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The difference between "tidal wave" and "tsunami":

In that big quake-caused Thailand flooding (Boxing Day several years ago now wasn't it?), first the ocean pulled 'way 'way back. Ignorant, curious people were wandering out onto the new beach, taking pix.

One tourist couple's little girl, remembering what her teacher had taught, kept telling her parents, "tsunami! it's a tsunami!" They had no idea what she was talking about.

Finally, the little girl said, "tidal wave!" And they ran for the hills and lived.

The difference is, most folks don't speak Japanese.

Took me a while to get caught up to my own comment. Compulsive comment-reading.

Misanthropic Humanitarian: Hey Mindful, link works when I clicked it.

Hey, Mis, maybe it's a browser thing, and yours corrected it? Whatever, the link is misconstructed. I get a 404 from Pixy, because it appears as an internal Ace link. Like when people leave the http:// off of their name URLs.

Hover text shows it starts off with
http://acecomments.mu.nu/%3Cbr%20/%3E
before it gets to the actual link.

That %3C...%3E stuff is the br tag, which is what the source code shows intruding in your link tag.

I know what the link is about. I could get to the story by just clearing off the crud at the beginning, but not everyone is a webtech geenyez like me.

Oh, well, it's not like anyone actually clicks on your links, right?

Howdy doo, graybox peoples.

Did anyone mention to MisHum that the "Throw the book at him" link is goofy? Source code shows that there's a break tag inside the link tag.

"I don't believe in charities," said Mayor Sanders...

Of course not. Someone having enough to give charitably would mean the government had left them too much of their own money. Can't have that.

...the reason Clearview might have seemed easier to read was simply because the new font meant that older, worn-down signs were being replaced with fresh ones....

* forehead slap *

Storms to the north of us.
Storms to the south.
Here I am.
Stuck in the middle with y'all.

Howdy. Back up to the content now...

Plainly, they weren't listening to Diamond and Silk's "Ditch and Switch" messages!

Mike Hammer: Mrs. H always sighs when she sees me playing with the forks and knives at a restaurant, which often involves balancing something on a water glass rim...

Heh. One random thought following another....

My dear nonagenerian mom does this trick sometimes at family dinners (usually after she's had more than her usual one glass of wine) which involves laying the handle of one spoon over the handle of another spoon, bopping the bowl part of the under spoon, to flip the over spoon into a water glass. (She couldn't get it to work last Thanksgiving, but a cousin tried it and did it.)

At a restaurant one time with Milady, I tried it and got it the first time. I left for the washroom, and I came back to broken glass and saturated tablecloth. Milady's attempt at the trick in my absence had been... less than successful.

I should write a book about it. (Trying to be on-topic.)

Alls I knows 'bout this Sad Puppy stuff is what I've gathered in passing on this blog. So unfamiliar with it, I've had to be refreshed each time whether the Sad Puppies are the SJWs or the other. (I think I've got it down now, though.)

But, reading the quote in the post, my thought was like this:

angela urkel: The censors accusing the opposition of censorship.

Projection by the tyrants, as usual. I presume the one side is not "calling for the end of social justice in science fiction and fantasy" - not calling for suppression of anything else - except insofar as "social justice" means calling for an end to anything they don't like. I mean, one side wants liberty and the other wants to stifle it.

* re-reads the above*

Writing words doesn't seem to be working too well for me today. Maybe I've had too much coffee?

Mike Hammer: ...I have found pieces of tableware, forks, knives, etc. in restaurants that have been so affected....

Heh - at one restaurant we go to, almost every time, I'd get a magnetized knife, and, waiting for our order, amused myself getting it to twirl around chasing the fork. Wondered how it got that way.

navybrat: ..."book binder's tape" or "book repair tape".
This is black fabric tape, about the same size as duct tape, but the difference is fabric and the type of adhesive used is less destructive to old paper....

Tim in GA: This is also called "gaff" tape, and can probably be found more inexpensively if searched for by this name....

Thanks. This is much better than my first (quickly dismissed) thought of trying some plain ol' masking tape.

If I can't get this book fixed with all these fine recommendations, it'll be because... I'm so lazy.

mindful,

http://www.bookrepair.us/pricing_and_services.phtml

JTB: 'Hand Bookbinding' by Aldren A. Watson... [and] 'Hand Tools: Their ways and Workings'..."

Thanks, also. Despite all my experience with and observation of the vastness and depth of the Moron Horde Knowledgepedia, I am still surprised when I receive such replies.

Sabrina Chase: ...the little booklets are "signatures".

Okay, thanks. I'm sure I knew that once, but so long ago that your answer doesn't even ring the tiniest bell.

