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Discussion in 'General' started by bl4ckb1rd, Feb 16, 2009.
Ubuntu 8.04
Anyway, why was MyDNS chosen? I have no problem use one or another. I'm just curious why MyDNS and not BIND?
The bind version delivered with all major linux distributions does not have a mysql binding.
Can anyone who has mydns installed with ispconfig and is experiencing high cpu usage try this fix?
Its a new version said to fix the problem maybe, but I dont have it installed anymore.
If not let me know so I can reinstall ispconfig + mydns again and do a test to see if it does fix the issue and report back.
To anyone experiencing the high CPU usage of mydns, it now appears to be fixed in package 184.108.40.206.
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USABMXER1 wrote:Mr. Wiggles wrote:sethiemeboi wrote:
that isn't how it is in california, you have to be 15 1/2 and have a workers permit.
On a side note, lets be real, you aren't paying off anything. Every kid says they do this, don't be one of them
good thing I'm in michigan and work at the good old family factory and get paid under the table 10$ an hour and it also doubles after 30minutes over time (40 hour work week)
But you have to pay for all of your racing fees and bike parts through that as well don't you?
yea and bikes for downhill so now that you have to pay to race I just haggle with an A licence


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Science has not told us whether notoriously hard video game Super Meat Boy is tougher than notoriously hard N+. So we must rely on a second-best method.
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N+: Percent of Total Registered Users Who Have Completed The Final Level (Episode 49) - 2.20%
Super Meat By: Percent of Total Registered Users Who Have Completed The Final Level (7-20X) - 1.04%
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Served with a green salad, this would be a great quick supper.
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- Makes 4 servings
- 4 tablespoons olive oil, divided
- 4 cups thinly sliced red onions
- 1 tablespoon golden brown sugar
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- Pinch of dried crushed red pepper
- 4 1/2-inch-thick slices crusty bread (each 4x6 inches)
- 8 thin slices prosciutto
- 1 cup fresh ricotta cheese
- Fresh rosemary sprigs
- Heat 2 tablespoons oil in large nonstick skillet over medium high heat. Add onions and sugar. Cook until dark brown and tender, stirring frequently, about 16 minutes. Mix in vinegar and crushed pepper. Cook until mixture is thick, about 1 minute. Season marmalade generousl to taste with salt and pepper.
- Meanwhile, preheat oven to 425°F. Arrange bread on baking sheet. Brush with remaining 2 tablespoons oil; sprinkle with salt. Bake until crusty, about 8 minutes.
- Overlap 2 prosciutto slices on each toast. Top with 1/4 cup cheese, then marmalade. Garnish with rosemary.
One serving contains the following: Calories (kcal) 484.59; % Calories from Fat 46.7; Fat (g) 25.14; Saturated Fat (g) 6.99; Cholesterol (mg) 52.00; Carbohydrates (g) 44.20; Dietary Fiber (g) 3.25; Total Sugars (g) 14.85; Net Carbs (g) 40.95; Protein (g) 20.48


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Once you and your baby have become old hands at breastfeeding, you'll be able to nurse while talking on the phone, reading a book, supervising your other children, or walking around. For now, though, it's best to start with as few distractions as possible. Most new mothers first try breastfeeding sitting up in a hospital bed, with the baby supported by a pillow in their lap and cradled in their arms. If you choose this position, elevate the head of the bed as much as possible and place pillows behind you until your back is comfortable. Place your baby on a pillow on your lap (this is an especially good idea if you've had a cesarean section, or "C-section") so his head is level with your breast. You might put pillows at your sides to rest your arms so they won't tire mid-feeding. At home, you may find an armchair helpful. If you breastfeed while sitting in a chair, be sure it offers sturdy back and arm support and is not too low or high. A pillow or two tucked behind your back can make nursing in a chair more comfortable, as can a low footstool to support your legs.
Whether you are sitting up in bed or have settled into an armchair, keep your back straight but relaxed as you offer your baby the breast. Your baby may find it more difficult to latch on properly if you are leaning forward or back, since this changes the angle at which he receives the breast; your back may soon feel the strain of this as well. If your breasts are large, you might need to place a rolled-up towel or receiving blanket beneath your breast to keep your baby's mouth at a straight-on angle with the nipple, in addition to supporting the breast with your hand.
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@twolf.tx: I think the 760 has PAE? It is the same generation as my 750 which
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That being said, I know that both these Slackos are nopae versions:
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@Sailor Enceladus
That Slacko-5.7-NO-pae.iso did the trick. I cannot speak to the processor function, I just know it wouldn't work with the two other boot disks I described in my post. The Tahrpup specifically popped an error that mentioned PAE not working with the cpu. I also saw under the PAE definition on the puppy pages that Intel Centrino chips can have an problem with PAE (part of the lucky few - he types with extreme sarcasm).
Sorry for the confusion on my part, but the problem is solved now. Do you want me to try to delete my post? I don't need it now. Thanks to all.
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This topic is information not a place to post problems
Please help us all by providing the information when you make a topic for your problems.
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Hi bigpup,
After someone pissed off Flash by posting the same problem in three different places, it occurred to me that maybe those new to the Forum need some advise as to how to use it. This thread seemed the best place to provide it.
There are, in fact, no set rules beyond being courteous and, as bigpup has advised in the beginning "You are our eyes... we can only know what you tell us about your system". But based on my long involvement with the Forum, I thought the following might prove helpful.
The Forum Software is old, owned by John Murga, a Puppy fan perhaps from the creation of the first Puppy. John, himself, is pretty much retired but generously pays for the Forum's upkeep. The Software probably isn't as flexible as newer versions, but I don't think anyone is in a position to upgrade it. Posts by members make this a very active forum, and its seems to have devolved upon Flash and other moderators to try to maintain some order.
One of the Forum's quirks is that in order
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By convention, The Beginner's SubForum is used to seek advice regarding questions about installation, and the problems those new to Puppy often experience. It is
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There are several "Stickies" at the Top of a SubForum, and noted by a Right-Pointing Arrow. Those on the Beginner's SubForum are intended to provide "Beginners" with general advice. Courtesy suggests that before posting a question Beginners should read them or, at least, those posts at the beginning and end of the threads. Most of those threads are as old as the Forum, and while the posts at the beginning of a thread may orient a newbie as to its purpose, the posts at the end of a thread will probably provide the most up-to-date information.
