It's Fridaaaaaaaay!...

[damont]

I'm not sure how many people actually caught the post of various links from Monday. In case you didn't, here's a pointer back to that post. And now, here are some more links for your viewing pleasure.

From ravenblack via visgoth: http://ravenblack.livejournal.com/235608.html
I agree with visgoth -- "looks to me like a pretty clear bastardization of science in the interest of bowing down to corporate masters."

grayhawkfh points out this about a lottery in the UK: Camelot pulls scratchcard amid numerical anarchy. One of the comments had a subject line of "Math illiteracy affects eight out of every five people."

Thanks (for certain definitions of "thanks") to liadan_m for this one: A review of a 1970's era catalog. Owwwww... my eyes...

liamstliam's Line of the Day from yesterday, provided by his daughter evilnicola: "My family. Making other families seem normal since 1987." And here I thought that line applied to *killernurd's* family. And if you change the date, it applies to other families of my acquaintance. Not only isn't there a monopoly, this situation seems almost more common in our social circles than the opposite... and I try not to think too hard about how that affects the definition of "normal".

I'm heading up to eastern Pennsylvania this afternoon, with an eye to going to Blue Horns Tavern tomorrow. Who's all going? And for the rest of you, what's your weekend look like?

Comments

[h3salthea.livejournal.com]

Looks like it will be myself, Grimm, and two total newbies to the SCA...K-chan and Nessa...

I'm rather looking forward to this...I'll be in Wench garb....

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

Looking forward to seeing you there, then! *wink*

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

Good to see you at the event, however briefly. Sorry I didn't notice when you were headed out; I would have stopped the musicstuff to say goodbye! **hugs**

[aliwodehalle.livejournal.com]

Alas, Blue Horns is five minutes from my house, but I work and will not be there. I will be even more disappointed if you make it and I don't. :(

Regardless, have a great weekend!!

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

Sorry about you having to work -- we'll miss you!

about the 70's catalog...

[aylinn.livejournal.com]

oh. my. god.

now we know where the barrel chairs came from - Penneys!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/02/AR2007110200671.html

Re: about the 70's catalog...

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

*giggle* ... "Then philosophers came up with aesthetic relativism, which says that the assessment of beauty is relative to individuals, cultures and contexts, so everyone had to shut up about everyone else's taste and even invent a phrase ("there's no accounting for taste") to keep the peace when it came to things like barrel chairs. Taste is like coffee: Everyone knows someone who makes bad coffee, but miraculously, no one is that person."

I remember looking at clothes like that when I was in middle and high school (about the same time as that catalog came out) and thinking, "Man those are ugly." Luckily, my mom's taste in clothing was pretty bland, so she didn't tend to buy me that sort of clothing; I was going to Catholic school as well, so bland distinctly had its uses. Although, I admit, there *were* the go-to-hell front-row-of-Calculus-class attack pants (worn to encourage the teacher to move me *out* of the front row; this tactic generally got the desired results). I didn't want to wear the "fashionable" clothes of the '70s *then*... and certainly grimaced when they made a comeback more recently.

Re: about the 70's catalog...

[aylinn.livejournal.com]

I thought you'd like that.

I'd read that article on the train in copy someone had left. When I recognized the picture in the link you put up - I HAD to find the story & route you to it.

[grayhawkfh.livejournal.com]

And for the rest of you, what's your weekend look like?

Paint covered. Painting DR & hall tonight and tomorrow. Probably Thanksgiving shopping on Sunday.

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

Hopefully shopping will occur after paint has been scrubbed off... and in frsah clothes of course :-)

I have a set of clothes specifically designated for painting in, complete with splotches.

[nostasia.livejournal.com]

Blaise and I will most likely be driving out to a semi-local deer farm with my brother on Saturday. As for Sunday ... if Blaise hasn't e-mailed you, get in touch with me privately (nostasia at scadian dot net).

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

Responded to you via email.

[luscious-purple.livejournal.com]

That "Tavern" sounds like a cute lil' mini-event. Is that in the same shire as Allentown? They look pretty far apart on the map.

Tomorrow night is my church's annual auction, although I will try not to spend too much money -- I'm coming up on my big end-of-year travel season.

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

The event is in Hartshorn-dale, which is not the same shire as Allentown; that city is in Eisental. The distance isn't too bad though; I could daytrip Blue Horns from home, but going up for the weekend has its advantages.

[nateprentice.livejournal.com]

I'll be hanging out with fellow Michaelines in Wilmington for dinner.

[math5.livejournal.com]

Heading for NJ tonight and DC tomorrow.
Guess I'll see you another time.
Have a great weekend.

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

Hope you have safe travels thither and back -- we'll see each other again!

[sskipstress.livejournal.com]

I'm going to Dun Carraig's Baronial Birthday tomorrow wearing whichever Christian outfit fits me best to give my boobs a proper send-off. On Sunday I'm going to see My Fair Lady.

[dr-zrfq.livejournal.com]

hope you had a good time at the event, and hope the show is good tomorrow.