Archive: September 2004
Driving Grandma’s car
I got new license plates on my lunch hour today. The airport made me do it. Everytime I go on a trip I park in the back 40 so that I can take my hang tag with me to wherever I’m going, and it’s always a challenge to find a non-permit spot where I [...]
(Full Post)A Shallow Post
Ok, you women who regularly wear lipstick, what do you do about eating? Wipe it off beforehand and re-apply afterwards? Eat it off with your meal (and ugh, leave lipstick on the water glass), and re-apply later?
A quick web search for the answers to this essential question uncovered that the women of America apparently all [...]
Paralympics Headlines
The Paralympics loses its innocence
Carlos Ribagorda does not appear to be a man who suffers from learning difficulties; a journalist for a Spanish business magazine, he has just published a book on young rightwing politicians. Four years ago, however, he won a Paralympic gold medal in Sydney as a member of Spain’s learning-disabled basketball team.
Innovation [...]
(Full Post)Yes, Virginia, …
Visa and Outdoor Life Network Step Up to Make Coverage of 2004 Paralympic Games Possible:
Visa USA has committed to be the sole and exclusive U.S. television sponsor of the 2004 Athens Paralympic Games, which will appear on Outdoor Life Network (OLN). A two-hour program will recap the 11 days of competition taking place in Athens, [...]
(Full Post)The Darfsteller
Dorothea is looking for the novella The Darfsteller by Walter M. Miller Jr., probably best known for Canticle for Leibowitz.
“Darfsteller” appears to be a play on the German word Darsteller (actor).
(Sorry about the double ping; I can never seem to do that right.)
Edinburgh
From Lisy Babe, these are fun:
I’m Fine!
Why do these offers of help only come along when I’m fine? Why do supermarkets only put feta cheese on the top shelf? And why does no-one ever say “Do you need a hand?” when I’m attempting to mount a chiller cabinet in Sainsbury’s just to reach the damn [...]
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