I’m liking this. Here’s information on the women being trained in Afghanistan’s new police academy. Says one, “Some women don’t think this is the right thing to do, so we want them to understand that they can do it.” Go, sisters!

It’s all about your microorganisms, baby!

Microorganisms, micro-details. I fixed the “=”. ~deb

My friend, anthropologist and new mother Laura Stanley sent me the following note:

Jeff Russell’s Starship Dimensions – This is a site where “science fiction fans can
now compare the sizes of various sci-fi spacecraft regardless of genre.
All models are true to scale!” For some reason, I thought you and “your
crowd” might find this amusing – if they haven’t already discovered it!

So, “my crowd,” have you discovered this yet? Do you find it amusing?
(It’s kind of interesting, a bit techy for me….But lots of you are decidedly more tech, so enjoy!)

Back in 1995, I went to France for the first time, all by my lonesome. I was there for three weeks and was terribly homesick. Near the end of my voyage I treated myself to a day at Disneyland Paris. It was great, but what I really loved were the restrooms on Main St. After weeks of “Turkish toilets” and dank, dirty cabinets you had to pay 2F to even open, I was thrilled to be in a large, spacious restroom with bright lights, air conditioning, paper seat covers and Disney muzak. I was home!

Turns out I’m not the only person with a thing for that special Disney experience.
Mouse Planet has a special section devoted to rating all the powder rooms in the park. It’s called
The Happiest Potties on Earth. They’re arranged by “land” and even include “Club 33.”

There has to be some kind of default for first blog entries. If this was a computer program, I’d use “Hello, World!”.

Heck, why not?

Hello, World!