Mal ,'Serenity'
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.
Hee--from Tom's link:
English is essentially Pictish that was attacked out of nowhere by Angles cohabiting with Teutons who were done in by a drunk bunch of Vikings masquerading as Frenchmen who insisted they spoke Latin and Greek but lacked the Arabic in which to convey that. --Bill Hammel
Oh thank you, Ginger. I love that story.
Yes, that is a most excellent story.
Stoned wallabies make crop circles [link]
That's hilarious. And now I'm picturing billytea's DW getting stoned on poppies and running around in big circles.
Ah, crap. Coworker just reminded me that we haven't gotten departing coworker a gift of any kind, and we probably should. She's moving out of town almost immediately, to a much smaller place, so... some kind of gift card? But what? I'm inclined to Amazon, just because you can use it for anything, but that seems incredibly lame. Is Zappos too weird, from coworkers? She's totally inappropriate, if that helps.
Gift card definitely sounds like the way to go, Jesse. Personally, in that situation I'd be pretty happy with an Amazon card. Does Zappos do much other than shoes?
Clothing, accessories, bags, eyewear, housewares, beauty crap...
She orders from there a lot, which is why I even thought of it, and I think will be commuting by foot rather than car when she moves.
If she orders from there a lot, go for it. I find their price point is kind of high for a random gift if you didn't know she already used them.
(By which I mean, if I didn't know someone's shopping habits, I would worry that it might not be a good choice because some people would not be comfortable/get a lot of value from Zappos if they don't typically spend that much on their shoes and such.)