Xander ,'Empty Places'
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.
I refuse to attempt anything other than the simplest self-feeding and grooming tasks before accomplishing massage.
That is a totally good idea. I'd do the same except unfortunately my next massage isn't until 2:30 on March 25. At least I have one scheduled, though.
I'm going to be on vacation in less than 5 hours.
wheeee
Are you going to be in Seattle, Lee? Can you still look for the shirt I want?
I simultaneously have vacation envy and vacation fear! This sounds really weird, but I hope to stay at work at least until May. I have the perfect excuse for an extended vacation, but honestly, I so don't want one.
Hey, I found this website that hasn't updated their system time to DST yet. Anyone heard of it? It's called yahoo.com
Are you going to be in Seattle, Lee? Can you still look for the shirt I want?
I am, and I can, but you need to email me a reminder of what you want.
I read an article somewhere about the memeory arts and the tricks peopel use to memorize lists of things. One was to imagine a familiar street and to put visual clues along to street to remind you of each item.
I love that this technique is still used. Bascially it is a variation on the classic Roman "memory room", used by classical Romans. You build an imaginary house, furnish with it images that remind you of what you want to remember. For example if someone owe you money, due May 1, you would visualize a statue of them dancing around a maypole decked with the amount of money they owe , as one of the statues in your house. (Come to think of it, that would be an even more appropriate reminder if you owed them money.)
It was called method of loci or Ars memoriae according to Wikipedai
Ah, and the orignal trick was to use an actual room and objects know to you, and tie chunks of what you wanted to remember to that. But by the middle ages it was well known you could use an imaginary room or building just as well.
The Army Corps of Engineers, rushing to meet President Bush's promise to protect New Orleans by the start of the 2006 hurricane season, installed defective flood-control pumps last year despite warnings from its own expert that the equipment would fail during a storm, according to documents obtained by The Associated Press.
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Col. Jeffrey Bedey, who is overseeing levee reconstruction, insisted the pumps would have worked last year and the city was never in danger. Bedey gave assurances that the pumps should be ready for the coming hurricane season, which begins June 1.
The Corps said it decided to press ahead with installation, and then fix the machinery while it was in place, on the theory that some pumping capacity was better than none. And it defended the manufacturer, which was under time pressure.
Oh, you've got to be kidding me, Dana. They're killing me.
Between this and the Walter Reed thing, the army is not looking so good these days.
There's also a bit in the article about the company that won the project, and their ties to Jeb Bush and their donations to the Republican party. And how they're in the middle of being sued by the Justice Department.