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Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Well this is weird
I am tempted to sit in front of the TV and vege. I have the box set of Series One of Blakes Seven. 13 episodes over 5 DVDs and all as fresh as the day they were made. I used to love this programme (5th most popular cult show apparently) and it will be kind of weird to watch it after so many years. I had the hots for the hardcase Servalan and the erotic goody-goody Jenna (her of the Bee Gees style clothing and hair) and used to want the namby pamby Vila to get shot or at least maimed. Cynical Avon was a legend at my school and was far cooler than Blake. Sadly David Jackson, who played Gan, died last month aged 71.
Gonna cook up some popcorn, get a cold beer put on a silver spandex suit and get down to some serious Liberator action....might forget the suit in case Mrs R comes home unexpectedly..... she might mistake me for Mork from Dork.....
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I can't remember the last time I tried popcorn... and I have never heard of the Blakes Seven Series.ReplyDelete
Enjoy having nothing to do, Though I find i'd rather be busy than have hardly anything to do.
Oh, Pinky. Sadly I am sure that you would not enjoy Blakes Seven. This modern age of computer graphics really dates these shows but they were great in their time....it is amazing how quickly actual techonology overtook the imaginations of the script writers...their version of a portable computer was about the size of a filing cabinet!ReplyDelete
I don't expect to get another night like it for at least 6 months. Always something to do when you have two girls to clean up after!
Oh my goodness! I thought the bit about being allowed outside was a witty aside, (or inside, baboom) and it's REAL.ReplyDelete
It was a real battle, not helped by the red tape of the Council and their little team of fun killers.ReplyDelete
The Blake's 7 series is great. I have the first two seasons. There were four made all together. I wonder when the rest of the series will be put out on DVD.ReplyDelete
Blake's 7 is a definte classic.
Didn't know the second season was available, thanks. Looks like next weekend is now sorted.ReplyDelete

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This is a question from a pistol forum back in 2007 - Lanny answered this question and we received lots of positive feedback so we wanted to share this information with you this month. The question is from a pistol shooter but the information is applicable to anyone.
Question: How can I keep positive and realistic? I don't mean being able to walk away from that stage without being devastated... I can do that. I mean by ignoring the mistakes and only looking at the positive (which is what I understood from your book/tapes). I just think I'm lying to myself if I do that.
I feel like I'm either really missing your point, or I'm not understanding it completely... or I just don't get it altogether therefore I'm simply not Champion material. I've always been successful in my life endeavors, so I refuse to accept the last part of that statement.
Lanny's Answer: Great question. OK, let's see if I can clear up a few things for you all. I certainly do not want you to be confused by any concepts in my book.
First, nowhere in my work do I suggest that you should ever lie to yourself. All reinforcement is imprinting and the self-image grows or shrinks by this process. If you have a bad performance it is indelibly imprinted on your self-image. This is called an environmental imprint. Now, you can create another imprint by thinking about or talking about the bad performance again and this causes your self-image to shrink. This is called beating yourself up and is a good way to retard your growth toward winning. The top 5% just do not do this. If they make a mistake they think about the solutions to correcting the error and imprint that they are able to do that. They think a lot about the good performances though. This causes the self-image to grow. Good thing, huh?
Next, who said that the only way to win is to be the top name on the leader board? Everyone seems to be overly concerned with accomplishment. Accomplishment is easy to measure. It is first, second and third, gold silver and bronze, the grades of A, B, C, or F. But winning, by my way of thinking is much more than that. It is Attainment. Attainment = Becoming + Accomplishment. Accomplishment is how you measure the external and becoming is how you measure the internal. Have you ever won a class only to find that you did not learn much that day? Then you go to a competition and do poorly but grow a great deal in understanding. That's becoming and it is very difficult to measure. A winner is someone who is just as concerned about who they become as to what they accomplish. You should goal set to become something worthwhile when you accomplish any step in your goal. Now that's Attainment.
I suggest that if you are more concerned about how well you execute your mental and technical systems than your place in the competition that you will virtually eliminate the concerns you are having about self-judgment. Someone once said that winning is the progressive realization of a worthwhile goal. You may be a long way from reaching that goal at present. It is not lying to imprint that you someday will reach it. If you say "I am national champion" and you are, in reality, a long way from that and that bothers you then try this. Transport yourself mentally to some day in the future when you are, in reality, the national champion and say, "I am the national champion". The imprint will work just the same. It will be just as powerful. The self-image cannot tell the difference between past, present and future events. It thinks that every imprint is happening in the present and it becomes like you to do it. I won the Olympics thousands of times before they hung the real medal on me. It caused my self-image to accept that it was like me to be the champion. That's not reality but this is not a reality show like TV. This is mental imprinting and it works.
