Mal ,'Ariel'
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.
So, I'm going to a work conference in Huntsville, AL all next week. What's the can't-miss things to do, and more importantly, eat, in that vicinity?
I've got a wee bit of free time, maybe Sunday night and Tuesday night, and a rental car. Unfortunately, the days are all booked up with work.
You know, I've heard so many variations I'm now confused. What is the classic martini recipe anyway? Or, to avoid stirring up a fight, what are the two competing recipes for the classic martini?
4 oz gin, 1 or 1/2 oz vermouth, stirred (classically, though I prefer shaken) with an olive or onion.
Hey TB, have you read a book called The Bottom Billion by Paul Collier? I'm reading it at the moment, and I was wondering what you thought of it.
Lori, when I had to visit a clinical site in Huntsville, I visited the space center and ended up having a pretty damned good time!
Billytea have not read it. I admit the call for "carefully calibrated military interventions" is one I find suspicious, but can't comment until I read it. Unfortunately, my schedule is full until July.
Billytea have not read it. I admit the call for "carefully calibrated military interventions" is one I find suspicious, but can't comment until I read it.
Yeah. His position is rather better principled than, say, the current administration's, being focused on preventing genocidee, internecine civil war and/or state collapse (such as Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Somalia), but it still carries the risk of going wrong, and keeping governments committed to higher-minded principles may be an even greater challenge.
Still, for all that I'd have preferred to see (for instance) intervention in Rwanda.
José Canseco loses his Encino mansion to foreclosure: [link]
Jesse, did you know you are no longer being a scofflaw with the flying with the lighter in your pocket?
I did! Thanks.
I got info on department birthdays from the employee who used to have my job - she gave me her calendar, I copied the dates.
I had yesterday as her b'day. I got slammed in the afternoon and so did not go get her flowers as planned (not everyone would get flowers, but she is the ex-admin and when I asked the boss, he said to get something). So, this morning I run early to get a nice bouquet. I take them to her apologize they were not here yesterday - BLANK STARE. Apparently, what I read as her b'day on her calendar, was her DOG'S b'day. good lord. I hope I can still get reimbursed.