1. Harvest anything worth harvesting.

2. Med school practice if they want (it is just up the hill)

3.  I suppose I'll be so full of chemicals and biobaddies that it would be impractical to use it for cat or dog food, but that's what I'd rather.  I wonder if the soylent green process solves those problems . . .

 I greatly admire the movie version.  I posted a rant some time ago that it wasn't out in DVD.  It now is.  I have my copy!!  Rant hereby withdrawn.

They did this version on stage, and a DVD of that has been available.  But the production values of that release are not good.

This one was designed as a movie and benefits greatly.  (although the ending is rather Blazing Saddlish - I value Gilbert and Sullivan and what Ronstadt, Kline, Azito, Lansbury, Smith, Rose do with their material).   Azito got left off the credits on the cover - pity, IMHO.

The dynamic range didn't seem as wide as I recalled - but my hearing decays, and I don't trust the memory.

I recommend it.

 The church Carol Jean attends received a new pastor recently, one whom Carol Jean highly respects.

Today's message to the children involved two friends, who discovered they were on rival Little League teams about to meet in the playoffs. The night before, each prayed that God would help their team win. The pastor's question to the children: whose side is God on? IMHO, a superb way to put a fundamental question in a way children can understand. One tyke seemed to be considering the question very seriously, but, when pressed, did not offer an answer. Pastor: I think you're exactly right!

Personal opinion: I think a prayer asking help to do one's best might be more favorably received, whether you think it is by a Spirit or by some aspect of your subconscious.

part of a special NY Times Magazine issue on Saving the World's Women.

Can't think that they chose particularly helpful wording for the title. But the article is good and is currently at the top of the most-emailed list.

www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/magazine/23Women-t.html

 hat tip to dkogan

http://www.reallifecomics.com/     Aug 12, if you use this link later.

( slight spoiler )

Because of their God-favors-male-supremacy stance.

 Hat tip to  mmegaera.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jul/12/jimmy-carter-womens-rights-equality

ETA: Actually the decision was made in 2000. This is just a continuing essay on the same issue.

These folks publish a quiz each week, different subjects. Unfortunately, the link below leads to the answers as well as the questions, so I've supplied this week's questions. I got 5 :-(

http://corp.credoreference.com/quiz

Fictional Characters
A recent addition to the Credo Reference database is the "Chambers Dictionary of Fictional Characters". All the answers to this quiz about people in books can be found there.

Questions:
1. Which writer created the character Bilbo Baggins?

2. Name the heroine of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice", who falls in love with Darcy.

3. Which 1851 book by Herman Melville includes a character called Queequeg?

4. In Kingsley Amis's "Lucky Jim", what was the surname of Jim, the struggling university lecturer of the title?

5. Which novel by Charles Dickens includes the character Little Nell?

6. Which 1951 novel features a rebellious 16-year-old called Holden Caulfield?

7. Name one of the two children - a brother and sister - who are the young governess's two charges at Bly in Henry James's "The Turn of the Screw".

8. Which author created the character Professor Timofey Pnin in his 1957 novel "Pnin"?

9. What are the names of the two "merry wives" in Shakespeare's "The Merry Wives of Windsor"?

10. Claudia Hampton is a character in which 1987 novel by Penelope Lively?

 Joyeuse13 is running another survey, this time on participants' understanding of some terms.  Her post describing it is here:

http://joyeuse13.livejournal.com/547942.html

 Many of you know about these - this is for those who don't, yet.

You can buy, almost anywhere, cheaply in bulk, inexpensively in small packages:  cleaning cloths, purportedly made of "micro-fiber".

Sounds like a marketing scam?  Probably some of them are, but I haven't found those yet.

They clean very well, pick up dust and hold on to it (until you wash them) and can be used with and without cleaning solutions.  Good for dusting, cleaning, glass, monitors, wood floors, etc.

I'm not going to write an essay; do a search on "microfiber cleaning review". 

I am very much into recycling and would much prefer, normally, to use for cleaning something I used to wear or sleep on.

But these things are very much worth the price and can be re-used themselves.  I have yet to throw one away.