Random Saturday Morning

The joy of a puppy's clipped claws against your naked back really isn't my favorite way to begin the weekend and that desire further shrinks when you consider that this was before 6:30 this morning. But its alright, plenty to get getting to this overcast morning. But first, a few links to share, a new word I came up with last night and a question for the masses.

We're taking the dryer fire back up to Santa Cruz, its going to take part in a going away party with drums, fire and firedancers. I will attempt to record some of it. My other project for the morning is to go and get, cut and try to get a bamboo container built for the end of our deck. The two quotes of the week are, "Good fences make good neighbors" and "An armed society is a polite society". The bamboo will obstruct the deck to deck view possible now and will, hopefully, return some sense of privacy to the deck. And then there's the house on the other side with two windows staring down at our back yard. Every so often I get pissed off at the idiot who designed this little installation of houses without any regard for some of the sightlines he was designing. But hey, its all good, a year and nine months or so and we'll be moving on, not that I'm counting or anything, really.

Random Links
Tatra Mac G4 - fastest Mac on the four wheels, $14 Steadycam and


:: how jedi are you? ::
via Jim, I think.

New Word
Returnity or retirnity - the length of time it takes from when you decide to return something and when you actually do return it or how long it takes to get through the return line.

I like this one alot.

And the Question
Is it possible to get Google to tell where sites rank for different searches automatically? Like a Google ranking widget or something.