The Five Levels of the Economy
Oddest spam in a long time:
Want to buy weapons, drugs? Want to become a terrorist? Check this video and you can even blow up the White House!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbeQn3TI3rI
The video is a TV comedy skit.
Category: general
so many misspellings, so little time
My Wikipedia watchlist grew beyond my ability to keep up with it, so I cut it back from 3082 to 1502.
linky-stinky-dinky
Some channels will show any old rubbish.
Bon mot from Falkenblog:
It seems all great advice can be boiled down to one essential truth: Always—or is it never?—do X.
unsuspected
In 197_ Mom’s cousin Alyce married Tony, about whom pretty much all I remember is that he wrote a book on how to tell species of bats apart. After Alyce (already frail from polio) died of flu, we lost contact with Tony.
Today a random chain of thought led me to Tony’s obituary. Wow. (NSFW.)
stuff
Something’s wrong with commenting here, it seems.
Dad’s book is gorgeous. Buy a bazillion copies.
Chaos is good: Of beating hearts; sequel
Movies: I enjoyed Key Largo (1948).
don’t go away, Mads
MMK where are you? Not a peep since October.
countersigns
Moving, one rediscovers many miscellaneous old papers. I think I copied this down from a comic skit about spies:
“Would you care to purchase a pair of mittens?” “It depends on the yarn.” “In Italy it is illegal to record the ring of a telephone.” “Which lasts longer, silk or rayon underwear?” “How do you say ‘tooth powder’ in Portuguese?” “Cats are nothing more than effeminate dogs.” “The fireplace has flown south for the winter.” “What do you say to a centipede on opening night? Break four or five legs.”