Queen Mediocretia of Suburbia

Putting the TMI in absentminded

Month: October 2025

  • UPDATED: Rosie asks about feeds

    UPDATE– Let me know if it worked. I gave it a shot. Well, Rosie and everyone – I admit, I have very spotty knowledge of html and feeds, yet advanced knowledge of other things like reg-edit searches. Some of my old blog feeds send people to a link with the word “Typepad” in it, and…

  • This is a tragedy

    And why? Because that would look SO GOOD on my tiny pea head. Really, I have never been so drawn to a piece of jewelry. I like it even more than the drop pearl tiara that Princess Diana wore. The idea that it’ll be diced up into a hundred pair of earrings breaks my heart.

  • TWIL: About Caecilians

    I heard of this animal from Gary. He is delighted there is an animal he didn’t hear about while getting his Biology major. They didn’t find the fossils until right about the time he started college. Caecilians Caecilians: Are amphibians, cousins to worms and frogs Sound just like “Sicilian” Have tiny eyes Have a phallus…

  • Tofu

    Tofu like Mom used to make. In the early eighties, a Sam’s Club opened up near us, and Mom came back having sampled some tofu textured to resemble stew meat. One of Mom’s capers was on. Of course she followed all the directions (which seemed to be freeze, thaw, rehydrate, and squeeze the tofu) behind…

  • Doing it wrong

    Here is another story that proves the adage “Rich people talk about sex the way poor people talk about money.” Of course, that’s a blanket statement. But I’ve certainly seen instances of it, even in my middle class life, even listening to what passes for dinner table conversation at Mom’s mid to upper middle class…

  • Weekly Paint Progress: 10/16/2025

    This week the toy bank went from this: … to this. It was orignally this.

  • Limitations of AI

    It occurred to me today that AI was great early on in my work project. It whipped up seventeen case studies in a row, scraped documents to find examples supporting my objectives, cobbled together ways to engage remote students. It was like a devoted new boyfriend. That was months ago, though. You know what AI…

  • Huh. Well I was misled.

    So, a few times I posted about the Coldwater Creek Manhattan project radiation lawsuit. Most recently I thought that my Dad being my stepfather meant I couldn’t file, but on actually reading the form it seems I was misled. I have to prove that I lived with him (easy, census), and that he had cancer…

  • Gary’s Scientific Response

    So, apropos of nothing, I was talking to Gary about animal experimentation. “OH THAT’S NOTHING YOU CAN BRING FROGS BACK TO LIFE LIKE THAT” (Snaps fingers.) “Really?” “OH WE DID THAT ALL THE TIME IN BIOLOGY LAB. AND ORGANS; YOU JUST FLOAT AN ORGAN IN RINGER SOLUTION, WHICH IS BLOOD PLUS SUGAR, AND IT’LL STAY…

  • TWIL: About experiments in the revival of organisms

    … only it wasn’t something I learned this week. I learned about it months ago. It’s a short film documenting Russian scientists’ efforts to create the heart/lung machine. It is truly disturbing. It got stuck in my head and won’t leave. It could have just stayed there, but since I watched Guardians of the Galaxy…