1/ In Turkish, hava means air and su means water. Havasu?
2/ From Harper’s Weekly: Huseyin Kalkan, the mayor of Batman, Turkey, said that the town would sue Warner Bros. for a portion of the royalties from the movie “The Dark Knight.” “There is,” said Kalkan, “only one Batman.”
3/ Another way in which life has improved for us: we no longer have to budget for bribes and baksheesh. How corrupt is your country? Check it out at Transparency International.
4/ Just for fun from the Academy via Henri: In case you ever wondered how YOU fit into the Dewey Decimal Classification system, now you can find out. Take a look at this quiz to get your Dewey number.
Just call me 094. Printed books contains encyclopedias, magazines, journals and books with quotations. I also have a couple of aliases: 075 (Newspapers in Italy & adjacent islands) or 349 (Law of specific jurisdictions & areas). What about you?
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Ha! Love your #3 story, Vanessa.
#3 reminded me of when my parents moved back to the US and the company expediter in Alex did not get things cleared to load. My mother stuff her bra with 20 and 50 piaster notes and headed for the docks. Everything got loaded. My father did comment in passing that perhaps it was time for her to live someplace that valued other skills.
Love the Dewey Decimal Classification… Not sure how or why but I am:
* 859 Romanian & related literatures
* 767 Etching & drypoint
* 005 Computer programming, programs & data
I’m 008 unassigned: Computer Science, Information & General Works
Contains: Encyclopedias, magazines, journals and books with quotations.
OR 308 [Unassigned]
Class: 300 Social Sciences
Contains: Books on politics, economics, education and the law.
I wonder how often this can change over a lifetime?
I love it! Lithographic processes for your artistic bent. Melanesia for your adventure. And Unassigned because you don’t like to be pegged down. Ha!
You’ll find me in 763 – Lithographic Processes also see 995 (Melanesia, New Guinea) and 007 – Unassigned.