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According to a doubtful biography I just came across, the protagonists for A. Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study In Scarlet, were originally named "Sheridan Hope and Ormond Sacker ( Read more... ) -
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I, too, want to go to a butler cafe! As novelty restaurants go, it's much less alarming than, for example, that American Dolls, or American Girls, or whatever it is, restaurant in New York where you, your mother, and your doll can all go and have tea together at enormous expense ( Read more... ) -
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Do you know that in my Microsoft Word Templates folder, there is something labeled "Pleading Wizard?" I haven't opened it. Him. Whatever. -
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And Archer is running the Flatiron district, which is spot-on. A suburban town in Connecticut where I occasionally spend time for family reasons is run by Dillian. This quiz rocks ( Read more... ) -
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I did this quizand discovered that Torquil is running my chunk of Park Slope. Which strikes me as pretty fair. -
on reading descriptions in ebay
How can a sapphire be "endearing and stylish?" It's a rock! -
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Supplement to today's wasted time--Special Carrot Edition!
4. The maroon carrot has been rediscovered by Dr. L. Pike from Texas.
5. In the British Isles the only carrot to grow in the wild is the Sea Carrot.
6. It was the Moors who brought the carrot to Europe. (Actually I have doubts about this. I have doubts because my source, the Carrot ( Read more... ) -
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From today's totally wasted time:
1. There is nothing in the language of flowers which means either "pointed rebuke" or
"righteous indignation."
2. Nephrite jade and asbestos are forms of the same mineral, which is found in metamorphic rock.
3. Officials are hunting for villainous polygamous priest who once grabbed his wife's long braid and ( Read more... ) -
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From the Times, May 7 ( Read more... ) -
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Last night I dreamt I was a management consultant for a convent. I have no idea what that's about.