Denton Visit
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livingdebRobin and I visited a friend in Denton this week. I learned many things:
* You can get a degree in coloring. By majoring in math and studying variants of the four-color (map) problem. (There may also be other ways, perhaps involving majors in textiles or advertising.)
* The UNT mascot is Mean Green. It looks like an eagle. Their environmental efforts are labeled "We mean green."
* Old-timey glass door knobs tend to unscrew themselves from the door with use.
* You can vent your dryer even if you don't have proper dryer connections so long as you have a window to lead your vent hose to.
* I knew you could request the "table salsa" at Chuy's instead of the default salsa (Hi, Sherry!). But now I will probably remember that the salsa they bring you is chunky and tastes healthy and full of vegetables. The table salsa is soupier with more of a salted tomato flavor.
* I already knew Denton had a really nice used book store (Recycled); now I've been in it. It's not exactly maze-like, but there are many rooms on several levels. And squeaky wooden floors. Westerns and gardening books are in the same room. Sci fi and crafts are in the same room. The math section is back with the sciences, but tucked away in a tiny closet-like room, on the side you can't see when you're first walking by, as if they are hiding it or saving us from it. There is also a section labeled as being for really tall people (books displayed two stories up). And it's difficult to know whether a book is considered classic or contemporary literature; fortunately, those two sections are side by side in the same room.
Conversation of the Day
Robin - This place has absolutely no Nabokov.
Debbie - I doubt it. It's probably in the Classic section.
Robin - No, I don't like classic literature. [Literature does not get good until around 1900.]
Debbie - I saw Herman Hesse there. Let me go check. ... There is more than an entire shelf of Nabokov.
* You can get a degree in coloring. By majoring in math and studying variants of the four-color (map) problem. (There may also be other ways, perhaps involving majors in textiles or advertising.)
* The UNT mascot is Mean Green. It looks like an eagle. Their environmental efforts are labeled "We mean green."
* Old-timey glass door knobs tend to unscrew themselves from the door with use.
* You can vent your dryer even if you don't have proper dryer connections so long as you have a window to lead your vent hose to.
* I knew you could request the "table salsa" at Chuy's instead of the default salsa (Hi, Sherry!). But now I will probably remember that the salsa they bring you is chunky and tastes healthy and full of vegetables. The table salsa is soupier with more of a salted tomato flavor.
* I already knew Denton had a really nice used book store (Recycled); now I've been in it. It's not exactly maze-like, but there are many rooms on several levels. And squeaky wooden floors. Westerns and gardening books are in the same room. Sci fi and crafts are in the same room. The math section is back with the sciences, but tucked away in a tiny closet-like room, on the side you can't see when you're first walking by, as if they are hiding it or saving us from it. There is also a section labeled as being for really tall people (books displayed two stories up). And it's difficult to know whether a book is considered classic or contemporary literature; fortunately, those two sections are side by side in the same room.
Conversation of the Day
Robin - This place has absolutely no Nabokov.
Debbie - I doubt it. It's probably in the Classic section.
Robin - No, I don't like classic literature. [Literature does not get good until around 1900.]
Debbie - I saw Herman Hesse there. Let me go check. ... There is more than an entire shelf of Nabokov.
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on 2014-06-13 06:13 pm (UTC)no subject
on 2014-06-13 10:23 pm (UTC)It didn't exactly seem maze-like to me (like Central Market when it first opened). It's more like you had to go through some rooms to get to other rooms, and you can't tell at first which rooms have extra rooms attached.