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Waking up with a migraine is no fun, but I'm realising that no amount of jasmine tea, coffee (in case it was really only caffeine withdrawal), fruit, cucumer salad or orange juice is going to make it go away.
On Sunday, down at Hurley's where the storytellers were transporting us to other worlds with their words, I took the chance to ask my new-found friends if they had any ideas about Polly. Kris (or Chris?) had a thought that's interesting: that the name Polly might be related to parrots which were considered Polynesian birds, and feeding crackers (because they seemed to like it) might have been a way of taming them. I'm not sure about the truth of all this, but it seems a nice theory.
Trying to find the origin of parrots is strangely difficult too, and I have a feeling that the Britannica would be more helpful than the Web for something like this (any of you guys got the P book of Britannica?). What is fascinating though, is that the parrot might be a much, much older bird than we realise.
Cos has posted a report on viewing SVG under Linux, and made me smile with Sweet dreams of Cat and Girl. And yesterday, Dan made me laugh with this. I have awesome friends.
Posted by sniffles at October 09, 2002 04:02 PM