Frivolous Thoughts for the Morning (Except #1)
- Why is lamb so freaking expensive in the US?
- Does anyone copy edit online articles anymore? I'm not talking blogs--I'm talking content put out by seemingly reputable entities. Your average online typist may have issues with apostrophe-possessive mistakes, but if you're writing for CNN or Rolling Stone or what have you, shouldn't you have your ( Read more... )
1. Pulling an answer out of my ass here, but I'm guessing that fewer people here eat lamb/mutton than on the Continent. Okay, I don't like making stuff up, so I did a quick google: US per capita sheep consumption is less than one pound per person, and the highest is New Zealand at 57. (Of course, they have more sheep than people, so they probably have to eat more to prevent a sheep uprising.) US lamb is probably imported, which makes it more expensive. (http://www.sheep101.info/lamb.html and http://myass.extrapolation.and.guesswork)
2. Seriously. And not even just stuff online! Printed matter is getting worse, too! I might admit to carrying sharpies and correcting things when out in the world. (My partner HATES this quirk of mine.) I do like oil-barren's ambiguity. --I'm sure in its original context it was clearly intended to be oil baron? But as I'm working on a 7-page paper right now on the multiple meanings of a single word, I'm hyperfocused on semantics...
3. For serious. Maybe it's just to highlight the shows that manage to not show sound in space. It's been many, many years since I listened to the commentary for Firefly, but I think I recall Joss Whedon saying that the executives pushed back on his decision to not have sound in space. I think it highlights the disconnect between what studios think their demographic is and what the demographic actually is -- i.e., 18-34 males who have suffered repeated head trauma and got their high school diplomas in five years with a barely passing grade vs. a wider age and sex range of people with various intellectual backgrounds.
4. I heard JRR gave a mean dutch oven. (Sorry, I got nothing...)
5. In some ways, I think society has gotten more prudish toward sex and less prudish toward violence. I would like to say more on this, but that paper on a word is demanding my attention.
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