As a young person, I would expect to find the registry info on the website. If I were an old person, I should be used to the tradition of asking the family/couple where they were registered.

Some registries even show up on google. Mine still does.

Oh dear.

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I wish my extended family would register for Christmas! Because I know enough about what they like to get them stuff they already have, but not enough to get the right thing. At least, that's what it feels like.

He figured it out... using geometry!

Cool beans. Science - it works, bitches!

Thanks, all! I'm going with the initial instinct of leaving registry info on the website and letting people ask. Most of the guests will have no problem navigating the website, and we can help anyone who has questions. We're still doing a traditional RSVP with envelope, so that should help a little.

By the way, would a few of you do a quick proof of the site to see if anything jumps out as confusing? If you see a typo, I'd appreciate a heads up on that too: [link redacted].

Thanks!

(Link has gone POOF! Thanks, everyone.)

Get Your Wikipedia Fix

50 interesting Wikipedia links. I haven't read them all, but each one I've looked at has been interesting. So maybe bookmark this link for when you're bored or run out of internets.

Here's the first 15:

1. Anthropodermic bibliopegy
2. Elm Farm Ollie
3. EURion constellation
4. (the) Demon core
5. Pole of inaccessibility
6. Globster

7. Hoba meteorite
8. Seattle Windshield Pitting Epidemic
9. GRB 971214
10. “Resolute” desk
11. Candace Newmaker
12. Cryptomnesia

13. Hans Island
14. Harrowing of Hell
15. Semantic satiation

Cryptomnesia, or inadvertent plagiarism, is a memory bias whereby a person falsely recalls generating a thought, an idea, a song, or a joke, when the thought was actually generated by someone else.[1] In these cases, the person is not deliberately engaging in plagiarism, but is rather experiencing a memory as if it were a new inspiration.

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Semantic satiation (also semantic saturation) is a cognitive neuroscience phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who can only process the speech as repeated meaningless sounds.

Ooh. I just read that the other day!

(Also, LAistas, if you didn't get a Save the Date and are remotely interested in attending, we would love to have you! Email me your snail mail addy. I tried to contact a couple of you and didn't hear back, so I wanted to cover my bases here.)

I wonder if someone had done an Un-Registry website/service for wedding couples who feel like they have to register to please the relatives. It could have links to stuff like Heifer.Org and Kiva.org and other alternate charity stuff that the couple approve of, and let givers print out customized PDF certificates to put in an envelope to present at the ceremony, et cetera....

Theo, our first registry link is to the I Do Foundation, which is a charity site in lieu of gift registry. Check it out on our site--it's pretty cool! It made me all weepy to write up the reasons why we chose our two charities (American Cancer Society and Donors Choose), and I'm really glad we were able to add that option.

well damn. the dresser got delivered, but one drawer is still not fixed. He's gonna have to come pick it up again. I guess I won't be putting clothes away after all.