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When I was nine or ten, I went to celebrate Thanksgiving with my great-aunt, and one of the dinner guests gave me a present. I liked to read, and he’d just finished writing a book, so he gave me a copy--with instructions. His inscription in the front said “Not for cover to cover reading, but for dipping.” Thank goodness. As it is, Prof. Ford’s ( Read more... ) -
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Of course tomorrow I am going to the Brooklyn Book Festival. Any of y'all want to come with? -
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Manager (joking) "So, I was talking to the Japan office today--maybe you could be our analyst over there."
Boxmint:(with deep sincerity) "Great! I'm so ready to go abroad and never ever come back."
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Note also that I've decided to stop locking my posts quite as much. I looked back over this LJ and realized that something like 75% is "private," 10% is "friends only," and the leftovers are public. Which is not quite the point, I think--I have a diary, after all, and this doesn't need to be it. Somebody want to give me a Vox invite? Or Awful ( Read more... ) -
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Certain people of my acquaintance are convinced that Wikipedia is not only as good as the Encyclopedia Britannica--with which I heartily agree--but that it is the same as the Encyclopedia Britannica.
To those people, I offer the following broadminded excerpt, from the Wikipedia entry on "Serpent Seed.""William Branham taught that the fall of ( Read more... ) -
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I'm taking next week off. I am so taking next week off. So if any of y'all feel like socializin', evenings or daytimes, take advantage of this Limited One-Time Only offer! -
his first moment after noon is night
Wikipedia has a slow animation of a peach collapsing. (Scroll down when you get there.) Whoever did this photographed a peach once every 12 hours for six days, beginning with its firm-fleshed bloom and ending with withered, moldy age. It's neat. -
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Today I got distracted by cold reading and fake claims of the paranormal. Today's favorite quote:
"I do claim that an egg can sense my intention or action involved with boiling another cohort egg."
The dude had invented a device called the Shimmering Leaf Vibrator, which, as best I can figure, induced eggs to boil each other. Marvelous.