The Alabama Shakes made their television debut on Conan last night:
They liked them so much Conan invited them to play another tune for his website.
The way everyone talks you’re going to be hearing a great deal more from them in the future. Their first album is due out in April.
The last World War I servicemember has died:
Florence Green, a member of Britain’s Royal Air Force who was afraid of flying, died in England on Saturday, two weeks shy of her 111th birthday. She was believed to have been the war’s last living veteran — the last anywhere of the tens of millions who served.
Mrs. Green, who joined the R.A.F. as a teenager shortly before war’s end, worked in an officer’s mess on the home front. Her service was officially recognized only in 2010, after a researcher unearthed her records in Britain’s National Archives.
The story talks about how she’d go on dates with the pilots, who would offer to woo her in the sky. She was not interested. After the war she married a man with a sensible ground job. He was a railway porter.
Class today, where we learned a valuable lesson about the computer lab printer. It had been disconnected for a while. When it was plugged in three days of reading material was spat from its innards. It made for fascinating reading, I’m sure.
Some other things happened today, I’d bet. A meeting here, a joke there, a crisis averted in a third place. Run of the mill type things. It seemed a busy and full day. But a good day! Almost the best, even.
More tomorrow.