There are also "stickies" on the Users and How To SubForums, well worth reading in order to get the most out of Puppies.
Most versions of Puppy have their own thread under Advanced Topics, either the Puppy Projects or Derivatives* SubForums. (Occasionally someone breaches that rule by announcing/offering his/her version on the thread of the Puppy used to create the variation). When you have a question regarding a problem with a particular Puppy version, or seek advice on how to extend it by using software not provided by that Puppy's Dev, or available via the Additional Software SubForum, common sense and courtesy suggest posting a "Reply" to that Puppy version's thread. That thread is where problems relating to that Puppy is most likely to draw the attention of that Puppy's Dev and those familiar with that Puppy.
* At one time, there was a clear distinction between these SubForums. Barry Kauler published THE "Official Puppy". Any other version was a Derivative. The Projects thread at that time concerned announcements about having created software or, having progressed partway and having encountered some stumbling block, seeking advice to overcome it.
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The "How To" SubForum, is where tips and instructions are posted. Note, How To is not followed by a Question Mark. The SubForum is for giving, not asking for advice.
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From a Newbie's prospective, that leaves only the "Users ( For the regulars )" SubForum. This SubForum, by convention, is for seeking advice from "The regulars".
If you are determined to use some specific version of Puppy with uncommon Software or Hardware, than the proper place to post your inquiry would be to the thread of the specific version of Puppy you're set on using.
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I just read that noone gets to post problems here and this is titled " IF YOU NEED HELP"?
How can one get help without posting the problem first? Can someone please explain this to me?
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This makes no sense to me? When the topic is called IF YOU NEED HELP
You guys should remove this topic DO I POST HERE OR NOT PLEASE HELP ME TO UNDERSTAND THIS
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You're driving down the street, and it's suddenly blocked off. You notice these weird yellow signs with nonsensical letters or numbers. There's unusual glow lighting up a neighborhood you can't usually see from your house. What you might have here is a film company shooting in your town. It happens a lot, and you never know where they might pop up…until now.
The following is a semi-comprehensive list of films currently shooting, what they're shooting, and where they're shooting. We'll be telling you where you might get to see the very famous, the kinda famous and (if all goes well) the soon-to-be famous. While we can't list every single movie, television show, or student film in production, you'll get a pretty good idea of what the heck is going on where all those people are buzzing about. Want to know where in the world are Matt Damon, Harrison Ford, Sylvester Stallone, Woody Harrelson, and Leonardo DiCaprio? Hit the jump for more.
DISCLAIMER — This is NOT an invitation to head on over and wave to the cameras. Truth be told, most film companies would prefer that the general public keep their distance. Not because they're stuck up, but sometimes it's not conducive to make a movie with a large crowd in attendance. The other truth (just between you and me?) is that movie making is one of the most boring processes to watch. For every minute or two of action, there's an hour or more of crew-members moving equipment, adjusting lights, and asking for everyone to stay out of the way.
That being said, if you're still game, and have nothing better to do, grab a lawn chair and a bucket of popcorn, and take in the making of a movie!
Big Movies, Big Names
Iron Man 3: Wilmington, N.C. – SPOILER ALERT** Iron Man does not die in The Avengers. Unless this is a prequel, but probably not. Shane Black (Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang) takes over directorial duties from Jon Favreau, who returns in front of the camera as Happy Hogan, along with Robert Downey, Jr., Gwyneth Paltrow and Don Cheadle. Newcomers to the franchise include Ben Kingsley, Guy Pearce and Rebecca Hall.
42: Chattanooga, TN. – Brian Helgeland (L.A. Confidential, Robin Hood, Payback) directs Harrison Ford, Chadwick Boseman, Christopher Meloni, John C. McGinley and Jon Bernthal in the life story of Jackie Robinson and his historic integration into the major leagues.
Out of the Furnace: Pittsburgh, PA. – Christian Bale and Casey Affleck star as two brothers trying to escape their Rust Belt roots. When one of them is murdered by a vicious gang, the other must decide whether to walk away or exact bloody vengeance. What do you think he opts for? Directed by Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart) the cast also includes Woody Harrelson, Zoe Saldana, Forest Whitaker, Sam Shepard and Willem Dafoe.
Django Unchained: New Orleans, LA. – Quentin Tarantino's pre-Civil War epic finds slave Jamie Foxx teaming up with bounty hunter Christoph Waltz to take down the South's most wanted criminals and rescue the wife he lost to slave owner Leonardo DiCaprio. The supporting cast features some of Tarantino's usual suspects—Samuel L. Jackson, Don Johnson as well as Kerry Washington, Gerald McRaney, Dennis Christopher, and RZA.
Bitter Pill: New York, N.Y. – Jude Law, Rooney Mara and Channing Tatum are the three sides of this love triangle in what director Steven Soderbergh has termed a "psychopharmacological thriller." That's a big pill to swallow.
The Tomb: New Orleans, LA. – Sylvester Stallone plays the world's foremost authority on structural security. After being framed, he's sent to a prison he designed himself where he faces his greatest challenge– sharing a cell with Arnold Schwarzenegger. That, and trying to escape and find out who put him in prison. Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, Jim Caviezel, Amy Ryan, Vincent D'Onofrio, Vinnie Jones and Sam Neill either try to keep him in or help him get out. Mikael Hafstrom (The Rite) directs.
Promised Land: Pittsburgh, PA. – Matt Damon and co-star John Krasinski co-wrote this screenplay about a pair of gas company salespeople (Damon and Frances McDormand) who travel to an economically depressed rural town to secure the drilling rights to their properties, and are faced with opposition by townsfolk Krasinski and Hal Holbrook. Once planned as Damon's directorial debut, his schedule forced him to hand over the directorial reins to his Good Will Hunting director Gus Van Sant.
