I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Disclaimer: I like folk music.
Sounds more like you're declaiming.
why yes xo, a bit of declaiming going on
Nebbish?
I know, I know. My favorite music sucks.
Squat and Gobble?
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sardine, are you also taking care of teh kitties?
Sardine is back!
Alliteration after hours.
'error occurred try again later'
o-tay. will do.
kitties? i don't even bother owning a plant. too much work.
Is P Wombat still here? I was interested in his comment about Michael Oakeshott....
I like folk music too.
Why don't you play some?
sardine, are you also taking care of teh kitties?
ErinPDX
Or are teh kitties taking care of sardine? Puuurrr, you tasty morsel...
Sardine is back!
Wittgy |
Packed in water?
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I love teh kittehs, y'know.
Laid end to end.
There's a Goya..... about a sardine.... wait a bit.
There's a Goya..... about a sardine.... wait a bit.
Wittgy | 07.10.09 - 12:05 am | #
[noises off]
Here it is, Goya's Burial of the Sardine:
http://hi.zpok.hu/maxigas/pick/
p...oya_sardine.jpg
Looks a bit like bob denver.
sardine is posting late night videos and Thers isn't?
Let's say I'm skeptical.
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Canned sardines on saltines with mustard and domestic beer. I did that once.
Oh no, the sardine, she must be eaten live.
I like canned sardines every once in awhile. Not the ones in mustard. Well, I haven't tried those, but they don't sound good.
Nice song.
Okay, off to bed.
But in the meantime, there's a droll new Listomania -- theme: Songs About Going Somewhere or Anywhere! -- over at the homepage. For those who care.
And it has a Space Moose reference, and if you know what that means you ought to be ashamed of yourselves.
I remember an episode of Iron Chef where sardines were the theme ingredient. Yummy stuff.
one of the happier-appearing funeral processions you'll see...
I like canned sardines every once in awhile. Not the ones in mustard. Well, I haven't tried those, but they don't sound good.
Tlazolteotl, parroted
On a really good rye bread? Me-ow!
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I like sardine.
Love to ye batses, and sleep e well.
I like the Pat Boone version better.
Agent Orange, I share your skepticism. Where is Thers?
Where are the Decemberists?
Canned smoked trout from TJ's is great backpacking food, if you're of a certain age and have outgrown Mountain House mystery packets...
NTodd...who are the Decemberists?
Ni Nick! You getting those Internets problems worked out?
And why no Gypsy shit videos?
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Never get out of the boat.
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g'nite
sleep tite
don't let the bedbugs bite
Agent Orange, I share your skepticism. Where is Thers?
sardine |
Mmmm. I drove past Liberal Mountain a coupla weeks ago and there were kids everywhere?
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(blinks)
previous thread seemed kinda trooly, so left & came back in time for this one, other than that things are okay...
sleep well, snake prophetess
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Okay. Callin' it. Big day, today. Big day, tomorrow.
♥
don't let the bedbugs bite
Hegemon!
Where's John?
Good night Echidne!
Good night Jeffraham!
Sweet dreams.
I'm going to head off before too long too - my eyes hurt from all the sun today (and that's wearing sunglasses). I forget how much stronger the sun is down here compared to farther north. The temp can be the same, but the intensity of the sun down here is really something else.
Iys good to see that Atrios has given the keys to people I'VE NEVER FUCKING HEARD OF BEFORE.
Integral: Dallas, right? Didja wear out the roller coasters?
Blodgewhore
got some pics of Philadelphia up
got some pics of Philadelphia up
Uncle Blodge, MTC
Boooooo...
Feel at home?
GravatarWhere are the Decemberists?
Dude, it's July. Duh.
People fight. That's how they get ahead.
Toby Petzold
this is my new annoying refrain:
we need to fight back against the unspoken assumption that the american people have swallowed that society is inevitably a game with winners and losers
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Night, Jeffraham and Integral Lit.
Come to think of it, bedtime for my own self. Night, bats...
Nick I did. Wrote about it last thread, so I don't want to bore everyone again.
Just sayin' - keeping up with two teenaged girls wears a person out! Had a ball, though!
"Feel at home?"
go put french fries on your sandwich
GravatarNTodd...who are the Decemberists?
Nobody.
no word on the health and well being of phila?
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Time to pack it in. Catch you hippies another day.
You should listen to the Sons of the Never Wrong.
"we need to fight back against the unspoken assumption that the american people have swallowed that society is inevitably a game with winners and losers"
yes but - toby is not worth talking to
not now - not ever
but the intensity of the sun down here is really something else.
