i'm not sure what the difference is...

sometimes, i read/hear about what young, childless couples do with their time and money, and i wish i could live that lifestyle...

and then it hits me. dink. that's me. i live in a dink household (for now).

it's weird, but going from "i can't" to "i wish i could, but i choose not to" feels completely different.

and from a few days ago...

Matthew: aaaaaaaaa
i just dropped a spoonful of yogurt on my pants
and not just any spoonful
the last spoonful
me: doubly tragic!
Matthew: it's a hattrick
these were just washed

i'm... a horrible nerd...

gtalk excerpt:

me: wow, i'm efficient
Joseph: for a woman
me: =(
Joseph: haha
I'm kidding, you're O(1)
me: !
yay me!
Joseph: haha
me: wow, we're nerds...

have you ever thought...

that homosexuality might be god's solution to overpopulation?

it's the little annoyances...

yay for google groups! one small annoyance has now been addressed.

basically, google reader implemented a "kept unread" category--posts that you have not specifically marked as "read" (implicitly or explicitly), but have fallen off the bottom of whatever reader's threshold for "too old to still appear bolded" go into this category.

the problem is that there's no way to get them *out* of this category. because they're too old to still appear bolded, the "mark as read" checkbox is gone. "mark all as read" doesn't work either.

the solution? star the offending posts. in your "starred items" list, the posts will once again have their "mark as unread" checkboxes.

when i tried this, i found that i had to individually address each checkbox. "mark all as read" removed the "mark as read" checkbox instead of actually checking them. i only had two, so it wasn't a big deal, but there is a potential for this to get very annoying.

i like the idea of the "kept unread" list, but i think i'd rather not have it if it doesn't re-enable the "mark as read" checkboxes. jumping through hoops with the starred list is not worth it.

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update: in some kind of unhandled-scenario hilarity, if you then uncheck the "mark as read" on those posts, the unread post count on the feed will increment, but the post itself will not show up as unread in that feed. ghost post. brilliant.

Lucky me...

There's a potassium chloride-based table salt substitute (KCl for NaCl) that Campbell's is using in their Select Harvest line to reduce sodium. In a sense, this is a good thing. Most of us consume too much sodium.

Unfortunately for me, I am among those to whom potassium chloride tastes nothing like sodium chloride (table salt). To me, tasting soup salted with this alternate salt left my entire mouth feeling metallic, almost rusty. And this isn't a side effect for me--it's the only effect. The soup tastes un(table)salted altogether.

I am completely disappointed that one of my favorite soups has been rendered pretty much inedible to me. My mouth still tastes weird.