I'm glad I checked the bottom of my browser window to see just where that Google link led. I'm not sure I want to know the results of that search.
And I just now got number 9, and laughed aloud. I haven't read or thought of that book in years.
More pondering, now that my fellow classics grad student-cum-geek is awake and around for puzzling over these.
I am surprised at both how much and how little I recognize - I got one, three and ten, but the rest are mystifying me.
However, I'm not sure how much of that is due to it being 7 A.M. or due to my being a very poor sort of geek. But at last, twelve years of Latin are useful!
Forsan, et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.
I'm not fond of any of the Republican candidates for various reasons, but Huckabee is the only one who scares me at a gut level.
January 6th is also Epiphany, or Three Kings Day, or Dia de los Reyes. This is when my Spanish relatives open gifts, and I remember receiving presents from them as a child with instructions to wait to open them till the sixth.
Michelle @ 11, I read "The Time Traveler's Wife" and loved it and only later discovered that it was an Oprah book (the copy I picked up in England lacked an Oprah sticker). It has some sadness, but also hope. Now it's one of my favorite books.
LMB @ 298, I think you've won today's prize for mental image I most need to scrub from my brain.
Mary Aileen @ 296, though I am not cmk - my dad usually freezes stock in plastic pint or quart containers (generally salvaged from the deli or from Chinese takeout soup orders). If he needs the containers, he pops the frozen cylinder of stock from its plastic prison and puts it in a plastic bag. Just make sure to stick on a label - masking tape with sharpie works fine - so you don't forget what those mysterious towers of ice are!
I feel sort of bad for my father now. He'd love to try fun stuff like some of the dishes mentioned here, but us ungrateful ingrates that he calls his children refuse to have anything that isn't traditional and familiar. For our given values of traditional, of course. (Turkey, apple-bread stuffing, homemade cranberry sauce*, mashed potatoes, mashed rutabaga or turnips, Le Seur peas**, and for dessert apple and sweet potato pies***.)
Of course, all of that's the day after Thanksgiving; the Thursday is reserved for driving down to Dad's cousin's house and having dinner with her family. We bring cranberry sauce and pies, the cousin provides everything else. I brought one of my grad school cronies with us and she seemed to enjoy it.
However: a hearty thumbs-down to Amtrak, for getting me back to school over four hours late.
* This varies between a super-simple cranberries/water/sugar jelly and Grandma's cranberry chutney, depending on how much prep gets done early.
** In tribute to Grandma. Any other kind wouldn't seem right with a big feast.
*** Usually I am responsible for the apple pies, but this year I made the sweet potato as well. Everything turned out fine despite a certain overzealousness with the whole nutmeg and microplane. (It's just so much fun to see the tiny shavings drop into the bowl. And it's harder to measure, as well.)
I love that the comic has inspired Cory Doctorow to wear a cape and goggles in public. (Er, on at least one occasion from which I've seen pictures.)
Diatryma, I haven't noticed that the polyester lining of my coat has made it feel any less warm - but, as Adrian notes, I'm usually wearing it over a sweater or long sleeves. But then, I tend to feel cold more in my extremities, so I worry more about warm socks and gloves and a good wooly hat.
Tim Walters @ 46, I think what they did with the breadbox at our show was to take out an interior shelf and use that. And I've heard stories of challenge objects such as a condom filled with baked beans and a length of pantyhose filled with eggs. The general idea seems to be an unpredictable flight path. Nobody knows what the wiggling beans will do.
...and there's a sentence you don't see every day!
Ruth @29 has reminded me of my very fond memories of seeing the Flying K's. We have a signed poster from their appearance at our local university's theater. And my family spent many hours discussing the best possible thing to bring for the Challenge, in which (for those not clicking the link) a selected performer will attempt to juggle any three items selected by the audience. One time we saw them the items included a breadbox and a model of the Starship Enterprise (TNG version). Good stuff.
AFK @109:
I came here because she linked it. I didn't realize it was also moderated by her.
It's not just moderated by Teresa; it's her personal blog. (One that she shares with others, but still.)
I've noticed that this blog has a lot of conversation, but no debate.
Are you making this call based on this thread alone?
There's somebody roaming my hometown with a "Ron Paul '08" sticker that has had the n and the top of the o blanked out with Sharpie.
Hell, I'd vote for RuPaul. Subsidized heels and lipstick for all!
The bison link is timing out for me.
Does Making Light have an equivalent of slashdotting?
Dave @ 34, I am almost positive that it does, but I haven't seen the show in years. I used to just watch the intro and then change the channel.
AJ Luxton @ 32, I love Rasputina! The world needs more all-girl cello bands. If you like them you may want to check out Emilie Autumn; she's a violinist-singer-songwriter with a style she describes as "Victoriandustrial," and is sometimes accompanied by her corseted cellist Lady Joo Hee.
I know it's classical rather than modern, but my favorite cello part ever comes from the Brahms Concerto in A Minor for violin and cello. The Vivace non troppo, the third movement, is fantastic.
Mags@123, I actually did scream "But this is just bad fanfiction!" upon reading Wide Sargasso Sea for class. (Er, not to say that it has no literary merit; I just really did not enjoy it. I loathed Jane Eyre as well, which didn't help.)
On Margaret Atwood's SF-shunning: One of my friends went on a magnificent tear a while ago about Atwood's claim that Oryx and Crake was not SF. It's an attitude that really bothers me - Atwood's, that is, not my friend's. She may not have set out to write SF, but she shouldn't be hideously offended when people call it as they see it.
I miss the leaves. New Jersey just isn't the same - living in upstate New York and western Massachusetts has spoiled me forever.
Mary? I thought her name was Lanaia.
And who's Jane?
From her "yellbox", it appears Ms. Lee is unwilling to discuss the issue:
Lanaia: I have erractic hypertension, you keep dogging me I could have another stroke, contact my agent and attorney, I'm sure no one wants mt blood on their hands
Lanaia: I take total responsibility, and under the advice of my attorney, this will be fixed. My stroke, I almost died, I would never intentionally take advantage of the dead. Contact my agent and lawyer
Fascinating. Exposing her plagiarism is going to lead to blood on your hands, people! How could you do that?!
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