The Boston Diaries

The ongoing saga of a programmer who doesn't live in Boston, nor does he even like Boston, but yet named his weblog/journal “The Boston Diaries.”

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Sunday, September 07, 2025

There's a van Gogh joke in here somewhere

Bunny went to the local Michaels Craft store to pick up a project, and she returned with a small gift for me:

[An image of a pencil eraser in the shape of a human ear] “'Ere you go! Earase to your ear's content!”

An eraser (or as it states on the package, a gomme à effacer) in the shape of a human ear. And it also appears not to be for kids between newly born and 12 years old if I'm reading the small graphic icon in the corner of the package correctly. Maybe not for kids less than a year old? I don't know, it just has a small kid face with the text “0–12,” encased in a circle with a slash.

I … don't know what to say, other than “Thank you!” but aside from that … I have nothing.

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