random bits

[cellio]

Dear Pittsburgh CLO: I gave you my phone number so you could contact me if there were problems with my theatre tickets. You lost points by calling to ask for a charitable donation, and you lost lots of points when your agent argued with my labelling of the call as a solicitation. His claim: you're not selling anything but asking for a donation, so that's not a solicitation. I recommend you buy him a dictionary. Unfortunately, you'll be doing it with your own money, not mine.

I'm used to size variation in women's clothing. (Why oh why can't women's jeans use waist and inseam like men's?) And I'm used to minor variations in shoes in US sizes (I seem to wear a size 7.75, which doesn't exist). I had not realized that there is significant variation in sizes on the (tighter) European scale. The size-38 Naot sandals I just tried are nearly half an inch shorter than the size-38 Birkies that fit (and that I bought). They're both the same style, your basic two-strap slip-in sandal.

Dani's company watched searching for evil recently. It's an overview of Internet security issues -- probably nothing new, but he spoke well of it so I want to bookmark it for when I've got a spare hour.

IANA considerations for TLAs was making the rounds at my company this week.

Via goldsquare comes this bizarre story: a man lost parental rights to his younger child, appealed, and was then killed in a car accident. Now state child-welfare agents want to support the appeal, so the child can share in his estate. The court says this is uncharted territory.

Specialized seasonal question: can anyone tell me, in the next 8 hours, if I use high-holy-day melodies in Hallel for Rosh Chodesh tomorrow morning? It's the last day of Av, not the first day of Elul (so we don't blow shofar yet).

From filkerdave:

Most recently from siderea, this modern song of a wounded heart made me laugh (warning, camera work is terrible): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7MuwPlOiNQ.

Comments

[fauxklore]

Thanks for reminding me that I need to replace my Naot sandals (which I love. Birkies don't work for me at all.)

I like the TLA piece and the music video.

And I really don't understand the story about the Florida girl. I gathered she was not actually adopted yet by the foster parents. So wouldn't the man still have financial responsibilities to her if he were still alive, despite the lack of custody? Weird.

[cellio]

I really want to like Naots, and I've had the occasional pair that have been quite comfortable. But Birkenstock has never disappointed me, so they're lower-risk.

I guess severing parental rights is sort of like getting a divorce; it cuts both ways. But it was being appealed, so I would think (IANAL) this would mean the daughter still has an interest in the estate. Even if the appeal later failed, at the time of his death the connection wasn't broken; wouldn't that be sufficient? Odd.

(And now, is someone representing the older child's interests going to argue against the appeal? Whee.)