Well what d’ya know. You make a casual post to alt.language.artificial about leap-seconds and before you know it someone sends links on the subject: The Future of Leap Seconds; Extrapolations of the difference ( TI – UT1 ); Time Scales. Thanks Steve!
At a Thai restaurant just now, the staff were playing Scrabble. That’s one way to practice a language!
On February 29, I whacked my shin on a truck’s tow-bar, making a deep dent but drawing almost no blood. Today, six weeks later, the scab came off. (The dent is still there.) I wonder, did the wound heal more slowly because of the relative scarcity of blood on the front of my shin? (Russell says yes.)
November: The spot is still discolored.
September 2005: Guess it’s permanent: the first of my scars to be so precisely dated for posterity.
I bought a DVD of Kurosawa’s 生きる Ikiru, inferring from the presence of English text on the package that the show would be subtitled. Oops!
One thing that bugs me about Buffy is her habit of going under-armed. In The Prom (3:20), why did she take itty-bitty arrows rather than a dwarvish axe to hunt the hell-hounds? In Shadow (5:8), why didn’t Giles bring a couple of sabers, or a shotgun? Did he expect Buffy to pummel the cobra-monster to death? (That she did pummel it to death is beside the point.)