Ender's Game: New Orleans, LA. – Writer/Director Gavin Hood's big-screen adaptation of Orson Scott Card's award-winning novel. Asa Butterfield (Hugo) plays the title role of Ender, a gifted child sent to Battle School in space to help save the world from a future alien invasion. He's trained by Harrison Ford (when he's not managing Jackie Robinson), and the film also stars Abigail Breslin, Sir Ben Kingsley, Hailee Steinfeld, Nonso Anozie and Viola Davis.
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty: New York, N.Y. – Ben Stiller directs and stars in this long in development remake of the 1947 Danny Kaye (anyone remember him, I hope?) comedy. Stiller portrays a milquetoast magazine proofreader who leads an adventure-filled fantasy life until a series of events force him to face reality head on. Kristen Wiig, Shirley MacLaine, Patton Oswalt and Adam Scott may or may not exist in Mitty's world.
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters: Vancouver, BC. – Percy (Logan Lerman) and his pals (Alexandra Daddario, Brandon T. Jackson) take on the other-worldy quest to traverse the Sea of Monsters and retrieve the legendary Golden Fleece. Nathan Fillion, Missi Pyle, Anthony Head and Yvette Nicole Brown join the cast.
The Lone Ranger: Albuquerque, N.M. – "A fiery horse with the speed of light, a cloud of dust and a hearty…" well, you know the rest. Armie Hammer and Johnny Depp return us to those thrilling days of yesteryear with the help of director Gore Verbinski. The Lone Ranger rides again!
A Little Smaller, But More Big Names
Grown Ups 2: Cape Cod, MA. – Starring everyone who was in the first Grown Ups, and Taylor Lautner. Directed (again) by Dennis Dugan.
You Are Here: Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill, N.C. –How is Mad Men creator Matthew Weiner spending his summer vacation? By directing Owen Wilson and Zach Galifianakis as two childhood friends who take a road trip so that one of them can claim a sizable inheritance from his father's estate. Somewhere along the road, they meet up with Amy Poehler.
Stand Up Guys: Los Angeles, CA. – Al Pacino and Christopher Walken are a pair of con men who get the old gang together for one last hurrah. Alan Arkin joins the fun under the direction of Fisher Stevens.
The End of the World: New Orleans, LA. – It started out as a funny little short film called Jay and Seth vs. the Apocalypse, with Jay Baruchel and Seth Rogen portraying…Jay Baruchel and Seth Rogan, holed up in an apartment as the world literally went to hell around them. For this big screen incarnation, they've changed the locale to James Franco's house and have added a lot more of their celebrity friends to wait it out with them. Jonah Hill, James Franco, Rihanna, Emma Watson, Jason Segel, Danny McBride, David Krumholtz, Mindy Kaling, Martin Starr and Craig Robinson help make it the party to end all parties. Rogan and Evan Goldberg direct.
Muhammed Ali's Greatest Fight: Washington, D.C. – And in this corner…the United States Government! Stephen Frears directs this HBO production, which chronicles the battle between the champ (seen in archival footage) and the courts due to his refusal to serve in the armed forces. Christopher Plummer, Danny Glover, Frank Langella, Benjamin Walker, Barry Levinson, Bob Balaban and Ed Begley Jr. also star.
Kill Your Darlings: New York, N.Y. – The beat goes on… Daniel Radcliffe, Ben Foster and Jack Huston portray literary greats Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac. The film follows their friendship and how it is affected by the murder of Burroughs' friend, David Kammerer (played by Michael C. Hall). With David Cross, John Cullum, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kyra Sedgewick and David Rasche.
Beautiful Creatures: New Orleans, LA. – The screen adaptation of the first book in another popular young adult fantasy series. A local teenager (Alice Englert) and a newcomer (Jack O'Connell) to a small southern town are drawn to each other and uncover secrets about their families. Richard LaGravenese (P.S. I Love You) directs from his screenplay adaptation. The young leads are surrounded by the talents of Emmy Rossum, Jeremy Irons, Emma Thompson and Viola Davis.
Identity Thief: Atlanta, GA. – Director Seth Gordon re-teams with his Horrible Bosses star Jason Bateman as the hapless victim of Melissa McCarthy, who steals his identity. The cast also boasts Jon Favreau, John Cho, Amanda Peet and Morris Chestnut.
Television Series
Although the majority of scripted series have gone on hiatus for the summer, there are still a few in production. Boardwalk Empire, Royal Pains, White Collar, and Louie are all shooting in New York City, the Showtime series Weeds and Californication are being shot in the Los Angeles area, and Breaking Bad production is on location in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Is that it? Heck no, there are plenty of other films here and there, and we'll get as many as we can as we update the list. If there's a big movie shooting in your town that we missed, drop us a note in the comments and we'll make sure to include it on the next go-round.


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Time for the annual Thanksgiving "thanks!" post. I'm thankful for a lot of things. Right now I'm thankful that I did this post two years ago, and that all the songs in it were in a playlist, although one of them has been blocked in this country by WMG, because they can. But there was a ready substitute. I added a couple of songs, too.
- Bob Hope, "Thanks For The Memory" He sang this with Shirley Ross in the movie The Big Broadcast of 1938 (where this was taken from) and Hope used it for years as his theme song. He used to sing it at the end of all his specials.
- Sam & Dave, "I Thank You" This song was written by David Porter and Isaac Hayes and recorded by S&D in 1968. It reached #9 on the Hot 100 and #4 on the R&B chart that year, and was covered by ZZ Top on their 1979 album Degüello.
- Sly & The Family Stone, "Thank You (Falletinme Be Mice Elf Again)" This is a 1969 song and managed to reach #1 on the R&B chart, and reached #1 on the Hot 100 in February 1970.
- John Denver, "Thank God I'm A Country Boy" This was on his 1974 album Back Home Again, but it was this live version, from 1975's An Evening With John Denver, that reached #1 on the Hot 100 and the Country chart. 1975 was evidently a big year for country and pop crossovers.
- Led Zeppelin, "Thank You" From their 1969 album Led Zeppelin II, written by Robert Plant and Jimmy Page.
