n. A gliding step in ballet. A controlled slide, in either a standing or sitting position, used in descending a steep icy or snowy incline. verb To move smoothly, continuously, and effortlessly.
Hilarious parody of the Bush/Kerry campaign. LINK→
“I want to build a clock that ticks once a year. The century hand advances once every one hundred years, and the cuckoo comes out on the millennium. I want the cuckoo to come out every millennium for the next 10,000 years.” LINK→
An interesting article on the “comeback” of the analog clock. I’m one of those who had one of the early LED digital watches when I was in middle school (and, yes, I thought it was “a pretty neat idea” at the time, even though those LED versions took two hands to use). I’m interested in getting one of those 24-hour wall or bedside clocks. I never realized that, as with the metric system, the U.S. and Canada are two of the few remaining 12-hour hold-outs left in an otherwise 24-hour world. LINK→
