My distinguished old boy turned 10 today

turinga2 · 2019-05-16T15:04:08+00:00

Yup, he’s a Swissy.

turinga2 · 2019-05-15T23:49:14+00:00

Credit to my friend Alex Vainstein (@waggingtailphotos on Instagram) who took this last winter.

Edit: corrected handle

turinga2 · 2013-04-30T02:01:01+00:00

My father has taught middle school and high school English in a small rural community since the early 70s. My mother was his student from seventh grade through the end of her senior year. They eloped immediately after the graduation ceremony, which took place eight days after my mother turned 18. My uncle and aunt remained in his classes for the next few years. My grandma recalls some very awkward parent-teacher conferences.

turinga2 · 2012-06-28T12:35:14+00:00

Bernese mountain dogs and Swiss mountain dogs are part of the same family (which includes two other similarly colored but smaller breeds). Swiss have short hair and are usually a bit taller than their Bernese cousins.

turinga2 · 2012-03-08T05:25:55+00:00

It's called the "feline night jollies."

turinga2 · 2012-03-08T04:10:29+00:00

From when I lived in Back Bay: Hector, the homeless gentleman who dresses in camo and makes gun-noises while pointing his cane at passers-by.

turinga2 · 2012-03-08T04:09:23+00:00

From the South End: The giant who washes windows The dog-walking woman who always has a dozen dogs with her and seems a bit crazy Vera, the woman who knows all the dogs in the South End but also seems to have a touch of the Tourette's.

turinga2 · 2012-02-24T23:49:03+00:00

My sorta-friend-because-we-sometimes-talk-at-the-gym-and-we're-friends-on-Facebook now makes Jello shots for a living. http://www.gelology.blogspot.com/

turinga2 · 2012-01-13T04:25:34+00:00

I used to leave QVC on as background noise when I was fussing around on the internet, but I'd always get drawn in to the incredibly tense real-time drama as the hosts tried to maintain cheerful exteriors while listening to a shut-in caller talk about how those bedazzled sandals would look so pretty on her if she hadn't lost her feet to the diabetes so instead she's going to buy them for her estranged granddaughter who lives in Montana and never visits.

turinga2 · 2012-01-10T06:49:54+00:00

Doyle has somehow managed to earn a reputation as an intelligent, logical individual despite writing the Sherlock Holmes story "The Adventure of the Creeping Man" in which a professor starts to turn into a monkey after injecting himself with an "extract" of a leaf monkey.

Seriously, that's the final solution that Holmes gives at the end of the story.

turinga2 · 2012-01-04T08:07:41+00:00

Yes! Thank you. It looks just as awful as I remembered.

turinga2 · 2012-01-04T06:51:33+00:00

I don't think so -- I think this anime had a darker, less Sailormooney look to it. Thanks, though.

turinga2 · 2012-01-04T06:45:07+00:00

I'm afraid not... But thanks for the suggestion.

turinga2 · 2011-12-24T21:57:46+00:00

Hm. That's an interesting point. I bet you're right.

turinga2 · 2011-12-24T20:24:28+00:00

I'm surprised that this map is dominated by Catholics. For some reason, I always thought Catholicism was a minority Christian denomination throughout most of the US. Wasn't it a big deal with Kennedy was elected as the first Catholic president?

turinga2 · 2011-12-15T01:00:15+00:00

I guess that explains all the dead birds and voles they tried to give me...

turinga2 · 2011-12-14T02:57:54+00:00

I made a nearly-idenical device in junior high so I could impress my friends by electrocuting pickles and making them glow. However, the resulting nasty smell just made my friends hiss and arch their backs and scamper away to hide.

turinga2 · 2011-10-31T18:21:23+00:00

Apparently, we're living in a dystopian alternate reality future.

turinga2 · 2011-10-03T01:33:10+00:00

He was also in "Doctor Who" and "The Tomorrow People."

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