Integral ♠ Lit | 07.10.09 - 12:20 am | #
Fun Factoid
South Dakota 42.5 N Latitude
Dallas TX 32.5 N Latitude.
The sun in Dallas is 20 times its own diameter higher in the sky than South Dakota.
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True dat.
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Oh, okay, I'll go look downstairs.
I'd send phila an email and ask him, but he has a habit of not answering when he's busy. Imagine that!
"The sun in Dallas is 20 times its own diameter higher in the sky than South Dakota."
that is because of the evil rays emitted by the dallas physical manifestations of total evil
I'd send phila an email and ask him, but he has a habit of not answering when he's busy. Imagine that!
Tlazolteotl, parroted
he might be deep in a struggle to the death with that editing project he took on
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no word on the health and well being of phila?
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tacitus volt bear | 07.10.09 - 12:23 am
Really? That's getting disturbing.
I liked your post on the social darwinism of the troll.
Blodgewhore
got some pics of Philadelphia up
Uncle Blodge, MTC |
About 2 months ago the statue of 'Divine Lorraine' disappeared from over the entry pediment. I fear vandals (who been spray painting the place to death) may have knocked it over destroying it???
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Agent Orange...here's some gypsy shit to tide you over
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L...h?
v=LYE8Vjih2cs
but that's all you get because i'm a selfish folk loving bastard.
who are the Decemberists?
were
use your google foo
i think a lot of them were photoshopped out of the pictures by the may-flowers
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"I fear vandals (who been spray painting the place to death) may have knocked it over destroying it???"
I don't know
They were going to make condos out of it but it fell through
ALSIP, Ill. (AP) - Three gravediggers and a cemetery manager unearthed hundreds of corpses from a historic black cemetery south of Chicago, dumping some in a weeded area and double-stacking others in existing graves, in an elaborate scheme to resell the plots, authorities said Thursday. All four were charged with felonies.
Well, I was going to say:
South Dakota 42.5 N Latitude
Dallas TX 32.5 N Latitude.
The sun in Dallas is 20 times its own diameter higher in the sky than South Dakota.
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Agent Orange
Cool. Or, um, NOT?
But f'ing HaloScan keeps telling me to shut up about it already!
I liked your post on the social darwinism of the troll.
Wittgy
thank you! i was contemplating becoming a bore on the topic to highlight it more...
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night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B...h?
v=BEkyaoPdar8
'down here it's just winners and losers/ don't get caught on the wrong side of that line'
MCLEAN, Virginia - The federal government's most secure prison has determined that two books written by President Barack Obama contain material "potentially detrimental to national security" and rejected an inmate's request to read them.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capre...oks_1?
printer=1
Mighty secure.
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ank you! i was contemplating becoming a bore on the topic to highlight it more...
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tacitus volt bear | 07.10.09 - 12:33 am
heh.
he might be deep in a struggle to the death with that editing project he took on
Yes, I think that's quite likely. 
Ain't it awful???
Renee shut her eyes and wheeled her thoughts away from the gentle battering her ramparts were undergoing........Pleasure whammed her as the slow fingers slid deeper, parting the florets, and rubbed her slippery, throbbing flesh to blissful relief. She cried with helpless excitement as his thumb circled the seat of her delight with tantalizing patience intended to prologue her climactic, gratifying convulsions, rendering her soft and pliant for his designs. Oh, this was heresy. Her faithless body, enchanted with a lustful vampire, melted in anticipation of ravishment; her over-emotional mind filled with wonder and yearning.
For your reading pleasure, there's more at http://misfitandmom.livejournal.....com/
16101.html
post on the social darwinism of the troll
I must have missed that, I'll bet it was good.
And a gentle goodnight I'm going into.
Whammed is now a verb? God, if only I were 20 years younger.
O'Reilly-porn?
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Agent Orange...here's some gypsy shit to tide you over
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L...h? v=LYE8Vjih2cs
but that's all you get because i'm a selfish folk loving bastard.
sardine |
Oh yeah, I can safely say I'm the only person who watched all 5:44 of the video.
And don't forget, I know where you live!
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This proves, PROVES that sardine is a local Philadelpia area savant. Or pundit. Or not.
I don't know
They were going to make condos out of it but it fell through
Uncle Blodge, MTC |
It'll happen eventually (20 years) if it doesn't get torched.
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Nice, Nick - thanks. Haven't heard that for a long time. Gotta love Bruce.
There ain't no place like Tennessee!
