Grab bag of stuff just to make an update

The Times commented yesterday that France had given the world a new element in rioting, to go with barricades and flung cobblestones: voitures bruleés. Actually, we got there first; a portion of the population of Northern Ireland semi-regularly gets disgruntled and starts lighting cars on fire. They then save effort by using the flaming cars as barricades. Oh, how I love my country.

I'm going to a wedding on Friday. It seems a little strange to wear a poppy to a wedding, but I wouldn't feel right not to wear it on that date. (The groom tells me he chose it because he wanted one that was easy to remember.)

I know there are several people on my flist who sail. I was reading the Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea, and I at last learned what the Surprise is doing when she's griping: turning up into the wind too much. So far so good, but it then went on to say that although this was usually due to poor hull design, it could be helped by reducing forward sail. Now perhaps this is me being stupid, but surely reducing the force of the headsails in relation to that of the mainsail is going to tend to turn the head of the boat into the wind, not away from it? Mind you, the typestting of the book was a bit hiccuppy in places; maybe there was a vital line of meaning missing.

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The Journal Rank for jediowl is 648 out of 1279 registered journals.

My dad has bought nine pairs of jeans. He says he's going to make them last for four years. I'm being tempted to do the same with slippers, because they have some nice ones in Next and normally it's so hard to get ones that don't fall off or look granny-ish. But I'm already going to be broke after I pay for going to this wedding and for new stuff for my room next month.