With the first major Atlantic coast hurricane of the season, Irene, barreling down on the East Coast, some of us are more familiar with how to make up emergency kits than others. For those of you with experience in this type of thing, what do you recommend putting together in order to ensure getting through the ordeal and keeping your sanity intact? Continue reading
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The ones who travel many miles, hours and hours on an airplane, even, and when they arrive they have no clue what they want to go see? Don’t get me wrong, I love to see friends and (pretty much) family show up to stay for a few days. Evenings are great, good food and booze and conversation.
But why do they sit there like bumps on lumps waiting for me to decide what we’re doing during the day? Continue reading
You may save the life of one person, and one person only, from any point in history. This person must have died by a means other than natural causes/old age. As part of the deal, the person is guaranteed to live until they die of old age.
For the sake of argument, no matter what changes to history your actions make, you and your loved ones will still be born. Continue reading
As in, stuff you’ve asked people to send you via emails automatically every day or week.
Word-a-Day aka Wordsmith, been getting this one for years, since before the interwebs were invented, no, really. Definitions, etymology, examples of usage that are often quite snotty/amusing. Its founder, Anu Garg, is the pleasant gentleman pictured to the left.
A booksellers’ listserv. Several rare-books catalogues. A couple of auction houses that do book-auctions. Weekly book reviews from the New York Times. Publishers Weekly news, a daily service. News-alerts from the Economist. I got the Guardian’s fashion articles for a while, but then decided I didn’t like people telling me what to wear. Continue reading
Most sports fans can think of a few ultimate high points in their watching career. My peak moment came at the ripe old age of 7.
I have become increasingly obsessed with Star Trek: The Next Generation lately. It’s because I married a Dork-American. My husband adores all things Star Trek (and Star Wars, and Battledork Gallectica, and Game of Dorks, but that’s not what we’re talking about here). Thus began my exposure. And my attraction to certain characters, which only intensified when I had the pleasure of seeing Patrick Stewart on Broadway in MacBeth a few years ago. Continue reading
One of the weird things about the Internet is that we talk so much but hear so little. The Internet has adopted text, photos, video, but never really audio. And audio matters. Without it, we miss the accent, emphasis and intonation through which so much information is passed when talking. There’s no missing sarcasm in person, but often there’s no spotting sarcasm on the Internet.
In the interests of enhancing communication among Crasstalkers, especially for the estimated 20% of the population said to be auditory learners, the question of the day is this: What celebrity do you most sound like? Continue reading
Michelle Bachmann, David Wu, Joe Wilson, Anthony Weiner, Allen West; the list goes on and on. Our elected delegates have a knack for making us look bad and wishing we were from another state. We all have one, a representative for our state, riding, constituency, etc., that defies logic, reason, and common sense on a regular basis and makes us cringe. Today’s Question of the day: Which of your national representatives make you facepalm?
Mine is pictured here, Virgina Foxx from Banner Elk, NC. Continue reading
We’ve all had a dirty job or two, haven’t we? We had to get through high school and college working a series of demeaning and often unsanitary part time jobs. Today’s Question: What is the dirtiest job you’ve ever done? Continue reading
Today’s question is from the lovely and talented Homoviper. He wants to know what songs really get to you deep down inside every time you here them. The special tunes that really move you.The songs that make you remember why it was that the human race went to the trouble to create music in the first place. So Crasstalk, what are those songs for you? What tunes give you goosebumps when you hear the first notes coming through the speakers? Continue reading