Fred ,'Just Rewards (2)'
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 am currently reading The Third Chimpanzee by Jared Diamond. He quotes the Encyclopedia Britanica:
It is difficult to imagine life evolving on another planet without progressing towards intelligence.
Diamond disagrees with that assertion. (I'm reading the chapter on why we haven't found intelligent life elsewhere in the universe.) I think he makes a good case.
Noah decided to try on my glasses: [link]
He looks so much like his mom.
Noah decided to try on my glasses: [link]
... just when I thought I couldn't get any more ded.
Whuh-oh! I'm sorry I let him play with my sunglasses (but he was very respectful!) but OMG SO ADORABLE.
OK, now he's talking about various New Guinea tribes:
Barua men pursued institutionalized bisexuality by living with the young boys in a large communal homosexual house, while each man had a separate small heterosexual house for his wife and daughters and infant sons. Tudawhes instead had two-story houses in which women, infants, unmarried girls, and pigs lived in a lower story, while men and unmarried boys lived in the upper story accessed by a separate ladder from the ground.
People is weird.
Buzzah? Which one?
I quote from my alumni e-mail: "Vanderbilt will play Boston College in the 2008 Gaylord Hotels Music City Bowl." Gaylord Hotels are the Opryland people. My ignorance of football is so profound that I had no idea there was a Music City Bowl, even though googling tells me it's been around 10 years.
From McSweeney's
FIFTY YEARS
OF POPULAR SONGS
CONDENSED INTO
SINGLE SENTENCES
The Beatles, "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
I want to do it with you.
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James Blunt, "You're Beautiful"
I want to do it with you.
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Carly Simon, "You're So Vain"
We used to do it, but then you did it with someone else, and now I'm not going to do it with you, although I wish we were still doing it.
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Kate Bush, "Wuthering Heights"
I'm an 18th-century fictional character and I want to do it with another 18th-century fictional character.
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Bob Dylan, "Blowin' in the Wind"
The Man is currently doing it to you.
Tommy, that's next on my reading list. I want to read Diamond's Why Sex is Fun.
I was irritated by Guns, Germs and Steel and haven't picked up any of Diamond's stuff since.
Noah in glasses is adorable, and they do highlight how much he looks like his mom.