short takes

[cellio]

Someday I will figure out how one properly decorates a sukkah; the only decorated ones I've seen have been done up with stuff made by the kids in the family/congregation. If I decorate, I want adult decorations. Whatever those would be. But at least the strands of small white lights (bought on December 26 one year :-) ) are pretty. And, more importantly, provide ample light to see dinner by.

So far it's a one-splinter year for the sukkah. That's pretty good for me. :-)

For bizarre reasons, yesterday I found myself needing to know how to say "purple dinosaur" in Hebrew. My dictionary was of no help on "dinosaur", so I ended up settling for "reptile". Not the same thing, but good enough in context.

I found out recently that my parents have never, in their entire lives, eaten Indian food. Wow. Chinese food was a novelty for me when I was growing up, but I thought that was just due to the local restaurant options. No, my parents just haven't explored a lot of unusual foods. So we're going to take them to an Indian restaurant in a couple weeks. (And no, I haven't asked them about sushi yet.)

I've been getting a lot of spam lately for Vicadin, whatever that is. From googling it appears to be either a painkiller or a psychadelic, but I'm not sure which. (I suppose the latter is a type of the former, for some people.) Did it just come onto the market or something?

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[geekosaur]

What's new about the drug spam is Internet-based drug "stores"; suddenly, lots of drugs which are controlled in the U.S. but not in other countries are now at least theoretically available to anyone in the U.S. via the "can import limited quantities for personal use" rule that (for example) people in Detroit used to get OTC Claritin in Windsor before the FDA declared it OTC here. The legality of doing so over the Internet instead of bringing them in as part of personal belongings is questionable, but that naturally doesn't stop either the drug outlets or the spammers hawking them....

Naturally they're pushing the sketchy stuff, because people who want to get antianxiety drugs, narcotic painkillers, and potentialy addictive sleep aids (e.g. Ambien) are more likely to go for sketchy distribution methods.