My tweets

• 08:12 @seashellseller isn't oil usually blessed on Maundy Thursday? #
• 08:14 @MrPandaBehr chocolate milk is pertaining to your melted chocolate ice cream...twitter needs threading! #
• 12:28 @MrPandaBehr : oic. 140 characters means that context is severely limited in most cases. #
• 16:20 @MrPandaBehr : about the replies, you're absolutely right. oh well, Twitter 2.0 perhaps. #
• 16:28 @MrPandaBehr : no dim sum; he had instant noodles and I had hot dogs. Dinner is codfish cakes. #
• 20:04 codfish cakes drenched in ketchup are edible. you have been warned. #

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...and many happy returns of the day.

Crumbs!

No, this doesn't have anything to do with the mouse, although it could have. Over the weekend we were sitting in the kitchen and the mouse emerged from behind the stove, toddled out on the counter, and looked us right in the eye, cool as a cucumber. I clapped my hands and it jumped in the air, spun round, and went back into the bowels of the cabinets. Haven't seen it since. Perhaps I scared it to death.

I use a Microsoft Natural Keyboard. I know they're shaped funny and all, but I like them and they work well with my hands and typing style.

The one I was using gave up the ghost just now. Every once in a while it would start to repeat random letters, or stop and refuse to work. I thought it might be a virus of some sort, but got no joy in that. So, I tried replacing it with a wireless MS Natural Keyboard I have, and it works perfectly.

So one keyboard goes into the trash, and I have to order another to ensure that I'll have one or two spare. I have another but it only has a PS2 plug and that's not very good, even with an adapter. I'll save it for HWMBO's computer, which still has a PS2 socket. My current computer only has USB sockets.

Today's Culinary Video

Yo! Sushi and other such sushi restaurants, especially in Japan, put each dish on a conveyor belt that winds its way slowly around the restaurant. Diners pick the dishes they want, and at the end of the meal they are billed by the plate. Sometimes there are several different colour plates, each of which carries different types of sushi with different prices.

Imagine if you took a video camera, placed it on the conveyor belt so that it faced the diners, and let it make one circuit around the restaurant. This might be what you'd see.