Stuck a feather in his cap....

Maybe this is silly but I'm just psyched. I learned something new
today!

I found out what "Macaroni" means in the song Yankee Doodle!

A "Macaroni" in the period of king George (of tea taxing fame)
was an excessively stylish gentleman. Those who aspired to
high fashion (and succeeded) were a Macaroni.

I suspect that the point of Yankee Doodle was that he aspired
to high fashion... and failed. ;-)

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Ymarsakar said…

Wen Spencer's new book, Endless Blue, was pretty good. Wrote a review right now, actually, on my blog.

11:29 AM

Synova said…

I like everything she's done so far. I can't wait to check out Endless Blue. I can't afford hardcovers at this point so I hope I don't have to wait too long.

10:21 PM

Anonymous said…

You aren't going to read the electronic format?

11:24 AM

Synova said…

And where do I get that? ;-)

I've only bought e-books from Baen so far. _Endless Blue_ is from a different publisher, isn't it?

7:31 PM

Ymarsakar said…

I got an email from Baen webscriptions for November 2007, that had Endless Blue as one of their ARCs.

5:57 PM

Tyranny.gov vs Tyranny.com

Compulsion is Compulsion, no matter who does it. This is Brilliant Theft is Theft, no matter who does it. Freedom of Association has no room in it for *private* action that takes that away Freedom of Association. If I have a business and have voluntary associations such that I choose to serve some people and to not serve others, that might make me a jerk and it might lose me business, it might make me smart and it might gain me business, but it's got to be my choice. If I would normally serve the current disliked minority in my shop except for the fact that if I'm SEEN to serve them by the wrong people I'll have a private campaign against me as those people do everything possible to ruin me by preventing me from doing business physically or by attacking my customers or suppliers, then I am NOT free to make those choices. Does it really make a difference to losing my CHOICE to voluntarily associate if there's a law that says I may not serve "those people" o...

Some times some people.

Save the Dresden Files?

This is rather upsetting! How can such a fantastic show be in danger of being canceled? I suppose worse things have happened so I think I will at least send a post card or something to let the network know that I think that the Dresden Files is one of the best shows on television. I was just assuming that there would be a "next season" on this. If it is canceled, I will be desolate! Here's the Sci-fi channel website. There's supposed to be a link to watch whole episodes someplace on there.

Synova

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