Wednesday's Cool Things

[tamaranth]

1. Does anyone know if low temperatures make one sleepier?

2. From ellen_kushner: The Testament of Solomon (74. And the second said: "I am called Barsafael, and I cause those who are subject to my hour to feel the pain of migraine. If only I hear the words, 'Gabriel, imprison Barsafael,' at once I retreat.")

3. Interviewing fastfwd this evening (trains permitting) at the BSFA open evening.

4. My tenants were going to move out. Now they've changed their minds. Yay!

5. Medieval people didn't look like us -- marked differences in skull shape and prominence of features. (Now can someone model what they're on about?)

Comments

[fastfwd.livejournal.com]

1) Depends on how low. If they're low enough to freeze to death, yes. A slight chill in the air, not usually. Too-warm rooms will make you sleepier.

2. Very cool.

3. I hope the trains permit.

4. If you're happy, I'm happy.:)

4. As I understand it, they were shorter, too. I can remember throughout my childhood being told that suits of armour would be too small for today's adults. More uncertain food supply, less balanced diet, and "medical care" that wasn't actually medical care. Or so I've heard. I'm not actually old enough to remember.:)

[del-c.livejournal.com]

The suits of armour story is due to a combination of things, namely:

• suits of armour that actually were too small for typical adults, on account of being made for typical teenagers,
  
  
• suits of armour that actually were too small for typical adults, on account of being made for one of the large minority of non-typical adults (we exist, you know), and finally
  
  
• suits of armour stacked up by themselves for display being considerably shorter than suits of armour with a person inside :-)