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Our dinky little library has one copy of this, and I've just reserved it. Thanks!

Yes, there's a way for a person to let LinkedIn scan all their email contacts and request connections. So even if you emailed someone two years ago about picking up some Freecycle thing, you might...

Not until Hilary Mantel writes the third book in the planned trilogy--the miniseries covered the first two books, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. Cromwell only lived another four years after Anne...

My husband and I saw The Big Short today--very well done, and explains convoluted financial concepts very well. I'm looking forward to Hail Caesar, the new Coen Brothers film, in February 2016.

Not just the 1940s, but from 1850 to 1950: http://hearth.library.cornell.edu/h/hearth/index.html . Amazing resource. From the site:

"HEARTH is a core electronic collection of books and journals in...

My first thought was, "That sounds like an Edward Gorey title!"

Back on topic: I've never liked "unpack" meaning think about or analyze, as in "there's a lot in this statement to unpack."

Also...

Soggy but undamaged here, just north of Austin. If we had still been in the house we were renting until about a year ago, we'd have been flooded. Very strange to see video of one's old neighborhood...

I'm in Texas too--rain forecast every single day for the next week. Our yard will be a jungle before it dries out enough to mow. Very odd weather, much cooler than normal.

Hello! Another Austinite here--hence my username--though actually we bought a house in Pflugerville last year (because we couldn't afford to buy in Austin proper). Anyway, welcome!

Yup, it's likely to be low thyroid or menopause or both. I am a Type 1 diabetic who was diagnosed with Hashimoto's thyroiditis (an autoimmune low thyroid disorder) last year. I had been having some...

I don't think anyone's mentioned Peaky Blinders yet--it's streaming on Netflix. It's about a gang in Birmingham, England, in the 1920s, and is loosely based on an actual gang. Fantastic acting and...

Aha, I can answer this one, being a Type 1 diabetic. Insulin is sold by the 10 ML bottle, not by the individual dose. So, in my case, a bottle lasts between 3 and 4 weeks (this will vary wildly from...

I too am watching the first season of Agents of SHIELD. So far I can't stand Skye. Does she ever become less annoying? Also available on Netflix streaming is Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing, which is...

I'm another Prime devotee, even at the higher annual fee. The streaming video, the free shipping, the not-having-to-run-all-over-town-looking-for-some-odd-thing. The last three things I ordered were...

I'm on a belated Oscars binge: "Winter's Bone" (excellent and harrowing), "Moneyball" (interesting for the data-crunching aspect; I don't like baseball), "The Master" (I did *not* like this; only...

Here is Penn & Teller's response to vaccination hysteria. Some NSFW language, but they make their point very, very clearly.

Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamen!

Oh, yay! I watched the first season on Netflix last year. Fascinating premise and good characters.

I have several little odd streams of income, most of which don't have tax withheld, plus I'm self-employed, so it's always something of a guessing game. This year we guessed well: got a whopping...

This is an essay a friend of mine wrote about being an extrovert. I've found it quite helpful. She also wrote a sequel, about how extroverts can deal with the introverts in their lives (as an...

Quilt shows/fabric events for me, too. This weekend here in Austin there's the Austin Shop Hop, which is eight independent fabric stores that are having coordinated sales and giveaways. I went to...

My mom did that! Florida was behind the bathroom door, and Mars was next to the tub.

Hey, welcome back! I'd wondered where you'd got to. Glad you're doing well.

I've had the same experience as Iris lilies--I could finally create an account (after several days), but I can't get anywhere with it. This is a post on Slate that attempts to describe some of the...

Heh, no--here in Austin we had a high of 96F today. There were a couple of cooler days over the weekend--I got to open windows for the first time in months! Yay fresh air!--but now it's beastly hot...