- ABBA, "Thank You For The Music" This was on ABBA's 1977 album, ABBA: The Album and was used as the title track from their 1983 compilation album in 1983. It wasn't released as a single in the US, evidently.
- Céline Dion, "Thank You" A quintessential Céline Dion song.
- Otis Redding, "I Want To Thank You" From his 1965 album The Great Otis Redding Sings Soul Ballads.
- Kelly Clarkson, "Thankful" Title track from her 2003 debut album, but wasn't released as a single. I know we have some Kelly Clarkson fans here.
- Cynthia Fee, "Thank You For Being A Friend" Written and originally performed by Andrew Gold, who released it as a single in 1978, which went to #25 nationally. I would have used that version, but as I mentioned previously, WMG blocked it for the US and probably several other countries. This is the version Cynthia Fee did as the theme song for The Golden Girls.
And that's Monday's Music Moves Me for November 20, 2017.
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OAKLAND — Brad Mills' first start for the A's didn't go as well as he had hoped, but Oakland manager Bob Melvin saw enough in the four innings that Mills worked that the left-hander is likely to stay in the rotation.
The A's have days off Monday and Thursday sandwiched around a two-game series with the Mets in New York, and the possibility exists that one of the five starters could be skipped. Melvin said he would have an announcement Sunday.
The schedule that has Sonny Gray and Scott Kazmir going against the Mets doesn't seem likely to change. If there is any alteration, it might be in the three-game series with the Marlins in Miami beginning Friday.
It's possible that either Mills or Saturday starter Jesse Chavez will get a start off. Chavez is making the switch from the bullpen to pitching every fifth day in the rotation, and the A's are being careful not to ask too much of his arm.
The deeper Chavez goes in Saturday's game with the Boston Red Sox might determine if the A's give him a start off, or at least push him back a few days.
Mills gave up three runs, two earned, in his stint and needed 94 pitches to get through four innings Friday night against the Red Sox. A double play that wasn't turned in the second inning led to two of the runs and piled up his pitch count early.
Still, the A's won the game 4-3 and they saw glimpses of why Mills had a 1.56 ERA as a starter at Triple-A Nashville.
"I would say yes," Melvin said when asked if Mills would stick in the rotation.
Mills was recently acquired from the Milwaukee Brewers' organization and got the start because the A's needed someone to fill in with Drew Pomeranz having fractured his right hand, landing him on the disabled list.
"He's a lot better," Melvin said, "potentially even available off the bench today."
Norris had X-rays taken of his arm after he came out of the game. There was no evidence of any broken bones, just a contusion that improved with treatment overnight.
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STANFORD, Calif., June 27 (UPI) -- Men diagnosed as azoospermic -- infertile due to a lack of sperm are more prone to developing cancer than the general male population, U.S. researchers say.
Lead author Dr. Michael Eisenberg, assistant professor of urology at the medical school and director of male reproductive medicine and surgery at Stanford University School of Medicine, and colleagues said diagnoses of male infertility and azoospermia are surprisingly common in the United States.
About 4 million U.S. men -- 15 percent of those ages 15-45 -- are infertile, of which some 600,000 are azoospermic, the study said.
Eisenberg conducted most of the analysis at Stanford using data gathered from the Texas Cancer Registry and the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, where he completed his medical training.
The study involved 2,238 infertile men who were seen at a Baylor andrology clinic from 1989-2009. Their median age was 35.7 when they were first evaluated for the cause of their infertility.
Of those men, 451 had azoospermia, and 1,787 did not. There were no further apparent initial differences between the two groups.
The study, published in the journal Fertility and Sterility, found a diagnosis of azoospermia before age 30 carried an eight-fold cancer risk.
"An azoospermic man's risk for developing cancer is similar to that for a typical man 10 years older," Eisenberg, said in a statement. "There is evidence that infertility may be a barometer for men's overall health, and a few studies have found an association of male infertility with testicular cancer."
The study not only assigns the bulk of infertile men's increased cancer risk to those with azoospermia, but also suggested this risk extends beyond testicular cancer, Eisenberg said.


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Olson has served as Editor & Curator at Rhizome, the inaugural curator at Zero1, and Associate Director at SF Camerawork. She's contributed to many major journals & books and this year Cocom Press published Arte Postinternet, a Spanish translation of her texts on Postinternet Art, a movement she framed in 2006. In 2015 LINK Editions will publish a retrospective anthology of over a decade of her writings on contemporary art which have helped establish a vocabulary for the criticism of new media. Meanwhile, she has also curated programs at the Guggenheim, New Museum, SFMOMA, White Columns, Artists Space, and Bitforms Gallery. She has served on Advisory Boards for Ars Electronica, Transmediale, ISEA, the International Academy of Digital Arts & Sciences, Creative Capital, the Getty Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Kennedy Center, and the Tribeca Film Festival.
Olson studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths, History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz, and Rhetoric & Film Studies at UC Berkeley. She has recently been a visiting artist at Yale, SAIC, Oberlin, and VCU; a Visiting Critic at Brown; and Visiting Faculty at Bard College's Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts and Ox-Bow. She previously taught at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts' new media graduate program (ITP) and was Assistant Professor of New Media at SUNY-Purchase's School of Film & Media Studies. She was recently an Artist-in-Residence at Eyebeam & is currently Visiting Critic at RISD.
Collectible After All: Christiane Paul on net art at the Whitney Museum
The Whitney Museum artport has been an important institutional presence in net art and new media since its launch in 2002. Created and curated by Christiane Paul, artport features online commissions as well as documentation of new media artworks from the museum's exhibitions and collections. This year, artport as a whole was made an official part of the Whitney Museum collection; to mark this occasion, participating artist Marisa Olson interviewed Paul about the program's history and evolution over thirteen years.
Douglas Davis, image from The World's First Collaborative Sentence (1994).
Collections like artport are a rare and valuable window onto a field of practice that, in some senses, was borne out of not being taken seriously. From mid-80s Eastern European game crackers to late-90s net artists, the first people working online were often isolated, by default or design, and were certainly marginalized by the art world, where few curators knew of their existence and fewer took them seriously, advocated for them, or worked to theorize and articulate the art historical precedents and currents flowing through the work. Help me fast-forward to the beginning of this century at one of the most important international art museums. Many of the US museums that funded new media projects did so with dot-com infusions that dried-up after 2000. Artport officially launched in 2001; the same year, you curated a section devoted to net art in the Whitney Biennial. What was the behind-the-scenes sequence of events that led to artport's founding?
