Muttering in operatic Italian about honor, and vengeance, and, switching back to his perfect-yet-formal English, the public trust? Yeah, I could get behind that. Many times. Then he would make Mikey(?) take him away because he turns his stomach, or possibly, because if they are alone together for too long, Giardello wouldn't trust himself not to...become creative, in that old-school BPD way. Delay would wet himself. YK would be most honored at being selected...he's quite the activist and committed to African debt relief and such...he would think indictments couldn't happen to a nicer fella, I'm sure.

Sesamoid. The foot thing is something to do with my sesamoid. Yeah, my body makes me boggle too. Stupid thing.

A handheld device (100) comprises a plurality of ambulation mechanisms (222-224, 1002-1008) that enable the handheld device (100) to perform translations, rotations or compound movements on a surface (502) on which the device (100) is placed. Using the ambulation mechanisms (222-224, 1002-1008), the device (100) is able to communicate the occurrence of various events to a user via ambulation gestures that are recognized by the user. Ambulation gestures can be programmed by the user. Disclosed ambulation mechanisms (222-224, 1002-1008) comprise linear (302, 700, 800) or rotary (1018, 1102) vibration transducers that are mechanically coupled to elastic feet (226-228, 606-608, 1110) that have an asymmetric tread (402). The asymmetric tread (402) is effective to convert vibration generated by the vibration transducers (302, 700, 800, 1018, 1102) to movement forces tangential to the surface (502) on which the device (100) is placed.

or, in other words, Motorola's patented a phone that dances when it rings. Customisably, too, perhaps.

never ever heard of a "sesamoid" until today.

never ever heard of a "sesamoid" until today.

In horses, they're one of the more tricky fractures. A lot of the spectacular racetrack fatalities are sesamoid fractures, where the bone just shatters and takes the whole ankle with it.

Sesamoid

That's the new word that I've learned today.

Oh, and here's a numbers riddle. It's an eeeevil riddle, it took me forever to solve it (cutting down vegetables for 2 big salads for all the guests on the holiday, plus most of washing the dishes afterwards): to construct the umber 21 out of 1, 5, 6 and 7. All four of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division operations are allowed, and only them. Each number must be used in the calculations exactly once.

everybody's fancy, everybody's fine
your body's fancy, and so is mine!

OK, nice that I skimmed through a bunch of posts, and the only thing I want to do is ask bon to help me with my homework:

JZ, if you're a non-citizen that's been wrongfully denied welfare benefits from the NYC HRA administration, Come On Down! You've just made tens or even dozens of dollars!

Were there any nonprofits involved with that, like an amicus brief or whatever?

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I can't seem to get it up for these people. They didn't know they had to get permission to perform a musical that belongs to someone else?

I don't understand.

I think we found the secret to Katie Holmes' pregnancy:

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Were there any nonprofits involved with that, like an amicus brief or whatever?

There's a lot of nonprofit legal organizations involved, but we haven't filed a complaint yet-- meaning the case hasn't come to court yet, so no amici.

I was just trying to google a similar case, because I know one is pending, but couldn't find it. But ask away.

They didn't know they had to get permission to perform a musical that belongs to someone else?

Allyson, a group of "Buffy" fans in Israel does this (from the convention site):

Once More With Feeling, a stage show in Hebrew of the famous "Buffy-The Musical" episode from the "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" television show. This episode, which was nominated for an Emmy, has developed a cult following and a wide range of fans, and has been used as a base for many and different showings around the world, including in Israel. The musical is being shown with the courtesy of the Technion Cell for Science Fiction and Fantasy by the Bitcast - a cast of amateur actors made up mostly of fans of the show. The Bitcast production is being shown for the first time in Israel as a full musical, including song, dance, acting, all live, without playback and in Hebrew. After the show, there will be a meeting with the cast.

I know they were concerned about the matter of rights, but as far as I know (and I don't really know all that much), they didn't get anything legal done, eventually. Then again, maybe they thought that since it's Israel, there is very little chance of them being caught?

[Edit: I'm not trying to trash them or anything! I really don't know anything about their behind-the-scenes activities, nor have I ever seem their show. I know that there was a question regarding rights at some point, I have no idea how it was settled.]