Link Sharin'

First, Best, and Only - the Cousins of Myths: The historical superlative is a cousin of the historical myth. It’s easy to understand the appeal and usefulness of superlatives. They’re a kind of shortcut to the attention centers of our audiences’ brains. By their nature, they demand that people prick up their ears and really take notice of what we’re saying.

With and Without: How Wearing a Corset Affects You and Your Clothes: Note that the doctor encountered cases in which the with and without corset measurements were the same. How can that be? If you aren’t reducing your waist measurement, why bother wearing a corset at all?

Today's Doonesbury Say What?: "There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right -- there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe the government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you-name-it. That that's an entitlement. And the government should give it to them... These are people who pay no income tax."

— Mitt Romney, at a fundraiser earlier this year

I bet they pay more than 13%!

Dang

My stupid external drive isn't working. I thought it might be the cable, so I spent $30 on a new one, but it doesn't seem to be. There's about 600GB of stuff on it, this is so annoying. It comes up as plugged in, with the tray icon to eject it, but there's no drive name (F:\), and it doesn't appear in My Computer, though it does in Device Manager; in Properties there it says it's working properly, but all the fields for volume are left blank. At least the troubleshooting page is saying that this means I can still get my files on my own with software because the partition table is the problem? But I can't do that unless I get another external first, of course. Oof. I'm running an extended diagnostic test, but I don't have high hopes.

It's cool and rainy so I have a bowl of hot chocolate and am watching Lady for a Day on Netflix. It's very soothing to my nerves and throat.

But see, now I can stare at fashion plates OFFline

I finally put the stupid buttons on my VPLL blouse. I don't know if I'm going to try to get all of the patterns anymore - I like making the clothes to scale, but I don't have the time or fabric or need to make everything full size, and I'm not sure there are enough patterns for me to get the necessary number of points without making finished garments. I'm going to do a corset cover next, which I do have stuff for and which won't put me out too much time-wise, but after that I think it's going to have to be back to the scale versions.

For some reason I decided it would be an excellent idea to save all of the scans of Cabinet des Modes, etc. from the Bunka Gakuen Library site. The only trouble is that I don't have much space left on my HD and now of course I can't switch things over to the external. Although I just bought myself some more by emptying my recycle bin, which had been holding a couple of really big folders. The question is, is this actually useful, am I coming up with tasks because of being unemployed, or is it Aspergian obsessiveness.

I did make very tasty Goan chicken for dinner. This is extra good as I've been terrible about cooking lately yet Dad is spending a lot more time at Melissa's since they got married.