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"Friends must have eaten salt together"
An interesting article from the BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7920434.stm
It has some interesting comments about numbers and qualities of friends. I'm mostly posting it to stir up trouble though I suppose it's less likely to do so on LJ than on Facebook or something like that.
"The average number is about 150, says leading anthropologist ( Read more... ) -
Need advice from Mac users
Thelightofmylife's Mac started making horrible noises last night and flashing the "no boot disk available" icon. The sounds make me think the hard drive is the problem and since I replaced it within the last 6 months, that doesn't surprise me ( Read more... ) -
Not an ending but a beginning
I finished Ulysses yesterday.
I thought I might be sad, but as I got closer to the end I started finding myself thinking things like "now I can go back and read section again with the concordances!" I'm never going to be done reading this book, if for no other reason than some of the sections are such fun to read. And I hope that as I improve my ( Read more... ) -
The Song of the Wage-Slave
When the long, long day is over, and the Big Boss gives me my pay,
I hope that it won't be hell-fire, as some of the parsons say.
And I hope that it won't be heaven, with some of the parsons I've met-
All I want is just quiet, just to rest and forget.
Look at my face, toil-furrowed; look at my calloused hands;
Master, I've done Thy bidding, wrought ( Read more... ) -
Bermudas
Where the remote Bermudas ride ( Read more... ) -
The Parson's Son
This is the song of the parson's son, as he squats in his shack alone,
On the wild weird nights, when the Northern Lights shoot up from the frozen zone,
And it's sixty below, and couched in the snow the hungry huskies moan:
"I'm one of the Artic brotherhood, I'm an old-time pioneer.
I came with the first - O God! how I've cursed this Yukon - but still ( Read more... ) -
Enough of this
I have been using this as a way to pass along information but I'm kinda done doing that. At this point I am going to go back to locking my posts. If you are interested in seeing them let me know and create an account and I'll add you.
FYI - I've added a story or two about my father to the previous entry as a comment
thanks,
t
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