I still lurk from time to time and lolaraincoat sez that lj might be deleting inactive accounts, so this account is no longer inactive. There.

Ten Top Trivia Tips about The H1N1 virus strain!

1. Four-fifths of the surface of The H1N1 virus strain is covered in water.
2. The H1N1 virus strain is the world's smallest mammal.
3. The Vikings believed that the Northern lights were caused by The H1N1 virus strain as it rode out to collect warriors slain in battle.
4. Most bottles and jars contain at least ( Read more... )

Yes, I'm worried about the swine flu, not so much because of it's potential as a pandemic (which, of course, worries me), than the fact that it is already epidemic in the DF one of a short list of my homes away from home (wherever that is). So, I'm worried about my loved or just-kind-of-liked or not-actively-hated ones who live there, and more ( Read more... )

Ten Top Trivia Tips about Twotoedsloth!

1. Japan provides over thirty percent of the world's twotoedsloth supply.
2. Women shoplift four times more frequently than twotoedsloth.
3. Reindeer like to eat twotoedsloth.
4. Moles are able to tunnel through 300 feet of twotoedsloth in a day.
5. Ideally, twotoedsloth should be stored on her side at a temperature of 55 ( Read more... )

I just saw a few photographs of me when I was between, say, 5 or 6 and 8 or 9. Somehow I hadn't been trained to smile for the camera, so I have the most amazing expression. It's an expression that is saying one of two things, either ( Read more... )

My old boss from my old job is now on facebook posting surrealist aphorisms. Possibly Persian in inspiration if not in origin. Actually, I'm not sure if they are surrealist or surreal.

I have students in my facebook. Students! So I have to be careful what I post there. So this is a few random, but incredibly important thoughts ( Read more... )

How do people get nominated for the Margaret Mead prize? Do they nominate themselves, or do other people nominate them? Because I'm kind of wondering...

I had decided that I should dance more... So, I found I small, friendly, cheap weekly lesson in lindy hop and blues dance. Tonight the lesson was blues dance. Conclusion? Lindy hop is just plain fun. Blues dance would be really fun if you were partnered with someone you really liked. I mean really liked. In that way... because the closed ( Read more... )

Re-establish the principle that torture is a violation of human rights and, as such, illegal.

Done.

Hey, that was pretty quick.