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... and then doing it so hard that you become great in the process.
1. Complete list of this year's IgNoble Prize winners. Always a treat.
2. Proposition: Donne's unfinished "The Progresse of the Soule" aka "Metempsycosis" aka "Infinitati Sacrum" is strong evidence that the Elizabethans had something equivalent to crack.
3. Autumn in northern New Mexico is yellow. There's some ongoing purple flowering, but that is mostly small and hidden, and while the evergreen junipers and piñons and such are as dark green as ever, they are as tired as ever and so fade into the background as relentlessly as the sage-green chimisa leaves. Instead, there is the gold of grass gone to seed and straw, and the bright bright yellow of the chimisas' late flowers and sunflowers and others, plus the leaves of those few native deciduous trees, aspen and cottonwoods.
Autumn in southern Arizona is still green -- a fading green, but still distinctly green. Yellow won't arrive for another two months.
4. There is no number 4. Any attempts to find an item number 4 in this post will be dealt with severely. This is your only warning.
5. Does anyone else who's fiddled with formatting for Kindle find the lack of support for float really annoying? Or do most people know better than to try fancypants layouts like getting text to, yanno, wrap around images or tables?
---L.
1. Complete list of this year's IgNoble Prize winners. Always a treat.
2. Proposition: Donne's unfinished "The Progresse of the Soule" aka "Metempsycosis" aka "Infinitati Sacrum" is strong evidence that the Elizabethans had something equivalent to crack.
3. Autumn in northern New Mexico is yellow. There's some ongoing purple flowering, but that is mostly small and hidden, and while the evergreen junipers and piñons and such are as dark green as ever, they are as tired as ever and so fade into the background as relentlessly as the sage-green chimisa leaves. Instead, there is the gold of grass gone to seed and straw, and the bright bright yellow of the chimisas' late flowers and sunflowers and others, plus the leaves of those few native deciduous trees, aspen and cottonwoods.
Autumn in southern Arizona is still green -- a fading green, but still distinctly green. Yellow won't arrive for another two months.
4. There is no number 4. Any attempts to find an item number 4 in this post will be dealt with severely. This is your only warning.
5. Does anyone else who's fiddled with formatting for Kindle find the lack of support for float really annoying? Or do most people know better than to try fancypants layouts like getting text to, yanno, wrap around images or tables?
---L.