Today's links: New Orleans houses, Spam, and Midaeval Sex

New Orleans' Old Homes Built To Last-- as mentioned before, older style architecture easier to fix up


Florida spammer faces $11bn fine -- Froggy says: "Ha ha!"

Mediaeval Sexual Behaviour from "Sex in History" Appose of nothing in particular beyond that I just found this on line, and it's some interesting reading.

January

At a New Years Day party I was again struck at the wealth of interesting stories around town last year's events gave rise to. Major projects of recording New Orleanians' stories could produce some amazing oral history.

More frivilously, at the same party I was playing around with one of my friend's collection of old junk instruments, a slide trumpet. Uh, now I sorta want one. After a couple minutes (after I usually stopped trying to extend the tiny slide out so far that it slipped off) I could noodle some simple blues on it. I'm also enjoying messing around with the baritone horn I picked up in Austin, though I have no idea yet what I'm doing with it (my only brass instrument experience being with the slide trombone).

Students are starting to come back to town. A neighbor grad student who I was never able to contact after evacuating knocked on my door the other day. The great crepe place a short walk from here reopened.

Neighbor up the street still doesn't have the key for the FEMA trailer that's been in his front yard for 5 weeks.

Also, King cake season has arrived. Yay!