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.

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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.

I can't believe I've let my sister stress me out this much. But I hate how much they'd rather rely on me than thinking.

Crickets are probably the most exotic thing I've eaten, Maybe I had ants too--it was at Typhoon restaurant at the Santa Monica airport. But definitely crickets.

I don't think eel counts as exotic anymore, with the popularisation of sushi.

I don't think eel counts as exotic anymore, with the popularisation of sushi.

That was my thinking too, but then I wondered if maybe I was just defining exotic as "things Burrell hasn't eaten."

Hmm. I just found some of Franny's hair in the bathroom. It seems that while I was washing up after dinner, she went and gave herself bangs. I somehow didn't notice? But I just went and checked her wee sweaty, sleepy head and yep, bangs.

That's so cute! My childhood foray into haircutting went less...well, it was more obvious.

But it wasn't my head.

90210 other spoiler: Silver is manic/depressive. I hope they diagnose and treat her very soon. Because I'm following, like, two people right now.

But it wasn't my head.

I did that too. My Ernie (of Sesame Street) hand puppet got a flattop and my brother got a more unique cut.

Your 2009 google April Fool: [link]