Exclamation Point Day
I now have an RSS feed! — which you can access at http://www.onomatopoeia.org/onomatopoeia.rss. If you don't know what that means, then you can ignore this and move on down, but for the more tech-savvy folks out there, it means you can add this site to your LiveJournal (and possibly other sites as well) Friends list, meaning you don't have to check back here all the time. On LJ the username for the feed is 'onomatofeed', if that's easier for you to cut and paste.
I'm still working the kinks out of it, so I can't guarantee it'll work every day for a while, but I'm doing my best. (Still looking for a good way to re-map non-UTF-8 characters to their HTML equivalents via PHP, without using one by one replacements for everything — if anyone has any good ideas, give me a shout).
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It rained all day today! No more purple air. No more dead plants. (Well, the ones that are dead are kind of permanently that way, but the soil in my flower boxes looks kind of normal again now instead of like sand from the Gobi or something). I feel like I live on earth again instead of in some giant furnace.
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I have a gecko in my sink! He set up camp there last night and started eating the little fruit fly gnat things that had showed up a day or two ago. He's only about an inch and a half long, but just the right size for eating gnats. The little lizard was gone this morning, and I hope it was into the wall or something and not into the garbage disposal, as that would kind of suck (seeing as how I had to use it to flush down some zucchini earlier). Ah, poor gecko — it makes me sad to even think of that. Oh well.
I'm still working the kinks out of it, so I can't guarantee it'll work every day for a while, but I'm doing my best. (Still looking for a good way to re-map non-UTF-8 characters to their HTML equivalents via PHP, without using one by one replacements for everything — if anyone has any good ideas, give me a shout).
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It rained all day today! No more purple air. No more dead plants. (Well, the ones that are dead are kind of permanently that way, but the soil in my flower boxes looks kind of normal again now instead of like sand from the Gobi or something). I feel like I live on earth again instead of in some giant furnace.
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I have a gecko in my sink! He set up camp there last night and started eating the little fruit fly gnat things that had showed up a day or two ago. He's only about an inch and a half long, but just the right size for eating gnats. The little lizard was gone this morning, and I hope it was into the wall or something and not into the garbage disposal, as that would kind of suck (seeing as how I had to use it to flush down some zucchini earlier). Ah, poor gecko — it makes me sad to even think of that. Oh well.