'Serenity'
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.
Special K:
My sister is being a tech flake. She suggested uninstalling and reinstalling her DVD drive drivers, went ahead and uninstalled, and then asked me where the new drivers were. And chastened me for not telling her to have had them beforehand. That's not a technical detail! That's common sense! Now it'll still be my fault if she doesn't get it working.
God, I want to scream at her! I can't believe she screwed herself like this and I can't get her out of it.
That sounds immensely frustrating.
Is that really Prince in a Target ad?
I can't find the drivers on the website, and if I do yell at her she'll just feel bad about herself which won't make me feel better.
So now I'm all paranoid that all the computers in my family are going to catch Conficker, and that'll be my fault too.
-t, YES. Very weird.
Bewildering.
ita -- matt told me how to locate the drivers in tech -- he is getting his computer and should be there soon if you need help
I think I've just doubled my facebook weird - high school and college friends are one thing, but I think I just sent off a message to the dude from toddler play date days. (Or harassed some random stranger. There's always that.)
Anyone know what the racial demographics were for London in Dickens' time? I'm seeing some people arguing that there's no reason that Nancy couldn't be black, and I'm wondering about the stats.
Behold my google-fu:
As the 18th century drew to a close, Britain's Black population was well established, breaking free from slavery - but usually very poor, sometimes destitute. The first-generation immigrants were overwhelmingly male, supplemented by arrivals of Black sailors, plus 4,000 Black refugees who had fought for George III against the American Revolution. Black people integrated and intermarried into poor white urban populations, and entered the nineteenth century sharing in the misery and historical anonymity of the British poor.
That mentions a contemporary estimate of over 20,000 blacks just in London. I found another source which used official records & extrapolated to figure the population in the early 1800s was between 10K and 18K.
And now I've learned things and can go to bed. Whee!
Simon Baker's American accent is a bit wobbly tonight. And I suck at accents.
Ugh ita.
I don't think I've eaten anything terribly exotic, although lord knows definitions of exotic can vary. I don't think of goat or rabbit as exotic. Snake's getting there, sarameg, but I haven't had snake. Does eel qualify as exotic? I've had eel. Buffalo. Ostrich. I've had ostrich, if that qualifies. I had the opportunity to try crickets but didn't.