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saw lantana tonight with friends and boy. was interesting. i'm still thinking about it.

other news...

the doctor has decided that my finger will not fall off, though the nurse seemed to be worried. he's also going to call in some new prescriptions for me.

boy and i found an old dead milkmen tape today. guess what we listened to while driving to/from town? if you love someone set them on fire

and i lost my newest parasol. it was a black chinese parasol. i forgot to pick it back up from the bench i was sitting on while waiting for our friends on the DT mall. *sigh* i liked that one quite a bit, but it was gone when i went back half an hour later to look for it.

ah, well. just means i'll have to go back to philly.

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more usenet stuff...

seeing this in context doesn't make any sense, either. so i just linked the plain text version.

and i was reminded of many kurt vonnegut quotes... among them:
"Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies--: "God damn it, you've got to be kind."
i think that's from God Bless You Mr. Rosewater


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it's raining.

and we need to take the trash out.

woohoo!

boy is holding aloft the naked ewok as this song plays, it's the ewok's song.



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a nifty little distribution map...

Pace surname distribution 1850-1990

for those genealogy buffs out there...

you only get one free try, though i imagine deleting cookies might skew that a bit.

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gene mutation leads to speech?

nifty.

and the corollary article in nature:
Gene Explains Dumb Apes

i like wordplay in headlines. :)

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explodingcat on history:
I think the Mongolians came from Mars. You know the theory of how the Egyptians were Martian. Well, I think there was a barbarian horde that chased the Egyptians to Earth, but they fell to different locations. And t hen the Mongolians ravaged europe and asia in an attempt to find the Egyptians.

Do you think it's a coincidence that the Chinese built long walls and the Egyptians built pyramids? The Egyptians knew that they had time. They intended to build more pyram ids which could be turned upside down to build walls.

I speak the truth.

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yes. damn, i'm lucky. :)

and that's all because he saw the headline of the article i was reading:
Stones Help Trace Origin of Mongolian Nomads

Now... I found THAT article, while looking for this one:
Villagers Blame UFO for India Attacks . boy told me about this. he avidly followed the monkeyman news and is intrigued by the bearman.

fil postulates that these "round UFOs" are actually episodes of ball lightning.

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