It's a big universe. Maybe there's a Wiccan Wookie somewhere.
David Wald @ 29: I see your xkcd and raise you Two Lumps: http://twolumps.net/d/20090427.html
Happy soon-to-be birthday, Abi! Hope the skiing was good.
Also: Wonderful poster, Mary Dell!
When I read that strip last night and got to the line about "comment threads," I thought, That's not Cory. That's Teresa! But it was bedtime and you hadn't started this topic yet, so I didn't comment then.
(Teresa, did you dress as Cory for trick-or-treat? Or did he dress as you?)
I have a stopwatch feature on my cellphone, and using it timed myself "singing"* the Alphabet Song** at 17.5 seconds.
* Actually, subvocalizing. Not out loud. I'm at work, in a library, after all.
** Knowing the ABCs is especially helpful to librarians, although not as much as it used to be when we had real card catalogs, i.e. with real cards. (Even more so when I remember filing the d**n cards!) The thought of those grimy and even tattered cards and all the fingers brushing past them make me happy for computerized catalogs, though, in the light of cold/flu/other nasty stuff season.
Stefan Jones (#872) and ethan (#873):
Life is complete again. Stephen Fry's blog is back up.
And it has an LJ feed for those who may be interested: "fryblog".
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Actually, this is an excerpt from the L.A. Times obit someone has already linked to, but with an addendum that adds a local-interest touch:Only 8 people in 1 million contract the disease [amyloidosis] each year, Mr. Rigney wrote in March 2006 as he addressed his illness in the science-fiction magazine Locus. Three notable Pennsylvanians died of amyloidosis in the past two decades -- Pittsburgh Mayor Richard Caliguiri in 1988, Erie Mayor Louis Tullio in 1990 and former Gov. Robert P. Casey in 2000.
Serge @#157: Bruce Cohen, or Bruce Springsteen?
Springsteen.
ouch re your fractures.
Thanks.
Teresa, I've already added the certificate to my LJ and the seal to my "user info" page.
At #50, Faren Miller mentioned fortune-telling hamsters in India: the critter goes up to a pack of heavy looking (tarot?) cards, flings away several, then comes up with its choice.
There's video here, from Keith Olbermann's Oddball segment last night (Monday the 12th). It's a guinea pig, not a hamster, but it was still little and furry and cute. As opposed to the bit just afterward with rattlesnakes in Texas -- some folks might want to be forewarned of that! (It did occur to me to wonder if any of the kids shown in *that* segment are parselmouths.)
If "the 'original' Clarion" is now in San Diego, doesn't that also make "Clarion West" a dumb name? It made sense when "the 'original' Clarion" was in Michigan (and before that in Pennsylvania, hence the Clarion part), but now?
Just sayin'.
I know I've said that Ontario is less foreign to me than Texas, but mostly what I really want that Canada has is decent affordable health insurance, a national anthem people can actually sing, and more Gordon Lightfoot albums. And, oh, yes, LOTS of maple syrup!
(What I don't want from Canada is for them to take our hockey team away. Keep the Penguins in Pittsburgh!)
I went out a little after midnight and it was too cloudy. Rats! I've never seen the Northern Lights and have always wanted to.
I needed to hear something from the album before planning to buy it (unless it turns up as a Christmas present, of course). But now it's at the top of the list.
However, right now I am in the process of buying a new furnace for my house -- including figuring out how to pay for the thing, which I'll probably have installed next week. More essential even than a new Beatles album! (And this is a sign of growing old, because 40 years ago that would have seemed a *very* odd thing to say.)
Vote straight-ticket Democrat.
Done.
That was fun.
Sometimes just for fun I vote for all the D's separately. In 2000 I had so much fun pushing all the levers on the old machine - click, click, click, click, click -- that it wasn't until I got out of the booth that I remembered that I'd meant to vote for a 3rd-party candidate for governor!
But today I just tapped the "Straight Democratic" box on the touch-screen, and then the one for the library levy (which is a large part of our budget), and that was it.
On the side of the screen, on the machine we use in our county, there's a tape -- like a cash-register tape -- that lists all your votes, so you can see and so there's a paper record. Then when you hit the final "button" to finish voting, that scrolls up so the next person can't see.
As (probably) the only government documents librarian in this crowd, I decided to look this up:
The Senate's web page on the Congressional Page program and the House's page both say pages must be 16, in their junior year of high school, and have a 3.0 grade-point average.
More here, a 3-page document in .pdf format, with a footnote referring to this one that won't open for me.
I'm photocopying that right now! Then I'm going to note it on my LJ so if anyone misses it, it won't be my fault.
What a dreadful shock.
I never actually met him, but knew him from here and from his writings (I still have some in my "to read" pile). Every time I saw his name on a post I knew it would be something interesting: fun, or thought-provoking, or both. I will miss those a great deal, especially the "both" kind.
Deepest condolences to all his family and friends, especially Elise.
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