They were not my friends. They were the wives/girlfriends of my husband’s friends. So after a cross-country move, the problem sorted itself out. ;)
What was really funny was I had gone back to the same antique store and bought my husband a present. I spent about the same amount he’d spent on the ring on antique sterling silver barware. (He still uses two of the pieces today.)
Geologist. So I was in the Department of Mineral Sciences, which encompasses rocks and minerals - gems are just a subset of minerals for the most part - meteorites, and volcanoes. It was...actually fairly unglamorous. I spent one summer shattering rock samples for chemical analysis. I sat in a small room with a…
I have an Art Deco ring my husband and I bought at my favorite antique jewelry store - I’ve been wearing antiques for years, so a solitaire doesn’t match the jewelry I tend to wear, so it made sense to match what I wear. (I sent him there ahead of time to pre-choose stuff in his price range - I didn’t even have my…
It is totally about scale and context. You have to wonder if she’ll actually wear this every day.
And an uninformed electorate.
That was Representative Biggs of Arizona. I actually had to double check he was Republican.
Once upon a time, back in the Cretaceous, I was an intern in the Smithsonian behind-the-scenes department where they curate the gem collection. My mentor would occasionally send me into the collection to fetch a person or a sample, and one day, as I went scooting by the desk of one of the day-to-day curators of the…
There’s that. Or more simply: I think a lot of people looked at the numbers occasionally, but never read the very detailed analysis.
Back in 2016, my friends were having Election Night parties, ‘cause it was gonna be historic. Much like that SNL skit with Chappelle, I kept telling people that there was still a window for Trump to win, and that couldn’t be ignored. (Why people were upset with Nate Silver after the fact I couldn’t figure out - he had always…
The sad thing is this was done over a decade ago - and better - by some European artists over 10 years ago. They’re a little more subtle, though, and they also came with hand-carved wooden maps.
Topoware - https://www.flickr.com/groups/topoware/pool/
That border is the biggest nightmare, and Johnson is totally likely to fuck it up. So I suspect that it wouldn’t take much to push them that direction.
Yeah, but you forget all the people that hate the Somali population in general and Ilhan Omar in specific. (Keith Ellison, too, while we’re at it.) They’ll happily vote for IQ45 - these are the same people who brought us Michele Bachmann and Erik Paulsen. (Though having Paulsen booted in the mid-terms by such a…
Shit. I was planning on a trip to England next summer...but I shudder to think what the state of the UK will be like under this fucktard and his full-Brexit bullshit.
What I’m trying to figure out is how a Jewish woman - her maiden name of Marantz is Jewish, and she and her husband had a Jewish wedding ceremony - didn’t have a single grandmother, great-grandmother, great-aunt, or just friend of the family who wore a tichel. (It’s true, they don’t generally use the knots at the top…
I’ve tried, I really have. Their donuts are so pretty, but I find them overly sweet. Maybe I haven’t had the right ones?
Because they know - after a lifetime of pushing other people off the playing board - that once you are no longer in the game, you are insignificant. These people are used to being highly influential, and they aren’t going to give it up without a fight.
I feel like there might be an age divide here.
Still the best GPS voice options. (Or at least the best commercials for them.)