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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, flaming otters, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Does anyone think Allyson might not be giving an objective assessment of how she looks in the glasses?
[raises hand] My impression is that Allyson is quite insightful except when the subject is Allyson. I also think she's a devious time-traveling copycat, because I'd planned to get new glasses tomorrow.
People need to go visit Allyson and give her their honest opinions.
Check. I should probably go pack.
I got new glasses today also. I guess they're okay, but I spent a lot of time looking at cooler-looking glasses and ended up with a pair remarkably similar to the ones I've had for the last 20 years.
Check. I should probably go pack.
oooh. Strega here soon.
All this eyeglass talk reminded me that I want to get some vintage frames. So I just checked bloglines, and the first thing was a link for vintage frames.
Plate of shrimp.
eta: Fuckdumplings! Every pair I like is sold out....
Sly tribute. Shiny.
God, I feel like I am asking to bogart Allyson's eyeglasses opinions. That is not what I meant to do. Just cranky and whiney and whatnot.
Plate of shrimp.
I was JUST going to post that link.
I'd love get a knit toy that is insanely funny.Oh dear I want to knit now. Or make friends with someone who knits.
I was just reading something about a group of Civil War reenactors who dress up in uniform... and knit.
But it was fiction.... [link]
Semi-Home From Mourning Meara
I think the ID people have wisely concentrated their efforts on proving all of biology wrong, before taking the larger step of proving all of geology and cosmology wrong.
Tom, I may need to tag that.
I’m curious about this Steph. If you consider the back, the knee, the appendix, or the thousands of failed “experiments” that we find recorded in our DNA, don’t these things seem more consistent with a gradual and imperfect process of evolution, a process that is constrained by its history, than they are with an a priori design by a supreme being? I mean, if we were designed so intelligently, why do we need a pharmaceutical industry?
Well, the assumption there is that G*d's priorities and your priorites are the same thing. If you believe that there is a vast eternal creator and that the vast eternal creator decided to make knees we'd consider "wonky" you accept that G*d could have his reasons.
Of course, lots of people believe in evolution AND an intelligent designer. The design isn't necessarily happening on OUR schedule after all -- in a few million years knees could be great.
The nice thing about mourning in Kentucky is that your Aunt sends you home with pimento cheese sandwiches.