As the Red Cross is warning about being prepared for potential power outages during high winds, FP would like to add some items to your preparedness checklist:
-battery-operated twinkle lights
-Triscuits and smoked clams or sprats
-canned hummus and more Triscuits
-bulky sweaters
-trashy magazines and a flashlight

Some alternatives to the 100 Mile Diet, wherein one eats only food grown within 100 miles of one’s home:
-The greenhouse diet, where you only eat local foods that are not native to your local climate and must be raised in greenhouses. Very handy in BC.
-The eat the wild animals you can catch in your back yard, who foolishly trust you due to the neighbors feeding them diet.
-The realize that the energy needed to farm the food needed to power your legs is less efficient than a gasoline engine and drive everywhere diet.
-The only eat food that can take public transit diet (primarily vegetarian).
-The carpool diet, where you only eat food transported in groups of two or more.
-The Nerfherder diet, where you only eat candy.

Amazon is plunging into that failprone breach that is online grocery services. (Well, Schwann’s does OK.) But while they will admit to serving the Seattle area, and I have seen their trucks around, they won’t tell you if they serve your area or let you look at their selection and prices unless you give them your name, full address, and phone number. Yay for you, Amazon.

Actually, it’s just that there aren’t enough nerdy girls looking for adventures.

Hey, does anyone want to buy me this for Xmas? It has ninjas!

Further information on salty licorice: some other names for it, such as salmiakki, leading to the discovery of more places to score salty licorice gum!

Seniors protest the bullying of a grade 9 student in cool and entertaining way. This is them in grade 9, baby.

Watching Miss Potter last night, I had a geek “that’s not right!” moment: while a young Beatrix Potter is telling the story of the Two Bad Mice she says that the food in the doll house was porcelain. I said “but wasn’t it a plaster ham?” Upon checking today, yes, it was indeed a plaster ham.

Also, Beatrix wasn’t the overly delicate little girl decrying her brother’s collection of pinned moths: she and her brother skinned various animals to see their muscle and bone structure. Apparently, she also studied fungi in later life. Cool.

An article on the 311 operators in San Francisco: it’s a single phone number for questions about all city services. And SF seems to have a lot of city services. I was thinking it would be even more useful in my area, where there are overlapping city, county, and state jurisdictions for similar services. But if there was more than one jurisdiction, how ever would one fund it?

Many of the questions seem very familiar from library work.