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Monday, May 28, 2012
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Quote of the Day
If you would take a man’s life, you owe it to him to look into his eyes and hear his final words. And if you cannot bear to do that, then perhaps the man does not deserve to die.
-George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
-George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
Rules for Stress Free Air Travel
# 11 Undress For Success
Before you leave for the airport, put everything metallic you’re taking with you—watch, keys, coins, jewelry, pens, chains, et al—in ziplock plastic bags and pack them in your carry-on. Dress on the other side of security, please! This will save five minutes per passenger. Do the math: It makes so much sense.
Before you leave for the airport, put everything metallic you’re taking with you—watch, keys, coins, jewelry, pens, chains, et al—in ziplock plastic bags and pack them in your carry-on. Dress on the other side of security, please! This will save five minutes per passenger. Do the math: It makes so much sense.
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Quote of the Day
“They pay me absurd amounts of money,” he observes, “For something that I would do for free.” -Stephen King
Sunday, May 13, 2012
Why Do They Call It...British Columbia?
As a shout out to my gf's home province of BC, Canada. Here's something that's been interesting me for a few months...
The name refers to the Columbia District, the British name for the territory drained by the Columbia River. Queen Victoria specified that the area be called British Columbia to distinguish the British section of the District from that which belonged to the United States (which became the Oregon Territory). The river, in turn, took its name from the Columbia Rediviva (formerly the Columbia; the Latin rediviva, or “revived,” was added to the name after the ship’s 1787 rebuilding), a privately owned ship that was the first American ship to circumnavigate the globe and was used extensively in the Pacific Northwest maritime fur trade.
The name refers to the Columbia District, the British name for the territory drained by the Columbia River. Queen Victoria specified that the area be called British Columbia to distinguish the British section of the District from that which belonged to the United States (which became the Oregon Territory). The river, in turn, took its name from the Columbia Rediviva (formerly the Columbia; the Latin rediviva, or “revived,” was added to the name after the ship’s 1787 rebuilding), a privately owned ship that was the first American ship to circumnavigate the globe and was used extensively in the Pacific Northwest maritime fur trade.
Friday, May 11, 2012
I'd Have Loved to have Seen...
Neil Gaiman met Stephen King, in 2002...Gaiman said, he pulled me up onstage to play kazoo with the Rock Bottom Remainders, a ramshackle assemblage of authors who can play instruments and sing and, in the case of author Amy Tan, impersonate a dominatrix while singing Nancy Sinatra's “These Boots are Made For Walkin'”
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Being South African
“When you sit in America you miss the open plains and you miss the sound of rain and the smell of rain and the smell of the veld. If you’re African it’s different and I don’t think one will ever become an American or British. It doesn’t matter where you move, you will always be a South African."
--Zola Budd
--Zola Budd
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