The iceman cometh

 terrible title, but "winter" half whispered threateningly would be lost too.

Well anyway I've only got around three sentences (OK 4) so far.
There is a hedge close by that rips jackets.
It was inevitable that my army-lookalike jacket would rip. 
How do I fix it?

Polar bears have hollow hairs! I learned that today on a kids' science show.
A lady in China duplicated the hollow hairs, but it's either vastly expensive or incredibly difficult, and a guy could only buy a teeny piece.

Naugahyde bleeds color, and it would smell. Or maybe it was Suede. 
OK maybe this year I'll go leather, except you can't get leather wet.
Those BIG puffy jackets with very thin skins
would never survive the jacket-eater hedge!

Googling fashion for men, they should not look jacket-y, 

more like well-made shirts.
You've just stepped out of your Lexus to do an errand; You Didn't just wait for a bus in the rain! For an Hour,In the wind.

Arcteryx Beta AR, with Nike shoes and Track shorts, hmm

In other words, Being richer than god and buying arctic-grade for the Olympic Trials might be over doing it. IDK. (for going to the supermarket to buy milk)
There are no hedge-ripper specs.

With those uncontrollable yawns every few seconds telling your brain that you need to do something to help you survive, quick.

Bus-denizens need pockets; I'm not about to buy a suitcase on wheels. Or a big-ass backpack.
So, yeah, pockets, not Lexus poseur wear.
I'm partial to jackets that are thick, but that's what got me in trouble in the first place.

Not being a lineman in blizzards, I might stand out.
But
It has nice pockets.
Does it come in unobtrusive colors?

I'm wondering what constitutes "style" vs utility.
Spring-sprinkles vs tropical storms (It should not look too heavy, 

apparently, not like you're a refugee from Alaska)

69 vs 699, you can't tell the difference from a teeny picture (I can't, not having read any fashion Haute Magazines.) 

Logo's really suck.

Soft-shell, Hard shell,

High-Denier! Yeah, OK.
Will it look good at the Supermarket on Christmas, are those titters and snickers about me?

Geez.
T-Shirt+shorts kinda guy, with a possibly non-torn, non-homeless look.
It should *breathe* and if it has a smell, it should smell good (or so'd say all the vendors who care about smells)

You've just been hit, and laying there in the shiny wet street, it should be easily removable but still be able to hang on to precious items securely.
(Or am I overthinking this)

I wrote already about stuff I want vs stuff I need.
But I don't know. Live with the rip and hope I keep meeting polite people all winter, or 

It looks ok in "Brown" but "navy Burgundy"? IDK

Women can wear damn near anything, and be fashionable (whether they look good at being fashionable, that's another person's blog.)

I don't get it. Is she famous?

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"If only I knew then what I know now," I'd still flunk math.

Yah, um WHUT?!

Being 8, you prolly never saw 625,1000 (the number) it's way too big.

Division is guessing, that you can divide by a number (by multiplying it repeatedly) without breaking the number.

quarters (you've guessed) go into 625, 4x6 +1 is (uh) 25.

O, times up.

(shit)

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Minuend, Subtrahend

Metric, SAE, Imperial, Celsius, Fahrenheit, "proper", "Improper" (mixed)

Yeah? whutever.

He'd hate you, God knows why

After writing this, I remembered low-end engineers with dusty cars working hard at engineering jobs for the hope of becoming biggie engineers one day.
Or you could watch "Bones", the old TV show, to find out there's a pecking order.
Harder workers are berated, joked about.

So they quit to move to France, have a kid, etc.
Or they could just become real-estate agents!

Anyway:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03222-7

Milking mummy

 

I was convinced that the old mummy movies were, 

• The Mummy
• The mummy's Tomb
• The mummy's hand
• The Mummy walks

But Google says the last one is "The Mummy's ghost" not "walks,"

and anyway they came out with a new set, 

then it gets confused with some scorpion guy.
I think I wrote about this already, and I think The one I liked best is lost in my memory.
Mummy awakes, the tomb-raider goes insane on the spot and laughs uncontrollably, yada woman who Mummy has a crush on commands the mummy to drown in a lake, the end

I miss Christopher Lee as the young Mummy and the nine Tana leaves (I used to know more about this stuff)

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They moved away quickly from mummy-movies and now they're concentrating on Vampires, on the cheap-ass freebie movie channel.

Which one's Mina, Which one's Lucy?
Booty-call Lucy vs girlfriend Mina (as I recall, and I do not)

Vapid, huh?

Whoever the Betelgeuse (Beetlejuice, for vapid spell-checkers) woman is. "Take me away from all this death"
She's the sexy one. (Vapid? no) 

I'm googling images for my windows firewall.

I'm the sexy young thing baring my breast and Chris is coming in through my window.

(Have you even looked at your firewall lately? Every pissant little game you've ever played is there)

Unfortunately lustful women and hypnotic eyes must be trademarked, paywalled. 
O well.

Totally misses my point, but 

people you've never heard of are glad to pose:

OK I'll admit failure (Failure!), there are no sexy invitation vampiric photos.

"these are not the errors you are looking for.
We are to be ignored"

OK I'm, um, Oh yes, please, come on in, would you care for some blood?

"By design"
(Who designs-in errors you're supposed to ignore?)
Farts in polite company or whitewashed incompetence?

If at first it doesn't succeed, talk Slower, LOUDER.
yeah, OK but as long as it works WHY E R R O R
At...ALL???
IT WORKED, didn't it,
so WHY
ARE YOU BITCHING??!!

Beeecause, it likes to rub it in every f'ing chance it gets, that YEW are NOT uppercrust, but it will accommodate your backwards little way.

It's like, a snicker of disapproval. It's shaking its head sadly.

(It's a snob)