Randomness of the last few days:

[kitchen_kink]

In China Fair today, Guy1 and Guy2 are lackadasically manning the front counter.

Guy1: Between the two of us, we almost make up one entire human being.

Guy2: We're better when we're not hung over, I promise.

Guy1: Y'know tomorrow? I'm gonna quit and go work at a bed store.

Guy2: That'd be great advertising for them. See, it really works!

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I learned in yoga on Wednesday that the Sanskrit word for "cow" is (at least phonetically) "gomu."

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On NPR, they were interviewing a woman who hosted the Discovery Channel show Adventure Divas was studying women travel/adventurers throughout the world. A retiree called in from the mouth of the Panama Canal, where she was at sea with her husband, as she had been for several months now. She was listing the ways it had been exciting so far, and the list included the casual sentence, "We were boarded by pirates near Colombia, and we fended them off with pepper spray."

Boarded by pirates! Fear not, loyal LJers: pirates apparently still exist. But I can't say much for their heartiness these days (arr, me hearties) if they can be driven off their booty by a couple of seniors with mace.

Comments

[uberjay.livejournal.com]

Maybe they're not real pirates, but are actually environmental activists attempting to reverse the global warming trend?

[dietrich.livejournal.com]

By increasing their personal eye-temperature?

(I've seen this - hilarious.)

[sanghasong.livejournal.com]

my best friend's mother, at the age of 54, bought his yacht off him about 13 years ago in california. she then sailed down the american coastline to almost the bottom of mexico, where she then turned left, and has been to fiji, the philippenes, all over the Ring Of Fire in SE Asia, and the south pacific islands in the middle of the ocean. and 90% of the time, she has sailed this incredible journey BY HERSELF.

the pacific ocean takes up almost an entire hemisphere of the globe. what can it feel like to be alone in the middle of that on a clear starry night? it takes a certain kind of person, that's for sure.

last time i spoke to her was 11 years ago, and she said she'd spend the rest of her life sailing - "I'll never live on land again". so far, to the best of my knowledge, she's not been raided by pirates, though in SE Asia it is fairly common, apparently.

[dietrich.livejournal.com]

Don't you mean she turned right?

This is beautiful. I knew when I heard this woman on the radio that this is what I want to do when I'm old. Learn to sail now, sail around the world with D when we're old. What heaven.

[sanghasong.livejournal.com]

"Don't you mean she turned right?"

lol. yep, i even held up my right hand immediately before typing 'left'.

heaven indeed. it puts a whole different twist on the word 'freedom'.

[sunstealer.livejournal.com]

When, in your copious free time, you have a chance to pick it up, read William Langewiesche's book The Outlaw Sea. It's not all about priacy but it covers the almost total lawlkessness of commerce and activity on the oceans.
Plus, he's an amazing writer.

[coraline]

i love china fair :)

[crouchback.livejournal.com]

Piracy is actually a big problem. Last week's pirate activity (http://www.icc-ccs.org/prc/piracyreport.php) was not unusual, and last year's pirate activity was pretty violent (http://www.icc-ccs.org/main/news.php?newsid=40).

I'd also recommend The Outlaw Sea on the topic.

(I came on this post after reading entrope's birthday congratulations to you.)