I'll even miss the border inspections.
Fortunately, the Duhks are playing at Schuba's Sunday. That'll make up for it.
- Yahoo does strange things to embedded PHP code in web pages. This took the better part of a day to determine.
- I actually appreciate the amateur efforts at fireworks on the fourth, but good lord how do you wind up with leftovers to play with on the fifth?
On the other hand, good grief people, I'm willing to overlook the crowds on the bike path last night, but will you please learn to walk on the right?
Oh yeah, and you guys with the brakeless, lightless, and rear reflectorless bikes on the path? You suck.
I also tossed a couple bucks to a group of probably-teens who were probably road-tripping and scrounging money by busking. What can I say, I'm a sucker for fiddle and banjo, no matter how well its played.
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I mean, c'mon. If you're going to set up a selection on your database, get the column names right.
It turns out that the correct item to choose is "title type", but I'm not really inclined to give them points for obscuring the features that do work.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpWM0FNPZ
I'm disappointed that it's only one minute 54 seconds long.
"I'm not selling them the paint," yelled Taine. "Can't you understand that? They don't want the paint. They want the idea of paint, the principle of paint."
from "The Big Front Yard" by Clifford Simak
Okay, one comment. I try to distinguish bad writing from bad acting. If the script's awful, no amount of talent can make bad lines sound good. Fawcett was a better actress than one would expect from Charlie's Angels, but most people wouldn't know that because CA was the only reference that they had.
So either Rand was a perceptive viewer, or she liked junk TV and latched on to her favorite character on the show.
On the other hand, this would be why I used the seat belts to secure the coffee maker. Neither it nor I left our seats.
Lefty Science Fiction Convention To Be Held In Downtown Chicago This Weekend.
Feel free to come on over and see what's what. Fortunately, there will be people far more interesting than me there that you can to talk to.
Multiple lightning strikes? Check.
Wind blowing rain horizontally? Check.
Quarter-inch hailstones (in 70°-plus temperatures)? Check.
Flooded streets? Check.
And this went on for hours.
I did not turn on my computer for a while. I did not leave the building for a while. And it's very humid right now.
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mobylives_feed brings me:As [children's book author Alison] Uttley hadn’t bothered to listen to a word I’d told her, she was completely unprepared for this. Dimly she perceived an overwhelming mob running at her and with British pluck she unhesitatingly grabbed her duck-handled umbrella and waded into the attack, felling infants right and left.
The kiddies paused, briefly regrouped, then broke up and ran off, screaming in terror. Uttley strode among them, lashing out freely.
And I thought Roald Dahl had issues...
Alas, they weren't the artist's barrels. He is being prosecuted.
Look, links! Each with a picture of the sculpture!
The Smoking Gun has the court docs.
Some reactions to the art and court situation.
Joseph Carnevale's blog entry.
I wonder if he's an SF0 player?
Initial impetus from
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theweaselkingFrom The Times Online, Ruling on NightJack author Richard Horton kills blogger anonymity.
It should be noted that it was The Times that was trying to reveal his identity in the first place. Even if we assume an attempt at journalistic neutrality, that should be kept in mind when reading the article.
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alymid has an entry on the effect it has if you’re forever presented with a vision of the world that does not have you in it.Linked with permission. Posted also to
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think_galactic.So, naturally I had to test a word that I happen to like:
Quiddle
Century Dictionary (3)
1. To spend or waste time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in a trifling or superficial manner; be of a trifling, time-wasting character.
2. One who quiddles, or busies himself about, trifles. Also quiddler.
3. To quiver; shiver; tremble; creep, as live flesh: as, the fish were still quiddling.
Webster's Unabridged (1913) (1)
1. To spend time in trifling employments, or to attend to useful subjects in an indifferent or superficial manner; to dawdle.
I'm either the third person to look it up on that site, or there were three people before me to look it up. Hard to tell.
Via
antickmusingsThe Straight Dope (Chicago) gets asked about the coffee here.
This almost makes up for the craptacular "Family Guy" (yeah, I know, turn off the TV). Almost.
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Poll #1413944 Betelgeuse Boom
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All
Betelgeuse will go supernova...
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In 10years
0 (0.0%)
In 50 years 0 (0.0%)
In 100 years 0 (0.0%)
You do know what the implication of "430 light years away" means, right? 4 (100.0%)
You have another chance. "Jon" has been remounted at Theatre on the Lake, 2401 N Lake Shore Drive. Shows are on June 17th to the 21st.
It was a terrific combination of tech and theater, and I think I'll see it again myself.
In most mammals, a single set of XX chromosomes signifies a girl, a set of XY specifies a boy. For reasons that remain mysterious, monotremes have multiple sets of sex chromosomes, four or more parading pairs of XXs and XYs, or something else altogether: a few of those extra sex chromosomes look suspiciously birdlike.
Natalie Angier, 9 June 2009 New York Times
Any mention of monotremes surviving in Australia in Y, The Last Man?
http://www.nytimes.com/ref/crosswords/ke
Ooooh, the on-line edition has 8x8 puzzles.
Sudoku is dead to me.
Even before the panic over influenza A H1N1 (swine flu) hit the headlines, pandemics were becoming unavoidable in popular culture as both an ever-present threat and a metaphor for collective hysteria. But this was not always the case. In the first recorded use, in 1666, the English physician Gideon Harvey used “Pandemick” interchangeably with “Epidemick” to mean a malignant disease that “do generally…haunt a Country”. Interestingly, although Harvey was writing just a year after the Great Plague, the reference came in a tract about consumption. For Harvey and his contemporary Samuel Pepys, the plague was merely a “pestilence”.
The Lancet, Volume 373, Issue 9679, Page 1939, 6 June 2009
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