Recently at my place of employment, our shredder broke, and I had to purchase a new one. My criteria going into the purchase were to find a shredder that did a fine cut and was around $50-60. I ended up buying the Ativa DQ81M*.

The Ativa DQ81M was in the price range, did 8-sheets a go in a diamond cut and also came with one feature I hadn’t expected. To see the mystery-shredder-feature watch this movie of my use of the shredder.

Did you notice anything odd? It is okay if you didn’t. Behold, I have a second movie for you to watch, of Bob and I shredding in the dark.

What did you see? You saw a light, not from my Mini Mag-Lite, but from on the shredder itself.

Think about that.

I have my own conclusions as to why a shredder would come equipped with a light, but rather than expound on them, I wanted to pose the question to the wider Protozoic forum. So:

1. Why would a shredder need a light?
2. Are there any further-reaching, perhaps darker, implications of shredders with lights on them?

• Though the Ativa DQ8M1 gets only okay reviews online, at least it isn’t the DQ6M1, the 6-sheet unit, a model people hate with an almost sublime passion.

There are a lot of great crab recipes on the web and I thought I would add to the mix by providing a recipe for a little known Maryland crab dish. While it goes without saying that Maryland is for crabs, I have a funny feeling that all you Shoreheads out there are going to particularly love this one.

Blue Crab Stuffed with Squirrel Meat

Ingredients:

Blue Crab Squirrel Old Bay Seasoning Butter Cream Salt

Instructions

1. Choke* the crab (discard the dead man but keep crab meat see step 6).
2. Clean, gut and de-bone squirrel (keep the giblets and skin but discard the gizzard – see steps 4 and 6).
3. Mince squirrel meat and season liberally with Old Bay brand seasoning mix.
4. Stuff crab shell with squirrel meat and wrap the shell in the squirrel skin.*
5. Heat oven to 450°C and cook crab stuffed with squirrel meat for 15-20 minutes or until done.
6. Mince giblets and crab meat. Add 1 teaspoon of salt and 5 teapoons of butter (vegans may substitute extra virgin olive oil or EVOO if desired with no decrease in flavor).
7. Bring 1/2 cup of water or 1/2 cup of cream to a boil and add giblets-crab mince. Boil for approximately 15-20 minutes until a
   thick creamy sauce clots on the surface. Add ice water as necessary to help the sauce congeal and skim from the surface.
8. Remove crab from oven. Dispose of squirrel skin. Pour the gibblet-crab sauce you’ve skimmed over crab shell and serve with lager or cola.

• Choke – Old Eastern Shore dialect for picking a crab.
• Don’t eat the skin! The skin is only used to cover the crab shell and seal in flavors.

Note: Dragon helped me transcribe this recipe.

These days I’ve been doing some testing that involves gel electrophoresis. This is a process often used to separate out different chemicals in a mixture (for example a mixture of DNA fragments with assorted lengths), typically in aqueous solution, on the basis of the individual component’s size and charge.

To accomplish this you basically make half inch thick slab out of gelatin (well “agarose” technically) and cover the “gel” with a sufficient quantity of buffer solution (say a 1x concentration of Tris/Acetate/EDTA solution). Then you insert some of the mixture to be separated into little holes in one end of this gel.

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Finally I make a Proto-post about my Asian excursion. I was thinking since a lot of travel blogs end up with a couple posts in the first month and then one every 3 months after that, I would try to hold myself to one post every month. So, now that I’m 5 months late, let’s get right to it.

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In the 9th episode of the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon, “Quest of the Skeleton Warrior”, the kids have to retrieve the Circle of Power to save Dekion, an enslaved Celestial Knight. On the way the party has to face their greatest fears. Hank’s is that he’ll be a bad leader, Sheila’s that she’ll be alone, Presto’s that he’ll be without his glasses, Eric’s that he’ll be the laughing stock, Bobby’s that he’ll be treated like a baby and Diana’s – well, Diana’s is that when she grows old her tit will flop out.

Sure, the actual nipple isn’t colored in, but it is clearly there for all to see. And to think, with all the hubbub created by the National Coalition on Television Violence around the “The Dragon’s Graveyard” episode, Diana’s droopy dug went right out her animal-skin top and under parental radar.

So, big shout out to the horn-dog animators behind the Dungeons and Dragons cartoon, because now along with “puffy pussies”, “presto pizzazz” and “really free mp3s”, “Dungeon and Dragons’ cartoon nude pictures” will be among the top search terms for our site.

Thank goodness most of our potential new readership won’t be surfing in and looking at any of the content we actually spend time on or want people to see.

Nude blooper pics of Diana follow. Click individual pictures for a bigger wilted boob.

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Spoon Test Factory (2006) will open for Disturbing Images – The Story of Helmut K. (2006), directed by Sean McKnight, at the Sedgwick Theatre Thursday, February 8th at 7:00 PM.

So that’s:

Where: Sedgwick Theatre
When: Thursday, February 8th at 7:00 PM

The show will be followed by a Q&A with some of the cast and crew from Disturbing Images – The Story of Helmut K.