{"id":400,"date":"2007-08-06T21:51:58","date_gmt":"2007-08-07T01:51:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scriniary.smallinfinity.net\/blog\/2007\/08\/06\/weekly-summary-july-29\/"},"modified":"2007-08-06T21:51:58","modified_gmt":"2007-08-07T01:51:58","slug":"weekly-summary-july-29","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/06\/weekly-summary-july-29\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekly Summary July 29"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am way behind on book reports, but have read lots of good things<\/a> in the past couple months. I do plan to write them up.<\/p>\n

Links<\/strong><\/p>\n

Via zanzjan<\/a>, the stats behind redshirt deaths on Star Trek<\/a>. The chart is excellent.<\/p>\n

I was amused by this article<\/a> on whether listening to audiobooks instead of reading is cheating. I prefer to read them, but if I listen on tape it goes on my books read list, and even though I mark them as audio, I don’t consider it cheating (at least the unabridged versions).<\/p>\n

Life<\/strong><\/p>\n

Busy weekend: Irish festival<\/a>, Simpsons movie, dinner at the Turkish restaurant.<\/p>\n

The festival was fun, and much bigger than I’d expected. We saw a couple different bands — though considering how long we were there, it seems like we should have seen a lot more, missed all the dancing, and participated in the attempt to reclaim the world record for largest number of people doing an Irish jig at one time.<\/p>\n

The stickers they handed out to help count people say “Guinness World’s Record Largest Irish Jig Attempt,” which sounds more like it’s for the largest number of people trying to jig. Which is pretty appropriate.<\/p>\n

They had music workshops, but I didn’t go — wouldn’t have wanted to drag my flute around. I suppose I could have brought my whistle. One booth had really nice whistles for sale, but I refused to be tempted. (If I took up playing again, I’d get a low whistle, because the regular D whistle is too shrill. Assuming the low whistle didn’t hurt my hands like the flute does.)<\/p>\n

The movie was better than I’d expected, especially given that I stopped watching the show years ago because it wasn’t funny anymore.<\/p>\n

Dinner (stuffed eggplant) was great, but I’d expected that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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