disappearing needle trick

I sewed elastic into the sides of the waistband of my new white cargo pants to make them fit better. Now I am shortening the pants-legs so that I don't have to wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

As I was picking up my needle from the table, it disappeared. I had my eyes on it, and one moment it was there, and the next, it wasn't. I checked the table, the floor, my clothing, to see where it might have jumped to, but I did not find it. If I were superstitious, I might have believed something spooky was going on. It was certainly odd, one of those moments that makes supernaturalness seem plausible. But I still believed that eventually the needle would show up; things don't just disappear like that. Even if there is some supernatural entity snatching away my needle in order to perplex me, the entity would eventually return it, for appearances sake. And indeed, I did notice the needle not long after, on the floor in back of the chair.

ToggleDocumentColors Firefox add-on

Firefox add-on ToggleDocumentColors - adds a toolbar button and keyboard short-cut which you can use to switch between the page-specified document settings (colors) and the settings you've specified in the Firefox options. (The Opera browser has this feature built-in.) So, for example, in the Firefox options, you can set your page background color to black and the text to bright yellow and links to bright green. Then whenever you open a page which has a bright white background, you can click the button on the toolbar to switch to your own colors. Comes in handy for me on the YouTube site, since I have to switch my monitor settings to nearly their brightest, in order to watch the videos, and then having bright white on the rest of the page hurts my eyes.

Hmmm. It seems that YouTube sets the text color based on *your* settings, even when you are using the page-specified settings. The page background color is set to white, based on *their* settings, and yellow on white is not nice. At first I thought it was a bug with the add-on, but it happens even with the add-on uninstalled. Oh well. As long as I can always toggle to my settings when on their site, I think it's still worthwhile to have the add-on.

Hummmmmmm.... I'm just trying out the latest version of Opera, and it doesn't even let you specify your own text color anymore! It only has settings for the page background and link colors. Maybe Opera decided not to have the text color setting anymore, because too many webpages, like YouTube, assume that the user's default text color is black.