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8 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 6 replies · +1 points

I feel that there will be some interest in this app project from the commentariat here. And possibly from the editorial side. This is good work, and it is work that needs to be done.

8 years ago @ The Toast - Friday Open Thread! · 0 replies · +2 points

They even flower! Any dish can be an air plant dish! I have some in a long narrow thing that was supposed to be for olives (??) and a flat white Ikea serving dish. Old ashtrays or something with a pretty rim would be good too. Their great enemy is too much moisture, and they need air circulation, so I have only once tried a terrarium and they didn't do well---water pools for too long at the base of the leaves, and they rot out. (That's why a single short mist squirt is enough.)

Bright indirect light seems to be very helpful to them, I had some arranged in a very dim inner room and they sulked and finally gave up the ghost.

8 years ago @ The Toast - Friday Open Thread! · 0 replies · +3 points

Hi! I'm glad you're doing better! That's too bad about your program. Maybe something else will turn up?

8 years ago @ The Toast - Friday Open Thread! · 0 replies · +6 points

Your parents may also be getting into a "unmarried daughter will live at home and take care of us" mindset. You should probably stay out of the whole minefield...

8 years ago @ The Toast - Friday Open Thread! · 1 reply · +4 points

I posted below and then looked around and realized, you might like bromelliads too, if what you love is that beautiful spiralling symmetry. They come large and small. I have never gotten one to flower again! But I love the variegated leaves. You can sometimes find them even in supermarket florists!

8 years ago @ The Toast - Friday Open Thread! · 2 replies · +2 points

Haworthias ("washboard plant") have great visual texture of this kind---ribbing on the leaves as well as the leaf growth pattern.

You might like to try some tillandsias---air plants---as well; I have huge success with them growing in bright indirect light. Some are bedded in pebbles (in various shallow dishes---the pebbles just hold them up) and some I actually got the "Tilly Tacker" glue for and glued them to bits of driftwood and rocks and stuff for a kind of diorama; again, a thin layer of polished pebbles makes it look finished. Add plastic figurines as you like. Mist daily (JUST MIST, don't soak).

8 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 2 replies · +6 points

Gah, condolences! Your boss (and possibly your organization) seems to be sitting uncomfortably in that awkard uncomfortable place between amateurism and professionalism, and whyyyyy won't you join her there? As her handmaiden? Willingly placing your life on the altar of her whimsy? And her personal vision of what and how the organization should run? (This is both especially prevalent and systematically toxic in nonprofits and volunteer-heavy groups.)

In the case of the Facebook page for the 5K, sounds like not-my-idea-therefore-bad-idea syndrome, which may be curable by ignoring her, I've done that, waiting for idiot boss to wander on to some other pile of nits. About a 50-50 success rate.

Hope you do open that bottle of wine, pour a few ounces, savor them, and after a suitable interval set sails for homeward bound. And have a lovely weekend---it's the best revenge!

8 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 2 replies · +7 points

Rhik pinup-poses with a new whisk. The whisk is far less alarming than some of the objects that have been reviewed so far.

8 years ago @ The Toast - Link Roundup! · 0 replies · +3 points

Baron Munchausen says yes!

8 years ago @ The Toast - Cocktail Hour: Open Th... · 0 replies · +12 points

From your description, this guy is providing neither friendship nor benefits.

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