Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Glass Water Lily

This Water Lily is the very flower I actually remember seeing as a child!

Posted by listener at 1:00:00 AM

12 comments:

  1. Catreona9/10/2013 01:07:00 AM

    Howard Dean, a prince among politicians.

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  2. Catreona9/10/2013 01:10:00 AM

    I arrived at the o thread just in time to add a couple brief comments before it turned over.

    A CD of mine has been damaged (I don't know how) so that one of the twenty-four tracks doesn't play. That is, sometimes it skips, sometimes it makes the player hangup. So, I went searching for a replacement. Not on eBay or GEMM at all. The used prices on Amazon are jaw-dropping, while the new prices are obscene. I finally sucked it up and bought it secondhand for a price I shall not divulge, lest you, my dear friends, send the gentlemen in the white coats to escort me to the rubber room. And the frustrating and heartbreaking thing is, this CD was issued in 2009, yet its already out of print and apparently rare enough to command princely sums even used. Is that crazy, or is that crazy?

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    1. Catreona9/10/2013 01:12:00 AM

      ARG! It has only just now occurred to me that I should have checked t he other Amazons, not just US. This is something I usually do as a matter of course - not tonight though. *sigh*

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    2. listener9/10/2013 11:06:00 AM

      Aw, don't flog yourself, Cat. Think of it as a tribute to the artist.

      Besides, I never allow flogging on my birthday. ;-)

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  3. Catreona9/10/2013 01:28:00 AM

    BTW I'm reading a great YA novel, The Rithmatist. It's Steam Punk, or rather Spring Punk, since power is generated by "springworks" rather than steam. It's also a mystery and a nice account of how teenaged boys and girls often just don't understand each other, among much else. Fascinating world, but the world-building doesn't overwhelm the story.

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    1. listener9/10/2013 11:08:00 AM

      Thanks for this review! I'll watch for it at the Library and be ready with a recommendation if asked for one. :-)

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  4. Anonymous9/10/2013 01:44:00 AM

    Long day today, setting the pattern for the week. Hour drive to court martial, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM, then back by Job No. 1 to do what I can to help (about two hours worth), then home. I SHOULD have gone to bed by now, and will soon. At The Atlantic I saw a story about "real tennis," the slightly evolved 16th century version of the 12 century game; I found some YouTube videos too--fascinating! Wimbledon seems pathetic by comparison.

    --Alan

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  5. listener9/10/2013 11:11:00 AM

    Wow, Alan, that does sound like a long day. We won't expect to hear from you this evening. Dive into bed early and catch up on sleep, so you can come through it well. We can't have you nodding off in court, or, worse, the lab. ;-)

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  6. Susan Davidson9/10/2013 01:37:00 PM

    listener! Happy Birthday!

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  7. Catreona9/10/2013 02:42:00 PM

    Happy Birthday, Listener♥

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  8. puddle9/10/2013 07:03:00 PM

    ♥Happy HAPPY, listener♥

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  9. listener9/10/2013 07:53:00 PM

    ♥ Thanks all! ♥

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