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| Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 | |
| 12:14 am | House: "Wilson" Huh. I never particularly thought of Wilson as a vindictive jerk before. |
| 12:02 am | Regular service to resume I got my ladder back, I have a functioning light in my office again and the Whole Earth Discipline posts should begin again in the next few days. |
| Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 | |
| 3:21 pm | |
| 2:28 pm | I check Clute and Nicholls and I did check online Does anyone know what happened to Karl Hansen, author of War Games and Dream Games? |
| 12:07 pm | In the tradition of the FTA and Daylight Savings Time Poll #1492951 Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 165 To minimize business disruptions, should Canada and the US harmonize their dates for Thanksgiving?
View Answers Yes (Both should use the October date, what with Canadian thanksgiving not being directly tied into the whole "stealing the natives' land" thing) Yes (Both should use the November date because the US couldn't even adapt to the metric system. Changing the date for Thanksgiving would provoke a revolution) Yes (A new date should be arrived at using a committee from both nations that eventually does whatever the US wants) Yes (The new date should be settled with a duel between the PM and the POTUS) No, I am not adopting their stupid wrong date holiday and they can't have ours (I am Canadian) No, I am not adopting their stupid wrong date holiday and they can't have ours (I am American) No, I am not adopting their stupid wrong date holiday and they can't have ours (I am both) No, I am not adopting their stupid wrong date holiday and they can't have ours (I am neither) Some other option that I will explain in comments I would like to complain about this poll The first official Thanksgiving in Canada was Martin Frobisher's and what he was giving thanks for was not dying a horrible death while looking for the North West Passage. In fact, he managed to avoid dying in the arctic at all (wikipedia): In November 1594, he was engaged with a squadron in the siege and relief of Brest, when he received a gunshot wound at Fort Crozon,[3] a Spanish-held fortress and due to poor medical treatment, died days later at Plymouth on 15 November. His soft organs were buried at St Andrew's Church, Plymouth on 22 November. His body was then taken to London and buried at St Giles-without-Cripplegate |
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| 10:52 am | The Mystery of Titan's Lakes PASADENA, Calif. -- Researchers at the California Institute of Technology, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and other institutions suggest that the eccentricity of Saturn's orbit around the sun may be responsible for the unusually uneven distribution of lakes over the northern and southern polar regions of the planet's largest moon, Titan. A paper describing the theory appears in the Nov. 29 advance online edition of Nature Geoscience. |
| Monday, November 30th, 2009 | |
| 11:59 pm | After due consideration I have decided not to take part in NaNoWriMo. |
| 7:40 pm | |
| 7:20 pm | Bill Cosby Fans Rejoice Although this article name-checks Chicken Little from The Space Merchants, people who were exposed to Cosby's album Wonderfulness at a certain age will be thinking about "Chicken Heart". Pardon me. I have to go spread Jell-O on the floor and then set fire to my sofa. Nicked from montoya |
| 7:19 pm | There are two ways to read this Vancouver plans to change an Olympics sign law next month [...] “We are going to tweak our bylaws to make sure it’s crystal clear that” constitutional rights “can’t be abused,” said Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson. I'm sure, particularly in the context of the paragraph that precedes the section I quoted, that what he means is "the new version of the bylaws won't so egregiously violate constitutional rights" but I notice that could just as easy mean "we're going to put a stop to all those people who abuse their constitutional rights by actually using them." Nicked from fengi |
| 6:59 pm | |
| 3:40 pm | But doesn't everyone know this? [...] far more often, the slush pile's contents are a cross section of the staggeringly mediocre and the truly deranged, the balance of humdrum-to-nutball shifting depending on the week, the season, and (I swear) the phases of the moon. The way I think of it is, think of the worst book you ever read: most of the slush (uncommercial or unrecognized gems aside) will be worse than that. Maybe much worse. Nicked from nihilistic_kid, who preceded the link with "Slow news Monday". |
| 2:27 pm | Top posting makes the baby Jesus cry Poll #1492354 Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 114 Threaded comment systems
View Answers Threat Menace I wish LJ's threads came with lines or something to link replies to the comments they are replying to Some other option (see comments) I would like to complain about this poll |
| 6:20 am | Inevitable So, has Fox run "Mike Huckabee (D)" across their news scroll yet? |
| Sunday, November 29th, 2009 | |
| 11:54 pm | Smallville: The one with the Legion I am so touched that Smallville continues to employ the same writers despite their manifest inability to write. Spoilers ( Read more... ) |
| 8:01 pm | I wonder How many couples living together communicate with each other primarily through twitter or similar online services? |
| 7:04 pm | Random stuff I came across today (all sf-related) Escape from Recession: Sci-Fi Sales Up Note that it is from April. I don't know what the numbers are right now. I came across that article in this thread: Sci-fi books in the doldrums? And just for Carlos, I noticed a sensitive bit of cultural analysis from this account of a convention way back in 1986: ( Read more... ) |
| 6:30 pm | Your recommended dose of Orson Scott Card Tis but a simple blurb but I will admit even though I own the book in question, I never thought particularly about OSC's contribution. There's a review at Amazon that sums up the book accurately: ( Read more... ) |
| 5:03 pm | I was going to say something about Glee But since I don't remember what I was going to say, I'll say that ( Read more... ) |
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