Praise then darkness, and creation unfinished

cattitude called a little while ago, to say he was on his way home, and would be taking the 1 train because the A isn't running this far north right now. And before I could ask him to pick something up at the store, he told me that he was staring at a billboard advertising Lindenmayer systems. To which I said, "Isn't that an abstraction?"

It is. The ad asked "How does your garden grow?" and included something about a fertilizer that was safe, organic, and context-free. Which sounds like another in the long line of people misusing scientific technology to sell nostrums.

There was, of course, an URL. In the course of asking Cattitude for it, him saying he didn't have enough paper to write down the whole slogan, and getting him to give me the URL, I completely forgot that we need toilet paper. I did, however, confirm that the URL was valid, and that they are not selling fertilizer, organic or otherwise.

[Cattitude took a photo of the billboard with his cellphone. If it's good, I'll edit this post to add it.]

adrian_turtle and I are making oatmeal, and somehow the conversation wandered to it not being finger food, and thus to the following question: has anyone made and sold oatmeal on a stick as a state fair food?

There's been a plastic Darth Vader sitting in the compactor room of our building for the last day or two. Yesterday, cattitude mentioned it and I said "I don't want it." He agreed.

This morning, he said "I have to take a look at it," and did. It plays music. At that point, I guessed it had been discarded by a parent who couldn't deal with the music Furthermore, it's a Pez dispenser. Cattitude said something about it, and I replied "No, the question is how much we can get for it on eBay."

So it's sitting in our apartment, and I just did a little googling. We won't get rich, but it is worth listing, I think. Not quite as pure a windfall as the Travelzoo stock--another thing I did this morning is I instructed the broker to send me a check for the money I got for that stock--but life in the Internet age is sometimes weird.

Mostly I like it, and not just for LJ: I have two long-distance sweeties I would never have met if not for the net, and who I talk to online more often than I get to see them in person.