Or whether the department for which he was nominated should actually, you know, exist?
'Safe'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
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.
The captions totally make these cute lizard pictures! (Make sure you read the hovertext on each pic.)
When you are ops, you need to be in full contact, or make people aware when you are not going to be. I adore some of these people, but I've had to find them to tell them to read their fucking email because we've got an emergency.
I'm done for today. So done.
Was it in Natter where we talked about writing one's landlord to ask for cheaper rent? Here's an example of such a letter: Reduce Your Rent with This Simple Letter
Timelies all!
Happy Birthday Kristin and Maria!
Heading to Boston tomorrow for Boskone, which means I need to pack tonight.
The Evolution of Life in 60 Seconds is an experiment in scale: By condensing 4.6 billion years of history into a minute, the video is a self-contained timepiece. Like a specialized clock, it gives one a sense of perspective. Everything — from the formation of the Earth, to the Cambrian Explosion, to the evolution of mice and squirrels — is proportionate to everything else, displaying humankind as a blip, almost indiscernible in the layered course of history.
In his Cosmos tv series, back in the Pleistocene, Sagan made the point that if you look at the history of the earth--not the universe, not the solar system, just the earth itself--as a year, one-tenth of the last second of the last minute before midnight would represent all of human history. That's always given me some perspective.
Happy Birthday, PixKristin and Mfnlaw!
Huge layoffs today at lots of law firms across the country.
Ouch. That will impact my company (law firms' libraries are big clients of ours).
Shouldn't there be an air traffic control-equivalent for satellites?