Lilah ,'Destiny'
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.
Woman, 65, saves husband from mountain lion
Nell Hamm said she grabbed a 4-inch-diameter log and beat the animal with it, but it would not release its hold on her husband's head.
"Jim was talking to me all through this, and he said, 'I've got a pen in my pocket and get the pen and jab him in the eye,"' she said.
"So I got the pen and tried to put it in his eye, but it didn't want to go in as easy as I thought it would."
I hope Nutty is taking notes.
Much house-ma Sue!
If that report about Nancy Pelosi is actually true, then my liking of her has increased muchly even if she does blink a lot.
The tradeoff for measuring fevers in C rather than F is that tenths of a degree are more easily measured (and meaningful) in C.
House-ma Sue!
First of all, Way to go Nell.
Second of all, I think this is the reason that Nutty needs to give a traveling seminar on how to beat up large cats.
Yeah. I think if people measure body temperature in C, they include the first decimal for greater precision (for the reason you mentioned).I think I'd want two decimal places, since you look at the first decimal with Fahrenheit body tempertures, too.
If I'm obsessing about my child's week long fever, I want to obsess with some measure of precision.
Damn! I saw Nutty on the subway this morning and I didn't remember to mention the mountain lion incident to her!
FWIW, I've often pointed out the idiocy of security regulations that forbid teensy nailclippers but let you bring pens and pencils onboard, becuase you can much more easily kill somebody with those things.
Lots of house~ma to you, Sue. You posted pictures of one, a while back. Is that the one you're going for?
You know I am, Tom.
A lot of things have converted to Metric, but some things stick with imperial.
When I was in Britain in 2004, I bought a length of ribbon at a fabric store, and I was like, "Can I have about half a yard? Oh, I mean half a meter." And the woman said, "Oh that's all right, dear. None of my regular customers can sew in meters either." She showed me how her ruler was technically a metric ruler, and she was supposed to measure off the saleable amount in metric, but the inches side was the side with the wear-marks. I can see as how traditional things like eyeballing distances and sewing and baking would be slow to convert over.
Lots of house~ma to you, Sue. You posted pictures of one, a while back. Is that the one you're going for?
Nope. It's this one: