I so love the idea of a Shakespeare world.

I would have been here at 8AM had my battery not died, necessitating calling roadside assistance for a jump, and then sitting at NTB for an hour and a half while they replaced the battery.

Clearly you're still paying for all the gelato and lovely scenery.

I woke up late and had to scramble to make the bus, and now I'm finding all the ways humans and software can misspell "usury."

He was also one of those people with a freaky talent for remembering names. He could recognize at least a third of the 12,000 people in the company, and usually remembered what they did and some other personal detail about them.

You worked with Dubya?

I mean, that kind of inherent political ability is so completely alien to me it's hard for me to remember it's not always evil.

It looks like China is trying to crack down on sweatshops, which is cool, but American companies are trying to stop it.

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Sometimes it's hard to believe that companies are run by people.

Anyone know Italian? WTF is going on here?: [link]

I dunno, but there is a brain, a minotaur, and a scientist so it has to be something constructive.

I dunno, but there is a brain, a minotaur, and a scientist so it has to be something constructive.

I figure that of the brain, minotaur and scientist - at least one has to be evil.

I am Mr. Kitty, destroyer of worlds.

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Ditto: [link]

Back from a talk on the fun that was the IAU meeting in Prague this year. Specifically, the Pluto thing. It was very funny. The speaker, a coworker of mine, poked a lot of fun at himself, the issue, the IAU and just generally mapped out the whole thing. Oh, and mocked just about every side. I'll bet you never associated cell phones and prairie oysters with Pluto, right? (It came up in the discussion of linguistics.)

In the question session was a disgruntled planetary scientist who'd been at the meeting as well, complaining it had been "hijacked by dynamnicists " which earned a gentle rebuke. (Note, the speaker candidly admitted he was pro-the side that lost, so you can't call him unsympathetic.) I nearly had to leave the room, because I was having a hard time keeping my laughter silent.

People= CRAXY.

I think Clyde would have loved it.

That last link reminded me of this crazy kitty.