Where do you get those cool smileys, though?
I've collected them from various message boards. When I find one I like, I save the .gif file, and then upload it to my photo hosting service. It's kind of a pain to have to get the image link then paste it with BBCode tags in the posts, but I think they add some fun personality to things and like how they help convey subtle expressions & meanings that get lost in words alone.
did you ever figure out why the pan exploded?
Not really. It was laying flat in the drawer and only had a couple of smaller glass dishes resting in it, so it wasn't really under any stress. Guess it's just one of them things... Must've been made on a Friday.
Similar thing happened to a sliding glass door at my parent's house many years ago. Woke up one morning to find the glass pane in the sliding panel completely shattered, but still intact in the door frame. Uniform cracking throughout, and no impact point indicating it may have been struck with something.
And I've seen this happen on about a half dozen cars over time. Not a break-in or vandalism, just a single window broken in little bits & pieces withoug any indication of an impact.
I guess the weather/heat-cool cycling/composition of the glass comes together (along with the phase of the moon and how you hold your tongue ) and creates the right condition for it to happen.
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My misfortune had to get in one last blow, though... The velcro on the right sandal of my favoritest bum-around-the-house footwear came unglued and won't stay on my foot. They're just a pair of rubber Nike sandals I got about 10 years ago, but they're so perfectly broken in. I think they're salvagable, though... the Liquid Nails is setting up now...