Aw, damn. I thought I was a very average 36B! I guess the stats I got that from were at least a decade old. Now I really am going to start saving my pennys for that augmentation...

There's a printing press like the ones I run at work in the movie... they show it as part of a counterfeiting operation... however... money is engraved- the printing is raised- whereas the press shown works by the relief process and the printing is depressed. That money wouldn't pass. Minor print geek plot hole!

A similar mix of lead, tin and antimony is used for "hot metal" typecasting, as with a Monotype or Linotype machine. The people who run those don't wear masks, either... though the amount of molten lead present in the machine is a bit less than the guys here are working with.

Here's a fun Wiki page that breaks down the various formulas used in type metal: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_metal

I could go on and on about lead. I work with it on a daily basis as a letterpress printer, so am used to people's shock and concern and know when and why it is dangerous.

My grandmother made me a vest with this very same owl design and googly eyes back when I was about 7 years old.

The comments on that link are more interesting than the photos.

I used to live in that town and go to that very car wash.

I've never been to a Benihana!

From what I understand it's the showy 1970s idea of Japanese food, so I've always stuck with local places.

Um, Sovereign is still banking. I have an account with them. Two, actually.

I knew a girl who got "I contain multitudes" (from a Walt Whitman poem) misspelled on her back as "mulititudes."

Though I love body art I would never get text on my body. It's such a commitment and as a typographer, I doubt I'd ever be happy with just any person's lettering. Even when I got my quotation marks (http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m269/ladykatey/newtattoos.jpg) I made the guy redo the templates 3 times before I was happy with the placement... then I made him touch up one side to even out the line width.

So all in all I say- shame to people who let tattoo artists free hand on them!

Today I did some calculations at work at and $4/gal and my car getting 31 mpg and it being about 40 miles round trip to go to work, it costs me about $5.16 to go to work each day.

At 5/gal it would be $6.45 a day.

At 6/gal it would be $7.74 a day.

I am going to try to move closer to work. I rent, so I can be flexible. $6 a gallon sounds pretty rough, though, it would take me over 1/2 an hour of my work day just to earn back the money I had spent getting there.

This is just what I need for the leftover 'nana half from my peanut butter and banana sandwiches!

... Though usually just putting the other half in a snack size baggie and then slicing off and discarding the 1/8 or less of browned end the next day works just fine, too.

Whatever happened to the SLICES of peanut butter, wrapped like Process American Cheese slices?

"Environmentally Friendly Ink"=Soy Ink=not really that great! Soy is, as you all surely know, a commonly GM monocultre plant which's cultivation in America is highly dependant on petroleum-based chemical fertilizers and artificial irrigation.

In addition to this, it's not really the BASE of the ink that's toxic anyways- the Soy inks still use the same heavy-metal based, toxic pigments.