March 3, 2005 broken toe I'm pretty sure I've broken my toe. It's purple and is unnaturally large. This is less than ideal as we're having a party for about 40 people this weekend. I've gotten weaker in my old age. A few years ago I broke a toe while trekking and just kept...
“From 1972 to 1998, the percentage of people age 30-to-39 who read a paper every day dropped from 73 to 30 percent. And in just the years between 1997 and 2000, the percentage of 18-to-24-year-olds who say they read yesterday’s newspaper dropped by 14 percent, according to the ...
He was in 'show business' for 6 decades, and died in 2012 at age 98 - his professional singing career extending into his nineties. The Sani Chateau was located in the Gaysorn Night Entertainment Area. October 1968 The Aladdin was on Patpong 1 Road. (The Nite Owl archives.) October ...
March 4, 2005 TASTING - TWO 'MINI' CRAIGELLACHIES Craigellachie 12 yo (43%, The Master of Malt, early 90’s) Colour: dry white wine. Nose: fresh and lively, on grain, mashed potatoes, broiled cereals. Hints of anise and lavender. It then gets quite spicy, with some notes of fresh...
Those who have already reached retirement age understand better than anyone that a guaranteed safety net could be as necessary for coming generations as it is now, when nearly two out of three retirees rely largely or solely on Social Security. So they are looking out for their children and ...
If Diamond is anxious to separate the ascendancy of the West from any sort of innate cultural superiority, he is just as anxious to debunk the notion of a Golden Age that existed before colonialism. In the 1992 “The Third Chimpanzee,” he has a chapter titled “The Golden Age That Never...
Amazon's most expensive bet since same-day delivery is this mega-budgeted series set in J. R. R. Tolkien's fantasy world during the Second Age of Middle-earth, thousands of years before the popular trilogy. But hey, there are still dwarves, elves, and orcs, as well as details on the...
(Imogen Faith Reid), a Ukrainian-born girl with a rare form of dwarfism. As questions begin to be raised about Natalia’s true age and past, the situation becomes concerning and notable enough to attract media attention, becoming something much larger and affecting than anyone involved could ...
Born in Statesboro, Georgia on March 18, 1975, Foster moved around a lot as a child for her father's job as a salesman at General Motors. Foster has lived in Athens and Augusta, GA; Troy, MI; Germantown, TN; and New York City. She started dancing at age 4, and at 13, Foster'...
“ah, this is a recordset, you’re not looking for an array value, you’re calling the default method,” and generates fast code. Based on your age you will either call this an evil hack (if you’re young) or an elegant hack (if you’re old); in either case it’s a huge ...