According to their website, 777 have power outlets. They are “cigarette lighter” style (12v DC) and limit you to 70w (so I hear), but that’s enough to power a laptop and watch your own in-flight movie. You have to be careful when you order your flight though and make sure the seat you select has [...]
I heard this quote the other day on the NPR quiz show, “Wait, Wait. . . Don’t Tell Me.”
“Where would the world be without revenge? Without revenge there would be no Illiad, no Godfather, no Alanis Morissette. . .”
–Peter Segel
I’ve posted a Google Speadsheet of the invitation list, so you can find out who else is attending.
I’ll try to keep it updated, but we’ll be quite busy in these last two weeks before our wedding!
For all the grammar nerds out there: Plural and Possessive clarification
The part that I forgot most often is
When a sentence indicates joint ownership in a compound construction, the possessive form is attached only to the second noun:
Deanna and Brandi’s vacation plans
Tim and Bethany’s wedding invitation
Note that individual ownership is marked by a double possessive:
Courtney’s [...]
It is a scary thing that a film adaptation of Joyce’s Ulysses, would make me want to read the Odyssey again.
Last spring, Rachel picked up an audio lecture?Ǭ†series on the History of Russia: From Peter the Great to Gorbachev?Ǭ†to listen to while she painted a present for me. It is part of a series called The Great Courses and is?Ǭ†produced?Ǭ†by The Teaching Company. We started listening to them on trips to her parents’ and to [...]
Flower girls, ring bearers, what next? Wedding pooches? Yes, if only I could see Ebony being quiet for a half hour.
I have a new favorite store. About a month ago, I started thinking about Ireland in the winter. Maybe this a little overboard for 30-40 degrees Fahrenheit, but I wanted to make sure we had the supplies to stay out in rainy, windy 30-degree-weather for 3 hours straight. We do live in Indiana, however, and [...]
It’s funny you can watch a war film with helicopters crashing and civilians dieing, but does it really change your behavior?
This film scares me, because I may not be able to eat fast food the same again:
http://www.myspace.com/fastfoodnation
You know you are nerd when you are annoyed that the temporary list (”Add to My List” function) of your public library’s online catalog only allows you to place 200 books on it. I found this out today as I went through a list of about 500 A/V materials and selected almost 200 of them [...]