What a great seminar she gave!

There's nothing in the box, it's all a lie!

Can we change "growing popularity of LFL" to "some fringe thing nobody has ever heard of"?

The 2010 Eyjafjallajökull eruption wiped out the river valley, but the flora has evolved to grow prolifically as soon as conditions meet the outside envelope of tolerability. Remember all those fields covered with violet-colored flowers, and the lava rock fields that were completely hidden by thick moss for miles? I…

Honest to god, I still day dream about Iceland everyday since I left. If you're feeling nostalgic, you're more than welcome to skim through some of my photos. (It's been over three months and I'm still barely halfway through processing the raw images. Want to do Iceland justice, but I'm no pro.) [adhpix.smugmug.com]

Which one, 1978 or 2004?

I traveled to Iceland this summer. It was the place I wanted to see the most, primarily for the aesthetics of the environment and the midnight sun, but the whole nation is steeped in history and Viking heritage. It's people are the place incarnate. Þingvellir National Park is where the Vikings established the world's…

And dust-off.

Good call. Dublin became a main Viking settlement at one point, I believe.

The premiere featured a few runners (speed walkers?).

I'd challenge you on the "interesting bunch of characters" bit, but....they broke Romero's cardinal rule: no running! (Especially when the show is called Walking Dead, and the characters nickname zombies "walkers".)

In that case, my sarcasm meter is as good as the day I bought it.

There can only be one! Which is problematic, because anemone propagation can be achieved by division.

So long, and thanks for all the plankton!

Semantically, all quite true. This is what spurred me to joke in the first place. But I can play devil's advocate now, if you like. "Directness", or its antithesis, "distance", is an imprecise phrasing for a collection of behaviors that belies a pattern of distancing oneself psychologically from the lies one tells.…