6376 - Prezzies, tech, tarantula hair.

Spooky Newt pic from atop the tower.
He reminds me a little of Zardoz.

*Thank you* for the lovely book from my wish list, Lisa!

It arrived in a very timely manner, and I've been looking forward to reading it for quite a while! (Since 5/15/03, to be precise.) It came as a complete surprise, and I really do appreciate it.

(It was a copy of The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn by Diane Ravitch.)

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I'd love to see these technologies arrive sooner than later. ( Read more... )

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I had to go quick and dirty with the Florida and Georgia Newsletters, but at least they're online, and look decent.

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How to cook a tarantula. Several persons shared an exotic dinner that included batter-dipped, deep-fried Chilean rose-haired tarantula. After eating the tarantula dish, many people complained of tingling in the mouth and throat.

Here's a sentence no one has ever written before: "Be sure and burn the hair off your tarantula with a blowtorch before you batter it and put it in the Fry Daddy."

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( Only 36 more days... )

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Most Impressive DVDs of 2003. I added lots of items to my Netflix queue after reading this.

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Vintage Dorothy Lamour comics. They actually feature very little of Miss Sarong and lots of savages speaking in variants of Yoda-ese.

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Cool Random element, I was compared to Sully, from Monsters, Inc. by Carol at PT the other day.