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?
Now, this would be the perfect time for a swear word.
Kaylee ,'Jaynestown'
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.
tommyrot - Nov 16, 2010 4:45:25 am PST #5678 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
flea - Nov 16, 2010 4:46:48 am PST #5679 of 30001
information libertarian
Yeah, the genealogy I am currently not even bothering to try to work on involves my great-grandparents, Mary and Bill Smith.
Jessica - Nov 16, 2010 4:50:52 am PST #5680 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
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!!)
tommyrot - Nov 16, 2010 4:51:14 am PST #5681 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
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.
sumi - Nov 16, 2010 5:05:29 am PST #5682 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
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.)
Gudanov - Nov 16, 2010 5:24:21 am PST #5683 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
Skype isn't any better than Vonage was before it improved
Vonage is great now, maybe Skype will get there too.
tommyrot - Nov 16, 2010 5:26:14 am PST #5684 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Gudanov - Nov 16, 2010 5:37:08 am PST #5685 of 30001
Coding and Sleeping
The spaceship is being torn down and rebuilt. I'll sort of miss it.
Imagine Green Day's Time of Your Life playing in the background. I'd have the website play it automatically, but I'm not an asshole.
tommyrot - Nov 16, 2010 5:39:12 am PST #5686 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Jessica - Nov 16, 2010 5:43:34 am PST #5687 of 30001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Beatles on iTunes - [link]