700 pounds, the equivalent weight to the thirty-five cubic feet of dirt a woodchuck can in fact 'chuck' when digging a burrow. (Source: N.Y. state wildlife expert Richard Thomas, as quoted in The Wall Street Journal.)
I have the CD of Physical Graffiti. The 'peep scene' windows, as you call them, are reproduced (without the die-cuts) in the insert booklet. Not nearly as cool as the LP jacket; I remember that one.
However, harking back to Iron Butterfy's Inna-Gadda-da-Vida, I now also have a deluxe CD issue which has a very inventive and cool case. The front lid is polarized, and the original album cover, which showed the band playing on stage, has been married with another shot taken a second later. Thus, by looking at it in the CD case and tilting it back and forth, you can actually watch the band play while you listen.
The question was "Can women multi-task," not "are women multi-tasked." As to the latter, of course they are. We men task them every day, and there's lots of us.
So my brother says too. He's what tech types like to call an "early adopter," meaning he's one of the people who goes out on a limb to invest in new home technology. He predicts pretty soon we'll all buy our music on these thumb-sized USB gizmos he's now using. Maybe he's right. But I still miss 12-inch-square album covers. Incidentally, I still have some of my brother's vinyl LPs that I borrowed 25 years ago, heh heh.
I still have the fist vinyl LP I ever bought. Got it used at some neighborhood garage sale for 25 cents. Iron Butterfly's "Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida." Too scratched and warped to play now even if I had a turntable. CDs are great, no argument there, but I still miss the wonder and fascination of the larger format and its package. Any other elders feel the same way? Any yongsters have any idea wtf I'm talking about?
Are you being shallow? No. Are you mistaken? I think so, when you equate level of education with intellect. Consider the example of my own father, now in his 80s. He is highly literate and with pen and paper can quickly compose a letter that is cogent and even stylish. Put him in front of a keyboard, however, and the resulting email is likely to read as if it were composed by a 10-year-old with Attention Deficit Disorder. It's simply not the means he was trained in. (To add irony, he is a retired software engineer.)
Today's online world is keyboard-based. Many who are highly intelligent and widely educated may nonetheless not be well-trained in that one skill, and I have observed that even the best and brightest of us, when confronted with a necessity for which we are not properly trained, go stupid. Moreover, everyone can make a typo now and thnn.
I suggest you relax your standards of style somewhat and focus more on content. The thoughts a person expresses will tell you more about them than how they express them.
And just by the way, it's not only 'some men' who have trouble spelling or speaking properly.
Exactly my line of thinking. Consider the alternative: "Are you an insensitive clod?" That'd be a hard angle to pitch. I imagine this website subsists on advertising revenue?
Maybe you're not getting older but rather growing wiser. "Black and white, I defined such things, quite clear no doubt somehow/But I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now." - Bob Dylan, 1964
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RE: Dear Insomnia
Male or Female, whichever...Insomnia swings both ways.