re: #41 #73
What I think of when I see a name like "Charles Conrad Castagna" is that a bunch of British public school types, finding out all the "good places" to ski were already taken, decamped for Abruzzo for a long weekend of drinking and semi-successfully falling down hills, ol' Charlie meets up with one of the locals at one of the "don't we look like a American place? Really!" cheap wine and oddly interpreted burger bars. Nine months later, said local names the kid after the one-night stand, figuring he might be able to track down papa someday, if only that said papa hadn't given the real name of a US Astronaut he saw on an old Nat Geo cover pasted on the restaurant wall.
Okay, maybe it's just the Vicodin (minus an appendix since a couple back)......
Stefan,
3M makes duct tape--and they're always a good investment!
Me, I've been investing in the stuff that's used for cracking shale oil, and have doubled my investment over the past three months. I think someone is taking a look at all those oil fields in Alberta, and figuring that being able to mine, crack, and clean the goodies is going to pay off in the next couple of years. Yes, mine--all that oil sand has to be dealt with somehow, and pit mining is a likely option.
Good thing Canada's warmed up enough over the past few years to make that doable.
*sigh*
Laurie
Way back when, I was packing a tube full of silica, when one of the stall-muckers wandered into the lab, grabbed a handful of the stuff that had fallen to the lab bench (silica that you use to take cruft out of solutions is fairly fluffy and tends to get everywhere, even when you're using a hood), made a joke about cocaine, and proceeded to *snort* a handful of the stuff.
The bloody nose that followed was spectacular.
Alex--the "surf guitar" Christmas music is by Gary Hoey. He's done at least three CDs of Christmas music, and they all age quite nicely.
Christmas songs that drive me around the bend--anything by the Chipmunks. Those evoke a coyote respond--I'll gnaw off a limb to get out of the room.
And in the general annoyance category--anything that transposes 7th and minors into majors, usually by alleged singers whose publicity outstrips their ability.
I never want hear, ever again, "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas", from someone who can't figure out that it's supposed to have all those 7ths in there.
I just checked through the Talbots early fall (for me in SJ, clothes through to the end of Dec), and hey, I'm happy!
They're showing ivory, gold, rust, russset, and dk olive. As a green-eyed, pale-pink skinned, auburn haired type, I've suffered through the seasons of hot pink, watermelon red (or any of the blue-reds, thanks), red-reds, and other stuff that basically makes me look like an ad for fever.
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