I think artport's inception was emblematic of a wave of interest in net art in the US around the turn of the century and in the early 2000s. This more committed involvement with the art form interestingly coincided with or came shortly after the dot com bubble, which inflated from 1997–2000, had its climax on March 10, 2000 when NASDAQ peaked, and burst pretty much the next day. Net art, however, remained a very active practice and started appearing on the radar of more US art institutions. To some extent, their interest may have been sparked by European exhibitions that had begun to respond to the effects of the web on artistic practice earlier on. In 1997, Documenta X had already included web projects (that year the Documenta website was also famously "stolen"—that is, copied and archived—by Vuk Cosic in the project Documenta: done) and Net Condition, which took place at ZKM in 1999/2000, further acknowledged the importance of art on the web.
US museums increasingly began to take notice. Steve Dietz, who had started the Walker Art Center's New Media Initiatives early on, in 1996, was curating the online art Gallery 9 and digital art study collection. Jon Ippolito, in his role as Associate Curator of Media Arts at the Guggenheim, was commissioning net art in the early 2000s and in 2002, Benjamin Weil, with Joseph Rosa, unveiled a new version of SFMOMA's E-space, which had been created in 2000. This was the institutional netscape in which I created artport in 2001, since I felt that the Whitney, which had for the first time included net art in its 2000 Biennial, also needed a portal to online art. The original artport was much more of a satellite site and less integrated into whitney.org than it is now. Artist Yael Kanarek redesigned the site not too long after its initial launch and created version 1.1. Artport in its early days was sponsored by a backend storage company in New Jersey, which was then bought by HP, so HP appeared as the official sponsor. I think it is notable that sponsorship at that point did not come from a new tech company but a brand name that presumably wanted to appear more cutting edge.
booomerrranganggboobooomerranrang: Nancy Holt's networked video
Nancy Holt, Boomerang (1974), still from video.
In her time on this planet, Nancy Holt came to be known as a great American Land Artist, and certainly her brilliant installations, like Utah's Sun Tunnels and collaborations with her partner Robert Smithson and their peers, are profoundly significant, but it was her work in film & video that has had the greatest personal impact on me.
I somehow didn't see Boomerang, her 1974 video performance usually credited to her collaborator Richard Serra, until I was a Ph.D. student in Linda Williams's Phenomenology of Film seminar at UC Berkeley's Rhetoric program, but the time delay was more than made up for by the work's formative resonance. In the video, made during Serra's residency at a Texas television station, a young Holt is seen sitting in an anchor's chair before a staid blue background. Despite brief station ID graphic overlays and one minute of silence in the midst of the ten-minute piece (announced as audio trouble and reminding viewers of the work's live TV origin), the work is in many ways sound-centric.
Sound and Image in Electronic Harmony
On Saturday, April 11th, New York's School of Visual Arts will co-present the 2009 Visual Music Marathon with the New York Digital Salon and Northeastern University. Promising genre-bending work from fifteen countries, the lineup crams 120 works by new media artists and digital composers into 12 hours. If it's true, as is often said, that MTV killed the attention spans of Generations X and Y, this six-minute-per-piece average ought to suit most festivalgoers' minds, and the resultant shuffling on and off stage will surely be a spectacle in its own rite. In all seriousness, this annual event is a highlight of New York's already thriving electronic music scene and promises many a treat for your eyes and ears. The illustrious organizers behind the marathon know their visual music history and want to remind readers that, "The roots of the genre date back more than two hundred years to the ocular harpsichords and color-music scales of the 18th century," and "the current art form came to fruition following the emergence of film and video in the 20th century." The remarkable ten dozen artists participating in this one-day event will bring us work incorporating such diverse materials as hand-processed film, algorithmically-generated video, visual interpretations of music, and some good old fashioned music-music. From luminaries like Oskar Fischinger, Hans Richter, and Steina Vasulka to emerging artists Joe Tekippe and Chiaki Watanabe, the program will be another star on the map that claims NYC as fertile territory for sonic exploration. - Marisa Olson
The National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) in Athens, Greece, has committed itself to curating a number of recent exhibitions of internet art. Their current show, "Tag Ties and Affective Spies," features contributions from both net vets and emerging surfers, including Christophe Bruno, Gregory Chatonsky, Paolo Cirio, JODI, Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar, Les Liens Invisibles, Personal Cinema and The Erasers, Ramsay Stirling, and Wayne Clements. The online exhibition takes an antagonistic approach to Web 2.0, citing a constant balance "between order and chaos, democracy and adhocracy." Curator Daphne Dragona raises the question of whether the social web is a preexisting platform on which people connect, or whether it is indeed constructed in the act of uploading, tagging, and disclosing previously private information about ourselves on sites like Flickr, YouTube, and Facebook. Dragona asks whether we are truly connecting and interacting, or merely broadcasting. While her curatorial statement doesn't address the issue directly, the show's title hints at the level of self-surveillance in play on these sites. Accordingly, many of the selected works take a critical, if not DIY, approach to the internet. The collective Les Liens Invisibles tends to create works that make an ironic mash-up of the often divergent mantras of tactical media, culture jamming, surrealism, and situationism. In their Subvertr, they encourage Flickr users to "subverTag" their posted images, creating an intentional disassociation between an image's content and its interpretion, with the aim of "breaking the strict rules of significance that characterize the mainstream collective imaginary..." JODI's work, Del.icio.us/ winning information (2008) exploits the limited stylistic parameters of the social bookmarking site. Using ASCII and Unicode page titles to form visual marks, a cryptic tag vocabulary, and a recursive taxonomy, their fun-to-follow site critiques the broader content of the web ...
