Author: LMAshton

Howdy! I'm a beginner artist, hobbyist photographer, kitchen witch, wanderer by nature, and hermit introvert. This is my blog feed. You can find my fediverse posts at https://a.farook.org/Laurie.
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On a more serious note…

Fahim’s mom landed in the hospital. Luckily, they had a soft enough bed so the landing didn’t…

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Sacrilege humour

Jesus and Satan were having an on-going argument about who was better on the computer. They had…

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And then there’s the Mac…

Turned into an iWipe.

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Sounds like it’s “Make Fun of MicroSlop” day

So these three Microsoft employees are driving back to Redmond from a company retreat and the brakes…

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A modern version of “Who’s on first?”

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello’s infamous sketch "Who’s on First?" might have turned out something like this:…

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And then there’s Bill vs. GM…

And oldie but a goodie… —– Bill Gates recently reportedly compared the computer industry with the auto…

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Windows Really Good Edition

Check it out. 😀

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Shopping for Festival

There are two major Muslim festivals each year. The first and most important is Id-Ul-Fitr, Ramadan Festival…

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How do lizards climb straight up?

They manage, probably with their incredible nails. See this pic of the lizard climbing straight up a…

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More on lizards

When that lizard was startled, it moved at a pretty good pace. Faster than me, that’s for…

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Borax and Sugar and Ants, Oh My!

Borax and sugar kills the ants so incredibly well, it’s delightful! Except that the big brown ants…

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Monitor Lizards

I learned something new today. Well, a whole lot of things, really, but I’ll stick to the…

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Lizard Really Be Gone

About 3 this afternoon, a good five hours after this all began and two and a half…

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Lizard Be Gone

We still haven’t heard the lizard since I mentioned it above. I can’t tell if it’s actually…

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Lunch?

The fish is almost done, the rice is, and the eggplant and the peppers are coming along…

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Lunch?

It tried climbing up our living room window. Course, it didn’t work well, being glass and all….

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Animal Control?

If this problem happened in, say, Canada or the US, we could potentially called Animal Control or…

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Barbecue!!!!!

So*. One suggestion that came from a forum where I’d posted about this was to catch the…

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Lizard!

We’ve now figured out what all the commotion was earlier. See, what first alerted us to the…

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The Siege of the Monitor Lizard

A lizard fell off the roof of our house. What was it doing on our roof? Living…

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Have any interesting dreams lately?

Or, for that matter, boring dreams? Either way, plug in keywords from your dreams into this and…

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The firecrackers…

Continued all night, as did the guy with the loudspeaker. Church bells started ringing again at 4:30,…

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What part of Dong-Ma don’t you understand?

I have a friend who’s looking for a t-shirt that says that. It’s from Serenity. Or Firefly….

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Organic Art

There’s a cool little flash thingie that you can plug a URL into and it’ll create a…

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We’ve been hit! We’ve been hit!

(I’m really hoping those sounds I’m hearing aren’t firecrackers hitting our house.)