Category: fluff
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Three Men In A Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)
At the urging of the Lord Peter group, I got Connie Willis’ comedic time-travel novel To Say Nothing of the Dog from the library (and liked it enough to buy it). It starts off confusing (first-person narration by someone who’s time-lagged will do that) but is pretty funny, and full of golden age mystery fiction references. It also contains several homages to the 1889 book Three Men in a…
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Great Resolution Idea
This week, the comic strip character Betty asked her husband Bub what his resolutions would be for 2009. He feels that to make resolutions for 2009 would involve breaking his 2008 resolution to stop being critical of himself. Tuesday explored this a bit more: Betty: Your resolution last year was to stop being critical of yourself? Bub: Yes. Of all the resolutions I’ve made over the years,…
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Dancing?
At the BBW Bash I attended in Vegas, I was a bit surprised to find that Queen’s Fat Bottomed Girls was the “theme” song. I hadn’t know the song (I grew up listening to Country & Western) but noticed it got everyone on the dance floor. Are you gonna take me home tonight Ah down beside that red firelight Are you gonna let it all hang out…
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Maybe I’m a zombie?
From an IM conversation about this morning’s post… Me: Do you think I’m a zombie? D: Where’d the zombie bit come in? D: you aren’t trying to eat my brains. although, pieces of you did fall off this weekend.* Me: well, WW says I’m not living, but I’m not dead yet. So, am I undead? D: I don’t think I’ll even dignify that with an answer. WW…
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Surfing the web…
… and the web ads. Jillian Michaels Ad: How Much Do You Want To LOSE? Me: Do I have to? I mean, our retirement savings are down 33% already! The really annoying ones are the flash animations. Remember the woman who would “shrink” over and over and over and over? I kept running into that one on Yahoo! Mail. I found the distraction maddening. (See also: annoying…
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Friday Fun :)
Happy Friday, everyone! Up here in Seattle the leaves are turning, some are falling, and it’s getting dark at 6pm. (This may not seem strange to those of you living further south, but it seems like yesterday that it was light until 9pm….) So, a poll:
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