So sleepy I was going cross-eyed driving into work. Not good! Come on, Coffee, do your thing!
Buffy ,'Lessons'
Natter 67: Overriding Vetoes
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, nail polish, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
My van driver was sleeping until right before we left. That did not inspire confidence.
Police called to suspicious package: it was an Amazon order
A man in Hudson, Ohio called the police to report a suspicious package on his doorstep. When the officer arrived, he noticed the "AMAZON.COM" printing on the box and asked if the man had recently ordered anything from Amazon:
The man reportedly said "Why yes, I did."
The officer told the resident his order had arrived. The resident then said he was comfortable opening the box. The officer then left the scene, according to the report.
Awww... I like happy endings.
The alumni office here would like me to find whatever I can on someone who graduated between 1900-1905 whose name is John Smith.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
The alumni office here would like me to find whatever I can on someone who graduated between 1900-1905 whose name is John Smith.
Once you find him, can you find out if he's related to Mark Smith?
Yeah, the genealogy I am currently not even bothering to try to work on involves my great-grandparents, Mary and Bill Smith.
Skype isn't any better than Vonage was before it improved (sometimes staticky, cellphone like connection)
Ugh, that's no good. I was hoping to swap out our landline for a Skype phone, but since it'll be DH's business line we need high-quality audio (for interviews).
The problem with having phone/internet/cable all bundled up is that we can't save any significant amount of money by giving just one up. (Unless it's internet, and that's the most important one!!)
Astronaut watches the Earth from an ISS porthole: perfect cover for a nonexistent sf novel
Madeleine Robins called this picture of ISS astronaut Tracy Caldwell Dyson watching the spin far below, "The perfect cover for the perfect unwritten/unread SF novel I wanted to read when I was thirteen." Exactly right.
A cool picture, and the "SF novel book cover" is exactly right.
Up until very recently, no spacecraft or space stations had big windows like that. So they couldn't have done a cool SF novel book cover picture before.
I'd like to report that my copy of The Adventures of Sam the Bat is from Amazon and it's not an ARC. I'm not sure how I got so lucky. (I received it a while ago but I've been in a frenzy of book ordering and uh, hadn't quite realized that I had it.)
Skype isn't any better than Vonage was before it improved
Vonage is great now, maybe Skype will get there too.