I mean, seriously, just look at this.
Zowie.
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Wow, what a response!
Those of you who’ve got multiple purchases and are contemplating others (or are sharing shipping with another buyer), please make sure you drop me a message via myEbay (or whatever) so that I know to hold onto whatever you bought until all the buying’s over. No point in you paying more for postage than necessary.
…Images will be going up tomorrow for those who want to see pictures. Also I’ll add a few extra things — some copies of Wizards at War and a couple of unusual things.
Thanks again!
He was an organization man who was not particularly organized, a committee man who worked most effectively through back channels. With equal gusto he preached temperance and wrote drinking songs. He practiced frugality only, he admitted, so long as it was absolutely necessary.
…His legacy is not a political philosophy but a protean existence, act after act of bold curiosity, brash risk-taking, raw ingenuity. Once those constituted a definition of the American character. Today they would more likely be termed “hypomania,” a fair diagnosis for any individual who manages single-handedly to found a library, fire company, police force, hospital, university, insurance company, sanitation department and militia.
…A materialistic age returns him to his glory, none more so than our overachieving own. His passions are ours: smarts, self-improvement, social welfare and better cell phone reception for all.
Happy Birthday (a day late), Ben.
Because Alan was asking. Here are links to two pages with (a) lots of goulash links, and including (at the bottom) goulash the way Peter made it today, which worked out really well: and (b) some other goulash recipes.
A prominent Chinese lawyer and collector unveiled an old map on Monday that he and some supporters say should topple one of the central tenets of Western civilization: that Europeans were the first to sail around the world and discover America.
The Chinese map, which was drawn in 1763 but claims to be a reproduction of an ancient map dated 1418, presents the world as a globe with all the major continents rendered with an exactitude that European maps did not have for another century and a half, after Columbus, Da Gama, Magellan, Dias and others had completed their renowned explorations.
I’m something of a map freak, and will be watching this with interest…
Russian experts announce new vaccine against deadly bird flu
“Experiments we carried out have demonstrated that several weeks after vaccination the birds developed an intensive immunity that should prevent them from falling ill. And it is guaranteed that this poultry will not fall ill…”
Must be nice to be so certain after only three weeks, and what has to be a fairly short testing cycle. Going to be interesting to see how this develops…
(Thanks to the H5N1 blog for the link.)
This appeared in a for-sale version on BoingBoing a couple of years ago; but Peter came across a do-it-yourself version of it today. With this gadget, you can use a full bottle of soda, water, what have you, as an impromptu tripod for your camera.
I’m not kidding.
(Beware: slight orc-ish nudity.) The orcish poet Urrshahurruk-gah (Celadon Toadstool) was famed throughout the fifty-seven tribes for the quality of her poetry, and also for that time she put a mace through that one guy’s head, while shouting haiku. Her martial poetry was of course the most popular, including such works as “Warpig Sonnets” and “Ode to a Dagger Stuck In Somebody’s Eye,” which dealt with the perennial themes of melee and mayhem popular among orcs. But many believe that her finest work were her more delicate and introspective pieces, including “Reflections Seen In The Blood Of My Enemies,” and the elegant “Poem for Mushrooms Growing From The Skull Of A Dead Elf.”
It was perhaps not entirely politic for Celadon to recite that last piece at an elvish court during a rare cultural exchange program between warring kingdoms, but everyone agreed much later that it had helped to open a really honest dialogue, and there hadn’t been all THAT many casualties, and you couldn’t expect artists to compromise about these things, after all.