Archive for October, 2004
Because this lovely tour of the sights of China has once again made me want to visit. (I especially love the shot of the neat old door and the accompanying story, because I can just -see- the villagers thinking ‘why is this weirdo taking pictures of that boring old -door-? Are they, like, nuts or something?’ Except, you know, not nearly as affected-suburban-white-kid, or something.)
…I should tell my dad I want to go to China. That should be good for a rant and a half…
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Because I had no idea that something like this existed, and I must have a copy. Plus copies of their two (2!) Tool albums. Ergo, I must have employment.
…Maybe Amazon would like to tell Charles Solomon that he doesn’t need to bother reviewing anime any more…
I keep trying to ‘finish up’ looking at books on Amazon and I just keep opening new windows. “Just one last book,” I tell myself, “just this one last one, because the title sounds so intriguing…”
Hee. I really do need to go to sleep, though, since I think I’m supposed to be getting up before noon tomorrow…
A List For Beginning Knitters. Includes Knitting Without Tears, which I can recommend, and a book that’s just projects done with the garter (straight knit) stitch.
I might get to go back to Seattle before too much longer… My aunty K was asking me if I’d be willing to look after her kitties while she was out of town some day in the future. I, of couse, said I would be most delighted to do so.
Other happy things:
– The Sims 2 is fun! I haven’t made up Marc, Vic, and Tikka, yet, but I think I’ll do that tomorrow. Hee. Other families include the St. James (Aubrey, Eloise, Ashley and Brooke), Waffles (Syrup, Chocolate Chip, Raspberry and Vanilla), and the San Ziniegal (Pers Wilgamon, Rubus, Sma Zuv and Ardith). Yes, I’m strange, why do you ask?
– Amazon shipped my stuff today, so I should have some relaxing CDs and MST3K in my sticky little fingers some time next week
– I’m finally feeling better, and I can once more hear in my right ear. Okay, so I could hear in that ear before, but it was all clogged up and sounds were muffled.
Less fun, but certainly not -bad-:
– I need to do laundry. I’m almost out of clean socks!
– I also need to clear a spot in my room so I can bring my other bookcase in… I have a bunch of stuff that needs to go on said bookcase. (And most of that is in a language that I can’t read, or, if I -can- read it, I don’t necessarily _understand_ it. Hee.)
The word than is used to compare two different things or situations.
Examples:
Four o’clock is later than three o’clock.
Those Manolo Blahniks are more expensive than these Chuck Taylors.
Self-defense is a stronger defense in this case than not guilty by reason of insanity.
Then is used to list the order in which things happen.
Examples:
First we’ll have lunch, then we’ll go to Nordstrom’s.
I’ll save my money, then I’ll get these Stuart Weitzman pumps.
The guy lunged at me with the knife held out in front of himself, then screamed that I was a robot.
This post brought to you by a layout with the word ‘then’ used where ‘than’ should have been. Sigh.
So today on A&E, they’re showing a thing about John and Loreena Bobbit. I remember the dustup the whole thing cause the first time around, and I still have no idea what my opinion is on what actually happened and/or who (if anyone) is guilty (never mind guilty of what).
No, the thing that I have an opinion on is the whole discussion of the bit of anatomy that got cut off, and I quote: “the penis”. At no time have I actually heard it referred to as actually belonging (or having belonged to) John, which makes it (to me, anyhow) harder to take the case seriously. Like penises just float around, detached and bored, all the time, so there’s no real reason to differentiate between the one that was mutilated (their term) and any other one…
It’s a good thing I’ve never been selected as a juror. I think I’d make a really bad one.
I’ve seen a banner ad floating around in the electronic ether that carries on about the company that produced it — one of the things it touts is that the company features “durable” hosting. Does that mean durable as in ‘won’t go down when your site gets posted to Fark/Slashdot’ or durable as in ‘won’t go down when crazed Luddites break into the server room and attack the racks with hammers, torches and pitchforks’?
The first one is fine with me, but promising me the second one as well would make me laugh delightedly. Hee.