The longest smoke break of Nicholas White’s life began at around eleven o’clock on a Friday night in October, 1999.
Video of the event (forty one hours compressed to under three minutes) here in a YouTube clip.
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A heartwarming message for an important book.
Pharmaceutical ad for Elder Sign.
Casting Call of Cthulhu.
(Very quick background summary: The crew of the Big Horn sees a strange UFO appear. It generates a signal that does strange things to them (killing most); a investigating team has found that the ones that survived seem to want to change us.)
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Hmm, a lot of typing for a one-season show that got canceled five years ago. I put this on my netfix queue a while ago, barely remembering that it existed. I haven't come across the DVD extra yet that was my original reason for looking it up.
I suddenly want to see the Threshold team meet the Torchwood team.
Everyone should go to the library now, find an anthology or collection, and read a story of his.
You will find it was worth the trip.
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Definitely not if they treat their readership this way. I do like how they spin this as a way to get the comic strip sizes larger.
Oh well, that's what the web is for: not pronography [sic], but reading comics. Finding "Sylvia" et al. isn't hard, I just wish there was a way to get my eye tracks to be a real source of revenue, instead of through dodgy sources like google ads. Even comic strip artists need to earn a living.
It does strike me that the Tribune probably knows its audience: keeping "Shoe", "For Better or Worse", and "Hagar the Horrible" just shows that they're more comfortable with the bland and that they'd rather have an audience of people who like the same thing. Add in the conservatism of the creepy amoral sort found the Tribune's editorial columns, and you know that the Trib has it's preferred demographic.
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What's The Super Bowl For?
Watching two American football teams play with skill and grace![]()
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Showing that the college bowl system is actually more sensible![]()
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Showing that American football is just as stupid as European football![]()
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Showing that American football is just as stupid as Canadian football![]()
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A lost opportunity to have it on Monday to make a three-day weekend![]()
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Eating nachos![]()
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Eating guacamole![]()
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Eating pizza![]()
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2 (28.6%)
Drinking soft drinks![]()
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Drinking beer![]()
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Camaradarie around the television set![]()
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2 (28.6%)
A chance to watch beautifully shot vignettes of 30 seconds or less![]()
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A chance to watch stupid commercials![]()
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An opportunity to knit in peace and quiet![]()
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"I wish to complain about this poll" (trade mark James Nicoll)![]()
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Plant-wise 2009 was unexpectedly successful, but not so much as far as actual flowers go. The unseasonably cool weather didn't help, and I was lucky just to get the plants more established.
So this year, I'm making up for it. The catalogues come fast and furious, and in January it's mostly the seed catalogues. Paradoxically, seeds are more work than live plants, since some of them require special treatment (usually having to do with cold), and all of them require space, since I'm sprouting them indoors to get a leg up on Spring and to avoid the hungry birds.
Which means that what I ordered is bordering on the insane. Even if there's a method in my madness, that doesn't change the fact that there's an element of madness.
From John Scheepers Kitchen Garden Seeds:
Atomic Red Carrots
Red Wonder Alpine Strawberries
Yellow Wonder Alpine Strawberries
From Pinetree Garden Seeds:
Alpine Strawberry – Ruegen
Alpine Strawberry – White Soul
Alma Paprika
Hopi Red Dye Amaranth
From Select Seeds:
Alpine Strawberry – Alexandria
Tobacco Crimson Bedder
Pink – Clove 'Old Vermont'
You may see a pattern here.
There doesn't seem to be any originality in Fairey's work. And the fact that he takes radical artwork to alter and colorize, to sell to wannabe radicals, says "mercenary" to me, not "activist".
Josh MacPhee (a guest of honor at Thinkgalacticon 2009) also weighs in.
Presumably it won't be as quick to de-list books. I'd been avoiding using Amazon links for book references in general anyway, but now I have a positive alternative.
Speaking of Colorado Springs, it seems it is also an example of a perfect Libertarian society. So we now know what we can strive for.
Still, it was disconcerting to feed in my ballot to the ballot reader and see the number go from "53" to "54", especially since I had uncharacteristically gone to the polls in the late afternoon (usually I arrive early). I can only hope that the other vote-counter (for people who wanted to vote electronically) had seen higher use.
There are near dead-heat results for both the Democratic and Republican runs for governor (looks like the guy I voted for isn't going to make it). The Senate races aren't nearly as close, and the woman I voted for wasn't near the top (although approximately 20% of the vote isn't bad).
The other elections actually made me a little hopeful.
Ursula K. Le Guin launched a petition (with an interesting list of authors) against the settlement.
Her letter of resignation from the Authors Guild is here.
According to Jay Kesner, MIT's LDX honcho, the difference between his baby and a regular tokamak is simple: with the tokamak the plasma is inside the magnet, whereas in the LDX the magnet is inside the plasma.
Hmm. "Radio Flyer"; "Laser... " anything, really; I have to remember that technologies had to be new at some point in history, and using the cool new name in another name, or as a macguffin in fiction, has a long, long history.
I still blinked a bit.
I heard them at the Detroit Jazz Festival year before last, and they were terrific. It'll be interesting to hear what they sound like in an enclosed space.
David Itzkoff wrote an article in the New York Times, stating that the Sherlock Holmes canon is still copyrighted. He is probably not correct.
Yes, it matters who you use as your expert source.
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Some people wait for New Year's, others the weekend after Christmas (which is occasionally the same thing). I've been doing it on the twelfth day of Christmas for some years now. So tomorrow, I wait for midnight to roll around, and unplug the lights.
The guy who was happy to let Sun acquire MySQL is all upset that it might be bought by Oracle. Because after all MySQL is The Chosen One, the M in the LAMP acronym.
Larry Alston of PostgreSQL politely disagrees.
They were actually a quartet. At one point a young teen joined them (this is why I suspect it was a family visit), and he played the lead guitar on "The Joker". And yes, many Smithereens songs were played.
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Which is wonderful for me, because I grew up learning chess with English descriptive system, and I keep screwing up my mental image with the Algebraic notation.
There are instructions on how to use ChessFlash for yourself here; it basically involves pasting in your moves in PGN format.
Edit: "Fischer" is spelled with a "c".
