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...usually ... deadly. It can be kind of a strange ritual. I probably shouldn't say this, but I'm permanently in a kind of moderately bad faith as a giver of readings, because I'm not a great fan of them. I don't think of that as a hot night out. So I usually try to make it something a little more special. Although this marathon in some ways is kind of a selfish thing. I hope it's terrific for other people, but it really was another way of getting out of the robotic loop of just reading...
...Also, anyone with a radiator in an exposed area, i.e. an inch from your leg if you're sitting on your toilet, be aware that they get REALLY hot...
Each House has to cope with its own unique radiator problems and start dates—and of course there is no universal agreement on when heating is needed. With recent budget cuts, including the loss of hot breakfast, some students if only sarcastically have expressed skepticism that heat will be turned on sometime soon. One Kirkland resident joked...
...today, Green Mountain was giving away free cups of coffee, including a seasonal Pumpkin Spice flavor, and BestBuy was handing out free tote bags. There were free organic fruit bars, organic juice and granola, Israeli chocolate, Cholula hot sauce, and samples of amazing kettle corn. One vendor offered free appointments with dermatologists from Harvard Medical School; the vendor for Sketchers announced that you could try on shoes for free. Maybe they need to work on their pitch...
While the branch of ballooning that de Rozier pioneered became safer and more refined (the first modern hot-air balloon appeared in 1960), it didn't deter a fringe element from testing some dubious designs of their own. Perhaps the most famous of these is the strange 1982 voyage of Larry Walters, known in the press as Lawn Chair Larry. On July 2, Walters, a truck driver from Long Beach, Calif., attached 42 helium-filled weather balloons to an aluminum lawn chair, and with a bottle of soda, a CB radio and a BB gun, lifted off in the makeshift...