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[austin_dern]

[ Sorry to be late, but if you caught The Colbert Report tonight then you may have seen me and bunny_hugger, which should explain much of why I'm late, though the fascinating bunny-related news will have to wait for her to report first. ]

Coming up in the Tri-Town Community this week:

Memory Lane at Memory Lane Speaker's Corner. Saturday 1:30 pm. Cranky men, quite old in spirit regardless of what their bodies suggest, will mock the idea of ``apps'' in general disapproval of things that did not exist if they were ever young. Expected are efforts to make up apps they think sound ridiculous but which mostly exist and can be useful. Meets in the acutest corner; continues until all but a few audience have left, when baffling yet furious comparisons between FourSquare and the Civilian Conservation Corps will be drawn, signaling it is time to leave fifteen minutes ago. They kind of have a point about the Wombling Roones Haiku Validator.

Running Of The White Sound Machines at Invoice Boulevard. Saturday 4:00 pm. The community's longest-lasting yet least-heard parade-like activity enters its fourth year as volunteers bring their white sound machines and cover the Little Business District with a faint vaguely wave-like noise. Total running course 1.5 miles; extension cords provided for all but the last 1.485 miles. Sign-up sheets are located. The Running's conclusion is marked by a starter pistol which typically goes un-heard.

Food Chain Exposition at the Pudding Mews Nature Center. Sunday noon. After brunch overexcited children run around lifting wooden doors behind which nature-related words like ``ecosystem'' and ``phylum'' are written, then dropping the doors to slam for two ... solid ... hours ... Also Demonstration Otters overhear how they're carnivores and mistakenly rampage through the Touring Brothers Carnival next door. Clowns, horse misspellers, pretzel painters, and trapeze impressionists are moved to the ``threatened'' population list and the circus is reduced from three rings to two nearly complete arcs, after the rumor goes around that they were onion rings. They were not. Free crayons into a supportive local restorable ecosystem.

Fireworks Cancellation Night at Municipal Utilities Payment Center Field. Sunday, 30 minutes after sunset. Celebrate the nearly mediocre first half-season performance of the Snake Valley Grasshopper Mice with an all-new series of excuses why there won't be a pyrotechnic festival this week either. Fireworks Cancellation Night is as always sponsored by the Patagium Village Credit Dairy and Non-Fat Convenience Store.

Futurists Society Town Walk, starting from Pudding Mews Quagmire Memorial, Monday 1:00 pm. In this walk around town landmarks society members will explain how the typefaces on various buildings and signs are not Futura. Past walks have shown how the library branch identification signs are not Futura Condensed; how the football field scoreboard at Merkle High School does not use Futura Schlagzeile; how historical markers along Typographical Error Row are not Futura Black; and how the Tri-Town Weekly Daily-Journal does not use Futura 64 point in its front nameplate, which is what you probably thought was the masthead, if you thought about it. Following this month's walk is to be a public condemnation of Tasse and debate over whether they want to associate with typeface designer Paul Renner anymore. This promises to be an exciting debate as Renner died in 1956 and is not generally regarded as a zombie. Do NOT mention Friz Quadrata.

Letterboxing Association, Snake Valley Slithering Trail and Casper N Overblown Emergency Medical Plaza, Tuesday 7:15 pm. The club will follow a set of clues down the average-difficulty slithering trail (slithering optional) and, if successful, hopes to convince an innocent stranger they cannot truly appreciate Star Trek: Insurrection if they have only watched it in pan-and-scan format. Walk-ins, last-minute attendees, and parachutists welcome.

Nervous Giggling, Tri-Town Weekly Daily-Journal auditorium, Wednesday, what-have-you. Dr Wernigerode will discuss obsolete medical practices which make everything we thought we knew about medicine before about 1998 was stupid. Special guests include a back row of time travellers from 2118 who snicker every time we mention something we now know to be correct. Talk continues until during the question-and-answer session someone asks Dr Wernigerode whether that's a real name, at which point she coughs and runs away until trapped by day five of the Running of the White Sound Machines. Attendance mandatory without doctor's excuse.

Trivia: Isaac Newton's first trip to attend a meeting of the Royal Society was in 1675, three years after he became a member. Source: The Calculus Wars: Newton, Leibniz, and the Greatest Mathematical Clash of All Time, Jason Socrates Bardi.

Currently Reading: Promised Land, Brian M Stableford.

Comments

[chefmongoose.livejournal.com]

*rrk-tkks at the trail, the valley, and the letterboxes while he's at it*

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

And welcome back from the impossibly busy several weeks of activity!