Interestingly, my experience with big box stores is from the other side, as I have worked customer service for some of their suppliers; almost as annoying in a different way - the (undertrained and rapidly turned-over) staff don't know what information to put on the orders and we have to query them all the time. OTOH they are far less likely to scream at us than the small-store owners.
>> OK, I'm going for NaNoWriMo again.
>Oddly enough I was just coming to the same conclusion. I did it once before, in 2003 I think it was, and it was a buzz, in a gruelling kind of way.
Technically, I'm not, because I want to make myself finish the thing I started during NaNoRiMo 2007 - but I will do it during November, because I need to give myself a time frame.
Dearest Gramps in
regions cthonic
Here I am at
Miskatonic.
My new dorm is
dank and clammy,
and the feng shui of my room is most uncanny.
The library's
fascinating,
but to get in
takes some waiting -
The rare book room's
walls are bleeding,
but the Necronomicon's required reading.
All my profs
communicate in squeaks and coughs,
but if in class I should nod off,
I dream of fearful wings
on Things
from endless depths of Time.
I know I will pass with A's:
my roommate killed himself on haze-
ing week; and also my TA's
a human headed rat.
My frat
is Sigma Elder Sign.
Dearest Grandpa,
How is mother?
And my many-
tentacled brother?
I miss Dunwich
overwroughtly.
Love and kisses from your grandson Wilbur Whateley.
#54
Interestingly, that makes John Wyndham's work both hard and soft - there's usually only one otherworldly element (triffids, lichens that slow the aging process); but then the story is all about how a society reacts to it.
Has anyone linked to this dino-with-a-jetpack game yet?
It'd keep people home, but the postman could be a disease vector
Assuming the delivery system doesn't just break down, it'd still narrow things to one vector - if the postie gets sick, you've got a list of pretty much everyone s/he's been in contact with (or if everyone on one route gets sick, you might want to check on the postie who handles the route).
Nathaniel @ 11#:
I drew this cartoon last week.
Mind you, Betty Boop initially looked like this. Or is that what you meant?
Not sure if my birthday (Dec 7th) is another dangerous date, or a counter-example:
Dec 6 Halifax Explosion, 1917
Dec 7 Pearl Harbour, 1941
Dec 8 Murder of John Lennon, 1980
Dec 6 Montreal Massacre, 1989
He did say that people rarely die as quickly and as easily as TV suggests.
My basic rule of thumb is that real people are way more fragile than major character in movies, and at the same time, way *less* fragile than minor characters.
I was just there as an observer. Got a lot of photos.
I think Canada needs to develop Road Hockey Morris. Sew bells to your shinpads, get out your sticks and find someone who can play the old Hockey Night in Canada theme in 4/4 time on an accordion. Car!
126 ---Would that bassoonist have been Jeff Burke?
Also -a friend of mine, years ago, saw dancing in some mill town in Yorkshire that used machined spindles for the wooden sticks, so I'm thinking Steam Morris indeed predates steampunk.
I'm nearing the crown of a fairisle tam, and after that I've promised to make one of my co-workers a hat if she buys the yarn, and having seen the new Knitty's nightcap pattern, I'm going to try again at a nightcap for my friend Don, who wants to look like those nursery-rhyme illustrations of Wee Willie Winkie.
Much more difficult is my new project to make myself into a dancer.
I'm nearing the crown of a fairisle tam, and after that I've promised to make one of my co-workers a hat if she buys the yarn, and having seen the new Knitty's nightcap pattern, I'm going to try again at a nightcap for my friend Don, who wants to look like those nursery-rhyme illustrations of Wee Willie Winkie.
RE #117 ::: Paula Lieberman :
the Cape Cod National Seashore, it doesn't matter if Big Waves hit and erode the beach away and flood out the National Seashore, nobody owns any houses that they live in there anymore.
Toronto did that on a much smaller scale after Hurricane Hazel in the 1950s - the land alongside the Humber River is now a series of public parks, because under the wrong conditions it becomes a flood plain. Of course they also did a lot of work on dams, watersheds, etc.
Adding to the thread of well-wishing!
re #20 : Serge
and one of my relatives asked "Doesn't that make you stupid?" because she thought I had had my testicles removed.
I think Peter Abelard might have disagreed with that idea as well.
It looks like the guy in the photo has something rectangular strapped to his left arm, under the sleeve. Also given the extreme pallor of his skin, I think the hair colour is probably natural.
My father once said: â€you’re a better door than a window†(ie, please stop standing in front of the tv set).
My mother and her relatives tended to say things like “Sing at table or whistle in bed, and the Devil will get you when you’re dead.â€
I think my grandfather once mentioned that you should always buy the best suit you can afford, because even if you can’t afford a new one for many years after that, people who know about such things will be able to tell that it was once a very good suit.
“You can tell them apart, because Bright is right, and Lion’s wrong.†Old man naming the two oxen pulling his cart. That was nearly thirty years ago, and I’m still not sure I get his joke. Lying’s wrong?
My advice on aesthetics: “Do whatever you like, just make it emphatic enough that people can tell it’s not by accident.â€
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