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sardine & John are Atrios's friends in what passes for real life, right? that was what I got out of the introduction the other night.
Tlazolteotl, parroted | Homepage | 07.10.09 - 12:35 am
oh, thank you, but it was just the one sentence in this thread
pet peeve of mine...
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What's the name of the group in the video?
This proves, PROVES that sardine is a local Philadelpia area savant. Or pundit. Or not.
Wittgy |
Nah, take I-81 North. When you reach NY make a left. Watch for the kids with the map of Ireland on their faces eating sardines.
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Agent Orange...that's not true. I watched the entire video as well.
Agent Orange...that's not true. I watched the entire video as well.
sardine |
OK, but all those people in the audience...what band did they really come to see?
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tacitus, you were around this afternoon when I jumped on sebs for that kind of crap, weren't you?
Food isn't a human right - talk about social Darwinism. And when I pointed out that he was a hypocrite for calling everyone 'ideologically rigid'and then turning around and telling everyone what argument to make or not to make in favor of a public plan of some sort, he dodged and then got all passive-aggressive. I hate that passive aggressive shit.
Tlaz: you're wasting your time on sebs...
tacitus, you were around this afternoon when I jumped on sebs for that kind of crap, weren't you?
Food isn't a human right - talk about social Darwinism.
Tlazolteotl, parroted
yeah, i was. sebs has been way over the line the last couple of days. and then he has been whining when he gets whammed for it
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nick, I know, I won't anymore. Like fred, he starts out with some reasonable points, or even tries to engage people reasonably, then throws in something outrageous, and you engage thinking the person might actually be willing to discuss. But then they go all weaselly on you, trying to accuse you of doing what they are doing, and all the other troll tricks, but being especially passive-aggressive about it.
The styles are so similar that I think fred and sebs are the same person.
OK, but all those people in the audience...what band did they really come to see?
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Agent Orange | 07.10.09 - 12:44 am | #
Hah. They came to see her! But I shouldn't expect a lover of gypsy shit to understand that.
Evening all. Just a drive by to give you some lillies
that "I'm not wrong, *you* are for questioning me" shtick gets old *fast*. I just all of a sudden got too old for that troll stuff...
Those are lovely dmark. I will have to go out this weekend and take some pics of my lilies, which have just started blooming.
i was contemplating becoming a bore on the topic to highlight it more...
You're still the best, baby.
Also, fuck haloscan.
Pleasure whammed her as the slow fingers slid deeper, parting the florets, and rubbed her slippery, throbbing flesh to blissful relief. She cried with helpless excitement as his thumb circled the seat of her delight with tantalizing patience intended to prologue her climactic, gratifying convulsions, rendering her soft and pliant for his designs. Oh, this was heresy.
I had that once. Fortunately, there are shots.
The great thing about lillies is that you can grow them anywhere. Even in in pots.
annie | Homepage | 07.10.09 - 12:58 am
hiya, flirty girl
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nice pics, dmark.
I have to admit, when the trolls make reasonable comments some of the time I'm more likely to get pulled in. I have no problem ignoring auggie or sonny ablaza. And sometimes I like to poke fun at Tobes, though I suspect some of his stuff is 'schtick.' Others it takes me longer to figure out they just aren't honest in their intentions.
I have to admit, when the trolls make reasonable comments some of the time I'm more likely to get pulled in.
Start from the assumption that everyone sucks and it's much easier.
hiya, flirty girl
long ago
the delicate tangles of his hair
covered the emptiness of my hand
In what way, shape or form could the $96,000 be considered "hush money" ? It was an nact of generosity by Ensign's parents, who were blessed with enormous wealth and can afford such acts of kindness. Left wing spinning elaborate conspiracy theories that are just off the wall.Give it up, this story is going nowhere. Move on, nothing to see here. Didn't even make the evening news shows tonight.
Sorry, that Anonymous was me - had to downgrade Firefox and forgot to add my info. Because killfile wouldn't yet work with the new version!
I know what you mean... you like to think someone is just sort of wrong, and they can be brought around. Then it turns out you don't really know *what* they think, just that they're screwing around...
I don't think s*bs will be with us much longer. Then soon afterwards, a new name will appear, speaking in naive but friendly tones, agreeing with everyone, pleasant and polite....and the dance begins again.
IL, if yer still around, I had a very similar experience the last couple of days with that which-is-worse, the-heat-or-the-solar-rays question. Went down to Shiloh battlefield Tuesday, which was not terribly hot by any means by the last few weeks' standards. And nice breeze, humidity relatively low...should have been ideal.
