Chilly!
Still sticking with the sandals.
Quote of the Moment
"Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else."
--Ogden Nash.
I think Jeff Hawkins has a pretty decent neurological explanation for this. I find it happening when trying to recollect old coworkers, people I might have seen on a daily basis, but... well, they tend to get lumped into categories, sometimes in broadly physical or accent-y ways.
Links of the Moment
I felt kind of bad about enjoying
engrishfunny,
especially since I'm so gridingly monolingual, and I know how many Asian languages even spell themselves phonetically... but then I found
Wordsplosion, delighting (or mocking, whatever) signs written by, presumably, native English speakers, so now I feel a little less guilty. (I think making it worse is how professional-looking print technologies has outstripped amateur proofreading.)
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