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Posted on entry Open thread 40 ::: May 02, 2005, 05:55 PM:
The Count of Monte Cristo is one of my favorite books to bring for airplane reading -- it's so long that it actually takes me the whole trip to finish it.
Posted on entry A brief note on linguistic markers ::: September 23, 2004, 03:13 PM:
Now I want a t-shirt that says "My unique artistic vision has myopia and astigmatism"....
Posted on entry Risk assessment ::: September 16, 2004, 02:51 PM:
Xopher -- what Catie said. (We were much more boring when we taped windows in anticipation of Hugo back in 1998; we just taped "GO RICE".)
Posted on entry Prophetable colors ::: July 15, 2004, 05:46 PM:
I'm profoundly grateful for good local thrift shops, because otherwise I'd never have found jeans that remotely fit. Even if I looked good in low-cut jeans, I'd always feel like they were fixing to fall off.

I'm also grateful for having such a huge pile of shirts that they'll last until the colors I like come back in. And for having a sewing machine and a decent basic shirt pattern.
Posted on entry Moving house ::: June 24, 2004, 03:11 PM:
Enjoy the new place! May all possessions and persons involved make it to the new place unbroken and unlost, and may you never have to hunt through more than two boxes to find that essential item you need Right Now.
Posted on entry Harry of Five Points ::: May 26, 2004, 10:43 AM:
How hard do we have to beg to get the St. Crispin's Day speech?
Posted on entry Ow ::: April 13, 2004, 11:16 AM:
Extreme sympathies and quiet dark room wishes.
Posted on entry A novel attack on the First Amendment ::: February 25, 2004, 04:16 PM:
(The HTML error's affecting my Netscape 6.0 too.)

So a university press's translations of an Iranian author's works might be illegal? Granted, they're short stories rather than scientific articles, but translation seems to me as much a service as editing....

(The marketeer in me can't help wanting to use that as a selling point. "You too can own an illegal book!" Gotta be some way to convince folks to buy Middle Eastern fiction in translation....)
Posted on entry "Thou too mayst be as hung as thys horse..." ::: February 11, 2004, 04:33 PM:
I'm too busy wiping spit off my monitor to read further than "Tis XXX leagues to York, We hath a full sack of oats, half a measure of pipeweed, tis dark and we weareth sonne glasses. Smite it!"
Posted on entry PETA ::: January 07, 2004, 12:58 PM:
Oh, my sister will love this one; she's planning to raise meat rabbits and has tossed around the idea of tanning the furs as well. "Damn straight, your mommy kills animals! And what's more, she can kill them for fur without getting so much blood everywhere!"

(I don't even want to know PETA's views on raising rabbits to feed to German Shepherds.)
Posted on entry Bad pets ::: December 15, 2003, 11:07 AM:
Bad kitty:

Plastic grocery bags are used as containers in this household; they are not my personal flavorful treat.

This includes the plastic bags holding the donations to charity.

And the plastic bag lining the trash can where the wet diapers are tossed.

Tap water tastes the same, whether it is in my water bowl, the bowl in the kitchen sink, or the toilet.

Not all cans contain cat food.

It does not matter how far apart my component atoms are; I cannot occupy the same space as my walking human's foot.

I will not vomit on the laptop.

Every day of my life since I vomited on the laptop is a gift from my human, and I shall cherish it.

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