Wash your hands!
If everyone were to wash their hands the risk of colds, flu and even bird flu would be much less, say UK experts. Professor John Oxford, of London’s Queen Mary’s School of Medicine, warns many people are failing to do so and are complacent about personal hygiene.
No kidding. And flicking your fingers under the water for a second does NOT count as washing.
COMMON HOME SURFACES THAT CAN HARBOUR VIRUSES (in descending order of risk)
Phone receiver
Light switches
Door knobs
Toilet flush handle
Sorry, can’t concentrate. Waiting to leave work so we can go see “Serenity”
Yay!
It’s going to be wild and crazy this weekend!
No, not the Virginia Tech game–the Buckwheat Festival!
I don’t know whether to be amused or offended.
I received in the mail today, a letter stating:
Dear Ms. Michelle Klishis,
Our records show that you haven’t yet registered for the benefits of AARP membership, even though you are fully eligible.
Ummm….really?
At my brother’s insistence, here is some interesting news to read.
Mount Healthy High School’s head football coach and athletic director said Tuesday they did not support an officiating crew’s decision to keep Bobby Martin, a senior at Dayton’s Colonel White High School who has no legs, from playing in last Friday night’s game.
I personally can’t understand why officials would keep him from playing, but there’s a lot I don’t understand in this world.
However it’s also a happy story, since he got a letter from the powers that be that allows him to play.
Heck, at 110 pounds he only weighs 10 pounds less that the center for my high school football team my senior year.
There’s also a very nice article on him and a bit about his everyday life.
And a third article in USA Today on his football career.
Morgantown Showtimes for Serenity:
1:30pm | 4:10 | 7:00 | 9:40
I’m so excited!
(bounce bounce bounce)
I had a dream of violence last night.
It was in a place where people weren’t safe even in their own homes. Maybe it was the future; it certainly wasn’t the past.
Men roamed, taking what the wanted, selling what they stole–things, people–to any who would buy.
I also dreamed of a sharp knife, vicious and thin, and long enough to go all the way through.
I learned a lesson last night in my dream. I learned that if I am ever in a situation where I have to defend myself in hand-to-hand combat, I’m dead.
Well crap. I created this to publish on Saturday, and then forgot about it.
Better late than never I suppose.
2005 Banned Books Top Ten
1. THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART PRESENTS AMERICA (THE BOOK): A Citizen’s Guide to Democracy Inaction, by Jon Stewart and the writers of The Daily Show
2. A WRINKLE IN TIME, by Madeleine L’Engle
3. IN THE NIGHT KITCHEN, by Maurice Sendak
4. KING & KING, by Linda De Haan and Stern Nijland
5. 1984, by George Orwell
6. THE HANDMAID’S TALE: A Novel, by Margaret Atwood
7. BLESS ME, ULTIMA, by Rudolfo Anaya
8. THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER, by Stephen Chbosky
9. THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN, by Mark Twain
10. WHAT MY MOTHER DOESN’T KNOW, by Sonya Sones
Banned Books Week at the ALA
How much of a geek are you?
You got 10 right!
Excellent, you have the makings of a proper propeller head.
A live, adult giant squid has been caught on camera in the wild for the very first time.
…
“It was exciting to get a live Architeuthis tentacle. It was still functioning when we got it on the boat,” Dr Kubodera told BBC News.
S points out an article in the Gazette noting that WV has the highest concentration of strip clubs per population. “West Virginia has 53 strip clubs statewide, or 2.9 per 100,000 population.” (Portland comes in second. Did you know that Tom?)
I think that the greater Morgantown area has four (or more?!) of those clubs–two of which are on my parent’s road.
So the only remaining question is–which city is worse? Morgantown or Charleston?
(Here is the original article in the Oregonian)
If you don’t normally read Waiter Rant, I recommend that you surf on over for his latest post I’m Gonna Win Today.
Shorter Michael Brown
“It’s not my fault! It’s everyone else’s fault! Mommy always liked you better! Wah!”
baldric
noun Historical a belt for a sword or other piece of equipment, worn over one shoulder and reaching down to the opposite hip.
—Origin Middle English baudry, from Old French baudre, of unknown ultimate origin.
Ten points to the person who guesses what first came to mind when I read this.
The Sandman Vol 6: Fables & Reflections (1993) Neil Gaiman
This may be my favorite Sandman collection. There are several different tales told, some in the past, some in the far past, and all excellent.
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Powers of Detection (2004) edited Dana Stabenow
I like fantasies. I like mysteries. So… “Stories of Mystery and Fantasy” sounds like a good thing. Plus Charlaine Harris has a Sookie Stackhouse short story, and that had to be a good thing.
Well, it was an okay thing.
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Rising Stars: Born in Fire (2001) Power (2002) Fire and Ash (2005) J. Michael Straczynski
Wow.
When I asked for comic recommendations, Tom gave me several. The one I found locally was Rising Stars. Initially I only picked up the first volume, however I saw that all three volumes were there, so I figure that I should go ahead and pick all three up while I had the chance. After all, the introduction to Born in Fire was written by Neil Gaiman.
I’m glad I did. As soon as I finished Volume I, Born in Fire, I immediately grabbed Power and started reading.
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An Australian man built up so much static electricity in his clothes as he walked that he burned carpets, melted plastic and sparked a mass evacuation.
I’ve said time and again that synthetic fabrics are bad!
I’m not paying attention to the news!
(fingers in ears)
La la la la la
Cute Animal Quiz
I’m a Frog!
No really!
(more…)
I just got the message from my friend who lives in Houston that she and her family are safely in Austin.
She said the 2 1/2 hour trip took 10 hours.
I’m really happy to know that she’s out and safe, and I hope that her home survives the storm.
Happy Autumnal Equinox all!
I’ve to two papers due the first week of October. Which is, disturbingly enough, rapidly approaching.
I’d reached the minimum number of pages for the second paper, when I realized that it was absolute dreck.
So I started over again from scratch, and got three pages done.
And I’m still not happy with what I’ve got.
Maiden, Matron, Crone (2005) Kerrie Hughes and Martin H. Greenberg
I try to pick up fantasy anthologies when I see them, since chances are they won’t be there the next time I look. I picked up Maiden, Matron, Crone while ago, but saved it to read during the school year, because short story collections are much easier to put down than books.
Some of the stories in this collection were good, some were so-so, and a couple were quite excellent. And there weren’t any stories that I absolutely hated, which is always a good thing. The best part of this collection, however, is that if focused on female characters, and for the most part strong female characters.
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