On the subject of finding out of print books, isbn.nu is useful.
Our local coffee shop got WiFi recently. That's OK, though, because it's not free, and no one -- least of all the employees -- can figure out how to use it.
My writing group meets there once a week. In very bad weeks, it's the only time any of us gets any writing done at all.
Re: the pillow book... I'd like to see someone tackle the Arabian Nights. In a threaded view.
Found on Metafilter this morning: Squalor Survivors.
Angel's seasons 3 and 4 were better than the Buffy seasons that were airing at the time. Still, I'll grab Buffy s7 on DVD and sit through all the repetitiveness again just so I can have "Selfless."
Olaf: I've told you a thousand times, I have no interest in this Rannveig. Her hips are large and load-bearing, like a Baltic woman. Your hips are narrow, like a Baltic woman from a slightly more arid region.
Lara - oh dear. I missed the wood chipper. I can only imagine how devastated a true hoarder would be.
Thanks for the login, Jeff. It's an astonishing story.
There is some awareness of hoarding on TV, but it's a cleaner, friendlier version. I've seen a couple of episodes of Clean Sweep on TLC (which is turning into the Tough Love Channel) and Life Laundry on BBC America. The premise is to clean out the hoarder's house, organize what's left, and hold a yard sale for the discarded stuff all in 48 hours. They tend to choose people who have too many kids' toys, overflowing closets and such. I'd like to see them take on a true hoarder's home and try to deal with things like vermin and rotting walls. I imagine the containers and things they provide the families just become part of the clutter when the crew leaves. As the article pointed out, the quick-fix approach does nothing to address the real problem. The guy in the article had six weeks to adjust to the idea, and he still wasn't ready to part with his empty tape cases. That's a level of hoarding I can barely comprehend.
If by "visual authentication feature" you mean one of those images with slightly jumbled numbers that you have to type in order to post, you'd be putting up a roadblock for the visually impaired.
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