Thanks for the answers on rebinding. YouTube- the modern how-to knowledge encyclopedia.

Kindltot: ...you may want to buy some old trashed books at a thrift shop and practice on them first, since it can be tricky. [or] ...take to a book binders' and tell them why you love it and ask for a quote.

Thanks, also!

To mindful at 130.
They sell stuff called "book binder's tape" or "book repair tape".
This is black fabric tape, about the same size as duct tape, but the difference is fabric and the type of adhesive used is less destructive to old paper.

If all the quires have separated, then everything may have to go in a box.

What do you call the little bunches of pages, little
booklets, that are combined for a hardback? I'm sure there's some
printer's term I might've even known once decades ago. Anyway, looks
like there's a paper that wraps around them, to which they're all bound
or glued, and that's what's become torn, or rotted away, between two
booklets. Only one thread still links the two sections. (I'm describing
this poorly, I think - a pic would be worth 100 words.)

I have no idea if or how I could do a decent repair myself. Probably
won't try getting a pro book re-binder to work on it. Hate this nice
old book falling apart, though.

Now to peruse the bookthread comments. But first, a refill of the ol' coffee mug.
Posted by: mindful webworker - slowly he turned, inch by inch, page by page at April 10, 2016 11:06 AM (macz7)

One of my hobbies is (badly) binding sketchbooks.

But Sabrina has all the information

I have replaced the end papers at that hinge with gauze and paper glued in with either elmers paper glue or boiled wheat paste, you may want to buy some old trashed books at a thrift shop and practice on them first, since it can be tricky.

If you love the book and don't have the tools, I would take to a book binders' and tell them why you love it and ask for a quote.

mindful webworker, the little booklets are "signatures". The damage you describe is pretty easy to fix, actually. I took a wonderful class on book rebinding that helps with that--but for a true antique you might want to consult a pro. If you don't care about museum-quality restoration, though, you could probably do it yourself. Try looking up YouTube videos on book repair or binding.

G'morn, y'all. I went through the morning thread, VicNews & Commentary (thanks, Vic), and scanned the rest of the comments. I have plowed through the Book post and all its amazingly varied content as usual.

Probably my only bookish contribution today:

Despite my trying my best to handle it gently, my 1911 copy of Washington Irving's Sketch Book broke in two, right about smack in the middle. I'm concerned individual pages may be getting loose next.

What do you call the little bunches of pages, little booklets, that are combined for a hardback? I'm sure there's some printer's term I might've even known once decades ago. Anyway, looks like there's a paper that wraps around them, to which they're all bound or glued, and that's what's become torn, or rotted away, between two booklets. Only one thread still links the two sections. (I'm describing this poorly, I think - a pic would be worth 100 words.)

I have no idea if or how I could do a decent repair myself. Probably won't try getting a pro book re-binder to work on it. Hate this nice old book falling apart, though.

Now to peruse the bookthread comments. But first, a refill of the ol' coffee mug.

My cat tail this week is about our problem kitty "Merlin." (Daughter named him. I think the technical spelling is mrrrr-lin.)

Merlin showed up out at our rural doorstep one day, worm-ridden and so thin he was practically two-dimensional. We got him cleaned out and fattened up. He was "hospitalized" during recovery at the office in town. He's a big guy, black with white socks.

When we tried to take him back out to the farm, the first thing he did was leap out of my arms and attack our special Godsend little yellow fuzzy guy, Charlie.

Charlie's tail, Mar 5 pet thread
http://acecomments.mu.nu/?blog=86&post=361844#c24945709

Black and yellow fur everywhere. When I broke that up, Merlin ran in and peed on our bed! Charlie had never had a problem with any of our critters, and he was kind-of traumatized for a while. Subsequent efforts proved no better, and in a choice between Charlie and the newcomer, Charlie wins.

Also, peed on our bed was a big strike against Merlin.

So, we kept him in town. Don't like to have to leave him alone so much, but he doesn't play well with others. Well, he likes the dog. Does use a litter box, almost always. Free to good home. (Just kidding. I'd miss the guy.)

Here's a cartoonized pic of Merlin in action, with captions.
http://bit.ly/opened-your-mail

Y-not: To me the biggest lesson of the primary so far is that Trump should have run as an Independent, not as a Republican....

I was gonna say... but see that someone else already did...

Grump928(C): Trump should have run as a Democrat. He would be kicking Hillary's ass right now.

Not just that, he would not have all those lib protesters hating him, and would probably have won not just the nom but the general. His Planned Parenthood support could have been overt. He would never have had to threaten that "racist" border wall thing. Chalk would be embraced!