YouTube: The people's court?

PLeB, Toronto, ON — Fri, 16 May 2008 18:07:19 GMT

Garden gnomes? They're leaving behind garden gnomes? Terrorists!

YouTube: The people's court?

TL, Austin, Texas — Fri, 16 May 2008 19:21:31 GMT

Will - Love your blog, sir, and actually get a bit sad when you take a day (or seven) off but for the first time I had to comment:

I don't understand the excitement with the jar, Will. Once I get to the bottom of my stash of any kind of butter and turn the jar over isn't gravity going to defeat me yet again?

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Will Femia — Fri, 16 May 2008 21:24:01 GMT

TL, could it really be as simple as storing my jars upside down in the first place? Does everyone already do that? Don't you get to the bottom of the jelly jar and clink and hack at it with the tip of your knife for the last little bit? Or by that point are you already storing it upside down so the remaining bits are sitting nicely in the lid?

The whole reason I like the dual lid idea is to get at those last bits but maybe I've just been using poor jar strategy all my life.

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Michael T, Hollywood, CA — Fri, 16 May 2008 21:50:47 GMT

The sad fate of the Guerrilla Gardener:

"Oy, what's all this, then? Right, put the geraniums down and step away from the fertilizer, sir! I said STEP AWAY FROM THE FERTILIZER! Right, you're nicked, mate--get down on the ground and spread 'em! And remember, boys & girls...illicit gardening is just another form of terrorism!"

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elaine, lahmansville, wv (apologies to the rest of the country) — Fri, 16 May 2008 22:02:45 GMT

so is some pnut butter or jelly company actually using these?

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connectednomore, somewhere west of New Jersey — Sat, 17 May 2008 02:34:28 GMT

Will, I just left a job where hyperconnectivty was the rule.I was phone support and office manager for a small local ISP. All but one piece of software was webbased, office landlines were forwarded to cells. It was great, for a while. Then it became compulsive, I even checked in twice a day while attending an out of state family funeral. At the end I hated it (even as I had been the one to push for much of it.)

The moral.. you have to unplug at times or burn out rate increase exponentially. I had thought that by being connected with mobile devices I was freer. Instead it became a ball and chain.

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TL, Austin, Texas (too close to Crawford.. uggh) — Sat, 17 May 2008 07:58:27 GMT

Will - Honestly, I think the kids and I just toss the jar when we have to battle for those last yummy bits of peanut butter or jelly. I think the double-lidded (surely that can't be a word; or maybe we can make it one?) approach could work well for anything dense enough to hold to the "top" of the jar, but it would surely be messy for things like fat-free mayo (YUK).

I'm curious about something - you posted a blog several months ago about a song chart meme that I loved. I forwarded several song charts and graphs to friends from my same generation (I would have loved to have been Jessie's girl just so that Rick Springfield would have wanted me if that gives my age away...)and they were all LOST. Am I a dork for understanding and cracking up or are they for just not getting it?

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Sun, 18 May 2008 15:00:06 GMT

jelly remnant plan b:

you don't want to waste it and your $,
but you don't want to have a fight with a jelly either,

so just add a little water, shaken or stirred,
maybe some microwave heat,

then use the liquified diluted jelly remnant as flavoring in your coffee, tea, or milk etc.

and you get an already-cleaned reusable jar, too.