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Supreme Court meme
From jdawgspi:
As was demonstrated in an interview with Katie Couric, Sarah Palin is unable to name any U.S. Supreme Court Case other than Roe v. Wade.
The Rules: Post info about ONE U.S. Supreme Court decision, modern or historic, to your LJ. (Any decision, as long as it's not Roe v. Wade.) For those who see this on your f-list, take the meme to your own ( Read more... ) -
hee.
So, I realize that I'm WAAAAY late to the party (like, 5 months late), but I finally made a graph, just like
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a book meme
The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school and hated.
5) Reprint this list in ( Read more... ) -
to Mark & Kev
I thought of you: http://www.threadless.com/product/1319/Cake_Is_Awesome -
expensive coffee
Not to be left out of Free Iced Coffee Day, I stood in line at Dunkin Donuts at lunchtime today for approximately 6 minutes to receive a free iced coffee.
Six minutes is one-tenth of an hour.
So at my billing rate of $400 an hour, the $3 cup of iced coffee ended up costing $40.
I say: Fuck Free Iced Coffee Day.
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books
Books are here! Don't you just love the shiny pristine cover and the unblemished virginal spine of a new mass market paperback? Anyway, I'm so excited that I don't even know which one to read first, so I'm going to make you decide for me:
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new books on the way, yay
While awaiting your recommendations (thanks!), I went ahead and ordered from Barnes & Noble. Because there's nothing like instant gratification, and I always need more books anyway:
- The Other Boleyn Girl (Philippa Gregory)
- Man in the High Castle (Philip K. Dick)
- Dune
- The Ruins (a recommendation I gleaned from
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Book recommendations?
I recently finished reading Wideacre by Philippa Gregory, which is quite a long epic book, and have been trying to get into something new for the past week or so. I've already tossed aside Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf and Lucifer's Hammer, by actually-I-don't-care-who-because-they-can't-write-their-way-out-of-a-paper-bag, in disgust. Life is ( Read more... )
