Dear ladies of Most Gladly,
I am here tonight to talk to you about waxing your moustaches. Are you into moustaches? Does moustache actually have an "o" in it, or is that a Canadianism? If you are working on a fabulous handlebar moustache you will find that once you have achieved a certain length you will need a little touch of wax to keep it out of your mouth. Most of the commercial products actually have a hint of rosewater, a wonderful surprise known only to people who kiss you.
I have also been tasked with discussing flannel shirts. I am in fact currently wearing a flannel shirt, which is at least third hand and terribly comfotable. The exceptionally nice thing about flannel shirts is that they are very warm, which is useful if you have come to visit your sister in the frozen wastelands of the American Prairie. (My editor wanted me to write "the frozen north" but that would offend our Canadian friends, who are wearing at least two flannel shirts each.) Are you cold? Burn your moustache and wear a flannel shirt.
Do I need another paragraph or am I done? This type of meta discussion would normally be conducted outside of the typist's box, but that would be dreary, like the plains of the frozen American prairie. Which are actually wonderful and beautiful and full of delicious food just growing right out of the ground. Also flannel. And wax. My sister said that she could grow anything in her garden but I did not believe her at first.
My nephew thinks that you might also like to know about the quantum Hall effect. I remember during Jamie's PhD days how the readers of Most Gladly eagerly awaited her discussions of R and statistical miscegenation so that they would finally have the time to read another blog instead. [Brief interlude in which the control-freak sister wrests back the laptop to type "HEY DON'T MAKE FUN OF MY BLOG I'M STILL OLDER THAN YOU and then hands back the keyboard to perpetuate the illusion of maturity].,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, There are a large number of commas in this paragraph about the quantum Hall effect because the comma key is damaged and I was afraid it was food and tried to scrape it off without anyone noticing. We'll just keep it to ourselves, shall we? Anyway, the quantum Hall effect is exactly like the classical Hall effect, where there is a force on a current whose direction depends on the sign of the charge carriers inside the material, except that like everything else in quantum mechanics the quantum Hall effect comes in lumps. It's named for Mr. Hall. There's even a fractional quantum Hall effect which comes in smaller lumps; that was the subject of an excellent book by Nobelist Robert Laughlin whose title I cannot remember at the moment.
Moustaches. Jamie's is not coming along very quickly. Oldest boy has one on his chin which will look quite fine in a few more years.
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