All Change!
Feb. 2nd, 2017 05:19 pmThe Navy has named a Littoral Combat Ship after Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Appropriately, given her anti-gun beliefs, the ship's main provision for breaking things and killing people seems to be through the use of missiles, rather than guns.
Also, I love that the targetting radar on this type of ship is called "Sea Giraffe".
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Guy caught stealing gold coins by hiding them up his butt is sentenced by... Judge Doody!
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Monday, HM the Queen will have reigned for 65 years, and will celebrate her Sapphire Jubilee. Only Victoria came even close to that.
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I bought a new reading lamp for use in bed. It's a black, very practical and old-fashioned 1950s-style gooseneck design that replaces the stylish Italian modern python^1 that I've used for some years now. When I picked it out at the store, I got this huge surge of nostalgia - it resembles my first reading lamp, which was a similar black gooseneck that my mother handed down to me when she replaced it with a newer one. I was perhaps seven or eight at the time, and well-begun in the general family tradition of reading in bed.
Prior to that, I think I'd used a little nightstand lamp, but I really don't recall much about it. The gooseneck is distinct in my memory, though. There's something deeply affecting about being safely tucked-in, awake in this little pool of light with one's book, and the room fading out into darkness beyond. I'm finding of late as well that there's something evocative about a paper book as well. I still like my Kindle books, but I'm buying paper ones once more.
^1 The python's switch is giving out. I'm prolly going to replace it, and keep on using the lamp in some capacity, as I just plain like the way it looks.
Also, I love that the targetting radar on this type of ship is called "Sea Giraffe".
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Guy caught stealing gold coins by hiding them up his butt is sentenced by... Judge Doody!
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Monday, HM the Queen will have reigned for 65 years, and will celebrate her Sapphire Jubilee. Only Victoria came even close to that.
*****
I bought a new reading lamp for use in bed. It's a black, very practical and old-fashioned 1950s-style gooseneck design that replaces the stylish Italian modern python^1 that I've used for some years now. When I picked it out at the store, I got this huge surge of nostalgia - it resembles my first reading lamp, which was a similar black gooseneck that my mother handed down to me when she replaced it with a newer one. I was perhaps seven or eight at the time, and well-begun in the general family tradition of reading in bed.
Prior to that, I think I'd used a little nightstand lamp, but I really don't recall much about it. The gooseneck is distinct in my memory, though. There's something deeply affecting about being safely tucked-in, awake in this little pool of light with one's book, and the room fading out into darkness beyond. I'm finding of late as well that there's something evocative about a paper book as well. I still like my Kindle books, but I'm buying paper ones once more.
^1 The python's switch is giving out. I'm prolly going to replace it, and keep on using the lamp in some capacity, as I just plain like the way it looks.