Reappearance of the Undead
In 1997, internet art hall-of-famer Olia Lialina made a "net drama" called Agatha Appears that was written for Netscape 3 and 4 in HTML 3.2. One of the main features of the interactive narrative was the travel of the eponymous avatar across the internet. Let's just say the girl got around. But the magical illusion of the piece was that she appeared to stay still, even when links in the narrative were clicked and the viewer's address bar indicated movement to another server. But in time, both the browser and code in which the story was written became defunct and the piece unraveled as the sites previously hosting the links and files upon which Agatha was dependent disappeared or cleaned house. Such a scenario is common to early internet art (and will no doubt continue to plague the field), as ours is an upgrade culture constantly driving towards new tools, platforms, and codes. Many have debated whether to let older works whither or how it might be possible to update these works, making them compatible with new systems. For those who are interested, some of the best research on the subject has been performed by the folks affiliated with the Variable Media Initiative. Meanwhile, luddites and neophiles alike are now in luck because Agatha Appears has just undergone rejuvenation. Ela Wysocka, a restorer working at Budapest's Center for Culture & Communication Foundation has worked to overcome the sound problems, code incompatibilities, and file corruption and disappearance issues, and she's written a fascinating report about the process, here. And new collaborating hosts have jumped in line to bring the piece back to life, so that like a black and white boyfriend coming home from war, Agatha now offers us a shiny new webring as a token of ...


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Spitting Image (1984–1996) is a satirical comedy show using latex puppets of politicians, celebrities, sports stars and the Royal Family to portray events of the previous week.
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- [Margaret Thatcher is treating her Cabinet to a meal at a restaurant.]
- Waitress: Would you like to order, sir?
- Thatcher: Yes. I will have the steak.
- Waitress: How would you like it?
- Thatcher: Oh, raw, please.
- Waitress: And what about the Vegetables?
- Thatcher: Oh, they'll [The Cabinet] have the same as me!
- Thatcher: Geoffrey, you're a complete imbecile. We can't have a quick war just to win votes! [Beat] Though, now that you mention it, look into it, will you?
- Parkinson: Do we have any other business?
- Thatcher: I bloody well hope not; we've sold it all off!
- Thatcher: We have to get rid of Enoch. There is no room for racists in the Conservative Party - we're choc-a-bloc as it is!
Ronald Reagan[edit]
- Reagan: [Having just passionately kissed Margaret Thatcher] Well, so long hunny-bun. What a fine-lookin' woman. Pity I'm only screwing her country!
- Reagan: [In the White House bedroom, going back to sleep after being awake for 2 minutes] This is a great country, I wonder who runs it?
- Thatcher: Oh dear. We're never going to win the next election now! We need some way of winning votes!
- Howe: I suggest a quick war in early '87. That should get some votes.
- Thatcher: Geoffrey, you're a complete imbecile. We can't have a quick war just to win votes! [Beat] Though, now that you mention it, look into it, will you?
- Brittan: In the meantime, sir, how about the anniversary of a war?
- Lawson: Yes! How about the twenty-fifth anniversary...
- Hurd: Or Silver Jubilee.
- Lawson:...or Silver Jubilee, of 1962!
- Thatcher: But there wasn't a war in 1962, you doughball! [To man with his hand up] And you are...?
- Kenneth Williams: Williams, Prime Minister, from the department of Kenneths. They sent me to replace Kenneth Clarke.
- Thatcher: And what's your idea?
- Williams: Gentlemen, it's obvious! The fiftieth anniversary of [speeds up] Hitler first thinking about invading Poland, thus leading to the start of World War II! [slows down again] Today.
- Thatcher: You're fired! Get out of my sight!
- Williams: Oh, Bitch! [Leaves]
- Heseltine: This is an outrage! I'm leaving again! [Also leaves]
- Thatcher: Right, I have it: The Sixtieth Anniversary of roughly halfway between both World Wars which we both won today. So Vote Conservative.
- Cabinet: Oh, brilliant! Marvelous! etc.
- Steel: David?
- Owen: [Putting on lipstick] Yes, David?
- Steel: Um, people are becoming worried.
- Owen: [Donning a wig] About what?
- Steel: Worried that your becoming, um, a closet Conservative.
- Owen: A closet Conservative? [Now with Thatcher's voice] That's ridiculous.
- Steel: Yes, that's what I thought. So you're still committed to the Alliance?
- Owen: [Still with Thatcher's voice] I care passionately about the Alliance, David. I certainly don't intend to do a U-turn on that one.
- Steel: Oh. Great. Um, glad we had this chat. [Leaves]
- Owen: You wet wimp!
- Brittan: Oh, good evening, Prime Minister. You look lovely today!
- Unnamed characters: [chanting] Immigrants out! Immigrants out!
- Bill Clinton: Immigrants out? So you want me to send all white Americans back to Europe on the w:Mayflower?
- Unnamed characters: Yeah! [chanting] Send us back! Send us back!
- Clinton: [face in palm] Who are these people...?
[A parody of BSkyB's early '90s Stalin commercial, set to the the footage of archive Nuremberg rally footage]
- Adolf Hitler: [voiced with Yorkshire accent] 'Ey up, missis! I'm another one of those tasteful adverts for satellite dishes! 'Oo wants a free subscription, then?
- Nazi officer: I do!
- Crowd: [chanting] Me too! Me too! Me too! Me too!
- SA: I'll 'ave one!
- Nazi officer: Save one for me, Adolf!
- Hitler: You bunch of Panzers!
[cut to band footage as a drum ensemble sounds out Hitler's joke]]
- Hitler: So get Sky! It'll be Reich up your street! Ooh, they've got that Pol Pot on next week! He'll sell a few more!
External links[edit]
- Spitting Image quotes at the Internet Movie Database
- Spitting Image at TV.com


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|July 23, 2012, 04:38 PM
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Could Use Some Advice
I'm trying to plan a home defense protocol. I understand that one scenario isn't enough, but this one poses a difficulty for me.
My bedroom has two adjacent rooms... If I go out my bedroom doorway and turn left, there is a living room, if I go out and turn right, there is an office room. I can't clear one room without worrying about someone coming up on me from the other room. But since the office to my right is the smaller of the two and I can see pretty much everything in it with a single glance... and it is the furthest from the front door, so the least likely of the two rooms for an intruder to be in first, I pick that room to be cleared first.
