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So are horsehair sofas stuffed with horsehair or surfaced with horsehair? They are always described as being hard and slippery, so I assumed it was like tanned horsehide with hair on over minimal padding. There's a story in the new F&SF that mentions a sofa stuffed with horsehair, but it's a silly story, but now I am confused! Does anyone know?

the Silk Road Project

Last night I went to see a musical performance in the Silk Road Project. It was amazing. I was regretting my lack of musical education throughout (and wishing I were less tired), but I did my best to take some notes on my experience. ( Read more... )

say it!

Well, they seemed all right with that.

There's an issue at work where some jerk is sending out spam advertising our stock -- I have made it clear that if this was our understanding of what was going to happen, they either swear it will never happen again or I look for another job -- and some clever folk have been going to our site and looking for email addresses to tell us we sux0r.

One of these people took it upon himself to tell us we were "gay" for sending spam. Susan got that one, not me. "Too bad I didn't get that one," I said, "I could have replied, 'No, bisexual, actually.'" It hasn't come up before, what with the long-term monogamous relationship and all, but I'm pretty sure that was just a "huh?" reaction one person had and not an "ew."

free-range chicken of the sea

Well, crap. I've done it again. Accidentally purchased high-quality white albacore in a can when I wanted canned tuna, that is. Albacore is all very well, but sometimes what one wants isn't tuna meat. It's the particular gestalt of more water in the can than fish, pink and even grayish flesh, and finely shredded consistency that will spread onto a piece of bread. Whether your thing is tuna salad or tuna melts, it is an unavoidable fact that the crap tuna is what sits on a sandwich best.

But no, what I have is the glass of fine wine when I wanted suicide-soda from Burger King, and it keeps falling off my bread.