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8 years ago @ Paging Dr. NerdLove - Ask Dr. NerdLove: How ... · 0 replies · +3 points

And here's the book that I read recently with the mention of the commercial fishermen who I was speculating about: Fish on Friday: feasting, fasting, and the discovery of the New World, by Brian M. Fagan

It's a very readable history of the Atlantic cod fishery.

8 years ago @ Paging Dr. NerdLove - Ask Dr. NerdLove: How ... · 0 replies · +4 points

I like it:). We're coming in at two different points of time -- and at slightly varying angles (dare I say non-Euclidean, alien angles :), but this could be interesting to expand upon for a bit.

Thanks!

8 years ago @ Paging Dr. NerdLove - Ask Dr. NerdLove: How ... · 3 replies · +4 points

Oooh! I had to think a bit, but here goes:) The commercial fishermen who were definitely *not* liked by the godly elect of the colonial Establishment turn to the Elder Gods for aid and abetment.

Extra points if I can massage the timeline so that the Elder Gods devour Cotton Mather and his ilk:)

8 years ago @ Paging Dr. NerdLove - Ask Dr. NerdLove: How ... · 6 replies · +6 points

Or Innsmouth personals -- even stranger than some of the London Review ones:)

They run in the Arkham Gazette -- written by promising journalism students at Miskatonic U.

8 years ago @ Paging Dr. NerdLove - Olivia Munn and The Th... · 0 replies · +4 points

Yes! Literally so -- we had a sunny day -- in mid-March -- just north of Seattle.

Downright mythical:)

We drank our bitters while the empire fell

-- Warren Zevon

8 years ago @ Paging Dr. NerdLove - Olivia Munn and The Th... · 2 replies · +6 points

Good morning:)

Logged in just to say thanks!

Enjoy your day:)

8 years ago @ Paging Dr. NerdLove - Avoid These 5 Dating D... · 0 replies · +8 points

Yes, I remember him well:)

Nope, no such thing as too long -- I'm channeling Jane Goodall for an unofficial multi-year study:)

8 years ago @ Paging Dr. NerdLove - Nerd Role Models: Han ... · 1 reply · +2 points

Hmm. I'm not sure of your reading choices, but have you ever run across the 18th/19th century position of a lady's companion?

I wonder if that's ever done these days -- in a formal sense -- not just being a hanger-on:)

8 years ago @ Paging Dr. NerdLove - Nerd Role Models: Han ... · 0 replies · +5 points

Yes -- and there are few sadder things than an extrovert with zero people skills:(

9 years ago @ Paging Dr. NerdLove - 5 Simple Ways To Impro... · 1 reply · +4 points

You and I are alike in our onliness, then -- I was just thinking of how she seemed to deal with it.

And as far as my ability to argue and parse? There were days I made the Jesuits look bush-league:) Sophists unite!

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