I was referred to a nifty video on someone who started crocheting coral, and talks more grippingly than I was expecting on crochet, mathematics, how sea slugs and lettuce do hyperbolic space stuff ( Read more... )

Found a reference to Paleoperformance: The Emergence of Theatricality as Social Practice {{30,000 years ago}}

http://bit.ly/JOYyG

This is a bit over my price range, but sure want to get it as an Obvious Gaming Accessory for next time intrepid adventurers come across "cave men"

I slept through the Space Shuttle landing, but minutes later video from the cockpit was online.

http://tinyurl.com/d4eexg

Closest 3 workers are also all California natives, and we saved, saw that windows weren't breaking, and waited out the long slow rolls (we're on the 16th floor) then got back to work. Actually, I heard a fair amount of typing during the quake ( Read more... )

While most disgruntling and annoying the passage of the 2008 FISA trampling on respect for law is not The End ... any more than the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 (even though one of the four still haunts us), the House Un-American Affairs Committee, and a host of other bad examples ( Read more... )

Reading (etc.) Road, first steps ( Read more... )

New Windows ( Read more... )

Library catalogs of a bunch from Benjamin Franklin to Robert Howard. This seemed of course to be an obvious rpg aid. As well as yet more books to check ( Read more... )

I wandered off to forage for lunch, and my troll sat down and relaxed into Away From Keyboard mode.
On returning, it turns out that fishing is so relaxing that he didn't need to stand back up for it, and kept fishing sitting down.


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My supervisor loaned me a copy of Graphic Classics’ “RAFAEL SABATINI: Great tales of mystery, plus swashbuckling adventure with captain blood ( Read more... )