Yet walking around, if I was out in the sunlight for more than 5 minutes or so the eyesight started to get wavery, the stomach felt not so good, and movement became...not exactly difficult, more like in slow motion.
As soon as I got into some shade these phenomena went away. It was very strange. Have lived in TN for 10 years now but am occasionally reminded emphatically that 46 years in more northerly latitudes will never be overcome.
not that i really want it to be. I want to win the fucking lottery so I can get the fuck out of this damn place. Back to PA, back to IL, back to IA (well, okay, that's pushing it), just the fuck out of the south.
And finally, just to let you know I have not been lazy this week, a shot of one of my gardens.
Tlazolteotl, parroted | Homepage | 07.10.09 - 1:01 am
it's tempting to think that you can reason with people, but i've had the same impulses for years and the results tend to be frustrating, particularly in regard to wingers
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I find it not hard at all to ignore obvious trolls saying stupid shit even they don't believe just to try to get a rise out of someone, anyone. Case in point.
Also, Haloscan sucks worse than trolls. Also.
Xan: Iowa expatriate?
Sebs is an obvious troll, he gets a kick out of people getting angry at him.
If someone is making you angry, it's probably a troll. The reasoning is simple, once you get mad, you lose your reason and it's super easy to lead you down the garden path.
That's alright JeffCO, I was just going to work from the assumption that poster 'anonymous' sucks.
A most enjoyable 26th anniversary was had by the two of us
I know what you mean... you like to think someone is just sort of wrong, and they can be brought around. Then it turns out you don't really know *what* they think, just that they're screwing around...
That's the key - IMHO, in the 5 years or so I've been coming here I am hardpressed to think of very many people espousing overtly Republican views who weren't just yanking chains, as they eventually reveal through any of various means.
Nick: Born there. Dragged away involuntarily at the age of 7 when (step)dad got a transfer to a job in IL, probably to get away from his in-laws.
Sally! Congrats! What did you do to celebrate?
I know what you mean... you like to think someone is just sort of
wrong, and they can be brought around. Then it turns out you don't
really know *what* they think, just that they're screwing around...
Check with Mlle about this. She got a very, very hard lesson today.
the fuck?
do you people often talk about me when i'm not here? that's weird.
dmark, but I see weeds! oh noes!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9...h?
v=9X687eplgRU
This is a troll.
Nick, Monsieur took me to Porto Alegre in Pasadena, which is a Brazilian barbecue restaurant. I got flowers and 3 cards. It was delightful.
In many ways Iowa is a good place to be from...
do you people often talk about me when i'm not here? that's weird.
We talk about you all the time, 24/7, we never close, sebs 7 days a week, even Christmas and Yom Kippur.
That's alright JeffCO, I was just going to work from the assumption that poster 'anonymous' sucks. Tlazolteotl, parroted
And the system works!!!
flowers, dinner, and a Brazilian...sounds like a decent anniversary to me
A most enjoyable 26th anniversary was had by the two of us
Sallyh, Grandmere Poissonniere
good things!
i'm so glad to see you happy!
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We talk about you all the time, 24/7, we never close, sebs 7 days a week, even Christmas and Yom Kippur.
NTodd,שלו | Homepage | 07.10.09 - 1:11 am | #
hmmm. a little creepy.
well, as long as you guys only say nice things. i guess that's fine.
In many ways Iowa is a good place to be from...
nick carraway
heh. It's the one place where the sky always looks right. Don't think I quite realized this until taking one look at "Field of Dreams" and knowing they weren't kidding about it being shot on location.
Congratulations, Sallyh! True love or inertia, either way it's impressive!
We talk about you all the time, 24/7, we never close, sebs 7 days a week, even Christmas and Yom Kippur.
NToddler, at first I thought we were discussing you
dmark, but I see weeds! oh noes!
Tlazolteotl
I've weeded since that shot
The delivery crews will be awaiting my sage advice and concise management style at 7:30 tomorrow, so I am off to bed.
Please feel free to abuse the trolls while I'm gone.
Hey all.
Krauthammer is WAAAAAY off the deep end in his latest.
In no uncertain terms, he wants the Cold War tension of the Cuban Missile Crisis to make a comeback.
A Nuke in every pot!
(Could someone please tell him Dr. Strangelove has NEVER been a foreign policy template? And that it's, like, 45 years old?)
JeffCO, I think it's more true love, but never discount the effects of inertia
Besides, dating sucks.
flowers, dinner, and a Brazilian
I didn't see anything in there about going to mount baldy.
wow. there are some harsh words about me upthread.
so the verdict so far: not beloved.
yet.
