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Today is done, today was fun
Jan. 12th, 2016 08:56 pmTomorrow is another one!
I couldn't talk much today, so I used an online text to speech converter. There's a character limit, and the buffering can take awhile, and anyway everybody in this family can read faster than people talk, but the girls and I enjoyed playing with the voices so I usually played what I'd typed in there anyway.
Also, twice I typed in "Who's a good girl? Is it you? Is it you, Mama Cat? You're a good kitty!" to the general hilarity of all. (Except Mama Cat. She didn't get the joke.)
Aaaaaaaand... I sent my mother out to buy me a lottery ticket. You don't have to tell me it's stupid, I know, but as I told my sister it's like that time I was very young and poked around in her wardrobe looking for Narnia. I was more than old enough to know Narnia wasn't there, but I thought I'd feel extra silly if it was there and I never found it.
This is the same thing, except I think I may actually have slightly greater odds of winning an all-expenses paid trip to Narnia, or at least Earthsea or maybe Oz.
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What To Do When YOU — yes, YOU — Win The Lottery (*snrk* I plan, of course, to follow this advice scrupulously!)
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Dear Powerball Winner: Take Our Advice and Take the Annuity Of course, you won't win. As they say here, "You might get very lucky and win one of the smaller prizes. And $4 is nothing to sniff at." I'm not taking $4 as an annuity over 30 years!
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I couldn't talk much today, so I used an online text to speech converter. There's a character limit, and the buffering can take awhile, and anyway everybody in this family can read faster than people talk, but the girls and I enjoyed playing with the voices so I usually played what I'd typed in there anyway.
Also, twice I typed in "Who's a good girl? Is it you? Is it you, Mama Cat? You're a good kitty!" to the general hilarity of all. (Except Mama Cat. She didn't get the joke.)
Aaaaaaaand... I sent my mother out to buy me a lottery ticket. You don't have to tell me it's stupid, I know, but as I told my sister it's like that time I was very young and poked around in her wardrobe looking for Narnia. I was more than old enough to know Narnia wasn't there, but I thought I'd feel extra silly if it was there and I never found it.
This is the same thing, except I think I may actually have slightly greater odds of winning an all-expenses paid trip to Narnia, or at least Earthsea or maybe Oz.
What To Do When YOU — yes, YOU — Win The Lottery (*snrk* I plan, of course, to follow this advice scrupulously!)
What If You Bought All 292 Million of the Possible Powerball Combinations? More
Dear Powerball Winner: Take Our Advice and Take the Annuity Of course, you won't win. As they say here, "You might get very lucky and win one of the smaller prizes. And $4 is nothing to sniff at." I'm not taking $4 as an annuity over 30 years!
The Fascinating Math Behind Why You Won’t Win Powerball
How photonics can reshape the spectrum of light, and rehabilitate Edison's light bulb along the way More
19th-Century Atlases Included Hundreds of Fake Islands
Manchu, Former Empire’s Language, Hangs On at China’s Edge
Korean Girls Try American BBQ (I'm frankly astonished that the narrator was able to confidently declare that this place "does it right", given how acrimonious the subject of the right style of barbecue can be!)
How a Refugee Escaped the Nazis to Become the Father of Video Games
How Batman’s Silly 1960s Series Saved The Dark Knight (That and Batman Beyond were my first Batman, more or less simultaneously.)
A Hardier Honeybee That Fights Back By Biting Back
Researchers try mathematical recipe for slicing pizza
Air quality aside, Odd-Even has changed something bigger - Delhi's mindset
Hollywood Just Got a Tiny Bit Better About Sexism
Fabio Helped Me Escape From a Cult
When a Video-Game World Ends
Why Radio Stations Probably Couldn't Just Play David Bowie Music As A Tribute: Copyright Law Is Messed Up
The new way police are surveilling you: Calculating your threat ‘score’
Report finds more infections from dirty scopes at hospitals
New York Villagers Still Love It When White Dudes Choke Native Americans
The Sorry Legacy of Internet Explorer
How To Help Kids In Poverty Adjust To The Stability Of School After Break
Why forcing kids to do things ‘sooner and faster’ doesn’t get them further in school
The Funny Thing About Abusive Relationships
