trick or treat!

My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul
dianec42 goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as Ford Prefect.
aliza250 gives you 12 white grape-flavoured jawbreakers.
asimovberlioz gives you 14 red-orange cherry-flavoured gumdrops.
cahwyguy tricks you! You lose 21 pieces of candy!
cevad gives you 1 milky white cinnamon-flavoured jawbreakers.
edgreen86 gives you 7 light yellow root beer-flavoured gummy worms.
lyzard13 tricks you! You get a broken balloon.
merde gives you 14 pink tropical-flavoured gummy worms.
mwhit1978 gives you 2 light blue evil-flavoured jawbreakers.
r_ness gives you 6 red cinnamon-flavoured jawbreakers.
stuartc gives you 12 light yellow orange-flavoured pieces of chewing gum.
dianec42 ends up with 47 pieces of candy, and a broken balloon.
Go trick-or-treating! Username:
Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern.

Weird stuff in the news today

LA Times has an excellent editorial on The Dark Side Of Faith.

IT'S OFFICIAL: Too much religion may be a dangerous thing.

This is the implication of a study reported in the current issue of the Journal of Religion and Society, a publication of Creighton University's Center for the Study of Religion. The study, by evolutionary scientist Gregory S. Paul, looks at the correlation between levels of "popular religiosity" and various "quantifiable societal health" indicators in 18 prosperous democracies, including the United States.

In other news, the BBC notes that Welsh Scrabble is available at last!

And in the Most Excellent F1 Rumours Department, Honda Linked to Mystery New Team.

lunchtime rhapsody

Fresh tomatoes. From the garden. In October.

Sometimes I really like living here...

snip, snip...

Well, I've gone and done it. Just made an appointment for my first haircut in 3 years. ("What, there's a 10:45 on Saturday MORNING now?") I'll do my best not to get talked into anything too crazy due to excessive sleepiness.

I'm going to keep it long, but it's awfully scraggly. Hopefully the "trim" aspect of all this won't be too traumatic. (And yes, this is the "first cut is $20" place. What could possibly go wrong?)