Rain should not fall at an angle more horizontal than vertical.
Whoever came up with the idea for a warning chime to let you know your headlights are still on is a genius, and has saved my car battery many times over.
It doesn’t take much rain to screw up freeway visibility. I could swear I’ve driven in heavier rain and been able to see better.
Our apartment complex suffers from the same problem as UCI: no one bothered to build in decent drainage. Fortunately that’s only been a problem with the sidewalks so far, and not, say, parking or storage.
What the heck is “white whole wheat” flour? It sounds like raw Twinkies, or wild tofu, or Sweet ’n’ Bland. Is it a 50/50 blend or something?
If you run a Persian restaurant, and advertise belly dancers, no one really cares whether the dances are authentic. On that note, Caspian is very loud, at least on Saturday nights. But the food’s good.
The web is a stranger place than you think. Yesterday I was looking at website referrer stats, and discovered a link to our Comic Con photos on a site that specializes in super-heroine, uh, “fantasies.” I.e. dressing models up as superheroines and then, shall we say, reversing the process. Apparently with rope often involved, though that’s almost classic if you’ve seen any 1940s-era Wonder Woman. They had a page full of links to people’s convention photos, focusing on cosplayers.
Just how do they fit Christmas lights into the box? I’d rather let the cord tangle up and then untangle it next year than go through the exercise in frustration that involves trying to get them all into the plastic framework, only to have them pop out, not fit in the box, etc. At least when you untangle them to put them up, you get something out of it: pretty lights on the tree (or window, or roofline, etc.) All you get from carefully placing each light in the frame is a box you’re going to put away and ignore for 11 months, and you can get that much more easily just by jamming the string of lights into the box in the first place.
White whole wheat is whole wheat flour made from white wheat. Whole wheat nutrition, white color, texture somewhere in between. I’ve never used it, since I like my WW baked goods to telegraph that they’re WW.
–KLF, from work
No no no … not www, try www instead
White whole wheat, as has already been demonstrated, is misleading. There’s something arcane and subtle about arranging adjectives in just the right way to convey the exact message you want to send. Obviously, whoever named white whole wheat was not paying much attention or got confused by the overwhelming preponderance of wh noises in the phrase, because white whole wheat implies whole wheat that’s been made white (qv. kelson). To wit: whole modifies wheat more strictly than white because, well, it’s closer. Less strictly, white modifies the entirety of the adjectival phrase whole wheat, which is where the ambiguity comes in.1 Diagrammatically: (White (whole wheat))? … exactly.
On the other hand, had someone with a highly oversensitive sense of grammar walked by and asked, “What the heck are you naming that thing?” she might have been able to convince Mr. Product Namer to change it to (whole (white wheat)), where white properly modifies wheat more strictly than whole, and although this might lead some inquisitive people to wonder “What’s white wheat?” there’s less confusion about whether the flour in question is whole-wheat or refined.
Lights, cardboard, action
Get a piece of cardboard or poster-board slightly longer than the length of your light box and wrap your lights around it. The plastic torture grid was designed by factory workers to make sure each bulb remained safe and pure. The trick with this technique is just to wrap the lights evenly enough to get them back the box. A clot at the middle will kill you.
Re: Lights, cardboard, action
Thanks, I’ll have to try that. (I assume you mean slightly shorter than the box, right?)