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No one wants to hear me talk about doing laundry all afternoon, or spending fifteen minutes trying to pick out a flea collar.

Ranga is not amused. I don't think he likes flea collars.

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Stolen Post

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I've linked to the Prosthetic Medic before, but I'm going to outright steal his latest post. I encourage you all to read it and sign his petition:

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Today was our library's 7th annual Edible Books Festival! It was my first, though. It was great.
If you're not familiar with the concept, please note: we don't eat the books. (Please don't eat the books.) Instead, members of the community make or bake things that are book-related. We then take a day to judge them - that was today - and then, the next day (tomorrow), we eat them. 
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Aw, poor lemon cake... Don't worry - it'll all be over soon.


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Easter Math!

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Just what you wanted, I'm sure!

Actually, it's really very cool:

Easter is one of the Christian religious holidays without a fixed worldly calendar date. It is celebrated on the first Sunday after the ecclesiastical full moon that occurs on or soonest after March 21. Easter season begins on Easter Sunday and lasts seven weeks. In 500 years (from 1600 to 2099 AD) Easter was and will be most often celebrated on either March 31 or on April 16 (22 times each) – the latter incidentally being this years' date on which Easter Sunday falls. [Source]
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Anyway, this is cool.  

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