As soon as I got into some shade these phenomena went away. It was very strange. Have lived in TN for 10 years now
been bitten by a bat lately?
Sally: so good to hear that. best wishes for many more.
fireflies earlier, then the moon came up late in the southeastern sky, now lightning coming from the west- and when the rain gets here I'll lose internet signal.
So in case I disappear, it's totally unintentional... if noticed.
Bats get in my house sometimes. I have a net to catch them. They're ugly and hard to catch.
Roadie 
Now I'm truely off to bed.
a brazilian wax for an anniversay gift?
brilliant!!
on the other hand i buy my wife stuff form victoria's secret all the time and pass it to her as a gift with a straight face. she never complains.
halcoscan sucks
goodnight, and Happy Anniversary, sallyh!
(checks epidermis). Not that I can tell 1watt, as far as I know the only assaults are from chiggers and ticks. And I think I got all the latter off before they got any nibbles in.
well, and skeeters. So ...you're saying it could be malaria?
(looks up number for the Gates Foundation)
If there are trollies who don't obsessively post about other people's reactions to and treatment of him or her, I've yet to see them.
Hasta manana, dmark.
night, dmark and tlaz
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well, i was just gonna check in to see if there was some good conversation going on.
since the topic appears to be me, then i guess i'll do the polite thing and leave.
have a good night all.
nick, whereabouts are you at? Any past/present ties to Iowa?
vampire, sunlight avoidance
Life-long Iowegian here... think 'Vesterheim', 'Effigy Mounds', 'Pike's Peak'...
Pain sometimes makes one temporarily crazy.
Is QC still around? Care to discuss this comment?
Please elaborate on how you equate pain with insanity.
Slow night.
sallyh deserves to be happy cuz she's a nice person
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lightning moving in pretty close now.
I'm done.
oh, *there* she is, ms "et tu"... went to look that up this AM... had no idea what it really meant...
Some lady got hit by lightening inside her house. Like I needed to know that, I can't deal with knowing that can happen.
Life-long Iowegian here... think 'Vesterheim', 'Effigy Mounds', 'Pike's Peak'...
nick carraway
(tries desperately to think of anything significant which occurred around my old stomping grounds...)
um, got it: "Birthplace of the Iowa Flag."
And the Canteen, home of the World's Best Maid-Rites (in the home of Radar O'Reilly and my dad)...and then Pella, tulip capital of the world or at least greater Midwest... eh, that's about all I got to brag on. Effigy Mounds I lament I am unfamiliar with.
stay away from the windows, they say... dunno. hard to get away from them in *this* house...
had no idea what it really meant...
nick carraway
no 10th grade latin? Well, it was kind of a waste of time anyway.
Is sebs gone?
Good, now we can talk about it.
oh, *there* she is, ms "et tu"... went to look that up this AM... had no idea what it really meant...
nick carraway
isn't that what Wimpy told Popeye, when asked about hamburgers?
Latin was not an option. I had a rough idea, anyway... I think wiki over-dramatized their definition a bit.
Some lady got hit by lightening inside her house. Like I needed to know that, I can't deal with knowing that can happen.
You can't deal with it?
Are you saying you feel worse knowing that it's possible that it can happen? Or is it less about having the knowledge but more about knowing there's little you can do to prevent it from happening? imo, the latter is a little disconcerting
I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today....
oh flake, screwed up that one. It should've been Bluto, not Popeye.
Xan: all parks/museums within decent driving distance...
no 10th grade latin? Well, it was kind of a waste of time anyway.
How can you say Latin is a waste, esp. in the U.S.?
It's in (just about) everything. Also serves as a nice segue for those still-viable Romance Languages 
What's the name of the group in the video?
If I didn't know about it I couldn't worry that there's nothing I can do to stop it. I just don't like anything about the whole idea and I'll think about it too much.
Tacitus, you're very kind.
There's been a lot of suffering amongst us. I wish peace and happiness for all.*
{*Offer not valid on trolls.}
too tired. Good night, people.
I'm outtie.
I wish pease and happiness to everyone, and I mean everyone.
Nighty night.
I also wish everyone peace.
'night Ali.
If I didn't know about it I couldn't worry that there's nothing I can do to stop it. I just don't like anything about the whole idea and I'll think about it too much.
Oh, so that puts you in the what you don't know can't hurt you camp?
So you only want to know about things you have control over? What happened to knowledge is power? What about discovery that leads to the ability to exert greater control over one's environment, ability to barter, ability as a consumer to have informed discussions with providers?
