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

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.