Friday Five ...
Friday, January 27th, 2006 12:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tamaranth1. Bint magazine. How have I missed this? How have I managed? (Am 75.5% bint. And much amused -- though not at werk -- by the True Confessions.) EDIT: link fixed
2. Internet is social glue.. In other news, Pope is Catholic: but there are certainly people (my sister, for one) who don't believe that online society can be anything more than a pale shadow* of Real Life. It's encouraging to see that more and more people regard it as a supplement to real-life interaction. I don't think I would have been so ready to move out of London, away from my social circle(s), if I hadn't known that I could 'stay in touch' via LJ and so on.
3. I've been thinking about paperweights. An anachronism in modern, draught-proof housing? (Let's assume it's winter and you don't have the windows open.) Not at all. Their primary function -- on my desk, at least -- is no longer to hold paper down: it's to mark top-of-stack.
4. Under half those questioned in a recent survey believed in evolution. USA? No, UK. *emigrates*
5. Good old Google, wishing Wolfgang a happy 250th birthday.
* what a peculiar turn of phrase, now I come to think of it. Shadows are not usually noted for their pallor.
2. Internet is social glue.. In other news, Pope is Catholic: but there are certainly people (my sister, for one) who don't believe that online society can be anything more than a pale shadow* of Real Life. It's encouraging to see that more and more people regard it as a supplement to real-life interaction. I don't think I would have been so ready to move out of London, away from my social circle(s), if I hadn't known that I could 'stay in touch' via LJ and so on.
3. I've been thinking about paperweights. An anachronism in modern, draught-proof housing? (Let's assume it's winter and you don't have the windows open.) Not at all. Their primary function -- on my desk, at least -- is no longer to hold paper down: it's to mark top-of-stack.
4. Under half those questioned in a recent survey believed in evolution. USA? No, UK. *emigrates*
5. Good old Google, wishing Wolfgang a happy 250th birthday.
* what a peculiar turn of phrase, now I come to think of it. Shadows are not usually noted for their pallor.
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Date: Friday, January 27th, 2006 01:34 pm (UTC)Not if the draught-proof house includes cats.
That's exactly what I was ging to say! Especially as cats gravitate towards paper, the more important to you, the more interesting to them.
Unfortunately, paperweights don't stop cats throwing up on paper, important or otherwise...
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Date: Friday, January 27th, 2006 01:37 pm (UTC)Particularly if the paper is nice and warm from the printer. Callie is currently sitting on the invoice for my veg box. She has the entire rest of the couch to sit on, but no, only the cold piece of paper in the middle of the couch will do.
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Date: Friday, January 27th, 2006 02:04 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Friday, January 27th, 2006 02:37 pm (UTC)