this is going to take some thought.
From pauldrake: The revolution will be fabulous. Hee.
Speaking of, though...Paul? I can't track down what you'd need to do to stop getting notified every time I change my icons. But I have a support request in. Hopefully that'll help.
Rubik's has a new game out?
It then took several years for lead researcher Robert Berg and his team to analyze the findings, but they're happy with the results--we only wish they hadn't come at so dear a price. (The shuttle Columbia's hard drive has finally been completely decoded of data.)
Just another note--you made catdancer very happy, Sphynx--and I am quite tickled with everything else. Thank you! Should be able to start the boron today, see if it proves out what the studies have said. And sunscreen is always welcome.
Another tip to that end--Neutrogena now makes an Ultra Sheer Body Mist sunblock. Spray form, SPF 70, I haven't really tested it long-term but it doesn't make me want to claw my face off (with any spray, obviously, spray your palms and rub them on your face, don't spray your face) after an hour.
The youngest child comes in to our room. He asks what Transformers looked like when we were kids. catdancer tells him, there weren't Transformers when we were kids. They came later.
He's absolutely gobsmacked by this. Half of it's simple shock--What do you mean, you didn't have Transformers? You mad lying FOOLS, you! The other half is complete surprise and confusion, and that's the one he forms into another question. Or sort of question.
"But...Paul said he had Transformers when he was little."
Cat sighs a bit, and we exchange that ever-knowing smile with each other.
"I'm older than Paul," Cat says gently.
You should have seen the shock on the child's face. Just that inconceivable realization that we really were that old. *snerk*
So I got curious. I looked it up. And the first Transformers toys, I do believe, came out in 1984.
1984 was an interesting year. Because we'd been made to read George Orwell's 1984 the year previous, we decided it was 1983b. For an entire year. That's the way we signed yearbooks at the end of the school year, that's the date my friends and I used for all school tests and all homework. Drove our teachers BATS.
1984 saw the first "Where's the Beef?" commercial for Wendy's. Challenger became the shuttle launched tenth to test the space shuttle program. Konstantin Chernenko took over after Yuri Andropov died in the USSR.
Reagan was president. Apple put out the Apple IIc portable computer (it wasn't that portable). Vanessa Williams stepped away from her crown as Miss America due to nude photos being published in Penthouse. Svetlana Savitskaya, on the other hand, became the first woman in space to space-walk. (She wouldn't be the last, but like the launch of Sputnik before it, this caused a ripple through American culture--once again, the Russians had beaten us to something in space, and we as a people did not approve.)
Upper Volta, in Africa, became Burkina Faso. That same month, Prince released the Purple Rain album as well as the movie, which pretty much catapulted him to household word status. Later in the year still, the Discovery shuttle rose on her maiden launch.
In June, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi ordered the attack of the Golden Temple in Amritsar, resulting in a wave of violence that eventually claimed her life and the life of over 4,000 Sikh civilians and combatants.
In October of 1984, we launched Challenger again, getting the first Canadian (Marc Garneau) into space, and getting Kathryn D. Sullivan out for her space walk. Desmond Tutu was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
In November, we mourned. I was campaigning for Mondale. Hey, he didn't have Reagan's utter command of the political smile, nor his stage presence, but damn it, he was honest. Reagan got re-elected anyway.
The United Kingdom met with the Peoples' Republic of China and agreed to hand over Hong Kong. Hong Kong was not happy. Bernhard Hugo Goetz shot and killed four young black men on a subway train, sparking debate that still continues to this day on the adviseability of vigilantism and self-protection. And the soap opera Edge of Night finally went off the air. (I liked that one; it was quirky. They kept throwing in pale women who kept coffins in their back bedrooms and people coming back from the dead.)
Me? I was in high school. One year from graduation. :)
Halp...teh floor, et es deeep...
more cat pictures
Gotta watch out for that deep floor action...
Look, it's Cat TV:
more cat pictures
All cats love that channel.
*snickers madly*
more cat pictures
*reads text again*
*snickers madly again*
(Just for kicks and giggles? I tracked down the very first McDonald's commercial, too. AAAAAAAGH...poppycat, stay FAR AWAY!
(Also, when searching for "Purple Rain", "Evolution: Use Your Brain" came up first. Hee!)