As I see it, if I go for that room first and it is empty, then I have lucked out and I should take the territory, going into the room for cover... then think about clearing the living room. But if it isn't empty... then what?
The only thing that makes sense to me is to shoot dead anyone I don't know in that room. I can't stand outside the doorway to the office and have a discussion about dropping to your knees or lying face-down on the floor... or anything like that because there might be someone in the living room who has just found out that I am there... and might be coming up from behind. I have to get inside that office immediately and the only way I can figure out how to do that and be able to turn around without worrying about the intruder is to shoot him immediately...un-armed or not (people carry guns where you can't seem them sometimes).
Anyone have an alternative of any sort?
|July 23, 2012, 04:54 PM
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Pretty simple...
Don't clear your house.
Unless your family is in danger, bunker down, locks doors, call 911 and wait.
Plan A should be hunker down and wait.
Armed (and armored), trained professionals with trained, armed and armored backup clear houses.
|July 23, 2012, 04:58 PM
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what Brian Pfleuger says
I have taken classes where house clearing is part of it.
My thoughts after those classes is let the pro's do it.
|July 23, 2012, 05:14 PM
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Does the office have its own door? It can very easily be fixed so that at a glance you can be virtually certain the no one is in the room.
We have a room that has cat food out and a litter pan, neither of which we want the dog to have access to. We keep the dog from going through the ajar door by looping a string around the inside door knob, through the opening and around an cup-hook outside the door. The cup-hook is in-obtrusive because it is concealed in the angle of the door-frame and wall.
The length of the loop of string is such that no one in the "cat's room" can fasten it outside. If the string is in place, no one is in the room. One might argue that a partner in crime might fasten the string (I actually use artificial sinew), but I am not that paranoid.
|July 23, 2012, 05:19 PM
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I have a wife (who of course is with me when there's a bump in the night) and four children...each in one of four other bedrooms. I have to think about these things. But it sounds like you live alone. If that's the case, then Brian is correct. Call for help, hunker down in your room, and wait for the cavalry to arrive.
|July 23, 2012, 05:32 PM
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"It is long been a principle of ours that one is no more armed because he has possession of a firearm than he is a musician because he owns a piano. There is no point in having a gun if you are not capable of using it skillfully." -- Jeff Cooper
|July 23, 2012, 06:19 PM
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I don't live alone, I have a wife and 2 small children.
You didn't include any of those details in your scenario.
Pretty nigh on impossible to give you an accurate answer without that information.
|July 24, 2012, 07:53 AM
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Thanks for the advice guys. I do have a wife and her room is on the other side of the living room. If there are bad guys in the house, they would be between me and her.
Very interesting comments.
|July 24, 2012, 09:47 AM
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[1] If you go looking, and there is indeed a BG there, you will be at an extreme tactical disadvantage. You can easily be ambushed or flanked. You may also have given a BG access to family members to use as hostages. Or there maybe more than one BG, one of whom can get to your family while you're occupied with the other one.
[2] When (whether you called them or they were called by a neighbor who may have also seen or heard something) the police respond, they don't know who you are. You are just someone with a weapon.
[1] You arm yourself. You investigate as best you can from a place of safety in house with your family. You wait and quietly listen. Does the sound repeat? Can you begin to identify it? Can you positively identify it as something innocuous? If the sound is clearly from outside, you look out nearby windows.
[2] If you can't identify the sound and believe there is a danger, you assure that your family and any known visitors are all together and with you in a place of safety. You call the police. You maintain telephone contact with the police. And you wait.
"It is long been a principle of ours that one is no more armed because he has possession of a firearm than he is a musician because he owns a piano. There is no point in having a gun if you are not capable of using it skillfully." -- Jeff Cooper
|July 24, 2012, 09:55 AM
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Not all situations are the same.
We tend to think of home envisions as giving you a chance to "hunker down" call for and wait for help.
Not all of use live in town. On a good day, if the sheriff deputies are on my side of the county, I can expect them in about 30 minutes.
That's if all the stars are in perfect alignment.
In reality, that don't work. First off, if I come home and find indications that someone is in my house, I can't call 911. Phone's in the house and my cell phone doesn't work in this canyon (unless I'm next to the repeater or booster which is also in the house).
I think more along the lines of someone kicking in my door while I'm in my chair watching TV or playing on my lap top.
Where I set I can see both doors and always have my revolver in my pocket.
My bedroom is at the end of the house, and from my door I can look out and see most of the house and my pants, w/my revolver is hanging on the bed post in arms reach.
No kids. just wife and me.
My daughter (who lives on the west coast) has the prefect set up. She has a large house, all kinds of alarms and cameras. Her bedroom is set up where she has phones and can hunker down behind a huge bed which gives her cover and clear view of the door.
In setting her up, I told her to get her gun and phone, stay behind the bed and wait. She can monitor the whole house, and inform responding officers the location of any bandits. I told her to leave the phone on after calling 911, to guide the cops through the house and she can tell if and when the cops come to her bedroom door.
If she has a break in when she's gone, she can monitor activities via her cell phone. She can guide the cops through the house while drinking coffee at a near by Star bucks.
Like I said, she's got a perfect set up. I don't, I'm on my own.
But most of use are somewhere in between. Not all of us, (including me) can afford such a set up as my daughter has. And not all of us live in the country like I do.
Every situation is different. There is no one size fits all.
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|July 24, 2012, 10:11 AM
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Very good to hear different points of view. I will have to admit that after 4.5 years in the USMC and having written five books on the martial arts, waiting for the Cavalry to arrive isn't in my DNA. You guys saw immediately that that didn't even entered my mind...which is a flaw in my thinking in this case. I could easily become my own worst enemy. So I'm thinking things through, trying to tap into guys like you who have been at the "thinking it through" process for a while.
