'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Aims, I can't recommend Band-aid Blister Block highly enough: [link]
I'd suggest wearing your walking shoes for a short walk before DC, noting any areas that rub even a little, then using Blister Block on them before every DC walk. I don't know if it's made of simmered unicorn tears or what, but it has saved my feet many times. I bought a new stick of it just for my trip to France this fall.
Anyone have some helpful links to point an older person to about the reasons why a Federal Balanced Budget Amendment may not do what Faux says it will do?
I've got a lot of students from China, and the class lists that I get seem to have no logic at all behind how they sort out personal name and family name. Like, a kid with the personal name Jingmei and the family name Chen could be listed in different university computer systems as "Chen, Jingmei" or "Jingmei, Chen" or (I had one of these last semester that always screwed up the alphabetizing) "Meichen, Jing." Or sometimes "Jingmeichen" or "Meichenjing" or something else entirely. I get student lists from a few different university offices, and frequently have to check one list against a different one to make sure the same students are on both lists, and there will usually be several names that are written differently on the different lists.
My sister works there! What broke you?
Uncanny Valley! Or, rather, Uncanny Canal!
Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names: [link]
OMG, the comments on that thing.
Thanks, Scola. Marked and printed out and likely to be used several times.
Uncanny Valley! Or, rather, Uncanny Canal!
Heh. Did you hear any of the gondeliers singing? It echoes very strangely of off the walls.
Did you look at the rare book store? When I was there in April, I was drooling over the window display of the first edition of Helen Keller's My Life autographed by her. I wanted that soooo much, but didn't have a spare $12,000 on me at the time.
OMG, the comments on that thing.
A universal response to blog posts.
I *love* pony play. LOVE.
Did I ever send you a link or have you seen Unmata's ode to pony play?
I don't think so. It doesn't sound familiar.