Happy 43rd Anniversary to...

...Disney's Mary Poppins, released this day in 1964!

Mouse Clubhouse has some new interviews with some of the craftsmen behind the scenes including imagineer X Atencio and songwriter Richard Sherman.

at the tone the time will be...

...time to get a new watch, apparently...

Slashdot | AT&T Stops 'Time', Ends An Era:

Starting in September, you will no longer be able to pick up a landline, payphone, etc and find out what time it is at the beep [CC] [MD] [GC]. AT&T, which has had the service since the 20s, cited a lack of demand in the digital age as the reason for "time"'s extinction. Actually, the service had already stopped in most states, but Nevada and California — with their large rural and unmapped areas — were still holding out, should the lost motorist or weary hiker need to know the time of day.

The most depressing part of this is that it makes yet another gag now an anachronism that future kids will never get.

In So Long and Thanks, Ford puts one over on an annoying bureaucrat by routing a long distance "call" through to the time-telling phone number in New York, rigging the charges in hopes of bankrupting the pain in the arse.

Now, it seems, he'll not be able to pull that one anymore...

tagged twice and then some...

A. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
B. Tag seven people to do the same.
C. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it."

quoting javasaurus , I'll answer, but I'm not the type to pass these things on...

1. I don't read fiction.  Period.  H2G2 and LotR and Harry Potter have been my only fiction reading for over a decade.  I gave the Myth series a try but lost it within the fourth or fifth chapter.
2. I've performed Monty Python on stage in a revue directed by dwenius and Tee.  I was in the Bruce sketch, the Flying Sheep sketch, and the "Matress" sketch.  The review also featured Crunchy Frog, News for Parrots, and Four Yorkshiremen.
   
3. I've known Cami of the O'Danny Girls as one of my closest friends for 23 years as of yesterday.
4. I have forgotten more about X-Windows/Motif programming than many self-proscribed "experts" ever knew, and still remember more than most still doing that kind of work today.
5. I can't stop my hands from moving to music ("air" playing).  It's a part of how I remember it.
6. I know the musical innards of complex works like Rite of Spring and Close to the Edge with incredible detail and depth, but have a severe handicap with remembering lyrics.  Whatever I'm doing, the 3rd line of some verse will simply "vanish" and nothing I can do aside from the paper in front of me will allow me to recall it.  Hence, as much as I want to add songs, Cat & Fiddle has remained a strictly instrumental act.
7. My brain is, yes, filled with insane amounts of "Trivia".  I blame American Top 40.  In spite of this, I have difficulty finding my keys at least twice a month, and never ask me where I put something of faireraven 's as I *will* have forgotten.