Photos of Team USA versus Canada in The Roller Derby World Cup yesterday.
Drusilla ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 69: Practically names itself.
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.
Our Interim Dean of Research and head of Nursing Research at the Hospital passed away last night (hence the meeting). I had never known her, and only had had one email contact with her, so it was not personally affecting, but a great deal of professors were mentored by her and very close to her. Her administrative assistant was also her nephew, so I am not really sure what that means for him, either.
I'm not sure how I feel about this.
Postal cuts to slow delivery of first-class mail
WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing bankruptcy, the U.S. Postal Service is pushing ahead with unprecedented cuts to first-class mail next spring that will slow delivery and, for the first time in 40 years, eliminate the chance for stamped letters to arrive the next day.
The estimated $3 billion in reductions, to be announced in broader detail on Monday, are part of a wide-ranging effort by the cash-strapped Postal Service to quickly trim costs, seeing no immediate help from Congress.
The changes would provide short-term relief, but ultimately could prove counterproductive, pushing more of America's business onto the Internet. They could slow everything from check payments to Netflix's DVDs-by-mail, add costs to mail-order prescription drugs, and threaten the existence of newspapers and time-sensitive magazines delivered by postal carrier to far-flung suburban and rural communities.
There are reports that they were doing 150 km/h on an S-curve where the limit is 80 km/h. In the rain. So, yeah, little sympathy for them.
I'm earwormed with "Life Upon the Wicked Stage." The High Society/Cabaret version. [link] (I'm not entirely sure where this clip is from, but I found it a few days ago when looking for clips of Anna Kendrick singing for some Les Mis fantasy casting I was doing with a friend on facebook, and it totally cracked me up. And now it won't leave my head.)
Yeti crabs farm bacteria on their arms.
I'm not sure how I feel about this.
Postal cuts to slow delivery of first-class mail
Ben Franklin is not amused.
Ben Franklin is not amused.
Ben Franklin does everything online these days.
I think it's horrifying, actually. There are a lot of people out there who aren't reliably online, and aren't using FedEx or UPS for everything.
It's like assuming everything can be an e-book -- e-readers are fantastic, but it's going to be a long time before every child in this country has reliable access to one.
Yeah, do not love that postal slow. I mean, a LOT of stuff you receive by mail is time-sensitive, and I don't think companies are going to really be sensitive to that.
ION, it's 10:15 am and we still have internet at home! Cross fingers they forgot to flip a switch; I can live without cable until the 15th!!! For sure! Happy to do it if I can keep the interwebs!
ita !, you should put this on your Xmas list: [link]