I just got an e-mail that I almost dismissed as spam, but I think it might actually just be misdirected. It's in French, and I think someone might have mistyped an address, given my French surname.

From what I can decipher, it looks like some guy making arrangements for a roommate, or a sublet. Sounds like a nice place. It has a petit jardin.

I was one of many recipients on a weird (to me) email a couple weeks ago from a guy discussing his plans to move from Australia to the UK.

I have no idea how I got into his address book. It was a very chatty email.

They do conveniently go out like lights, don't they?

I hate that cliché. Apparently you have to hit someone *just right* to knock them out like that.

I've gotten concussed a couple times, due to being prone to fainting under the right conditions. I fainted in church and was standing as far away from the adobe church wall as possible to ensure I'd achieve maximum velocity while still hitting the wall. When I woke up, it was like a stereotypical TV show. I saw a sea of faces around me and someone said "I'm a doctor. Are you okay?" I was bundled into my aunt's Mercedes and taken home. I only just managed to hold back from booting until the car door was open and I could get my head out. I seemed to be recovering okay but a couple weeks later when I got my wisdom teeth taken out, it brought back the concussion symptoms and I was in massive misery. It was really weird how it brought back those symptoms. I think my skull is actually shaped differently than it was before that concussion.

That said, I'm actually amazed how tough the human skull is. It takes quite a lot of bonking while protecting its precious cargo.

Telegrams still exist, among other reasons, as a way for individual and corporate investors to make sure their brokers don't screw them. There are various ways a dishonest broker can diddle a client by claiming not to have received a phone call or fax; a delivered telegram is accepted by most courts as legally binding proof of delivery of the message. Of course most companies sending telegrams for such reasons use an email-to-telegram service. Similarly, most brokers recieve telegrams in the form of emails. So, while traditional telegrams do still exist, the majority of telegrams sent are emails routed through a telegraph company to obtain proof of delivery.

On edit - Ok so I missed the post that started that conversation. Apparently traditional telegrams don't still exist. But I'm betting MCI's telegraph-by-email service has not shut down for the reason mentioned above.

I was mostly okay until the Jaegermeister. I mean, I went to krav quite cheerily and everything.

Gar! Thank you for the knowing!

I was mostly okay until the Jaegermeister.

Heh. That's like a "this too shall pass" kind of sentence, expressing some kind of universal truth.

Welcome to the world, Olivia!

ABC is a great song. Poor MJ. So much gone wrong.

That said, I'm actually amazed how tough the human skull is.

I do recall having a debate in college, which is when one should debate such things, over what evolutionary advantages there might be in having your nerve-center be in the middle of your body, like under your ribcage, rather than in its own case right up top.

On the upside, it's hard to cut a guy's head off if his head isn't a separate part of his body. On the down side, where would the eyes go?

This all came about because of a line in Othello, where there are supposed to be (among other critters) "anthropophagi" who have their heads in the middle of their bodies, and eat men.

Don't we have a lizard-brain-thingy in the guts somewhere?