Finally, I have a word about shooting diaries. Don't keep one. Keep a performance journal instead. A diary contains a record of everything you did, good and bad. That's a lot of negative imprinting and your scores will be harmed more than keeping one helps them. But, if you keep a performance journal like the Performance Analysis Journal that we have on our web site you will only record what you did well, the solutions that you found and goals statements to help you positively move forward to your goals. It is a Performance Journal not a Lack of Performance Journal.
I hope I haven't missed your point and that this helps you. You are champion material until you start thinking you are not.
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THURMOND — Whoop Whoop De Do, a retired racehorse residing here, could conceivably surpass his entire career winnings many times over in one weekend.
His trainer and co-owner, Jessica Bortner-Harris, is taking him to the Retired Racehorse Project's Thoroughbred Makeover 2017 at the Kentucky Horse Park in Lexington, Kentucky.
Whoop Whoop De Do, or Dominic as he is called, (Dom for short), in honor of the character Dominic Toretto from "The Fast and The Furious" movies, is a four-year-old, 17.0 hand chestnut gelding who ran his last race on March 25, 2016, ending a less-than-stellar career with only five starts and $572 in winnings.
Today he gains a second chance at glory by competing in the $100,000 Thoroughbred Makeover 2017 for, among other things, the title of "America's Most Wanted Thoroughbred."
The competition extends across 10 equestrian disciplines from barrel racing to polo with Bortner-Harris and Dom competing in eventing today and show jumping on Friday. The top five horses in each discipline will compete in a finale on Saturday. The finale audience (both live and livestream) will then vote via text for the horse that most inspires them. The winner will be named "America's Most Wanted Thoroughbred."
Though Dom's racing career was not one for the record books, shortly after retiring he showed potential in another area.
When discussing Dom with Jessica Redman, who had acquired him when his racing career ended, Bortner-Harris said that Redman told her that Dom had jumped over a four-foot gate in order to join some of his horse buddies.
"Jessica told me, 'so we know he can jump,'" said Bortner-Harris. That was all Bortner-Harris needed to hear. She bought Dom sight unseen despite his having a hoof abscess. "Her eye is so good," Bortner-Harris said of Redman's ability to spot quality horses.
Bortner-Harris said that Redman's horses usually sell as quickly as she posts them but Dom's abscess bought her enough time to consult Susan Massaro about buying Dom. The two women now co-own Dom with Bortner-Harris serving as his trainer.
"He's the real deal," Bortner-Harris says of Dom. "When I got him last summer, he looked like a giraffe, with that long neck. He looked like a giant baby."But she says she knew he had something. "God blessed me with a gut feeling. I just know. And he reminds me of Bug."
Bug, aka, Win the War, is the horse that took Bortner-Harris from the Novice level all the way to the Advanced and Three Star levels of eventing. They qualified for Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event — known to equestrians simply as Rolex — which is the only Four Star eventing competition in the United States. Four Star is the level of competition at the Olympics and World Equestrian Games.
But Bortner-Harris injured herself before the competition and she and Bug were forced to drop out. She then made the difficult decision to retire Bug. "He's 16 and he's my baby," she said. He had some body issues and the high-level competition was taking its toll on him. "If he broke his leg, he would just keep going." So she leased him to a student who is competing him at lower levels. "He can do that in his sleep," she said. "He's bored, but he's safe. And I don't have to worry about him having to spend the rest of his life in a pasture."
She added, "It's more about the horse. You have to put the horse before the dream."
In January of this year when Bortner-Harris retired Bug, Dom had just been hanging out on her farm since last spring, letting down from the track and gaining some weight. She mentioned to Massaro that Dom qualified for the Thoroughbred Makeover. To qualify, a horse must have raced after July 1, 2015, and must not have started significant training before Dec. 1, 2016, and Dom met those requirements. So they entered him.
Bortner-Harris says her competitive nature makes her want to win this weekend but that's not the point of the Retired Racehorse Project. It's about showing the world what Thoroughbreds can do. She says when she started eventing, everybody rode Thoroughbreds. Then the trend was to switch to warmbloods and the Irish horses.
