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So, for no reason that I can think of, other than to give him more fodder to mock me with, I started calculating how old I was when some of my favourite music came out.

• Rumours, Fleetwood Mac - 9
• Band on the Run, Wings - 5
• Who’s Next?, The Who - 3
• Exile On Main Street, Rolling Stones - 4
• Volcano, Jimmy Buffet - 11
• In Through The Out Door, Led Zeppelin - 11
• Space Oddity, David Bowie - 1
• Hunky Dory, David Bowie - 3
• Atom Heart Mother, Pink Floyd - 2
• Meddle, Pink Floyd - 3
• Frampton Comes Alive!, Peter Frampton - 8
• Bad Habits, The Monks - 11
• Sandinista, The Clash - 12

You have not smoked 54,947 cigarettes since then, and you have saved a total of $24,726.58.

That’s a yearly wage I have not spent on cigarettes (which probably instead went to tea, take-out pizza, and new bras).

“Mission patches are used by military and space organizations to identify, symbolize and describe a mission’s objectives and its crew. This tradition is also observed in the shady world of PSYOPS where each secret mission of the Pentagon gets its patch. These patches offer a rare glimpse into the Pentagon’s secret operations and the symbolism on them is rather striking: ominous and cryptic phrases, dark occult symbolism, references to secret societies, and sometimes even a rather dark sense of humor.”

So when you’re making up your resume for that next job opportunity, don’t forget to add “sewed patches for secret government operations”.

“At the time this was painted, over 200 years ago, they would have been considered yellow. Colors aren’t as eternal as we imagine them to be. The way our cultures perceive colors changes over time, just like everything else.”

This is somewhat mind-bending.

My everlasting gratitude and affection to anyone who can tell me what the hell this is for.

Addendum: So, this is a DVI cable. And here was me thinking a DVI had only the one single thingie, like an RCA cable. (Yes, I am hip to the tech terminology, and have no fear of using such complex terms as ‘thingie’.)

It’s not often books make me laugh out loud, but the witty and frank style of Miriam Toews in “A Complicated Kindness” is very good and has drawn me in. My favourite quotation so far:

“Even a Menno [Mennonite] sheltered from the world knows not to stick her tongue into the mouth of a boy who owns an Air Supply record. You might stick your tongue into the mouth of a boy who owned some Emerson, Lake and Palmer, but you would not date him on a regular basis, or openly.”