I have been invited to represent my workplace at a high-end fundraiser (free food and booze ( Read more... )

I tend to wear hiking sandals in warm months and hiking boots in cold months (with a few weeks of wearing snow boots when the weather is truly insufferable). Suppose I wanted to look nice but wanted to wear shoes that would allow for an off-road excursion if one was necessary. What kind of shoes should I wear?

Sorry, been trying to catch up with pictures so it probably seems excessive by now. One thing I've noticed is that I kind of accidentally changed the aspect ratio of my pictures, so that the last few are in the cinemascope ratio while previous to that they were like television. I have to say, this one little change makes me like the pictures better ( Read more... )

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Q: Will this thing hurt me ( Read more... )

Hey everyone! Since I've used up my LJ scrapbook storage, and lost my photo manipulating software, I have less control over the size of my photos. I could make an effort to ensmallen them somehow, if it's annoying to see giant pictures on your friends' page. I'm not even sure if they aren't so big that they throw off the dimensions of the page for ( Read more... )

I know the various names for the days in between the equinoxes and solstices, but are there names for the half-seasons that occur within? Is there, for example, a different name for the part of spring that begins March 21st (or thereabouts) and comes to an end in a couple days to distinguish it from the time period that begins on the First of May ( Read more... )

Or since we're only on the one island is it a lesser antille?


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Some good discussion developed on Facebook (of all places) when I posted a link to this: http://deepseanews.com/2013/02/this-is-why-we-cant-have-nice-things/


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