Thursday miscellanea #276

Inside three weeks to go on Windows XP support. No big deal, you say? You moved on long ago, you say? I wonder if the ATMs you use have?
Interested in a cool $1,000,000,000 for a perfect NCAA tournament bracket? Wow! I mean, I figured he was doing well, but who knew Jimmy Buffett had that kind of money?
Steady as she goes on my Lenten vegetarianism as I enter week three. There is incremental improvement in how I feel from last week. I feel worlds better than the first week. I did discover last night, though, that American Chinese is not a cuisine I much care for without meat. A de facto Lenten moratorium on Asian cuisines is settling in.
I’m on about a two-season-a-week pace watching Breaking Bad.
I can remember four prescription syrups my mother generally kept in her arsenal when we were kids. Three of them were antihistamines (Actifed, Polaramine, and Benadryl). We got Paregoric when we had a bad cough or diarrhea. Know what’s in that one? Opium. Wow.
Planet Fitness wants to help you get in shape! But not too in shape, because your toned body might intimidate others. Harrison Bergeron, anyone?
Xeric is a cool word. It’s an adjective describing something adapted to or characterized by an extremely dry habitat. And put xerically in your pocket in case you ever need a rhyme for lyrically.