– Approximately two weeks until Blue Skies falling is “back to normal.”
– It’s amazing how big a week can seem. I took the day off work today, on account of feeling sick and exhausted, and needing to not feel sick and exhausted as I attend weddings/fly to Chicago/fly to Ohio/finish my thesis.
… Read the rest– ALMANAC SAYS –
Form a single word from: no more stars.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY –
Thomas Jefferson. Also, FDR’s birthday was yesterday.
– NATION OF THE WEEK –
Bermuda.
– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
Do you have (a) favorite painter(s)?
Kurt Vonnegut Jr., you will be missed.
Perhaps the University of Chicago will finally give you your degree now.
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… Read the rest– I am seriously starting to question whether Wikipedia is as fun as it used to be.
– ALMANAC SAYS –
Bustle in the anthills and noisy chickens foretell rain.
– LINK OF THE WEEK –
Yale Alumni Society: How the Secret Societies got that Way.
– ALMANAC SAYS –
Forty-eight tornadoes hit the midwest, 1965.
– HAPPY BIRTHDAY – Dad!
– PICTURE OF THE WEEK –
NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day: Dark Matter Map. Gorgeous.
– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
What would you like to be your last drink before you die?
Yes, you’re old. Haley Joel Osment turned 19 today.
– ALMANAC SAYS –
Plant a “drive-by” garden to enhance your roadside.
– QUOTE OF THE WEEK –
“A scientist worthy of his name, about all a mathematician, experiences in his work the same impression as an artist; his pleasure is as great and of the same nature.”
The last week was lovely, and almost entirely dominated by Holy Week. On Tuesday, Amy and I met for drinks after work to discuss our Poetry v. Fiction capture-the-flag game next May. (It won’t ever replace Scavhunt, but it might give May its irrevocable Mayness).
… Read the restI wasn’t planning on disrupting what’s meant to be a quiet and meditative day with political invective, but this to me seems to be a big deal. I think that with the gathering Democratic momentum the G.O.P. is playing for higher and higher stakes, hoping that one single rhetorical victory will sway public opinion back to their court.
… Read the restRepublican hypocrisy a la Syria. Read More »
– ALMANAC SAYS –
My first and second designate abbreviations of two states. My whole these states would be before the Revolution, see?
– I SAY –
Happy Good Friday.
– COUNTRY OF THE WEEK –
Belize.
– QUESTION OF THE DAY –
How do you celebrate the coming of spring?
