Stuff and Nonsense

[shanmonster]

Today will be a day of leather, cleaning, and dance. James is coming over at some point to do armour stuff with me.

On Friday, I'll be auditioning for a burlesque show. I may be performing at yet another burlesque show in June. I keep myself busy.

Oh, yes! Yesterday, I received the good news that I'll be teaching more dance classes for good money. Huzzah!

Check out these links.

Futility Closet: My new favourite mailing list. It sends me all sorts of trivia, such as these:

• "Quite recently in China fifteen wooden idols were tried and condemned to decapitation for having caused the death of a man of high military rank. On complaint of the family of the deceased the viceroy residing at Fouchow ordered the culprits to be taken out of the temple and brought before the criminal court of that city, which after due process of law sentenced them to have their heads severed from their bodies and then to be thrown into a pond. The execution is reported to have taken place in the presence of a large concourse of approving spectators and 'amid the loud execrations of the masses,' who seem in their excitement to have 'lost their heads' as well as the hapless deities." – E.P. Evans, The Criminal Prosecution and Capital Punishment of Animals, 1906
  
• – A.C. Orr, Literary Digest, 1906
  
• "In 1991 Harvard's music library discovered a lost canon of Mozart, the composer who Leonard Bernstein said offers 'the spirit of compassion, of universal love, even of suffering — a spirit that knows no age, that belongs to all ages.'
  It's called 'Lick Me in the Ass.'"
  
  

Stormhunter: A storm chaser who lives in the same part of the world as I do. I need to meet this guy!

Spite House: Four stories tall, 100 feet long, and just five feet wide, Spite House was built out of, well, spite.

Gender differences in language appear biological: Does this explain why I feel smarter on paper than I do in person (thanks, f00dave)?

AP probe finds drugs in drinking water: "A vast array of pharmaceuticals — including antibiotics, anti-convulsants, mood stabilizers and sex hormones — have been found in the drinking water supplies of at least 41 million Americans, an Associated Press investigation shows" (thanks, warren_ellis).

The 5 Most Badass Presidents of All-Time: Pretty good points are made, here. Move over, Chuck Norris. Jackson and Roosevelt make you look like a pussy (thanks, tdj).

Nanaimo, The Google Capital of the World: No longer just known for its tasty bars, its now going to be known for its Big Brotherness.

Do the Test: I passed (thanks, gha5t).

Comments

[ltmurnau.livejournal.com]

Funny, but Nanaimo (a bit more than an hour's drive north of me) is decribed a coal mining town in the article, and it hasn't been for almost a hundred years. The old tunnels still run underneath part of the city, and trap nowhere near enough unwary children.

[zombienought.livejournal.com]

Nor do the tunnels harbour nearly enough supernatural
baddies.

I do miss the bars...I've not met a person in the
States who's heard of them.