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The gaudy red Jordan coat of arms is one they sell in souvenir shops in Ireland. The right-hand Jordan coat of arms, also from Ireland, is one I found on the Internet. The horse-whip tail on the lion is pretty good, but I like the top half best. It's like a blank coloring book. I can't figure what's with all the lions. They don't even have lions in Ireland. The Maya Stela further down the page translates into my birthday. |
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Good Things: Hikes, short whodunits, farcical films, really clever computer programs, having a captive audience, pop-up books, beaches, music written before the XXth century, museums, July, theatres, vanilla, literacy, nifty places, rocking chairs, mail that requires no answer, beer, alphabetical order, Gothic architecture, sherry, cartoons, maps, web pages with actual content, funny food (within reason), bug-free woods, ingenuity, being met at the station, Google, Arab salads, heaven, flowers that grow though neglected, HTML, pipe organs, sunset, tamales, straight teeth, friends, spumoni ice cream, decorative tile, smiles, seashores, corduroy jackets, health, skepticism, indoor plumbing, Hawaiian shirts, history majors, pork chops, books with peanut-butter-proof bindings, traveling to new places, opera, freshmen, lessons one & two, pleasant weather, reliable machines, naps, the Upper Paleolithic, red wine, the pyramid of Unis, espresso, national parks, free trade, printed instruction manuals, maternal advice, curiosity, hot baths, tea, human rights, smoked salmon, Chinese temples, Esperanto, Harry Potter books, a seat in the front, encyclopedias, foods that start with A. |
Bad Things: Talk radio, flu, poems that don't rhyme, being a captive audience, things that don't work right, cilantro, idiots with power, flat tires, science fiction, baseball, the word "like" used as spoken punctuation, gurus and their followers, spam and junk mail, mosquitoes, careless writing, floods & fires, garden snails, spin doctors, dust, budget deficits, PowerPoint, fundamentalists, music written after the XIXth century, handguns, clattering skateboards, termites, exams, illegible labels on electronic devices, art that fails to lift the spirit, robber barons & labor bosses, bottled water, election campaigning, murder & mayhem, karaoke, voice mail, madding crowds, feminists, antifeminists, acne, the Lower Paleolithic, public broadcasting "membership" drives, human sacrifice, bandwagons, graffitti, terrorism, automated telephone routing systems, vacuous gibberish, game shows, arthritis, weeds, invasions and "legal actions," programmers who want my whole hard disk, museum labels far from what they label, famine & plague, rabble rousers, roused rabble, silk ties, forgetfulness, isms, horseradish, viruses, "people who." |
