posted May 07, 2010 12:36 PM         

People don't want to know about your sordid hobbies, like books! Reading is silly, don't you know? Let's watch a movie instead!

WHAT IS A BIBLIOPHILE?

The genus bibliophile is hard to define. He is a book lover, a collector and omnivorous reader of books and bookseller's catalogs; he may also be a book scout, or a scholar or a librarian. He may be mad about typography and fine paper. He/she may not know the properties of a hypotenuse or the nature of a silicon chip, but in the end, his/her tombstone will read, simply, BIBLIOPHILE. A lovely word.

—William Targ

Abacus Now, New York, 1984.

posted May 07, 2010 02:23 PM         

Perhaps I shouldn't have mentioned my disappearing underwear.

Yeah, reading can be deadly in some cases..deadly to advertisers. Sometimes when I'm watching television, I read the disclaimers at the bottom of the screen while I'm listening to the commercial. Ah-ha, caught you bast@rds lying through your teeth.

True, I've read some sordid books...Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for instance.

posted May 07, 2010 02:43 PM         

Perhaps I shouldn't have mentioned my disappearing underwear.

Yeah, reading can be deadly in some cases..deadly to advertisers. Sometimes when I'm watching television, I read the disclaimers at the bottom of the screen while I'm listening to the commercial. Ah-ha, caught you bast@rds lying through your teeth.

True, I've read some sordid books...Adventures of Huckleberry Finn for instance.

I'm up for a movie. Could we make it a gripping comedic psycho-drama with romantic overtones and espionage undertones?

posted May 07, 2010 04:22 PM         

Ooh, that could be the name of our movie!

Perhaps we could get umm...Harrison Ford to star in the film? We'll also have to include one of these

Pythagoras' Theorem still gives me nightmares. EEK! My geometry professor's name was...Mr. Jones. He was building his own car from scratch.

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We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique. --Benjamin Jowett

posted May 07, 2010 10:04 PM         

Perhaps you would be interested to know this was a calf length black sock, woven from 100% virgin cotton and dacron with reinforced toes and heels.

I think the one which didn't zip off to the alternate Universe is under my sink. I used it to wipe down my cherry dining room furnishings with Lemon Oil.

Yeah, Harrison Ford is just right. I loved his line..."Get off my airplane". Hmmm, Harrison Ford and cheerleaders with Ostritch feather pom-poms. Can't miss...but is one enough?

Good for you katatonic. I liked geometry too...once I learned all the axioms, postulates...rules.

I've never drawn a chart by hand. Fortunately, I have an astrology charting program on board...but it would be nice to be able to do it myself.

posted May 08, 2010 12:13 AM         

did all the calculations longhand (calculators don't work on the 30* system very well) and drew them. long process, but very meditative and of course the charts are unique done that way.

posted May 08, 2010 12:23 AM         

I loved that line too! I think it was the look on his face, while he said it, that did it for me. Of course, I've appreciated Harrison Ford since Star Wars.

Ostritch Feather PomPoms, are a must! Who will be the love interest, though? You pick the actress.

Kat,

I tried doing mine by hand, just once though. That was enough for me. I admire those of you who can do it by hand. It's amazing and impressive!

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We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique. --Benjamin Jowett

posted May 13, 2010 10:06 PM         

May 13, 2010 9:16 pm US/Eastern 20K Pieces Of Mail Found In Mailman's Philly Home

Checks, bills and even a college acceptance letter from 2007 were among 20,000 letters found inside the garage of a Philadelphia postal carrier.

When the mailman missed several days of work in April, postal officials went to his Port Richmond home and found tubs and tubs of undelivered and unopened mail.

The postal worker, who has yet to be identified, worked out of the Bustleton station in Northeast Philadelphia. The neighborhood most impacted is located near Castor Avenue and Benton Street.

One of those affected was desperate to receive a $900 check in December 2007. The letter just arrived on Thursday.

"I got mail today from 2007. Paychecks, things like that that I needed. Stuff from the Social Security Administration, I.R.S.," resident Kevin Carpenter said.

Carpenter asked the worker he knew as "Dave the mailman" to be on the lookout for the check.

"I asked Dave and Dave said he hadn't seen it, but as soon as he got it, he would call me," Carpenter explained.

Some of mail found in the postal carrier's home dated back to 1997.

One of the letters that was undelivered was a 2007 acceptance letter from West Chester University. The recipient, who received the letter on Thursday, is now a senior in college.

Investigators have yet to question the mailman because they have not been able to locate him.