Random questions for the day

1) Is anyone else curious whether it's possible to do laundry in a stand mixer? I do not own a stand mixer, but this is very nearly motivation to find one. (Searching "laundry in a stand mixer" just turns up lots of people who hate to do laundry, which, seriously, googlefolk, I'm going to postulate that you've never tried to wash jeans on a scrubboard).

2) I am sort of enchanted by the construction of new grammatical rules to make lj html tags work in sentences (the possessive suffix after the username tag is closed, the question of where in a sentence to insert in-line links for maximum clarity, I'm sure there are other examples.) Does anyone else geek out over this? Heck, does anyone know anyone who's published on this that I can read?