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| Edward Hennessey |
 Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 5:17 pm |
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These links may expire at any time.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-felicity16apr16,1,6734210.story
An unusual monument in the desert.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-sci-kilogram17apr17,1,1323713.story
What is a kilogram?
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-tattoo15apr15,1,7108180,full.story
Maori ta mokos we will not be asked to translate.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-italy13plrapr13,0,6877020.story
Italian elections.
http://www.livescience.com/animals/080407-lungless-frog.html
Anyone for Borneo?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6357005.stm
Squid vicious.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080327172330.htm
The beak of elegance.
Regards,
Edward Hennessey |
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| Leszek L. |
| Posted: Tue Apr 22, 2008 2:43 am |
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Użytkownik "Edward Hennessey" <halozzyzxhaloMINUS123@yahoo.com> napisał w
wiadomości news:CICdnU9TG90Tj5DVnZ2dnUVZ_jWdnZ2d@earthlink.com...
Quote: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-sci-kilogram17apr17,1,1323713.story
What is a kilogram?
With standard units so insecure, I now understand why journalists
insist on measuring surface area in postage stamps, footbal pitches,
Belgiums, and Nebraskas. Or, in this case, volume in espresso shots.
It is good that at least *some* things never change.
Cheers, Leszek. |
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| Edward Hennessey |
| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 12:45 am |
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Leszek L. wrote:
Quote: Użytkownik "Edward Hennessey" <halozzyzxhaloMINUS123@yahoo.com
napisał w wiadomości
news:CICdnU9TG90Tj5DVnZ2dnUVZ_jWdnZ2d@earthlink.com...
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-sci-kilogram17apr17,1,1323713.story
What is a kilogram?
With standard units so insecure, I now understand why
journalists
insist on measuring surface area in postage stamps, footbal
pitches,
Belgiums, and Nebraskas. Or, in this case, volume in espresso
shots.
Z:
The game is afoot, the gauntlet arcing. Polonians...hatches open,
the espresso chugging
contest brews.
Back to more weighty matters, an interesting mention I have not
quarried to a close
involves the loss in mass of encapsulated orbital items according
to measurements
made on return to terra firma. Whether any worthy explanation--or
debunking--as arisen
would be amusing.
In a first-world country, I once asked directions from a secondary
student whom,
in want of words meaning "curving", "sinuous", "serpentine",
"winding" or even "turns",
coughed in frustration then let his hand probe the air in sidewise
undulation, remarking
"The road goes like this". His amiable demeanor only made his
stifled plight the more lamentable.
Though the campestral Spanish use of "jornada" as a distance
reference is also noteworthy for differential
ambiguity, in the jungles of Bolivia, I am told that various
journeys are colloquially calibrated in
the amounts of coca leaf required to power the trip.
Wasn't the beak article elegant? What brave new world it will be
when manufacturing and growing
meld.
Regards,
Edward Hennessey |
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| Edward Hennessey |
| Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 8:05 pm |
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Edward Hennessey wrote:
Quote: Leszek L. wrote:
Użytkownik "Edward Hennessey" <halozzyzxhaloMINUS123@yahoo.com
napisał w wiadomości
news:CICdnU9TG90Tj5DVnZ2dnUVZ_jWdnZ2d@earthlink.com...
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-sci-kilogram17apr17,1,1323713.story
What is a kilogram?
With standard units so insecure, I now understand why
journalists
insist on measuring volume in espresso
shots.
Z:
The game is afoot, the gauntlet arcing. Polonians...hatches
open,
the espresso chugging
contest brews.
Z:
Well, you live to drink another day, not that you live to drink.
Oh, you know what
I mean. I had my second phone the Institute Informatic to arrange
the formalities for our
gullet throwdown. He reports that three calls never led him past
the endless polka of
bongs on your line. Since my opportunity to HALO in off a
detouring transport for a
throat to throat has timed out, our meeting on the field of honor
pleads for a later hour.
This is all just as well. I have only lately learned that our
prospective encounter was
plotted contrary to the precepts of the Marquis of Queensbury.
Evidently, my
deputy had gone devilishly scaly in the choice of weapons for
determining the best Java Man,
no throwback reference intended. His craftily contrived gambit was
to give you first go,
tardily interjecting--just as the challenge cup passed your
lips--that the instrument of our
duel was...urp...kopi luwak, also termed caphe cut chon. That
"urp", in predictable accompaniment
of the brewed alkahest erupting from your maw at the prospect of
knowingly ingesting material more
intimate to my daily regimen of Mithradatism, would have broken
your innocence to a reflex and
nefarious forfeit. For his treacherous intrigue, Zek, I am abashed
in apologies
In atonement for this aborted scheme and in regrettable
postponement of our caffeinated "lucha libre",
as the Spanish has it, I will be sending something for you and
your colleagues until they are summoned
again to their pom poms as you to your contestant's cup. I'm
wondering, are answering machines legal in
Poland?
If so, please send me one. I have many questions for it....
And here is a good story for the heart:
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/columnone/la-fg-suicide24apr24,1,1604325,full.story
Regards,
Edward Hennessey |
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