boxing day linkspam / best xmas ever
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jazzfishBeaker, the Swedish Chef, and Animal singing "Carol of the Bells". (For traditionalists, John Denver and Rowlf with "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas".)
David Mamet: Chinese Restaurateurs Thank Jews of America: "We do not completely understand your dietary customs..."
The Greatest Letter Ever Printed On NFL Team Letterhead. I can't argue.
Goodnight Room: "The Old Lady is a hologram stuck on endless loop since the program froze. That is why she can only say, 'Hush, hush.' The clack of her knitting needles always plays the same short rhythm."
Digby's eggnog sugar cookies, mostly for my own reference. I thought about making theses yesterday or the day before, but there were plenty of cookies around so it's just as well I didn't. Maybe next weekend.
The Fear of Self: "What the soldier describes--accurate or not--is familiar.... A man of that particular stamp fears his own gaze."
Woke up around eightish yesterday to make gingerbread pancakes for breakfast, which were delicious. Snow started falling about the time I went to wakeuilos, so we got to eat Xmas breakfast with big fat flurryflakes out the window. As it should be. Then we spent half an hour or so sitting under the tree, opening presents and generally being cute. There was something unutterably right about not having a ton of people around in the morning. And having a dozen or so over later for Xmas dinner and gaming was pretty much right as well, I think.
Best Xmas ever. My parents really did get me the best present of all.
David Mamet: Chinese Restaurateurs Thank Jews of America: "We do not completely understand your dietary customs..."
The Greatest Letter Ever Printed On NFL Team Letterhead. I can't argue.
Goodnight Room: "The Old Lady is a hologram stuck on endless loop since the program froze. That is why she can only say, 'Hush, hush.' The clack of her knitting needles always plays the same short rhythm."
Digby's eggnog sugar cookies, mostly for my own reference. I thought about making theses yesterday or the day before, but there were plenty of cookies around so it's just as well I didn't. Maybe next weekend.
The Fear of Self: "What the soldier describes--accurate or not--is familiar.... A man of that particular stamp fears his own gaze."
Woke up around eightish yesterday to make gingerbread pancakes for breakfast, which were delicious. Snow started falling about the time I went to wake
uilos, so we got to eat Xmas breakfast with big fat flurryflakes out the window. As it should be. Then we spent half an hour or so sitting under the tree, opening presents and generally being cute. There was something unutterably right about not having a ton of people around in the morning. And having a dozen or so over later for Xmas dinner and gaming was pretty much right as well, I think.Best Xmas ever. My parents really did get me the best present of all.
Greatest Letter
Date: 2010-12-28 01:44 pm (UTC)A Merry Christmas to all Bankers (http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2010/12/25/a-merry-christmas-to-all-bankers/)? It's a thing of beauty. Cambridge scholar tells off bank lawyer trying to get them to censor student thesis. This link is his blog entry about it, with a link to the PDF of what he sent. The blog entry concludes, The bankers also fret that “future research, which may potentially be more damaging, may also be published in this level of detail”. Indeed. Omar is one of my coauthors on a new Chip-and-PIN paper that’s been accepted for Financial Cryptography 2011. So here is our Christmas present to the bankers: it means you all have to come to this conference to hear what we have to say!
Re: Greatest Letter
Date: 2010-12-28 03:36 pm (UTC)