"The RRP shows that Thoroughbreds are just as good as the gazillion dollar imports. I owe it to the breed to show the world what they can do.
"Thoroughbred's hearts are so big. Dom is four but he does it like a big boy. In a few years, I can't wait to see what he will be able to do. He's a very good mover and is relaxing under tack. He's very trainable. He has never refused to do anything I've asked him to do.
"Retiring Bug was a real eye-opener. I realized I have to start all over again. He took me further than I ever thought I'd go. All the rest will be icing on the cake."
This weekend, she and Dom will begin to put some icing on that cake. And they will do it at the Kentucky Horse Park, the same facility that hosts Rolex, where her injury prevented her from taking Bug all the way to the top.
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New team can attract more current upper class customers for the credit cards then expand new customers from upper-middle class by offering Gold Card and middle class by offering Classic Card without deterioration of brand equity through right marketing mix mentioned above. In addition, Citibank should introduce Platinum Card for super upper class people, which may add more brand image for Citibank and also prevent from the cannibalization of current Dinner Card holders (See Exhibit 3).
Expansion for Emerging Markets (See Exhibit 4): Considering the long-term growth prospects, Citibank should start credit card business in emerging markets like India. Poor infrastructure for the operation might be some troubles in the process of the operation, but future profit as the first mover in these countries will overcome these problems. In order to capture increasing number of upper-middle class people in emerging markets, similar strategy should be applied in these countries. They are hungry for a better quality of life and are ready to spend (The End of Corporate Imperialism, page 71). Another important factor to be successful in these countries, Citibank should rethink the cost structure and redesign the products to fit their requirements.
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UNITED TRANSPORTATION UNION, Plaintiff,
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In this action, plaintiff, the United Transportation Union (hereinafter Union), seeks to enjoin the defendants, Trustees of the Property of the Penn Central Transportation Company (hereinafter Railroad), from abolishing the last yard assignment at the Utica, New York yard. The action, seeking both temporary and permanent injunctive relief, was heard on March 21 and March 30, 1972.
Pursuant to Rule 52(a), Fed. R. Civ. Proc., the court makes the following findings of fact and conclusions of law:
1. Plaintiff is a voluntary association and labor organization within the meaning of the Railway Labor Act and is successor in interest to the former Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen, Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen and Switchmen's Union of North America, and is the recognized collective bargaining agent for all of defendants' employees who are classified as conductors, trainmen, retarder operators, yard foreman, yard helpers, firemen, switchmen, switchtenders, hostlers and hostler helpers.
2. The Penn Central Transportation Company is a common carrier by railroad between the several states in the northeastern section of the United States within the meaning of that term as defined in the Railway Labor Act, 45 U.S.C. § 151 et seq. and is the successor in interest to the former New York Central Railroad Company.
3. Defendants, George P. Baker, Richard C. Bond, Jervis Langdon, Jr., and Willard Wirtz are Trustees of the Property of Penn Central Transportation Company, Debtor in Reorganization.
4. On June 25, 1964, the Union and Railroad, or their predecessors in interest, executed an Agreement which provided, in part, for the discontinuance of last yard assignments.
(a) Discontinuance under Article V, § 1 of this Agreement requires a joint study by the Union and Railroad before such discontinuance.
(b) Article V, § 2 provides that "[the] provisions of section 1 hereof are not intended to impose restrictions in regard to discontinuing yard crew assignments where restrictions do not now exist."
5. It has been stipulated between the parties that Article V, § 1 does not apply to the parties hereto; that Article V, § 2 does apply to the parties hereto.
6. It was further stipulated between the parties that at all times pertinent to this case, there were no contractual restrictions on the right of the Railroad to unilaterally discontinue last yard assignments.
7. Between 1960 and 1962, the Railroad unilaterally abolished the last yard assignments at Norwood, New York and Cherry Tree, Pennsylvania.
8. Between 1964 and 1966, the Railroad discontinued the last yard assignments at Poughkeepsie, Newburgh, Auburn and Geneva, New York after studies were made pursuant ...
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My sister-in-law Liz called last night and wanted someone to ride along with her to WalMart. Well, I was bored and like spending time with her once in a while. We talked about different family issues going on right now. From Liston's attraction, to Duane's possible upcoming leg amputation {Duane's her hubby}. Somewhere in there, our pasts came up. Before marrying my brother, she had a string of lovers...while I didn't even have sex until I was almost 30...at the heart of us, we're really not that different, though I don't know she'd ever see it. Anyway, she made a comment that sometimes she wished that she was more like me...so, dumb-ass that I am, I ask her exactly how she meant that. Her reply? "You've never wanted a steady relationship."
