We could have a "dead reckoning" contest in sailing.
Slay-er? Chosen One. She who hangs out a lot in cemeteries? You're kidding. Ask around. Look it up: Slayer comma The.
Buffy ,'Showtime'
Natter 60: Gone In 60 Seconds
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.
sumi - Aug 27, 2008 6:11:10 am PDT #5625 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
Jesse - Aug 27, 2008 6:16:45 am PDT #5626 of 10003
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Unfortunately, my birthday is the day after Christmas, which we inevitably got off anyway. Just one more example of the Incredible Suckiness Of That Birthdate.
It's so funny -- I think of it as Yet Another Benefit to the day! I've never worked on my birthday, and don't ever plan to.
tommyrot - Aug 27, 2008 6:26:16 am PDT #5627 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
We could have a "dead reckoning" contest in sailing.
Random bit o' trivia: Some people say it's supposed to be "ded reckoning" (short for "deduced reckoning" or somesuch) but apparently that's a myth (which I just learned upon googling): [link]
What makes deduced reckoning and ded reckoning seem plausible is that dead reckoning doesn’t make sense, even though you might end up dead if you got your sums wrong. Writers are divided on which sense of dead the old-time mariners had in mind. Was it perhaps the idea of being as still as a corpse, so referring your position to a point that’s dead in the water? Or is it something completely or absolutely so, exact or precise, as in dead level, dead wrong, or dead ahead? The OED plumps for the latter.
sumi - Aug 27, 2008 6:38:55 am PDT #5628 of 10003
Art Crawl!!!
I agree with the OED.
Daisy Jane - Aug 27, 2008 6:47:26 am PDT #5629 of 10003
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Eeep! You're right! I jumped the gun because I read facebook wrong.
Oh well, happy early birthday meara and Jen!
Sue - Aug 27, 2008 7:01:56 am PDT #5630 of 10003
hip deep in pie
Profile of Hugh Dillon form today's Globe and Mail: [link]
Aims - Aug 27, 2008 7:05:00 am PDT #5631 of 10003
Shit's all sorts of different now.
When I worked at Lotus, we each got our birthday off as a personal holiday.
The company I'm with now does the same.
tommyrot - Aug 27, 2008 7:06:07 am PDT #5632 of 10003
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Huh. Europe sets date when deaths overtake births: 7 years
The findings come in an official EU study, released Tuesday, which concedes for the first time that Europeans will begin their long foreseen demographic decline in just seven years' time - the point at which deaths exceed births.
Connie Neil - Aug 27, 2008 7:27:52 am PDT #5633 of 10003
brillig
Just saw a comment on a news board that sent a shiver of anticipatory delight down my spine: "wait until Obama nominates Hillary for the Supreme Court."
As Zonker Harris would say, Imagine!
megan walker - Aug 27, 2008 7:42:27 am PDT #5634 of 10003
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I've never worked on my birthday, and don't ever plan to.
This is why I miss getting Columbus Day off. It so often gave me my birthday off.