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In their own time and place
And last night we broke out the air conditioner for the first time since October because it was too hot for me to sleep otherwise. Heat-stunned and half-coherent, I wandered downstairs at four-thirty in the morning and fortunately ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
derspatchel was still awake. The cats were puddled on the hardwood, transferring heat as quickly as their fur would let them. Sure, summer, come right in.
Before then, we made scones with my mother and helped her plant a bed of pansies by the front steps and transplant two forsythia bushes from the back to the side yard; we gave her a small clay hedgehog which Rob introduced with a tiny pen-sketch and a line of written Russian: a small bird saying, "Now you have a hedgehog!" It lives indoors now, with the cactic and the succulents.
I did not try to see Psycho (1960) at the Brattle Theatre and I think I made the right decision.
Sydney Padua is speaking tonight at Porter Square Books. I have been reading Lovelace and Babbage since it existed. I got my brother a Brunel T-shirt for his birthday in 2010. He still wears it. Guess where I'll be?
derspatchel was still awake. The cats were puddled on the hardwood, transferring heat as quickly as their fur would let them. Sure, summer, come right in.Before then, we made scones with my mother and helped her plant a bed of pansies by the front steps and transplant two forsythia bushes from the back to the side yard; we gave her a small clay hedgehog which Rob introduced with a tiny pen-sketch and a line of written Russian: a small bird saying, "Now you have a hedgehog!" It lives indoors now, with the cactic and the succulents.
I did not try to see Psycho (1960) at the Brattle Theatre and I think I made the right decision.
Sydney Padua is speaking tonight at Porter Square Books. I have been reading Lovelace and Babbage since it existed. I got my brother a Brunel T-shirt for his birthday in 2010. He still wears it. Guess where I'll be?
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There were three of them in the store, all made by the same sculptor and slightly different from one another. I don't know if you can see it in these pictures, but this one has some broken spines; we guessed it had been dropped. (It was marked down slightly.) The others were glossier, whole, and at least one had a striking silver coat. But this one had the best face. It was the sweetest and most inquisitive. So we took it home. And now it is loved and has cacti.
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Enjoy the Padua talk!
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I'm so glad. I thought of you at once.
Enjoy the Padua talk!
It was great! We got an animated lecture about the Analytical Engine and I have a signed copy of her book and somehow I ended up talking about Alan Turing to another member of the audience in the aftermath. Best-case scenario.
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The hedgehog is excellent.
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. . . We are?
I'm sorry!
The hedgehog is excellent.
It may have ended up named "Yozhik." It had the sweetest face of the three clay hedgehogs in the store, chipped spikes and all.
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And I love 2D Goggles. Will totally be picking up the book asap.
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It's one of the webcomics I always wanted in print and I always thought it would never happen, because how often does it? And yet, here we are. It's a gorgeous book, too.
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I didn't know
Hooray for having a working air conditioner!
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Those sound adorable.
I didn't know derspatchel had Russian. That gives him a second language in common with pecunium.
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Hooray for having a working air conditioner!
Now the temperature's dropped and we don't need it again! Do we still have climates anymore?
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I didn't know pecunium knew Russian!
Yup! He went to DLI, which my brain always wants to expand to "Divine Language Institute" which would be the sort of place I'd like to study, but which actually stands for Defense Language Institute. He has a lot of "learning Russian" stories which are amusing.
Do we still have climates anymore?
I don't think so. I think we have weather whims. "Oh, what weather whim do you live in?" "Snow, with occasional frogs." "Ah, I live in Ooblick with torrential sunshine." "I was there once. That's where I got these green freckles."
So no, not so much. (And now I have Crowded House's Weather With You stuck in my brain).
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I've never heard of Sydney Padua. I just looked her up. Curious.
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(She was initially reluctant to move into digital art, but is now an apparently very skillful computer animator, and is the sort of person who researches everything beforehand, from the workings of the Analytical Engine to how cows move:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrbaw5nvtdg )
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I will tell my mother! We did not have a hand in its placement; we just introduced them to each other.
I've never heard of Sydney Padua. I just looked her up. Curious.
Seconding
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