For example, I may not know how to do brain surgery, but the more I know about what's being proposed, the better my ability to offer *informed consent* which is essential to the bona fides of any legitimate contract.
hm?
{*Offer not valid on trolls.}
I understand how you would be tempted to withhold in this area and I encourage you to just be with that for awhile Kinda like studying belly lint.
I'd rather not know about lightening or brains.
Especially at this time of night.
Night, sebs.
nighty night, ali and annie
don't let the bedbats bite
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Post this, if you dare, haloscum!
What I love about Latin is I can converse with all the dead Romans I meet on the street.
I'm home. Exhausted, but fine.
Bite me, haloscan! Srsly.
*sneaks back in, will now have nightmares about bedbats*
*wanh wonh* sound
Ah, got it now Nick...yer in/near River City!
NTodd, what I love about Latin is that there are no ancient Romans sticking around to hassle me on pronunciation.
battery running down, night all
and no worrying about the bedbats, hear?
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I wish I could go to bed. Whenever I lay down, my toes go ridged, my arches cramp and my calves go numb.
btw Nick, thank you for the educational lesson here. Never heard of "Effigy Mounds" before and had to look it up. Did not know that Mound Builders culture extended anywhere near that far north. Lots of them in southern Illinois, along the Ohio, indeed I nearly walked on some in Shiloh on Tuesday (not literally of course, that would be both sacreligious and illegal.)
The Shiloh mounds are not long for this world, geologically speaking. They are right at a 90-degree bend of the Tennessee River and several have already been undercut and fallen in. They keep loading the banks up with riprap every few years but it won't hold out forever.
1watt, hang in there
I wish I could go to bed. Whenever I lay down, my toes go ridged, my arches cramp and my calves go numb.
Eat more bananas.
well, am fading out here too. 1watt, hope your legs get feeling better. Eat a banana if you have one to hand, or an orange, and buy a bottle of potassium pills in the morning. Unless there's another diagnosis you haven't told us about, leg cramps usually=potassium deficiency.
/not a doctor but plays one on teh intertubes.
Eat more bananas.
Ralphie
it's arthritis of the spine, spurs push on the sciatic nerve.
it's arthritis of the spine,
Old age is fun!!!!
Never eat bananas with a stranger.
(hides banana, hopes no one noticed previous comment)
I thought that was spinach.
Self defense against fresh fruit!
And any Californians still on?
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What these mysterious vibrations say about future earthquakes is far from certain. But some think the deep tremors suggest underground stress may be building up faster than expected and may indicate an increased risk of a major temblor.
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, monitored seismic activity on the fault's central section between July 2001 and February 2009 and recorded more than 2,000 tremors. The tremors lasted mere minutes to nearly half an hour.
Unlike earthquakes, tremors occur deeper below the surface and the shaking lasts longer.
I thought that was spinach.
Only in Philadelphia or Toledo.
Self defense against fresh fruit!
What about pointed sticks?
What about pointed sticks?
NTodd
only on the grill
Sgt.:
Pointed stick? Oh, oh, oh. We want to learn how to defend ourselves against pointed sticks, do we? Getting all high and mighty, eh? Fresh fruit not good enough for you eh? Well I'll tell you something my lad. When you're walking home tonight and some great homicidal maniac comes after you with a bunch of loganberries, don't come crying to me! Now, the passion fruit. When your assailant lunges at you with a passion fruit..
Ellroon. I guess it's time to refresh my bottled water stock!
Ellroon. I guess it's time to refresh my bottled water stock!
Spocko
Can't hurt!
Won't people be surprised when they can't twitter after the earthquake? Or use their phones.
Those of use with land lines and ham radios will rule the world!
Won't people be surprised when they can't twitter after the earthquake? Or use their phones.
Those of use with land lines and ham radios will rule the world!
Spocko
*gasp* I ... I won't be able to blog!!1!!??
Won't people be surprised when they can't twitter after the earthquake? Or use their phones.
Those of use with land lines and ham radios will rule the world!
Actually, I had better luck contacting friends in Manhattan after 9/11 via the Internet than via the phone.
But ham radios do rock because of their decentralized nature...
But ham radios do rock because of their decentralized nature...
NTodd
plus they make tasty sammiches.
I recently dug out my solar powered battery recharger.
I have a ham radio that runs on batteries.
If I cared enough I could look up the process for sending packets to the internet via ham radio. The problem is I would have to reach something that could accept them. Hand held radios don't have much reach.
