The company for which I work has headquarters in Houston, and they're shutting the campus down tomorrow. A number of employees, including the executives and some finance people, are coming to Austin, and some, who don't have a hotel or friends or family to stay at (the Austin City Limits Festival is this weekend, and there is no room at the inn) are probably going to be not just using the offices, but sleeping here as well.
We're anticipating serious rain here, and probably wind too. Still, nothing anywhere near as bad as what it'll be on the coast.
When I said we needed rain in Austin, this is not exactly what I had in mind.
My favorite part of Molotar's site is his screed against RPGs (which smacks of being rejected from gaming groups a few too many times). The best part is the final paragraph of the rant:
I no longer play roleplaying games. I don't need them. I have the Holy Spirit to give me miraculous powers. I have the Father to supply all my needs. I have Jesus to change me into a dragon and create neat lizard people to assist me in heaven. I don't need the fantasy because I have the reality.
I recently saw the gamer doco Uber Goober, wherein one of the representatives of the Christian Anti-D&D movement is a minister-type who has a radio show. At one point, he started going on about a gamer guy he knew who could astrally project himself into movie theatres and watch movies for free.
I think the minister would get along very well with Molatar, oddly.
I find it appauling you incline we have food like that
Just when I thought I'd seen everything in the imply/infer wars. I want to print that out and stick it up on my corkboard, for when I need a good giggle.
Re: Ginger Beer: One time, I was in a Jamaican takeaway place in South London. I bought a Meat Patty and a Ginger Beer- thinking it was like the Jamaican Meat Patties in New England and a ginger ale.
Ted, I sympathize. I once ordered a Reed's Ginger Beer (not even a strong one, in fact) alongside a plate of Jamaican curried goat.
The goat was delicious. At least the first two or three bites were. After that, I felt like the top of my head was going to come off, and as with Kip, I don't remember much of the rest of the meal.
Thanks for the links here -- 19th century mourning artifacts are a long-standing fascination of mine. (I still remember my mother's horror when I -- at 16 -- told her that I really wanted a copy of this book.) (Never got it, and if copies are going for $300+, I might never yet.)
The bit about willow trees as symbols of resurrection is new by me. Neat!
Dan, can I borrow your reply for the coworker who sent me this thing?
Thanks for the links, Teresa. I now feel an urge to go back and sit down with Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory again.
There's also a WWI memorial in Washington DC, although not many people know about it, I think. (Some of my own thoughts on the subject, here.)
think I've got another one:
IP: 12.231.63.199
Web site shilled: http://jewelry-store.lsotr.com/JWLR/jewelry.html
lsotr.com seems to be down, though, so if it's a comment spam, it's a very ineffective one.
Still, I'm banning hir arse, just to be safe.
Shingles. Or maybe incurable eczema.
They got my site too, although apparently not as badly as the Nielsen Haydens. Just wanted to say thanks to Teresa for the updates and resources -- useful stuff and much needed.
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