incarnadine \in-KAR-nuh-dyn\ , adjective, verb:
1. Having a fleshy pink color.
2. Red; blood-red.
transitive verb:
1. To make red or crimson.
There, I made the link incarnadine.
October 2, 2009
incarnadine
There, I made the link incarnadine.
October 1, 2009
Fury Forments Fish Frying Fit
Cops: Woman fried, ate goldfish amid fight with ex
From AP Pasadena, Texas 
A Houston-area woman was so angry at her former common-law husband that she fried the family goldfish and ate three of the seven.
Good Grief. I'm not gobsmacked so much by the woman eating them; shoot, if you've already cooked 'em up...but no, I'm trying to wrap my head around this creepy act of revenge committed by a woman who is obviously a stand or two off bottom, yet the semi-brilliant thing is she probably knew there's a good chance of not being charged with any crime.
Why do dogs pee on hydrants?
Via Bits & Pieces
Why do dogs pee on hydrants?:
Dogs—like all other canids—leave urine conspicuously splashed on all manner of object. Urine marking, as this method of communication is called, conveys a message. Every dog owner is familiar with the raised-leg marking of fire hydrants, lampposts, trees, bushes. Most marked spots are high or prominent: better to be seen, and better for the odor to be smelled.
From observations of the behavior of sniffing dogs, it appears that the chemicals in the urine give information about, for females, sexual readiness, and for males, their social confidence. The prevailing myth is that the message is “this is mine,” that dogs urinate to “mark territory.” But research has failed to bear this out as the exclusive, or even predominant, use of urine marking. Instead, marking seems to leave information about who the urinator is, how often he walks by this spot, his recent victories, and his interest in mating. In this way, the invisible pile of scents on the hydrant becomes a community bulletin board, with old, deteriorating announcements and requests peeking out from underneath more recent posts.
Partial to a Plum-Colored Plymouth
You Are a Confident Purple Car |
 You're definitely an unusual person. Some people may even call you "weird" or "freaky." Luckily for you, you don't care what others think. If anything, you enjoy it when people think you're strange! You are offbeat and eccentric. You see the world a little differently than everyone else does. You are seen as mysterious. People are very curious about you... whether they know you well already or not. |
NOTE: I don't know if the vehicle shown in the small graphic at the top of the quiz results actually IS a Plymouth. I don't care, either. Might be a Studebaker for all I know.
Just sayin', just in case someone wanted to correct me.
Origami
Insect Origami
When I first saw this older post at Crooked Brains, I thought of our late online friend Brad in Kentucky and how much he would have liked all these examples of one of his favorite hobbies.
Included in the post are other fascinating examples of origami plus links to origami sites.
Origami
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