Zip, zap, zoop

[magid]

Or, the brain flutters hither, thither, and yon.

Neat: kids are making math local and relevant with the national math trail.

My dentist told me my teeth have "persistent calculus." I wish my brain did; I need to review it.

I find it odd how the Boston police blog uses "pronounced" for "declared dead." Not "pronounced dead," just "pronounced." Such as, the man arrived at the hospital and was pronounced.

Also, "bases" and "basis" are not interchangeable.

This year's Bulwer-Lytton overall winner (there are other subcategories at the site):

Gerald began — but was interrupted by a piercing whistle which cost him ten percent of his hearing permanently, as it did everyone else in a ten-mile radius of the eruption, not that it mattered much because for them 'permanently' meant the next ten minutes or so until buried by searing lava or suffocated by choking ash — to pee.

- Jim Gleeson, Madison, Wisconsin

Boston-local
- The downtown Filene's Basement (under what used to be Filene's) is going out of business. I wonder what will go in those spaces.
- Tango by moonlight on the Weeks Footbridge every summer full moon, sponsored by the Tango Society of Boston.
- Fever Fest has new, short plays at the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, August 22-25 (including one Alice-themed one).

Some interesting moments in Massachusetts history.
(And for thems that say nothing ever happens in Worcester.... here's a few :-)

Comments

[ruthling.livejournal.com]

AFAIK, the Filenes Basement is vacating for the two year or so period that it takes them to renovate. That may have changed but it was the plan last time I heard. There's a large retailer slated to go in up top, but I've forgotten what it was called.

re "pronounced", it would be funny, in a sad, dark way, if the pronouced person had a very difficult name.

I'm glad it wasn't as I first read a national "meth" trail. We have enough of that already.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Ah, so it's just closing for renovations. The signs I saw were not at all clear on that, but perhaps it's just easier to say sale for closing than to give lots of details.

"pronounced": yeah. And yet...

National meth trail! *gigglesnort*
Not something I'm likely to link to :-)

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

Oh, the Bulwer-Lytton site is wonderful! Thanks for the pointer.

[magid.livejournal.com]

Glad to help. (Er, I suspect "help" is not quite the right word there...)

[hrafn.livejournal.com]

Well, I had a good laugh or 30, so it was nice stress relief - if temporary inability to breathe can be considered stress relief :) (Good thing I wasn't reading it at home; I would have alarmed the birds. As it was, no one else was in the woodshop at the time.)