I have a hand crank radio...
ellroon. Well done!
I have been trained in the
Neighborhood
Emergency
Response
Team
That's right I'm a NERT!
I have a hardhat and everything!
All the emergency food and water I bought expired 5 years ago.
Remember the air raid shelters with the green cans filled with saltines?
Duck and cover!
If I cared enough I could look up the process for sending packets to the internet via ham radio. The problem is I would have to reach something that could accept them. Hand held radios don't have much reach.
One of my old students used to do a lot with ham radios and TCP/IP.
The handhelds work fairly well, but you do need a receiving device, and the public nature of the system means it might be deuce difficult to find something in the boonies. Yet somehow in the Starfleet Academy area methinks you'll find plenty...
I do admit to enjoying deviled ham on crackers.
Almost anything deviled is yummy.
I had an early transistor radio that was powered by the geomagnetic force. Can't remember if there were one or two leads any way, for power you connected to a significantly large hunk of iron.
All the emergency food and water I bought expired 5 years ago.
Remember the air raid shelters with the green cans filled with saltines?
Duck and cover!
Spocko
My mom had tons of canned food in the hall and she talked about putting mattresses against the broken windows after the bomb hit Los Angeles....
scared teh hell out of me.
I actually did look it up at the time, but as you said, I needed a receiver device. And if the whole area is down?
Their are a couple of battery powered repeater towers in SF but I don't think I can reach them from my location.
It might be fun to try. Of course when the real emergency hits that won't be a good time to try. The tower might be busy with more important traffic.
But if I could figure it out I could log on to haloscan =---and promptly get kicked off!
Maybe I could twitter my sister and she could retweet me around the world!
I like deviled eggs. With olive slices and tiny shrimps.
force. Can't remember if there were one or two leads any way, for power you connected to a significantly large hunk of iron.
1Watt, Hermit
cool! I built a crystal radio when I was 8.
I built a crystal radio when I was 8.
I think mine came from Edmund Scientific.
Will Michael Jackson be buried in Neverland like Elvis was in Graceland?
when I was 6 I used to rush home after school to listen to the Lone Ranger on the radio.
Will Michael Jackson be buried in Neverland like Elvis was in Graceland?
Spocko
he doesn't own it. they'd have to re purchase it for an ungodly sum.
1watt, if you still like old time radio:
http://radio.macinmind.com/
Gotta sleep, if I can.
1Watt, Hermit
Who was that masked man?
Bite me haloscan.
Edmund Scientific!
Loved that shit.
And of course Heathkit.
I'm off to bed too. Nite.
Thanks Ralphie, used to listen to that 7-8 yrs ago.
Well yeah, I guess I should go, too.
[farts]
Who was that masked man?
Bite me haloscan.
Spocko
if you can make out my gravatar, that's me & my white horse. He was good at the Hi HO Silver thingie.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/...it-
LAquila.html
Obama stares at woman's ass
bottom picture on this page
off to bed. Goodnight all you wonderful ppls!
Atrios needs to dump that Repower America ad in the upper left. It covers up the content in the left corner (i.e. whoever is paying for the top banner ad is not getting their ad completely seen) and when you click 'close' it doesn't close.
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there0s an echo inhere
Watch out, Sarah's Twittering again!
Tonight she quotes Walter Cronkite in order to back up her claim that the media has a liberal bias. Here's what she twatted:
"...."Most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they're not, by my definition, they can hardly be good newspapermen" W. Cronkite about 1 hour ago from TwitterBerry "
Oooh, bad stuff eh?
Only she chopped the quote. The full quote is: "I think most newspapermen by definition have to be liberal; if they’re not liberal, by definition of it, then they can hardly be good newspapermen. If they’re preordained dogmatists for a cause, then they can’t be very good journalists." ~ Walter Cronkite, Playboy, June 1973
Preordained dogmatists, ya mean like Hannity, Greta, Beck?
No wonder it took her 5 schools to get a Journalism degree, she sux at it.
Paul Krugman: The Stimulus Trap.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/1...?_r=1&th&
emc=th
Again with the "internal server error."
Sheesh.
From Krugman:
What Mr. Obama needs to do is level with the American people. He needs to admit that he may not have done enough on the first try. He needs to remind the country that he’s trying to steer the country through a severe economic storm, and that some course adjustments — including, quite possibly, another round of stimulus — may be necessary.
What he needs, in short, is to do for economic policy what he’s already done for race relations and foreign policy — talk to Americans like adults.