Speaking of, though...Paul? I can't track down what you'd need to do to stop getting notified every time I change my icons. But I have a support request in. Hopefully that'll help.
Rubik's has a new game out?
It then took several years for lead researcher Robert Berg and his team to analyze the findings, but they're happy with the results--we only wish they hadn't come at so dear a price. (The shuttle Columbia's hard drive has finally been completely decoded of data.)
Just another note--you made catdancer very happy, Sphynx--and I am quite tickled with everything else. Thank you! Should be able to start the boron today, see if it proves out what the studies have said. And sunscreen is always welcome.
Another tip to that end--Neutrogena now makes an Ultra Sheer Body Mist sunblock. Spray form, SPF 70, I haven't really tested it long-term but it doesn't make me want to claw my face off (with any spray, obviously, spray your palms and rub them on your face, don't spray your face) after an hour.
The youngest child comes in to our room. He asks what Transformers looked like when we were kids. catdancer tells him, there weren't Transformers when we were kids. They came later.
He's absolutely gobsmacked by this. Half of it's simple shock--What do you mean, you didn't have Transformers? You mad lying FOOLS, you! The other half is complete surprise and confusion, and that's the one he forms into another question. Or sort of question.
"But...Paul said he had Transformers when he was little."
Cat sighs a bit, and we exchange that ever-knowing smile with each other.
"I'm older than Paul," Cat says gently.
You should have seen the shock on the child's face. Just that inconceivable realization that we really were that old. *snerk*
So I got curious. I looked it up. And the first Transformers toys, I do believe, came out in 1984.
1984 was an interesting year. Because we'd been made to read George Orwell's 1984 the year previous, we decided it was 1983b. For an entire year. That's the way we signed yearbooks at the end of the school year, that's the date my friends and I used for all school tests and all homework. Drove our teachers BATS.
1984 saw the first "Where's the Beef?" commercial for Wendy's. Challenger became the shuttle launched tenth to test the space shuttle program. Konstantin Chernenko took over after Yuri Andropov died in the USSR.
Reagan was president. Apple put out the Apple IIc portable computer (it wasn't that portable). Vanessa Williams stepped away from her crown as Miss America due to nude photos being published in Penthouse. Svetlana Savitskaya, on the other hand, became the first woman in space to space-walk. (She wouldn't be the last, but like the launch of Sputnik before it, this caused a ripple through American culture--once again, the Russians had beaten us to something in space, and we as a people did not approve.)
Upper Volta, in Africa, became Burkina Faso. That same month, Prince released the Purple Rain album as well as the movie, which pretty much catapulted him to household word status. Later in the year still, the Discovery shuttle rose on her maiden launch.
In June, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi ordered the attack of the Golden Temple in Amritsar, resulting in a wave of violence that eventually claimed her life and the life of over 4,000 Sikh civilians and combatants.
In October of 1984, we launched Challenger again, getting the first Canadian (Marc Garneau) into space, and getting Kathryn D. Sullivan out for her space walk. Desmond Tutu was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
In November, we mourned. I was campaigning for Mondale. Hey, he didn't have Reagan's utter command of the political smile, nor his stage presence, but damn it, he was honest. Reagan got re-elected anyway.
The United Kingdom met with the Peoples' Republic of China and agreed to hand over Hong Kong. Hong Kong was not happy. Bernhard Hugo Goetz shot and killed four young black men on a subway train, sparking debate that still continues to this day on the adviseability of vigilantism and self-protection. And the soap opera Edge of Night finally went off the air. (I liked that one; it was quirky. They kept throwing in pale women who kept coffins in their back bedrooms and people coming back from the dead.)
Me? I was in high school. One year from graduation. :)
Halp...teh floor, et es deeep...
more cat pictures
Gotta watch out for that deep floor action...
Look, it's Cat TV:
more cat pictures
All cats love that channel.
*snickers madly*
more cat pictures
*reads text again*
*snickers madly again*
(Just for kicks and giggles? I tracked down the very first McDonald's commercial, too. AAAAAAAGH...poppycat, stay FAR AWAY!
(Also, when searching for "Purple Rain", "Evolution: Use Your Brain" came up first. Hee!)