When have I ever said that?!?!?!?!?!
I would LOVE to find a man who loves me...who wants to know the woman inside as much as much as he wants to fuck the outside woman...just because I haven't found that man, doesn't mean I don't want that relationship. I'm just not willing to lower certain standards. I am 32 years old, and I'm sorry I refuse to hitch up with the first man who sniffs around...and yes, if I get a hint that all he wants is sex, I'll drop him like a hotcake b/c I don't have time for games. Nor do I have the patience. I want someone who's going to be responsible. And I want someone who is willing to let me be the woman God created me to be. Of course, I know that I will have to give the same in return, and that I'll have to sacrifice my own desires once in a while. I'm not stupid. Niave maybe, but not stupid. While there are times when all I want is a really good roll in the hay...those times haven't always been at the same time that I've got some hound dog sniffing around and I've been safe from the bad decisions that I made with Steve...and I'm smart enough to know that it's God protection. I might not always like it at the time, but afterwards...I've been like..."Wow, I was that close to screwing up again, and God protected me. Even from myself!"
I am honest enough to admit that I'm pretty skittish right now about any guy...with one exception but he lives in England. Between the 50 year old from the 4th of July, and my own brother...I just feel like a piece of meat. I'm more than that. I'm a crazy zany woman with a love of books and chocolate who is just beginning to rediscover her writing voice. I like to sleep late when I can, and I like listening to the thunder in the distance [it's when it's directly overhead that I begin to not like it as much!]. And I'd really like to find a guy who wants to find that out. I'm also high-strung, spend a lot of time in the realm of make-believe {hello? I'm a writer!} and sometimes have trouble controlling my fiery temper - so my imaginary man is also going to have to be a little patient....and calm...and gentle.
Maybe that's my problem. I want too much.


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I have actually almost accomplished something. Almost...
Remember that Lucas picked out the fabric and color combinations himself. I tried to force a blue or green zipper on him, but relented and let him have red. It is very colorful. But one problem - that 22" sport zipper said in very small print "non-separating." Bastards!
I had to go rip this one out and go to the store, where I read every word written on the package to be sure I had the right one, but that put me behind schedule so I didn't get it totally finished last night. Just have to fix one cuff and topstitch. He still wanted to wear it to Scouts last night.
In fact, he asked if he could brag a little and tell people how cool his jacket was and that his mom made it. I said not to brag, and he said if anybody commented on his jacket, could he THEN come out and tell them I made it. God bless that child!
He also has the Elf on the Shelf going (I bowed to pressure after 2 years). After I put every stuffed animal in his room into a big box and staged it like Billy the Elf is reading to them, Lucas wondered if Billy dragged them there or if they all came alive at night like Billy. He's thinking about leaving a note for them and asking.
My child still believes in his mommy and magic stuffed animals! Pre-teen years are so awesome!
I'm a wife, mom, and doctor. I'm occasionally inappropriate, frequently odd, but not weird yet....I don't think. Bugs Bunny said it best: "It is to laugh."
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
Got Lucas's Jacket Going...
4 comments:
- Sheila said...
The jacket looks great and like the pop of red.
- December 13, 2011 at 5:50 PM
- Pammie said...
I love it! Really wonderful! Great job!!
- December 13, 2011 at 9:28 PM
- Junior said...
It does look awesome. That made me tear up.....I love that boy!
- December 14, 2011 at 6:41 AM
- RobbieK said...
Good looking jacket! You have that pattern down. I just love a man that loves his mother.
Ya'll have a Merry Christmas!
- December 14, 2011 at 7:59 AM
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Classic and Contemporary PoetryRhyming Dictionary Search
THE BALLADE OF THE COMING RAIN, by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY Poet's Biography
First Line: When the morning swoons in its highest heat
Last Line: O then is the time to look for rain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Johnson Of Boone, Benj. F.
Subject(s): Rain
WHEN the morning swoons in its highest heat,
And the sunshine dims, and no dark shade
Streaks the dust of the dazzling street,
And the long straw splits in the lemonade;
When the circus lags in a sad parade,
And the drum throbs dull as a pulse of pain,
And the breezeless flags hang limp and frayed --
O then is the time to look for rain.
