So much Tuesday that it turned into Wednesday while I wasn't looking!

[azurelunatic]

X-Files Sequel.

Pressing the Pants Suit -- follow-up and analysis.

Being pregnant is only slightly more safe than being near a firearm and having an accident.

http://xkcd.com/c259.html -- hee.

I also have a new series to sit down and start watching with Darkside: M*A*S*H. I'm seeing a rather lot of his sarcastic wit in there, and given his background, I'm sure he grew up on it. I wonder if his family has the series; I think it's something they probably would have. I think it's also something that he'd enjoy watching with me. I also think it might be an Event for the Whole Family. (Speaking of which, I still need to poke his mom about HP. Speaking also of which: we should probably start organizing the local trip about now.)

hcolleen had a Cunning Plan, which I completely approve of. No details to follow. I have a Cunning Plan, which no one except me approves of, because I'm the only one who knows it. Cunning Plans for the win.

While leaving anime night, I realized that I hadn't talked to Darkside since Sunday. (Or was that Saturday? I think it was Saturday, because I was tech-supporting with V on Sunday.) I got the twitchy withdrawal-feeling. I must e-mail him, and perhaps sneak a few moments before dinner tomorrow night.

May means no more smoking in/around indoor public places in Phoenix. I think we were plotting to return to the Willow House, to see how things were going there, now that we can all breathe while in there. Snarky Lady mentioned Wisconsin's answer to that family of law -- all smoking-friendly establishments promptly converted to private clubs, in which they could and did allow smoking. Typical cover charges for places of that nature? $0.01-$0.10, she said.

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[wibbble]

Private clubs were specifically included in the indoor smoking ban legislation in Scotland. I actually think it goes too far - you can't even smoke non-tobacco cigarettes on stage as part of a play or whatever. There should've been an exemption made for that.

Last August was the first Edinburgh Festival since the ban, and several high-profile comics smoked on stage and nothing happened. I suspect they're taking the approach that while it may be technically illegal, it's not worth the fuss to prosecute people over it.

[azurelunatic]

If a private establishment wants to be all smoked-up, I say let them, so long as there aren't kids there (that is, everyone in there is a consenting adult).

[lacey]

M*A*S*H! That's my all-time favorite show! I've been meaning to get the DVDs forever. Damn not having a job!

[azurelunatic]

Jobs are convenient for things like that.

[lacey]

Even more incentive!

[azurelunatic]

Bearing in mind that opposition to gun control and opposition to choice tend to go together, it makes a certain kind of sense that the mortality stats on both are up there together.

But my inner statistician wants to know what the figures are -- how many pregnancies resulted in that number of deaths, going from both pregnancies total and pregnancies that were intended to be carried to term -- and also how many gun/human interfaces there were to get that level of fatality. I would think that there are a lot fewer pregnancies than there are gun/human intersections, but that's just a guess.