, such as the waffle knife and the Saratoga chip server.

Did you know that at one time, parts of the Roman Catholic Church were against forks?

Asparagus has its own fork? And an anniversary? Lord above…

That seems like a very civilized way to get celery out of a jar. Plus this post lead to the discovery that there is a special fork for serving asparagus. (And thence to the question of which anniversary is the Asparagus Anniversary.)

I usually get a headache that lasts most of the day.

I'm also convinced that I'm ten times more likely to have a panic attack if I don't get enough beauty sleep.

Go figure.

In unrelated news, I'm now convinced that 75% of that hungover feeling I used to get was from lack of sleep. When I sleep less than 6 hours, I feel almost exactly like I used to when I had a "late" night.

Yes, I prefer to write, prefer that to much anything else. Writing is where the truth gets put on the table.

gooddogs.

How about a blink key? Netscape Navigator circa 1995, anyone?

They do say 1+1+1 is a crowd. I'm much more comfortable one-on-one. Actually, I'm much better in writing; but I think that's due to the typical introvert trait of preferring to think through your answer before saying it.

If only there were a bold key.

Around here we assume anyone typing in all-caps was working in AutoCAD when you interrupted them (engineering drawings are in all-caps). It's taken all the meaning out of the caps lock key. THE CAPS MEAN NOTHING TO ME.

Thanks!
I'm used to being 1984'd. My catchphrase at work is "we've always been at war with Oceania".

Re: tism — 1984'ed!

Re: SMTP — ya, my host's email server has its eyes crossed the last few days. :-(

Whoa… "SMTP Error"

I've been informed that I should have said tism instead of using real names in my last comment… Can you edit it?

I bet the Tokyoians get real tired if this movie. :-D

In other news, sometimes I have the site ping twitter.com and with one sometime, this happened:

Just like old times!

j: Nothing wrong with a little extra details now and then.

k: Nothing wrong with a little peek in the Facebook toilet now and again to see what people from the former lives are up to.

Stats, especially ones that really try to define the visitor, are generally just best guesses. I do know that you and tism are in MT but often reported as being in PT.

More fun facts: 6 AM and 10 PM are the most popular hours and the 22nd is the most popular day of the month, followed closely by the 24th.

I would wager between you, tism, jimi and myself we make up the majority of the visitors with the odd Google search result straggler from Russian speaking Muscat thrown in for good measure.

One more data point definition: all stats are based on a combo of unique IP and unique host.

:)

You seem to be oddly popular in Canada. Just taking the two largest numbers there, since that's close to 100% of your traffic, based on population I'd expect 10% Canada, 90% US, plus you live in the US and therefore likely know more people there, so it should be more skewed toward US. I think my obsessive browser refreshing is messing with your stats. Or it's tism. Let's blame tism.

You're also far more widely read in France and Russia than I would have imagined. Well, assuming the language setting reflects the person's location. I'm assuming Americans aren't going to be using Canadian English, but perhaps you know a substantial number of Canada-US immigrants. More data required.