I was interested in the model of a horse on a heritage building in downtown Seattle. Of course, everything is on the internet!


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One thing that strikes about many government and public buildings is.... locks ( Read more... )

No one hunts for a job any more. They explore options ( Read more... )

I've been doing this for years, and been reviled as "cheap"...but now recycling has become "cool" and here's my how-to ( Read more... )

While I realize that the scientific names of creatures are a kind of Unique Identification, and very necessary, I feel that often referring to creatures ONLY by their scientific names, and not the common ones, is a form of elitism....I-know-this-scientific-term-you- don't-so-look-it-up.....if all and Sundari start doing this, it can be a lot of Bos ( Read more... )

Dr. Beheruz Sethna

who has acheived so many things that I cannot begin to talk about him (it will take several posts...so just see the Wiki entry by clicking on his name!)

wrote this insightful piece about

the sexist pronoun I too often use "hem" and "hir", but I wonder...why don't we adopt "their" as also meaning the singular, depending on ( Read more... )

To write with a broken pencil is pointless ( Read more... )

I have been in many places, but I've never been in Cahoots. Apparently, you can't go alone. You have to be in Cahoots with someone ( Read more... )

HP Unveils Non-Computer For Those Who Don't Need A Computer

From

The Onion

May 14, 2011 | ISSUE 47•19


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While reading a book this morning,(Georgette Heyer's "Faro's Daughter",if you are interested!) I fell to musing on the various scripts in which our languages are set down. I've learnt English from early childhood, and it took me, therefore, a while to realize that its script is most quirky.....compared to the orderliness of the scripts of most ( Read more... )