lol (geeky)
One rule of thumb about blog-worthy things is whether something makes me literally laugh out loud. Granted, things that make me laugh sometimes fall into particular categories, but this one has a recognizable irony and humor, I think.
I'm traveling to the UK for the end of February and most of March to do research in various archives, and am working on my sunny Sunday morning on a little recon. The Royal Society may be of interest, but when I got to this page, and then read the first item under "Administrative Archives", it just sort of put things in perspective for me.
1660?!
Awesome. We'll stick to the 20th century, thank you. Although my window is narrow - if it happened before the so-called Scramble in 1884 and after WWI, it's usually not my thing. In this case, I think that's a good thing.
posted by Wabes @ 2/03/2008 05:26:00 AM
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somewhat off-topic, but i have a election-related question - in what primary are you voting? new york? americans abroad? other? frankly, i didn't even know americans abroad had their own primary, to say nothing of that primary being tomorrow. where do americans abroad vote? the u.s. embassy? mcdonalds?
and by "americans abroad," of course i meant democrats abroad.
no need to clarify, jacob - republican americans abroad are, like, too busy at the hard rock paris to worry about voting. ;)
the democrats abroad -- who are the only ones who could vote -- had voting parties in various places around germany. mcdonald's would have been funny, what with their rösti burger -- for when you want to go and eat the least american version of the american-est thing you can find!
i'm not down with the hard rock crowd, but i do feel like the republicans might have been a bit more...disciplined? better prepared? or has all that changed, with karl rove gone?
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