Apparently the main topic of conversation this morning is the Colorado cinema shootings. I actually know about that, since it was on the front page of Wikipedia and thus unavoidable, but in my own house the topic of conversation this morning is about how I still can't say the phrase 'Jon Lord was' without tearing up ( Read more... )

For those of you who might not know it, I am and long have been so violently opposed to the use of metric measurement for everyday stuff, especially personal stuff (height, weight, dimensions) that I've got into vicious RL rows about it and even nuked a few friendships over the issue along the way. But given that I've always been comfortable with ( Read more... )