FASCINATING TIDBIT OF THE NOCHE:
Tonight I learned that Paul's favorite map projection is NOT the Mercator (which is the one we have in our living room and was fascinating R earlier because she was amazed at how big Greenland was, so we had to get the non-resident geographer on the phone to discuss projection preferences), rather it is "Alber's Conic Equal Area Projection," a rather elusive projection if you ask me, since I haven't been able to find any websites with an example of it, even after I found out that it wasn't Albert's. However I did learn that it is most commonly used for page-sized maps of things like the United States, although I did not learn anything about its distortion of angles or areas (although I am assuming that it does not distort areas, given the title). So, I would give you all an example to peruse, but I will have to wait until our geographer reads this (which I don't think he does, or at least he does a good job on the phone of pretending he hasn't heard the stories, which, Paul, does not go unappreciated) and gives me an example.
I was all about to head to the library and scan in some comics a couple hours ago, but I came up from the basement and all the girls were watching "The L-word," which is, surprise, a show about lesbians. They were debating whether the straight or the gay sex scenes were hotter, so naturally I couldn't leave then. (Yes, boys, your fantasies have come true: when you put 5 girls in a house together, all we do is sit around and watch and discuss straight vs lesbian sex.) Actually R decided the lesbian scenes weren't as hot as the straight scenes (ok and I'll be honest, she was the only one in the debate, E and I were just rolling our eyes and laughing at her), so E and I finally told her to go rent some porn and make up a sappy story line for it because that's obviously what she was watching the show for.
Low point of the evening: I was called "strange" by someone's "unique" aunt. (Person to remain unnamed, PAUL.) Response to this by someone's sister? "Boy, Mary, you've really sunk to a new low, haven't you?" Great.
