Sally Harper, played by the fabulous Kate Isitt, is televisions best girlfriend. Sure, she’ll divulge Susan’s secrets, but only to Jane. Sally and Jane: television’s greatest example of how great friendships sometimes just blossom out of nowhere and are stronger than ones you’ve had for years.
They’re just so likable. He totally went peaceably when Carson stopped him because of Sybil… He wants her to think highly of him, he wants her to understand him, he wants her to love him, really.
Star Trek-style ‘tricorder’ invention offered $10m prize
By Chris Vallance, BBC News
This is pretty much crazy-pants. We certainly don’t have much technology like this in part because we’re still developing tech like this and in part because Gene Roddenberry made it up! But it sure would be cool.
Well, sure…. it’s Constitutional. Lots of things that are tacky and in poor taste are Constitutional. Doesn’t make them any less tacky or in better taste. Certainly doesn’t make it right.
But now it also means you’re allowed to protest them at some inappropriate time … like a funeral.
Finished re-watching Downton Abbey on PBS.org and oh, man, I cannot wait for the second series! I just love love love this program. God bless, Julian Fellowes Kilwillie!
Sybil Crawley was by far the most interesting of the Crawley sisters. I really hope there’s something a-brewing between her and the driver. Can we hurry up the BBC and Julian Fellowes to get some more episodes together because I really really want to know what happens next!
Apparently Black Kites are using our trash like gang symbols. You see a nest with a lot of white plastic, watch out! That bird will. cut. you.
“What better way to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Sony’s iconic Walkman than to ask a teenager for some feedback on the device?
The BBC couldn’t think of one, and neither can I.
I like to imagine that the experience was similar to an archaeologist rediscovering how a recently excavated artifact was employed thousands of years ago. But I’m well aware that it must have been different for 13-year-old Scott Campbell, who co-edits his own news Web site. For one, teenage impatience must have stood in the place where I fantasize scientific curiosity should have been” (Alejandro Martinez-Cabrera, San Francisco Chronicle, July 1, 2009).
The boy started using the Walkman instead of his iPod and was astounded by it’s size. I believe he called it the “size of a small book”, which is interesting, in and of itself, the fact that a thirteen year old boy even knows what a small book might look like.
He did the whole clip it to your belt thing, big and bulky as that is, and walked around and received the inevitable stares. (Fuck, I get stares when I use a portable CD player!)
The boy, Scott Campbell, was also shocked at how little music the cassettes hold. Being used to an iPod that holds multiple gigabytes of information the cassette tape mystified the boy. In fact, it took him three days to figure out that if you flip the tape over there are more songs on the other side!
And he thinks his dad was dumb for thinking the Walkman “was a credible piece of technology”!
+ Reading Coraline
+ ReReading Songlines
+ Facebook
+ Maggie
+ Baking Chocolate Chip Cookies
+ New Bras
+ Tea
+ Separation
+ BBC World News
+ Anne of Green Gables
+ Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel (aka. Anne of Avonlea)
+ Researching Amtrak
