Mutant zombie onions
April 7th, 2006 @ 20:13 by NormMonkey
From the something-completely-different department:
I’m finally starting to get into the habit of typing with the AlphaGrip. God, this is so slow! On the other hand, I’m lying on my back on the couch.
End result, this’ll be a short blog, and I may fall asleep. (AZROLB breathes a sigh of relief)
Speaking of being lazy and such, have you looked at the graph lately? Yowza! Just to be clear on some things:
* I ate waaay too much last weekend and got no exercise. I blame The West Wing.
* 90% of my exercise comes from cycling, which has been for crap lately. Bloody weather, eh?
* The fun, graph-wise, oughta start when cycling to work starts. Stay tuned.
Frustrating. I normally type at ~100 words per minute or so. It’s not the (lack of) speed that’s annoying so much as constantly flipping between consciously thinking about (remembering) where letters are — I’m purposefully trying not to look at the ‘grip as much as possible — and what I’m trying to type. And the typos! Auugh! On a normal keyboard, I do greater than 99% accuracy. With the ‘grip, right now, it’s something like 70%. Auugh! At least I know where the backspace key is.
That said, I’m surprised at how quickly I’m getting the hang of it. I feel confident that just a few hours of this will make a huge difference. It’s the unpleasant pain of those hours. As Calvin’s dad would say, “it builds character[s]”.
Har. Har. Har.
And now for something completely different.
I am a bachelor.
I have undeniable proof.
I was just in my kitchen getting a snack and I saw a green tentacle poking out from under a cupboard. Turns out there were some onions hiding in there and instead of rotting and stinking to get my attention they were growing instead! The nerve (heh). They look like green onions growing out the top of the cooking onions that came before. Onions must be pretty remarkable to be able to grow so well in complete darkness and low room temperature. I thought chlorophyll needed sunlight? Maybe I have mutant zombie onions.
And there’s the title for tonight’s post.
Tomorrow I hope to be back with some pictures and the stuff I said I’d do from the last post. In the meantime, I do believe this is my first fully-’griptyped blog. And given there aren’t too many ‘grips out there, maybe the first ever?
First ever about onions, certainly. Not much in the groundbreaking department, but I’ll take it.
