| Friday, December 4th, 2009 |
| 5:39 pm |
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| Thursday, October 8th, 2009 |
| 7:32 pm |
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| Friday, October 2nd, 2009 |
| 8:12 pm |
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| Thursday, September 24th, 2009 |
| 1:07 pm |
Water found on the Moon
No, really.. Sept. 23, 2009 -- Shattering a long-held belief that Earth's moon is a dead and dry world, a trio of spacecraft uncovered clear evidence of water and hydrogen-oxygen molecules throughout the lunar surface.
"There's no question that there is OH [hydroxyl, which is made up of one hydrogen atom and one oxygen atom] and H2O on the moon," University of Maryland senior research scientist Jessica Sunshine told Discovery News. Also, "Jessica Sunshine" is the awesomest research scientist name ever. |
| Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 |
| 10:13 am |
So who did the kid in Where the Wild Things Are grow up to be?
Via ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) nancylebov: Jonathan Carroll's Blog:One of the most famous children's books in America is Maurice Sendak's WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE. The story, in short, is about a very bad little boy named Max who is sent to bed without dinner one night because he's been so naughty. But as soon as he gets to his room, The Wild Things-- wonderful monsters of all shapes and sizes-- appear and they all play happily together till morning. Max is delighted and has no fear of them. He's a brave little guy. Sendak has said readers often ask what he thinks happened to Max when he grew up. One night years ago the author was at a dinner party in New York. Seated next to him was the actress Sigourney Weaver. It turned out the glamorous Weaver was a big fan of his work and they chatted throughout the meal. Later she pointed to a man sitting across the table. She said he was her husband and one of the reasons why she fell in love with him was he reminded her so much of Max in WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE. Delighted, Sendak said he finally knew what happened to his famous character: Max grew up and married Sigourney Weaver.
And that’s what he tells anyone now when they ask what happened to the boy.
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| Tuesday, September 15th, 2009 |
| 10:24 am |
This explains a lot, actually
John Crowley, here: In general I think novelists should not speak about politics, and if they speak about them we should resist listening. These are people accustomed to creating imaginary worlds and making them go as they like, which can make their opinions tend to the fascistic, even their gentle-hippie or wise-crone opinions. Autocratic maybe rather than fascistic. The relation of cause to effect in fiction, remember, is the reverse of the same relation in life, at least from the novelist’s point of view: endings and conclusions cause the situations that will bring them about, and characters take paths or do deeds because the endings say they must; all writers know they can always change a character’s early life if they find that they need a cause for something in his later life. Doing this every day does not make for a good political sense, which requires a mature and wise sense of actual possibilities. |
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| Monday, September 14th, 2009 |
| 4:36 pm |
Daimon Kringle, Son of Santa
this thread is pure win, speculating on what kinds of powers a superhero by the above name would have. My fave is the exchange between me and xiphias in comments: (x): Anyway, so we now know that Santa Claus is a grim-and-gritty noir hero. He works only by darkness, in the darkest, coldest nights of the year -- stepping out from a frozen fortress at the North Pole, as cold and merciless as his own inflexible code. (me): The Son of Santa, of course, thinks his dad hasn't gone far enough - it's not enough to reward the nice; the naughty must be PUNISHED. (x): . . . which, in fact, is more in line with the older legends. So it's actually that the Son of Santa believes that his father has lost the plot and that it's time to go BACK to a time when children lived in FEAR of the darkness -- and where you'd really BETTER not laugh and better not cry. |
| 11:51 am |
By my age, I really shouldn't be shocked by this kind of stuff
But damn.Two months before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Margaret Thatcher told President Gorbachev that neither Britain nor Western Europe wanted the reunification of Germany and made clear that she wanted the Soviet leader to do what he could to stop it.
In an extraordinary frank meeting with Mr Gorbachev in Moscow in 1989 — never before fully reported — Mrs Thatcher said the destabilisation of Eastern Europe and the breakdown of the Warsaw Pact were also not in the West’s interests. She noted the huge changes happening across Eastern Europe, but she insisted that the West would not push for its decommunisation. Nor would it do anything to risk the security of the Soviet Union. |
| Wednesday, September 9th, 2009 |
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| Sunday, September 6th, 2009 |
| 9:12 pm |
What facebook is good for
So, right, I got married. Yay for me and evaluna68! But anyway, we've been alternately logging in on my laptop to look at/tag/comment on the hundred-fifty or so photos that have ALREADY been put up, the very next day. I'm not a huge fan of the endless quizzes/pointless political causes/mafia wars/li'l green patches et cetera et cetera, but I am now convinced that there's actually a purpose for the damn thing. |
| Tuesday, September 1st, 2009 |
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| Friday, August 28th, 2009 |
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| Wednesday, August 26th, 2009 |
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| Tuesday, August 25th, 2009 |
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| Monday, August 17th, 2009 |
| 3:35 pm |
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| Friday, August 7th, 2009 |
| 12:34 pm |
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| Thursday, August 6th, 2009 |
| 3:59 pm |
Beer update
Went with Goose Island - 3 12-packs of Honkers Ale and 1 of Nut Brown. Also, here is a goofy picture ( context here):  |
| Monday, August 3rd, 2009 |
| 12:39 pm |
Beer?
So what yuppie beer should I serve at my wedding? (It needs to be something with fairly broad appeal that isn't horribly expensive - no Belgian lambic thingies that cost ten bucks a bottle, please.) I'm afraid I have no concept of what microbrews et cetera are any good any more. |