When the man on the watering-cart bumps by,
Trilling the air of an old fife-tune,
With a dull, soiled smile, and one shut eye,
Lost in a dream of the afternoon;
When the awning sags like a lank balloon,
And a thick sweat stands on the window-pane,
And a five-cent fan is a priceless boon --
O then is the time to look for rain.
When the goldfish tank is a grimy gray,
And the dummy stands at the clothing-store
With a cap pulled on in a rakish way,
And a rubber-coat with the 'hind before;
When the man in the barber chair flops o'er
And the chin he wags has a telltale stain,
And the bootblack lurks at the open door --
O then is the time to look for rain.
Other Poems of Interest...
BURNING IN THE RAIN by RICHARD BLANCO
DISTANT RAINFALL by ROBINSON JEFFERS
CHAMBER MUSIC: 32 by JAMES JOYCE
HEAVY SUMMER RAIN by JANE KENYON
CROWD CORRALLING by MARGARET AVISON
THE RAIN-POOL by KARLE WILSON BAKER
ON THE GREAT ATLANTIC RAINWAY by KENNETH KOCH
A BOY'S MOTHER by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY


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NCAAB Basketball - Preview
The Kentucky Wildcats and the Florida Gators will both be trying to pick up a win on Tuesday when they battle at Stephen O'Connell Center.
Kentucky was a 72-62 winner in its last match at home against Auburn. They failed to cover the 17.5-point spread as favorites.
Florida was an 83-58 winner in their most recent outing at home against Mississippi State. They failed to cover the 28-point spread as favorites.
Team record: 17-6 SU, 8-12 ATS
Current streak: won 5 straight games.
is 4-1 SU in its last 5 games on the road
The total has gone UNDER in 16 of last 22 games on the road
is 3-6 SU in its last 9 games when playing on the road against Florida
When playing on Tuesday are 7-3
Before playing Tennessee are 7-3
After playing Auburn are 9-1
After a win are 7-3
Team record: 19-3 SU, 12-7 ATS
is 5-0 SU in its last 5 games at home
is 11-1 SU in its last 12 games
The total has gone OVER in 4 of last 5 games
is 6-3 SU in its last 9 games when playing at home against Kentucky
When playing on Tuesday are 8-2
Before playing Auburn are 7-3
After playing Mississippi State are 7-3
After a win are 9-1
Next up:
Kentucky at Tennessee, Saturday, February 16
Florida at Auburn, Saturday, February 16


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What a Merry Christmas for this little girl and her family!
Perfect timing, right after wishing for him, he comes walking from around the corner. yes, that was too awesome.. Just check this out!
Those types of videos ALWAYS make me cry, I feel like a waterfall, and this year(once more) i know what its like not have my family around for Christmas. I wish I can gather with my family this Christmas but since I'm 34 weeks pregnancy on 18 Dec (my flight to Sabah), I failed to get a 'refer letter' from my Doctor. Huaa.. hua.. hua.. What to do..
Btw, I'm so brilliant in arranging a trip as a replacement for my Christmas celebrations in Sabah. So that I wont really feel 'homesick' on Christmas lol! I'll post it in my next entry.
Merry Christmas everyone :) &Thanks for the wishes.
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Tuesday, 4 February 2014
dr. kandinsky in his laboratory
Scientist and sleeping woman from a painting by Norman Saunders on the cover of Marvel Science Stories (April-May 1939). The 16 paintings are, of course, by Wassily Kandinsky. Mediocre sine waves by yours truly (note to self: don't try to draw sine waves when your brain is full of coffee.)
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Colourful and exotic!ReplyDelete
Hey Fi, I disagree about your coffee drawing abilities. I think you nailed those sine waves.ReplyDelete
Seriously some technicolor dreaming here! I think the waves are perfect!ReplyDelete
Thanks y'all! I forgot to mention that this one is a nod to the collage I made the last time we had a theme about dreaming: also a woman dreaming of the work of an abstract artist I love. =smile=ReplyDelete
Wow great collage Fi, love the woman in the capsule!ReplyDelete
Really fantastic! The colours and shapes and your sine waves are perfect. Wouldn't it be fun if we could record our dreams like a movie?ReplyDelete
Aha - now I know how Kandinsky created his paintings! Clever idea, Fi! I like that the paintings are connected with this "rocket" by drawed lines!ReplyDelete
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Riding along the brilliant ray of sparkling sunlight,
Resonating in the sweeping melodic song of the birds,
Caressing ivory planes of ivory sand and soft dunes of saffron desserts alike.
