The Gentleman’s Daughter: Women’s Lives in Georgian England by Amanda Vickery can give you at least a good idea of what real life women were talking about — at least in the Georgian era. Vickery concentrates on the lives of the middle class, women presumed to have some education as they were expected to run…

You wanna know how old I am? Every time I hear “The Avengers” I assume you’re talking about John Steed and Mrs. Peel. And sometimes Catherine Gale.

Statistics on pedestrians deaths in involving bicycler seem hard to come by, but they’re out there. The New Yorker article below mentions to fatalaties in Manhattan last summer as well as other bicycle/pedestrian collisions.

Except that bikes can kill people. It happened at the intersection closest to my apartment here in SF, when a bike rider decided to coast down the steep hill, and crossed a major intersection against the light. The rider stated afterwards he “tried to lay the bike down” but he struck and killed an elderly man in the…

In other words, not much of a Guardian Angel.

At one point, after seeing GWTW at home and in a restored print on the big screen and having seen Streetcar only on a television monitor, I would have said Scarlett, hands down.

It happened because Weiner didn’t just show us that Pete is an asshole, he showed us how he got to be that way. His personality development was shown to be very close to being inevitable.

My first really long stay in London, 14 days, was the best trip I ever took and it rained all but four days of my visit. From light drizzles to full downpours, skies ranging in color from grayish pink to slate, able to see only the lower hemisphere of the city, the part visible from beneath the rim of my umbrella...…

Not sure about the creme de violette that’s available here in the U.S. (Rothman and Winter), as it has some very bitter notes that I can’t like. Tried some locally made creme de violette in while in France once found it a very different product, quite likable.

And once you’ve got your Hollandaise finished, you’re only a step or two away from a sauce mousseline, which is Hollandaise folded into whipped cream. It’s the greatest gift a lightly poached salmon filet ever received.

And you are not worth $15 an hour, because you’re recreating the opening move of one of the oldest cash register scams known. Whenever that one was tried on me, no matter how much the customer insisted I take the newly-proffered change they received the change they were originally due from my register.

Clarkson unrestrained by the BBC?

And hitting someone is the best way to deal with frustration.

Love the first quote from Benjamin Disraeili. Any relation to the British Prime Minister to Queen Victoria in the 19th century?

I cannot do without a hot beverage at some point in the afternoon. One cup of nicely brewed tea and suddenly I’m alert and kindly, refreshed and ready to think better of all persons as well as ascribe to them more benevolent motives than they perhaps possess.

I cannot do without a hot beverage at some point in the afternoon. One cup of nicely brewed tea and suddenly I’m…

Well, sorry, but no; the word posh as an acronym for “port outward, starboard home”, regarding the placement of 1st class passengers en route to and from Britain and India has never been traceable, there’s no evidence for it. First use of “posh” in the current sense of luxurious was in the 1890’s referring to the…

Even simpler, you start with the implements furthest to your left and right and work your way inwards. If you end up with not enough silverware or too much silverware, the table was set wrong for the courses being served.

All roads lead back to the new Bookmarks Manager. I don’ t even see the Relaunch option.

Yes, if I'm on vacation I'm going to "spend" my calories where they'll do the most good. A dessert I want to try? Sure, but I might lay off the dinner rolls/limit the potatoes/concentrate on the veg at the same meal or, as suggested make up for it another day.

I live in SF, and all the tech heads around here are convinced that self-driving cars are what everyone wants. If you try to have that discussion with them, about how many people are going to willingly give up their autonomous driving habits in favor of a corporate or government entity with the capability of telling…