If the writer of that article is somewhere that he's hearing lots of people say "fanny," he may be mistaken about which country he's visiting. I've only heard the word used in actual conversation by Southern grandmotherly types, and not often then.

Also, people from a country where tripe is served to human beings have no business complaining about the food choices made in other countries.

Tripe is an essential ingredient in menudo! Which is delicious!

Supposedly it is 84 in my zip. But the weather station in Charles Village is at 94 and Parkville is at 89 and I'm between them both geographically and woods/concrete ration, so. And the humidity is well over 60%, depending on who you ask. UHG.

I've only heard the word used in actual conversation by Southern grandmotherly types, and not often then.

My northern grandmother still says it plenty.

I went to Marshall's, iParty for returns, DSW, supermarket. Now I'm wondering if I should hop back in the shower briefly before my massage. I mean, I'm sure she's seen worse, but still.

I am reminded of how annoying it is that I can't get the screens down in two of my three windows. One is down most of the way, but bugs.

Icky hot and humid.

I'm looking forward to heading to NY for the summer at some point, ASAP. Not only to escape the heat, but I hope to escape the onslaught of anti-Obama ads in a swing state. Good grief. It is only May and I have seen at least 4 Obama slamming ads this morning alone. I zoom through them, but I don't have that option at my place in Otter Lake. Please tell me they aren't wasting their money advertising in the Solid Color states.

I just realized I definitely got screwed out of stupid game pieces at the supermarket and am trying to decide if I'm the kind of person who would go back and dispute that. Hmmm. For cash, I definitely am. For this, I guess not.

Awake: I think they just tacked that final scene on for no reason. I was thinking, going in, that it couldn't be as ludicrous and nonsensical as the end of Life on Mars, but I might have been wrong about that.

The ending of Awake pretty much validated my feelings toward it during its season. Those writers were not approaching the initial setup the way I found most interesting, so I figured that the resolution, even if only interim, wasn't going to be in tune with my likes.

And, bingo!

I'm not sure if it makes a liar of the creator or not, since his interviews have gotten vaguer and more coy as time passes.

Unrelatedly, when did folder take over and become a proper synonym for directory? I swear I remember struggling against it for a while, but that might very well have been me resisting Windows 3.1 metaphors. Has it always been thusly on the Mac and other graphical OSes? I don't remember it being that way on UNIX, but I'm not sure.

Once again glad to be in Seattle, where it's currently mid 60s and headed for a high of mid 70s. Whew!

Jealous of all the fruit though--our farmers markets pretty much have greens and root vegetables and that's it.

I do miss the world. And the people in it. I might find myself on short term disability, and then I'd be bored beyond belief, because the world is just out there, but it takes me hours to be able to get ready enough to enter it. Or to let it in here, in any form but electronically, or those guys at the door bringing stuff.

Apparently, the last scene was in the plan from the get-go.

He was also making "the text supports either universe being real" noises, which just makes me roll my eyes.

I believe that I will be living with my headcanon, rather than try to think about what they were trying to convey.

-t, US or UK LoM?