"Posted by" = annoying
The Guardian's review of Brüno:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2...lm-review-
bruno
What do governors get paid in Alaska?
I'm sure you could Google-search for the salary.
I don't get people's fascination with Sarah Palin.
She's a non-stop train-wreck.
so was Bush
The "Republican base" seems to really like that; the rest of us, not so much.
Sasha pictures.
While still,
http://thumbsnap.com/v/vlsaL35p.jpg
http://thumbsnap.com/v/e2uI0KE3.jpg
http://thumbsnap.com/v/EE6cAUXM.jpg
in motion,
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From the BBC:
China ordered mosques not to open for Friday prayers in the western city of Urumqi, which has been hit by several days of ethnic violence.
Public notices were put on gates of mosques across the city, although at least one mosque did open for prayers at the request of worshippers.
Sasha is all kinds of cute.
Dear President Hu Jintao:
Lemme know how that "denying Muslims the right to worship" works out for you.
Doug is in love
Well, Sen. Roland Burris finally did something smart: decided not to run for a full Senate term in 2010 for the Seat Blago gave him.
Damn. Back to business as usual
Baucus is back to negotiating with the republics with Harry Reid's blessing.
"Pullin' A Palin":
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/
3036...838203#31838203
Morning, all
Pelosi, OTOH. assures us there will be a public option, in the House version of the Bill.
KeithO on the CIA lying to Congress:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/
3036...838203#31837896
China's ethnic tinderbox:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-...fic/
8141867.stm
Well, let's see . . . headline: Buy American may hurt trade.
Duh . . . (Isn't that the purpose?)
There's an elemental conflict between wanting everything to be cheap (and likely imported) and wanting it to be durable and high quality (and hopefully domestic).
Well, let's see: How are you doing today, DWD?
Oh, not too badly. I am kind of feeling sorry for Young DWD though. He has a job interview - a job he REALLY wants - in Grand Rapids and he is sick. (Swine Flu?)
He is off to Florida on Saturday so cannot reschedule: I am driving him there.
Hope it works out.
Best of Luck to young DWD.
There's an elemental conflict between wanting everything to be cheap (and likely imported) and wanting it to be durable and high quality (and hopefully domestic).
plantsman, mad google skillz
The problem has ALWAYS been that our economy drives the world's. (We is good consumers - too good)
To these ends, trade agreements are not very reciprocal. Those who wish to trade with us insist on protecting and encouraging their own markets: yet when we even talk of responding in kind, we get a bunch of shit.
In my world, trade would be absolutely free or nonexistent. If you do not want American Beef (for example) Japan, keep your fucking cars. . .
and so on.
Haloscam is up to its old tricks
Good luck to young DWD.
A friend has applied for her first passport. They're asking her if she was ever arrested, has any outstanding parking tickets, etc. I wonder if that is standard operating procedure these days?
Plantsman,
He has been in bed for almost two days now: but his appetite is good. Just achy and feverish.
Not sure what to think of this.
Dobro jutro svima.
Break a leg to the young DWD. Probably not swine flu, god forbid. I'd dose myself up with advil and some caffeine for the interview, and hope for the best.
Well, H1N1 is highly communicable but not so lethal at this point.
Cheese and 5:30, y'all.
I got an email on the plans for H1N1 from some govt. official. Hope the crash vaccine program goes well.
Good morning.
Who are our new posters, John and sardine?
Poopy HaloScan!
HoneyBearKelly: Who are our new posters, John and sardine?
'Tis a mystery!
Sort of like the "Mystery Guests" on the old game show.
coke to JP.
Atrios said he had given the keys to some new people. So far they don't seem to have much of an agenda.
QL,
Can you imagine giving ME the keys? Endless folk music, economic bullshit, and egotistical rantings about everything.
(Prolly not a good idea)
Some mornings I can hardly get my agenda out of bed.
Good morning, good people.
Upthread, some other poster I've never heard complained about John using "Posted By." Sheesh.
Oh.
OK.
It would have been polite for them to introduce themselves.
plantsman: Upthread, some other poster I've never heard complained about John using "Posted By." Sheesh.
It's a Blogger setting that A-man activated, yesterday.
The new version of Firefox (3.5) has a Google Window right next to the navigation window, and thus far seems to work fine.
Local station just had a chyron about A Cup of Bliss.
It's so cruel, for those of us left behind.
there be sheets!
So, apparently, the electric meter reader completely screwed up last month and WAY overcharged me, but now this month's bill is already paid and I have a credit balance, but no clarification.
What's with the ubiquitous baby girl voices in music and film adults, these days?
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