Sunday, November 30, 2003
IT'S SHAKE AND BREAK, AND I HELPED!: Most of you know about Project Gutenberg, the home of (mostly) copyright free e-texts, and a few of you might have heard of the Distributed Proofers arm, which takes the OCR scans and lets hundreds of volunteer proofers check them for errors. This weekend I joined in, in a small way, to help push them over the edge of a monthly record, because last night they reached a record 200,000 proofed pages for November. Anything after this is just gravy...
And for those of you who think it's mostly stuff from before 1922...well, you're mostly right, but they're getting the Warren Commission Report through, so there's fun aplenty to be had...
AND FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO WERE WONDERING: Thanksgiving this year was turkey, ham, two casseroles (green bean and squash), oyster dressing and plain, devilled eggs (I didn't partake), yams (ditto), a few other side dishes that I can't remember right now, crescent rolls, and a bit of spinach dip with Triscuits for an appetizer.
For you jackasses out there, we only ate for an hour that day. No ambulances were on standby, and no stomach pumps or liposuction machines were positioned at the table.
And for those of you who think it's mostly stuff from before 1922...well, you're mostly right, but they're getting the Warren Commission Report through, so there's fun aplenty to be had...
AND FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO WERE WONDERING: Thanksgiving this year was turkey, ham, two casseroles (green bean and squash), oyster dressing and plain, devilled eggs (I didn't partake), yams (ditto), a few other side dishes that I can't remember right now, crescent rolls, and a bit of spinach dip with Triscuits for an appetizer.
For you jackasses out there, we only ate for an hour that day. No ambulances were on standby, and no stomach pumps or liposuction machines were positioned at the table.
|| Eric 10:29 PM#
