I arranged for a shuttle ride from the airport this evening, and because I was the last one in the van, I got to chat with the driver for the entirety of the drive from the Detroit Metro Airport to my doorstep, via a few other drop-offs on the north side of town. We talked about homeless people (which always happens when I’m around), libraries, and categorizing people by their level of fun. The rest of the people in the van were completely silent. It was the Devon and Bill* the Driver Show.
The company I reserved with also does shuttle-type rides to get folks to restaurants, hotels, and other convention-type destinations. Ann Arbor, being the home of a sizable university and various research organizations, has a lot of such gatherings. Bill explained his hierarchy of the perceived rowdiness of certain professionals based on his observation of them en masse in his van, their requests to be dropped off downtown for more booze instead of being delivered to the hotel, etc.
I am providing a service to you by sharing his wisdom here in full (he made me guess the number one slot for rowdiness). The top three rowdy professions by least rowdy to most rowdy are:
teachers
librarians
dentists
While most other professions are equally rowdy, Bill says that the absolute least rowdy professionals are botanists and philosophers.
* His name has been changed to protect him from any angry botanists or philosophers.
I will be off the internets from the night of December 23 through the evening of December 29. If I stumble across a coffee shop with working wireless in/around Bloomsburg, PA, I’ll probably get online, but no promises.
If you are traveling around this time to celebrate sticky babies, or you’re just in it for the eggnog, be safe and happy.
She is funny. (And I’m pretty sure I’ve seen culottes with a matching stationary set at Target.)
In other news, it’s snowing pretty hardcore. All my dreams of going to the Roadhouse are almost dead. Ann Arbor is sucking at the plowing today. I guess because it’s Sunday they think no one has to go anywhere. How am I supposed to get my donuts??
cow-orker, bemused, unwrapping an item made at another cow-orker’s wife’s new candy shop: “I wonder how they get chocolate on both sides of the graham cracker…”
If this movie does not come to the US, I will be very sad. IMDb says it’s currently in post-production and will be released in Japan next year.
If totally over-the-top violence and improbable fountains of blood are not for you, you probably don’t want to watch the trailer. But for everyone else:
This evening, the ladies of Fans of Intelligent Fiction (FoIF) will be meeting at my place to discuss Andrea Barrett’s Voyage of the Narwhal, eat hummus, and drink wine. I have to admit I’m only halfway through the book, but it’s quite a good read. A mid-19th century voyage to the arctic seemed appropriate for the time of year.
Have you read the book? What did you think?
Have any suggestions for our next book? We read any kind of fiction: Past books include The Big Sleep, The Diamond Age, Persepolis parts one and two, and most recently The Sound and the Fury.
And old Sesame Street segment with a Philip Glass score showed up on BoingBoing recently, as well as on the ORG. Clicking along, I found the following:
There is no way this segment would ever be made now: it’s too conceptual, too artsy, too weird, too awesome.
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