Meme Thingy (ganked from whip_lash)

1. Take five books off your bookshelf [or desk for the lazy (or in my case bedside table)]
2. The Yom Kippur War by Abraham Rabinovich -- first sentence
3. Paris 1919 by Margaret Macmillan -- last sentence on page fifty
4. No Ordinary Time by Doris Kearns Goodwin -- second sentence on page one hundred
5. Intelligence in War by John Keegan -- next to the last sentence on page one hundred fifty
6. Angels & Demons by Dan Brown -- final sentence of the book
7. Make the five sentences into a paragraph:

A military satellite beaming images of the Middle East to Earth late on the afternoon of October 5, 1973, would have confronted analysts with a perplexing picture. It was not a complication he needed as the laborious negotiations began. In a radio program on CBS, Eleanor argued for an administrative ruling that would permit refugee children to enter the United States as temporary vistors rather than as immigrants. That feature eliminated the need to decrypt by seperate process, a tedious and time-consuming business. "You've never been to bed with a yoga master, have you?"

Thinking out loud

so

I have been working on ideas for the house

and in looking at paint samples and whatnot
the idea of whitewashing the cabinets in the kitchen occured to me.

( images of the kitchen if you want to visualize it )

now generally I am against painting over wood (excluding trim of course)
but I think it might help bring the kitchen back into line with the overall style of the house


thoughts?

Word of the Day

apparently after checking the most recent activity with regards to the harem ad
I left the page open in the background.

this seemed entirely irrelevant to me, until I noticed a new window opening entitled "instant message"
apparently leaving the window open, leaves one also logged in to the site, and available for instant messaging through the site.

while I haven't decided if I would share the details of the conversation here yet
it did bring up an interesting chain of events, leading to my learning a new and wonderful word.

you see the young woman in question
who happened to be a Muslim (non-practicing) and an Arabic speaker
mentioned in the course of the discussion that a harem was populated by wives
rather than as I thought, concubines.

It turns out we were both correct, a harem can contain either

but I decided to take a moment and look to see if there might be a more precise word
the several online thesauruses I checked with did not contain one which I would prefer

during in a broader search I did come across the word

"Odalisque"

meaning "A concubine or woman slave in a harem."

which I have used to replace the words "harem girls" in the headline of my ad

as precision is indeed a virtue

something useful

a friend of mine reminded me of a most useful security tool
so I thought I would share it with the rest of you

Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer