A few of my favorite* things
News ·Saturday May 13, 2006 @ 22:11 EDT (link)
* Yes, US spelling. It's shorter, thus more efficient, and efficient is good.
With all of our picture frames together in one place now (the upstairs "media room"), I was able to pick out a suitable frame for the picture of my mother (Anne) that my mother (Esther) gave me a little while ago. It's a nice silvered frame, and now the picture sits on one of our end tables in the living room.
The US senate has voted to make English the official language. Finally! A few choice quotes from the linked article, from that bastion of journalistic integrity, the Inquirer (actually it's not so bad; it was founded by the same person that brought us the Register, which hosts that networking nemesis, the BOFH):
The US senate has formally decided that English will be the official language of the former British colony.
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It is not clear if adopting English means that Microsoft will now have to use proper UK English rather than that bastardised US English it has been peddling on Microsoft Word for years.
Nor whether Yanks will now learn to speak proper.
A few Word developers and testers founded the Word book club a few weeks ago; our first book is Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, chosen by yours truly; we're about done it; it's high time to pick another book. On the video side of things, we're working our way through Deep Space Nine season 4, and will order season 5 shortly.
We drove out to Wallace Falls State Park on Saturday the 13th; unfortunately I
left my camera at home, but perhaps next time I'll go all the way to the Upper
Falls and bring my camera with me.
And the last few of my favorite things: Ribena, a delicious blackcurrent drink of English origin, also available in Canada, and my mother gave me a bottle when I was last there, which I had packed away and recently discovered. Yay! I also discovered some Turkish Delight in the same bag. What a wonderful way to end a day.
A few Word developers and testers founded the Word book club a few weeks ago; our first book is Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, chosen by yours truly; we're about done it; it's high time to pick another book. On the video side of things, we're working our way through Deep Space Nine season 4, and will order season 5 shortly.