Adventures in Bureaucracy
Sunday, January 31, 2010
This is kind of interesting - fifty new states with roughly equal populations.
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Those Romans really built stuff to last. Amazing that things are still being rediscovered 1900 years later.
I think the Aqua Alsietina figured prominently in one of the Marcus Didius Falco mysteries, which I really enjoy. Too bad it's been a little difficult to find some of the earlier ones, which seem to be out of print, and I read them out of order anyway. Last time I was in England I stocked up on a bunch of them. And I just now found out - thanks to the author's site - there was a new one last year.
I'm snowbound anyway (dusting my foot), so looks like it's time to check out Amazon.
I think the Aqua Alsietina figured prominently in one of the Marcus Didius Falco mysteries, which I really enjoy. Too bad it's been a little difficult to find some of the earlier ones, which seem to be out of print, and I read them out of order anyway. Last time I was in England I stocked up on a bunch of them. And I just now found out - thanks to the author's site - there was a new one last year.
I'm snowbound anyway (dusting my foot), so looks like it's time to check out Amazon.
Nice to see they've got their priorities in order.
It reminds me of those Congressional hearings on steroids in baseball, when I wondered why Congress was involved at all.
It reminds me of those Congressional hearings on steroids in baseball, when I wondered why Congress was involved at all.
Some things are hysterically funny because they are entirely outside of my understanding. Like this.
Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Saturday, January 09, 2010
So the new year begins with the announcement that the first transsexual has been appointed to a high-level government position. (Apparently despite the rumors J. Edgar Hoover doesn't count.) Fine. But when I saw the picture, I immediately thought about one thing: Emily "I am a lady, I do lady's things" Howard. Seriously, I can't be the only one to see the resembleance, right?
It must just be that particular picture though, because the other picture in the image search doesn't look like that at all.
