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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.
The passenger pigeon officially went out at the beginning of WWI -- 1914, not 1903. But that means there were like twelve of them left by then.
I'll not soon forget the radio expedition I heard, where the birders were in search of that recently-rediscovered (maybe) woodpecker in Arkansas, and burst into joyful tears at hearing its (somewhat-disputed) call. I've never felt about a bird that way, but it pleases me that somebody does.
The Cincinatti zoo still has the little building where the last known passenger pigeon died, with a plaque explaining its significance in front (I had to explain how tragic the extinction of the species was to my mom and brother).
Sushi. I'm going to have sushi for lunch, and read Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell while I do so. I've been meaning to have this lunch all week and got distracted.
Can somebody explain the whole "dive bar" fad to me? For the longest time, I thought it was a bar where SCUBA fans hung out. What makes it a dive bar? What's cool about it?
I love the monkey brothel and the vacuum tormenting starling.
Can somebody explain the whole "dive bar" fad to me? For the longest time, I thought it was a bar where SCUBA fans hung out. What makes it a dive bar? What's cool about it?
Is it a fad? There have always been dive bars and hipsters have always gone to them. What's cool about it? "Authenticity" - which hipsters crave because they have none. Also they've read too much Bukowski and drew poor conclusions.
Monkey monkey monkey!
Noodle noodle noodle!
I think I am going to have sushi for lunch too, unless I have a hamburger and cajun fries.
My computer stopped working last night, and this morning I got mocked by the Apple support guy for not searching for "three beeps" on the apple site, since if I had, I would have known what was wrong. (probably just a loose memory chip). Then I tried to make a reservation at the local genius bar, but couldn't, since all we have here is IE, and of course the reservation concierage won't work on IE, so I had to call the store to make a reservation, which according to the web site and the store's phone tree is not allowed, but they let me anyway, so now I have to go to the Stanford Mall after work, but that's okay, since I can go to PF changs.
Also, I gave up caffeine today.
There was an afterschool animated special on the passenger pigeon when I was a kid. I sobbed uncontrollably.
Why are you giving up caffeine, Perkins? It's like the best drug ever!
I didn't know there was a dive bar fad, but recently a friend who grew up in New Jersey was talking about how much it annoyed her that all the rich kids she went to school with always wanted to go to "dives" because it was cool. I always thought of it as a hipster thing, but I don't know that these people are hip.