Okay, in doing some family history Googling, I found an article about a novel, where there's a minor character named Prosper Ozone. My grandfather was Prosper Ozon. How weird is that?
Natter 54: Right here, dammit.
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.
Anyone have experience ordering from bluefly? Are returns easy or a hassle?
Magna Carta for sale! [link]
Mr. Redden arranged the Magna Carta auction quietly, so quietly that Sotheby’s did not tell its own employees why it was changing arrangements for other auctions. [...] “All they told me was: ‘David Redden is selling this really important document, the most important document of all. Can you give up this room for us?’ ” he recalled. “And I’m like, ‘Sure, but what is he selling, the Magna Carta?’ ”
“And I’m like, ‘Sure, but what is he selling, the Magna Carta?’ ”
Heh.
The lede on the Magna Carta story amuses me:
The 2,500 words fill a page that is a couple of inches shorter than this one, but almost as wide.
Because I'm thinking, so wait, the Magna Carta is less than 1024x768? That's not so magna at all!
Hee.
ION, the temperature dropped 10 degrees. And it's really gray out there.
And always twirling, twirling, twirling towards freedom!
This makes me think of pasties, with tassles. Twirling on jiggling boobies. Mmm.
Um. Can you tell my frustrations caused me to open a beer at 2:30pm today?
Warwak, a former fishing guide, said he became a vegan in January.
He's probably haunted by fishy ghosts.
A couple of fairly remote cousins have done most of the geneological heavy lifting for my ancestors who were in Massachusetts in the 1630s. No one's been able to trace Morris Tucker back to England, though. As one of those cousins once said, "I can get him back to the water but I can't get him on that damn boat." My suspicion, from what we know about him, is that he may have been an indentured servant, and they were frequently not listed separately. I could probably find out more about the Czech side now that there's an internet, but I don't know where to start. On the Irish side, it looks like I need some birth and death records from Buffalo, NY, and the last time I checked, they were still not online. I don't care enough to actually go to Buffalo.
ION, the temperature dropped 10 degrees. And it's really gray out there.
So I should take a jacket and/or umbrella when I leave for my 5pm meeting?