a friend of the devil is a friend of mine
Dec. 11th, 2009 06:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
truepennyDespite the best efforts of winter, I did not have an accident today while driving first to the doctor's office to get the Mirena checked (all fine, hang in there, being the upshot) and to get my new glasses prescription. Also, because winter made me late, I got rather more done on The Goblin Emperor than I had expected. (This is why I carry a notebook with me. It saves me from doctor's-office magazines--or Nothing At All To Read which, as you know, Bob, is a fate worse than death.)
Every once in a while, I have a completely useless geek eureka! (As for example, this from several years ago: the perfect way to explain to an English-speaking audience the nature of JFK's [ETA to add: APOCRPYPHAL] Ich bin ein Berliner mistake is to have them imagine that he was speaking (in English) in Denmark and said, "I am a Danish.") Today's is that you can demonstrate the difference between "lie" and "lay" by pointing out that Bon Jovi's "Lay Your Hands on Me" is grammatically correct. All the way through.
Completely useless. Completely geeky. And there you have it.
Every once in a while, I have a completely useless geek eureka! (As for example, this from several years ago: the perfect way to explain to an English-speaking audience the nature of JFK's [ETA to add: APOCRPYPHAL] Ich bin ein Berliner mistake is to have them imagine that he was speaking (in English) in Denmark and said, "I am a Danish.") Today's is that you can demonstrate the difference between "lie" and "lay" by pointing out that Bon Jovi's "Lay Your Hands on Me" is grammatically correct. All the way through.
Completely useless. Completely geeky. And there you have it.
