Nine for Random Chatter, doomed to die

[vorpal blade]

I bet it would have been really interesting to live through the process of adding a state to the union. Maybe I'll ask my parents about that sometime...

I was twelve in 1959. I remember some excitement at the time. Maps would have to be changed. Our country would now extend beyond the 48 contiguous states. There was some opposition from Texas, which would no longer be the biggest state. At the time I didn't appreciate the blow to the pride of Texans that this would mean. Some even claimed that Alaska only looked bigger because it was at the top of the map, which distorted perspective. I didn't know much about Hawaii, even though I had heard about Pearl Harbor. There was some talk about Hawaii "deserving" being a state after being attacked, but others pointed out that if Hawaii was a state we would be even more obligated to defend one of our states, not just some territory.

[Katya]

And if you cut us in half, each half could still eat Texas for breakfast. Mwahahaha.

I want to see an animation of that.

I'll get on that. In the meantime, have a look at ye olde t-shirte

Excellent.

[Marduk]

Wait, what's this argument? How can one suggest that Alaska is the easternmost state?

[Katya]

Wait, what's this argument? How can one suggest that Alaska is the easternmost state?

Because it crosses the 180th meridian.

[Dead Cat]

And if you cut us in half, each half could still eat Texas for breakfast. Mwahahaha.

I want to see an animation of that.

It is done. If you want any better quality than that, you're going to have to pay someone or do it yourself.

[Katya]

And if you cut us in half, each half could still eat Texas for breakfast. Mwahahaha.

I want to see an animation of that.

It is done. If you want any better quality than that, you're going to have to pay someone or do it yourself.

You are my hero. (Although, for some reason I think that Texas would taste like sausage.)

[TheAnswerIs42]

DeadCat, that was awesome.

Question: does anyone have access to a zip drive? Preferably in the Utah county area? It looks like the LRC/Media Center in the library no longer has the external ones mentioned in the archives. And my husband finally located a zip disk with his mission stuff on it. The drive that created it no longer functions at his parent's house.

[ahem.]

I have one, but I am in Arizona. So. Sorry.

[thebigcheese]

And if you cut us in half, each half could still eat Texas for breakfast. Mwahahaha.

I want to see an animation of that.

It is done. If you want any better quality than that, you're going to have to pay someone or do it yourself.

Hey now, let's play nice.

<hangs up her giant flag for all the world to see>

[Katya]

Hey now, let's play nice.

<hangs up her giant flag for all the world to see>

You are welcome to your giant flag, but you can't claim that Texas is the largest state. (And Alaska, in turn, can only claim to be the easternmost state because of the arbitrary location of the prime meridian at Greenwich, England. )

[Craig Jessop]

I totally saw Jimmer in the hall at work today. One of my co-workers in half-seriousness tried to get me to take a picture of him in the locker room. I called her a pervert and said no.

[Marduk]

So perhaps I'm late to the party on this one, but any time I see Birdy write an answer, I picture her as a wiry, active, white-haired old lady. I assume this is in no small part to the character "miss birdy" from John Grisham's The Rainmaker. Anyone else get this?

[thebigcheese]

I just had a paranoid thought, probably brought on by the late hour... I was just thinking about how we're going to (someday) move to another state, and WHERE ON EARTH WILL I GET MY FURNITURE? Heaven forbid, I might have to pay full price! From a STORE, of all places!

So...do other cities have something akin to the KSL classifieds website? I know there's Craigslist, but I've never really liked its super-text-based format. Seems ghetto to me.

[Unit of Energy]

Most cities you move to will have second hand shops, yard sales, and newspapers with classifieds available online.

[NerdGirl]

Check out ikea! When I moved to Halifax, I bought a queen sized bed and mattress, a fairly large bookshelf, a TV table, a desk, a desk chair, a futon, and a dresser from ikea. Including the cost to ship it from Montreal (which is the closest Ikea to Halifax), it was less than $1000.

[thebigcheese]

So, I just got back from the doctor. I'm much more impressed with this guy than my previous doc. When I saw the previous guy, I was only about 21, training for a half marathon, in nearly the best shape of my life. Sometimes I would start wheezing early in my runs, and I couldn't really breathe well, so I wanted to get checked for asthma. That doctor said I didn't have asthma, but I was probably just getting old.

...Are you serious? I didn't know 21 was considered aging by anybody's standards.

Anyway, this new doc said I have something called exercise-induced asthma, and he gave me an inhaler to control it. FINALLY. Now I can run without feeling like I'm suffocating to death.

[krebscout]

Guess who just got an encrypted postcard guys

[Katya]

What's an encrypted postcard?

[ahem.]

What's an encrypted postcard?

Presumably it would be a post card where the message is written in code. *shifty eyes* Or something.

[Dead Cat]

What's an encrypted postcard?

Presumably it would be a post card where the message is written in code. *shifty eyes* Or something.

Ooh! Does it have a microdot on it?