When in Rome .... duck!

[kinzel]

Might still be time to see the photo...
of the pile of hail in Rome. Rome is not quite as close as China, but is not a far as Bangor...or Sweden.

http://news.mainetoday.com/updates/015265.html

While Rome was being bombarded last night we got a little rain, and celebrated with mostly open windows while watching Mansfield Park.

Meanwhile two bits of sort of related stuff:
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/08/30/science-fiction-writ-1.html

and

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070831145639691

Isn't this an interesting time to be an author
and purveyor of ideas and words for you living?

Comments

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

Yes to that last. I had a T-shirt maker tell me they didn't keep one each of the ones they did because of copyright. I told her "Fair use -- you are entitled to keep a copy just because you are doing the artwork. You are entitled to keep an archive of your work!" I gave them specific leave to keep a copy of the one I had them do.

[keristor.livejournal.com]

"Rome is not quite as close as China, but is not a far as Bangor...or Sweden."

That really confused me, I started trying to work out where in the world that could be true, assuming Rome (Italy), China (country), Bangor (Wales) and Sweden (country). Of course, the actual answer is obvious -- the same country which also contains London, Moscow, Birmingham, Paris, Hamburg, ...

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

Maine ...
Maine is the country in question.

There were weeks when I was working as Citizen Access Specialist that I might one day visit Norway and come home through Rome, and the next go north and visit Stockholm, and after an overnight in Caribou return to assist clients in China and then down to Portland.
Sometimes I'd go to Orient, sometime to Wytopitlock; and sometimes I'd go to Belfast and Calais on my way to Canada. I saw a comment recnetly that "Maine is the only foreign country in the United States..."

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