ita, there's also a service that costs you about $25, and it lets you run the VIN on a car and find out if it's been in any accidents. I forget what it's called--Carfax, maybe?

Man, the temperature has really dropped here this week. I had to break out my pashmina already.

Fall weather is blowing in (loudly) here in the Languedoc. I'm kinda glad that I didn't schlep my fall coat here for nothing.

I'm also sad to hear that Deena's doing poorly.

ita ! I'm sorry about all the garbage the universe has dumped on you - I hope things get better.

I'd like to add to Consuela's note - check and make sure any care you're interested in hasn't been in a flood as well as accident. Seemingly, a number of cars that were flooded in the eastern part of the country are being fixed up and some are being sold without disclosing their watery history.

Wow, T.Rex comics made me go look up Mummy Brown.

Apparently, one of the all time great pigments used to be ground up mummies.

Heh! The Time Magazine article about it in 1964 is delightfully macabre.

Thomas Boswell has the perfect description of Tigers manager Jim Leyland: "Normally, he looks like he just found four dead bodies in the trunk of an Elmore Leonard character’s car and can’t bear to ask Dutch how they got there."

Did anyone know it's Ada Lovelace Day? [link]

So I was talking to my therapist last night about how I'm so stressed out at work, and she was like, "Your department is down two people right now? That's why." OH RIGHT. That IS why!

But I still don't feel like working today.

In honor of Ada Lovelace Day, I'll give a shout-out to Lise Meitner: [link]

Between the Bloggess, Ada Lovelace Day and this [link] I suspect it's a very Buffista holiday.

Turns out I didn't know who Hugh Laurie was when I first started watching Spooks.

Yesterday at work, we were watching a thing with a bunch of short clips, and one of them was from Jeeves and Wooster maybe, and my coworker leans over and says, "Was that the guy who plays House?!?!?!?!?!?" It was funny. To me.