I would rather be in an uppity chain mail class! That sounds fascinating!
Aw, that dog is great!
Book: Yes, I'd forgotten you're moonlighting as a criminal mastermind now. Got your next heist planned? Simon: No. But I'm thinking about growing a big black mustache. I'm a traditionalist.
'War Stories'
Natter 75: More Than a Million Natters Served
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
-t - Aug 21, 2018 8:20:21 am PDT #28606 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Dana - Aug 21, 2018 9:20:57 am PDT #28607 of 30002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Shir - Aug 21, 2018 9:38:09 am PDT #28608 of 30002
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
Wow, that's...wow. At least...it's an interesting learning opportunity? Yeah, that's all I've got.
To some extant, yes. I did get an index to large parts of the collection, but it was not done by a professional and there are some gaps. So this week I studied semi-successfully the Persian calendar (it does not correspond well with the handwriting in some of the letters), and I know the biography of the person, so when I hunted down today someone from Manuscript department who reads (but does not understand) Judeo-Persian and it helped me to identify a few documents. It's literally a big puzzle game - the index is numbered, but sadly the items are not. Also sadly, it is a depressing puzzle game - a Zionist Rabbi who got to Israel in the 1950s and could not get any work to support his family. It broke his heart and he died within four years.
Laura - Aug 21, 2018 9:46:44 am PDT #28609 of 30002
Our wings are not tired.
Cohen made a plea deal.
May it cause the orange one considerable harm.
EpicTangent - Aug 21, 2018 9:53:16 am PDT #28610 of 30002
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty
Sounded like an exciting puzzle until you got to that last line, Shir. How sad.
Sparky1 - Aug 21, 2018 10:11:03 am PDT #28611 of 30002
Librarian Warlord
May it cause the orange one considerable harm.
Some reports seems to be saying it won't include cooperation. It's also a federal charge, so orange one can pardon him tomorrow if he chooses to do so.
Theodosia - Aug 21, 2018 10:13:27 am PDT #28612 of 30002
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Speaking of other languages -- do you know what surprised me recently learning about other alphabets? That some don't have an upper/lower case! I mean, I just kind of assumed would be a rock-bottom standard paradigm for a language, and instead it's almost as if the Roman/Greek/Cyrillic alphabets are kind of an exception to almost all other writing systems.
-t - Aug 21, 2018 10:50:45 am PDT #28613 of 30002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Interesting, Theo. It never occurred to me that they might not, but thinking about it now, it's hardly necessary. ee cummings and archie the cockroach got by.
Jesse - Aug 21, 2018 10:55:05 am PDT #28614 of 30002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
That sounds very sad, in addition to difficult, Shir.
Now I'm wondering why anyone needs two different ways to write letters anyway.
EpicTangent - Aug 21, 2018 11:29:31 am PDT #28615 of 30002
Why isn't everyone pelting me with JOY, dammit? - Zenkitty