Riba Rambles:
Musings of a Mental Magpie

Posted by Lis Riba at 8:42 PM

Here's what I did:

Posted by Lis Riba at 9:36 AM

Googling around, looks like there are one or two "comprehensive" lists that people are copying around.

Hey It's Free has one of the more recent and better formatted iterations.

Posted by Lis Riba at 9:20 AM

Via Mark Evanier, birthday greetings from Joe Cocker:

Also worth watching from Mark Evanier:

The screen debut of George Burns and Gracie Allen, doing a hunk of their vaudeville act as an 8-minute Vitaphone short called Lambchops. This came out in October of 1929

So, which businesses offer birthday discounts I should take advantage of?

FWIW, I began the day by staying up past midnight to finish reading Marie Brennan's Midnight Never Come, a new Elizabethan fantasy novel.

And later today, I'm hoping to go boating.

How are you doing?

Posted by Lis Riba at 7:40 AM

Two sayings on my mind this morning:

1. “Poor planning on your part should not constitute an emergency on my part.”
2. “Fool me once; shame on you. Fool me twice; shame on me.”

Read what you want into those adages.

Or not.

You're also welcome to just enjoy my latest Lol!Sox:

PS: Ian didn't get the latter macro. Once I explained it, he thought it was too obscure a reference. What do you think?