Er. I just realized that could be misunderstood, so to clarify: I'm very much looking forward to both the wedding and the herring.
But Patrick, have you had the raw herring yet? I'm going to be in Amsterdam for a weekend in May, and I'm almost looking forward to the herring more than my cousin's wedding.
Darth @7, Tom @9,
If the satellite were using a pinhole-type camera (rather than one with a lens) to take pictures, it would be theoretically possible to capture that image with both the ground and another satellite in focus.
I'm not saying it's likely, of course.
Fragano @ 10: Wow, Boortz is actually admitting it? I have newfound respect for the man.
Okay, no, I really don't. My dentist inevitably has the radio tuned to him when I'm getting my teeth cleaned, and the Louse's voice is irrevocably associated with the pain of getting my cavities drilled.
Oh, the Blue Benn! I didn't get to go there often in college (I went to Williams) as I didn't have a car, but it was always a special treat when I did.
I've just started knitting myself a cardigan, on top of a couple assorted socks. However, I don't expect to finish any of those soon, as I'm also gearing up for making sounds for a whole bunch of plays and, in my free time, working on making myself a brand new career via studying for the LSAT. (Two and a half weeks to go, aieee!)
From my grandfather:
1) Never mix alcohol and sugar.
2) Hang on to your investments.
I don't always pay attention to #1 (who wants to pass up a mojito?), but since he's now 96 and living off huge dividends from a life insurance policy he bought as a young man, I fully support #2. Shame I don't have any investments.
Aquila @ 69: Add me to the born in '75/Charles & Di wedding contingent.
Oddly, I have two memories of the Challenger explosion: the true one (I've confirmed it with my mother), in which I was actually home from school that day and watching tv, and saw it happen live. In the other, I am in the school library media room and see it live there. The second one is clearly false--for one thing, I don't think the elementary school allowed kids to hang out watching tv during school hours, and for another, by 1986 we had moved and I wasn't at that school anymore. I must have seen something there important enough to conflate it with the Challenger, though--I wish I knew what it was.
But I do remember the launch of MTV--not sure what that says about my priorities...
I adored the first season, but by the end of the second season (especially the final couple of episodes), the show had become one that I was still watching only in memory of what it had been. I gave up entirely somewhere in the middle of the third season, because I was busy and keeping up was an effort. Maybe someday I'll watch it, but it's not high on my list.
I know the author is Irish, but wouldn't MacDonald's Brasyl count as Latino sci-fi? Or is "Latino" reserved for descendants of Spanish colonies only?
Dave Bell #370: That reveal was the one moment in the episode where I said out loud, "Oh, that's just silly."
*raises hand re: alpaca*
I got a big stash of it on sale at one of the local shops--gorgeous, pinky-brown variegated stuff. And maybe someday the pattern I bought to use it for will actually show up. Dude! It's been since April!
Fragano #257: Ah, but are they ITP or OTP?
Fragano #221: Hee!
It's difficult to convey that softened "t" in written English, isn't it? Nobody I know (well, no one from around here) would use a hard "t" in "Atlanta" at all, but that doesn't mean it's quite missing. And how much of that is Southern and how much is just lazy 'Murrican?
#213 Mary Aileen: Oh, yes, we'd both be rolling in the dough! Though I now get extra-funny looks on occasion: after a year-long stint in London, I didn't develop an accent, but all my consonants got much sharper, resulting in a former high school classmate telling me, "You don't say Adlanna like you're from Adlanna." (Which is true--almost a decade later, I still say Adlanta.)
I'm sure I say "might could" on occasion, but I don't notice myself saying it the same way I notice "y'all." Now, of course, I'm sure I'll discover I say it all the time...
It's not a Southernism, really, but I did notice back in high school/college that I would respond to the question "How are you?" with "Prihgud." That one took a while to eradicate.
I was born and grew up in Atlanta, which is really only pseudo-Southern (it's a city of carpetbaggers, after all; even now, as a native Atlantan, I'm a rarity here). For most of my life, I refused to use "y'all," because I thought it would make me sound uneducated. It wasn't until grad school (in Connecticut!) that I finally gave in to how useful it is. Now I use it all the time, and "all y'all" as well. And it makes me happy, and even Northerners don't make fun of me.
On the other hand, since I've only ever had the barest trace of a Southern accent, I hope other Southerners don't think I'm being pretentious...
Aconite and P J Evans: You only think you're kidding. Have you seen the pieces at Bugknits.com? I keep going back and forth between awe and sympathetic eyestrain.
I think my very favorite part of that entire wonderful piece is the melodic flute in the background.
I was never all that interested in blowing things up myself (aside from the occasional baking soda and vinegar volcano), but my father used to build and set off rockets all the time. Apparently, there were numerous occasions on which he prepared the rocket fuel in the kitchen oven, though he was careful never to tell my grandparents about this until much later.
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