Childhood story: The Great Flood

So synecdochic is a new homeowner, and has been wrestling with the various slings and arrows thereof. Discussion in IRC took a general turn for the home improvement topic, and it turned out that she'd never heard the story of the Great Flood.

It helps to know that I grew up in the suburbs of Fairbanks, Alaska; it also helps to know that my father, with a little help from his friends, built the entirety of our house, down to the wiring. (We were outside city limits, so a lot of regulations did not apply to us, but fortunately Dad believed in studying the housing code, then exceeding it.)

( chat log ensues, now with illustrations. )

52 tweets for 2010-12-22

In the last 24 hours, I posted the following to Twitter:

• Wednesday, 0033: "Each queen honeybee shipped via air transportation may be accompanied by up to eight attendant honeybees." http://pe.usps.com/text/dmm300/601.htm#wp1064884
• Wednesday, 0110: This is not just an awesome bookshelf, but awesomely *labeled* on Flickr. http://www.flickr.com/photos/36324208@N02/3353722396/
• Wednesday, 0127: @shirozora lol what happened?
• Wednesday, 0139: Most humiliating way for a killer shark to die: http://skippyslist.com/2010/12/20/jumping-the-shark
• Wednesday, 0211: @shirozora Sweet! I guess Anonymous is good for something? ;)
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