I'd love to take a good course. If I can find one, I will. In the mean time, I'm trying to picture myself hunkered down in the corner of my room with bad guys pounding around in the house and my wife in another room. My plan for her was to grab the taser I got for her, get on the other side of her bed and hide. But I'm not sure how much time that would buy her... while I'm on the phone having a conversation with the local constabulary.
|July 24, 2012, 11:48 AM
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Go to http://www.nrainstructors.org/CourseCatalog.aspx . Look at the course description for the class "NRA Basic Personal Protection In The Home Course."
Name : NRA Basic Personal Protection In The Home Course
Short Description : Teaches the basic knowledge, skills, and attitude essential to the safe and efficient use of a handgun for protection of self and family, and to provide information on the law-abiding individual's right to self-defense.
More Details: This is an eight-hour course. Students should expect to shoot approximately 100 rounds of ammunition. Students will learn basic defensive shooting skills, strategies for home safety and responding to a violent confrontation, firearms and the law, how to choose a handgun for self-defense, and continued opportunities for skill development. Students will receive the NRA Guide to the Basics of Personal Protection In The Home handbook, NRA Gun Safety Rules brochure, the Winchester/NRA Marksmanship Qualification booklet, and course completion certificate.(Lesson Plan, revised 08/11)
NRA Basic Personal Protection In The Home course is for law-abiding adult citizens, as defined by applicable federal, state, or local law, and experienced shooters (shooters able to show mastery of the basic skills of safe gun handling, shooting a group, zeroing the firearm, and cleaning the firearm) to maximize what can be learned from this course. Proof of shooting experience can be one of the following: NRA Basic Pistol Course Certificate, NRA FIRST Steps Course Certificate, NRA pistol competitive shooting qualification card, military DD 214 with pistol qualification, or passing the Pre-Course Assessment.
Then go to http://www.nrainstructors.org/searchcourse.aspx and see if there's a class available near you.
If not, see http://www.nrastore.com/nrastore/Pro...=PB+01766&ct=e for the classroom portion of the class on DVD. That will most likely help you formulate a home defense plan, and give you some other ideas to deal with things you might not have considered.
Mindset - Skillset - Toolset. In that order!
Attitude and skill will get you through times of no gear, better than gear will get you through times of no attitude and no skill.
|July 24, 2012, 12:00 PM
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A security system with cameras to see the other rooms from your bedroom would be a good choice.
Your wife's bedroom should have a strong, locking door and she should keep it closed and locked.
If there's trouble, one glance at the video monitor will tell you where and how many. You can use a cell phone to text/call your wife.
If she is not in danger and it is possible, either have her come to you or better, if possible, you go to her.
Either way, if you can both be safe and hunkered down, that's the way to go. It doesn't matter how long the police take if you're safe. If you're not safe, they can't be quick enough no matter how quick they are.
If you have cameras, they will have video of the perpetrators. Modern systems are no more expensive than a decent handgun. You can find factory refurbished, full-color, night-vision, 8 camera systems for $6-$800.
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...they just don't plan not to.
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|July 24, 2012, 01:36 PM
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Hey, those are some great ideas!! Thanx.
|July 24, 2012, 01:49 PM
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You have to watch the camera's. They can get you in trouble, like happened to my Daughter. My granddaughter was laying on the floor reading when one of my daughters little dogs (she had 6) came up to GD and raised its leg getting her all wet.
Since, as I said, daughter has cameras and that video ended up on Face Book much to the embarrassment of my granddaughter
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Distinguished Rifle Badge 1071
|July 24, 2012, 04:09 PM
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Using a bit of that "out of the box" thinking most swab jockies are famous for: how about??
If the wife sleeps in another room, . . . and the anticipated bg's would be between the two of you, . . . why not harden the walls between your two locations (that would possibly receive any missed rounds flung at the bg) and have a plan where you both hunker down in your respective rooms?
When our son lived with us, . . . he knew my "hunker" location below him, . . . and my wife's.
We knew his hunker location.
All were somewhat hardened against a "miss" from one, becoming a hit on the other.
But the devil himself could not have walked through the middle and survived.
Not all houses can be "planned" that way, . . . but if it is available, . . .
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Christian Ponder, like every Viking quarterback in the history of the Minnesota Vikings franchise, has grumpy Minnesotans convinced he is the source of all that is wrong with the world.
Ponder's wife Samantha was in Fargo this week broadcasting for ESPN and couldn't escape without seeing a poster chiding her husband:
"Samantha, can Christian even pass the salt?"
Nice insult. And typical of Upper Midwesterners to pile their rage on a single scapegoat, the Vikings quarterback.
The Viking quarterback position is the least desirable job we have. No matter what happens, you will be criticized.
New quarterbacks waltz in thinking they are going to bring a Super Bowl to these nice, mild-mannered Upper Midwesterners, and what happens?
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Crops looking bad? Blame Warren Moon. Mother didn't hold you enough as a baby? Buy a ticket and boo Daunte Culpepper.
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Randall Cunningham had one of the best seasons on record in 1998, but only two games into the next season, fans chanted for back-up quarterback Jeff George.
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We turn to an outsider because during the interview, they actually seem to want the job. We know the job is not worth having, and are amused by their interest.
Take the job of president of one of our universities. It is the second worst job in our region. The job draws naive outsiders who promise big things. We know they will fail, but we enjoy watching them twist in the wind.
We lure big shot outsiders in with tales of wholesome goodness, neighbor helping neighbor, unlocked doors, light traffic, happy cows, plentiful hunting and fishing.
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Equality! After feeling inferior to the big city types for all of our lives, now we have lured one of them in and have started to wear them down.
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Or something like that. It doesn't matter. We'll just stare at them like cows. For two or three years. And they'll go away. They always have.
There is one advantage to being the Viking quarterback: At least the bitterness and resentment is out in the open, on posters, on talk radio and in the stands.
Others who come in from outside and attempt to lead institutions in the Upper Midwest aren't so lucky.
They get paranoid. They start to wonder: Is that guy who just pulled me out of the snowbank actually nice, or is he part of the massive conspiracy against me?
Is that person who just picked up the tab for my meal really that generous, or is she just making sure I have a nice meal before I get the axe?
The answer? Both. Just ask Steve Dils, or any Viking back-up quarterback.
You're the messiah one day, a scapegoat the next.


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