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bibliotrope

Miscellany, with added Cuba Libre

Feb 20, 2008 02:43

This is going to be a post full of links, because I'm too tired* to post anything really intense.

Vinyl -- not dead yet.

The Disemvoweler -- TNH as action heroine!

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's blog.

Last but not least: On this day in 1962, John Glenn orbited the Earth. Three times. The first American astronaut to do so (Soviet Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin ( Read more... )

miscellany, astronauts, cuba, nostalgia

Comments 5

redbird February 20 2008, 13:19:58 UTC

No dieresis on Raul. Spanish only uses those to say "pronounce this u" after a g and before an e or i. (So, if you wanted to tell a Spanish-speaker how to pronounce Guido, you might write "Güido," but Guillermo needs no dieresis.

HTML for that character is ü.

mmegaera February 20 2008, 23:21:36 UTC

And someday I'm going to post a sibling rivalry thing.

I've had an academic paper (that I will probably never write, since I have no circumstances in my forseeable future that will require one) in my backbrain for years.

See, I'm the youngest of four sisters. Do you know how many sets of three or four sisters there are in (mostly) children's literature???

Mary, Laura, Carrie, and Grace
Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy
Julia, Betsy, and Margaret
Elizabeth Bennet and her sisters (whose given names are escaping me at the moment)
And so forth. And so on.

And the personality parallels are positively eerie [g].

bibliotrope February 21 2008, 08:22:14 UTC

When I read Little Women, I immediately bonded with the four sisters. I am the oldest of four sisters ( ... )

mmegaera February 22 2008, 00:39:10 UTC

My sisters are 12, 9, and 8 years older than I am. If I'm like anyone in those series, I'm Grace in the Laura Ingalls Wilder books (who was a schoolgirl when Laura got married), but she's a very minor character. The girls (my parents always referred to us as "the girls and Meg" which begged the question, "but aren't I a girl, too?") all got married the year I turned twelve, in 1971, and started having babies in 1974. Over the next five years, between the three of them they had six children. If my dad hadn't been transferred 1200 miles away the summer after the first one was born, I'd probably have died from terminal babysititis ( ... )

I don't think the gusanos would agree with you... carbonelle February 21 2008, 18:29:44 UTC

Sic semper tyranis...

but yes, revolutions are ususally a nasty business. We got very lucky with ours, and had a George Washington and the other federalists rather than a Castro and a Che.