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ellarienThree random things from the weekend:
1) Why would someone fly in decorators from out of state?
2) I held a baby chick in my cupped hands for a little while. It was very light, all tiny bones and taut muscle under down as soft as a cat's fur.
3) Based on a sample of one psalm, I hypothesize that Swahili has slightly more words per concept than King James English -- maybe twenty per cent or so.
And some things from today:
1) The Post Office claims to have delivered my Voyage DVDs to work on Friday. This is, of course, impossible, as the place was closed. I hope they'll turn up tomorrow, which is what usually happens.
2) In the meantime, today's mail brought me a DVD of my favourite old movie, Hitchcock's Spellbound. It's a region-free Chinese edition (allegedly legit, in English, with Chinese subtitles.) The menus are partly in Chinese, partly in misspelled English, and slightly flaky even allowing for that, but it plays fine and I did manage to turn the subtitles off after a bit of thrashing around.
3) There was also a standard Amazon box which I thought at first was the DVDs, but it was suspiciously light. When I opened it, however, it turned out to be a 1Gb memory card for my camera. It's been a while since 1Gb of storage really took up a box that size!
1) Why would someone fly in decorators from out of state?
2) I held a baby chick in my cupped hands for a little while. It was very light, all tiny bones and taut muscle under down as soft as a cat's fur.
3) Based on a sample of one psalm, I hypothesize that Swahili has slightly more words per concept than King James English -- maybe twenty per cent or so.
And some things from today:
1) The Post Office claims to have delivered my Voyage DVDs to work on Friday. This is, of course, impossible, as the place was closed. I hope they'll turn up tomorrow, which is what usually happens.
2) In the meantime, today's mail brought me a DVD of my favourite old movie, Hitchcock's Spellbound. It's a region-free Chinese edition (allegedly legit, in English, with Chinese subtitles.) The menus are partly in Chinese, partly in misspelled English, and slightly flaky even allowing for that, but it plays fine and I did manage to turn the subtitles off after a bit of thrashing around.
3) There was also a standard Amazon box which I thought at first was the DVDs, but it was suspiciously light. When I opened it, however, it turned out to be a 1Gb memory card for my camera. It's been a while since 1Gb of storage really took up a box that size!