Erupting in the brilliant laughter of a child
Or flooding the soft cheeks of the broken lover.
Eternity- a vast span of time to be missed
An infinite range to assemble back into the divine kaleidoscope of music and color.
In the blink of an eye we were dazzled.
In the blink of an eye we thought you lost.
As I close my eyes and see being colors,
Shut out the noise and listen beyond waves of sound
Eternity is revealed
As you soar free in immutable glory,
For eternity.
-Missing you for eternity, and eternally grateful for all you gave.


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Member Spotlight
Starting this semester, SCMSO is honoring it's members with member spotlights. Our first featured member is Dominique Vyborny, a senior Supply Chain Management major who is also pursuing a Bridging Disciplines Program Certificate in Innovation, Creativity, and Entrepreneurship. She agreed to answer a few questions for us, take a look here:
SCMSO: Why did you choose supply chain?
DV: When I was accepted into the McCombs School of Business I didn't know what supply chain management was or what went into the major. During my first semester, I learned more about it—the international focus, the incorporation of both relationship building skills and a love for statistics, and also the important role that supply chain employees can have on supporting the ethical missions of socially conscious businesses—and I realized that supply chain management would be a great fit for my abilities, values, and interests. In my previous career as a welder, I had managed several projects, and much of what I learned in those experiences gave me a great foundation for what I'm currently learning in SCM.
SCMSO: What's been the most beneficial part of SCMSO for you?
DV: Attending the weekly SCMSO meetings! It has provided some really valuable opportunities to learn more about the day-to-day realities of supply chain in a business setting, ask questions directly to the company representatives who come to speak at our weekly meetings, and see the subtle differences in how different companies approach the management of their supply chain.
SCMSO: What inspires you?
DV: I love hearing stories about a CEO of a company who is known for treating everyone the same way—with respect, dignity, and camaraderie—whether they be a shareholder or a maintenance technician. It incorporates a universal truth that I've been really inspired by lately: that no matter what we choose to do with our time, we're all human, and we all have value in what we can contribute to the world.


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So. Let's Kill Hitler.
Definitely not my favourite episode, by far, and I can understand why people don't like it. That's perfectly fine.
But I feel the need to address two points that I've seen come up in arguments.
1. 'Mels' is a person of colour, who happens to have criminal tendencies, and this is viewed as racefail.
I'm not saying that people aren't allowed to have this opinion, although I see this as one of the weaker racefails of NuWho. Deana pointed out to me last night that it was interesting to see that Time Lord regeneration does, in fact, transcend skin colour (and quite possibly, gender). Given that we've only ever seen the Doctor as a Caucasian male, and other Time Lords (the Master, the Rani) have remained in their same gender/ethnic roles, it's something that has previously never been addressed, but has been plenty speculated by fans. And in this situation, I can't agree with the argument that it is racefail for a coloured Time Lord to regenerate into what we know as River Song, because River Song was already cast before this backstory was written. So if the racefail is a brilliant, confident, interesting female character worthy of the Doctor once again being cast by a non-coloured person, then the racefail happened way back in The Silence in the Library.
2. River Song is a fascinating character, who we find out is something of a Time Lord herself, and is more-or-less an equal to the Doctor. We can't have that, so she kisses away the rest of her regenerations, making her more 'normal'.
Uh, this argument is just... what. If River's story had been told differently, or had been written in a different order, I might agree with it. BUT.
We already know River can't regenerate because of The Forest of the Dead. If she had the ability, she would have regenerated then, and the Doctor wouldn't be all 'omgggg noooo Riverrrrr.' We have already established that she does not ever regenerate again, on top of the fact that Old Who has PLENTY established the giving/taking of regenerations, mostly between the Doctor and the Master. This is not anything new, and I'm not surprised by it at all. So, uh... I don't think it makes River less of an interesting, unique character, nor do I think it was pulled out of someone's ass. They were preserving continuity, which I applaud in my Doctor Who. In fact, I find it more angering that they decided to make her 'Time Lord-like' in the first place, because that implies that she wasn't an interesting enough character based on her personality.
In conclusion, I respect everyone's right to like or dislike this episode. I'm rather on the fence about it, myself. However, if you don't like it, I think there's plenty to be upset about more than this garbage.


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The traffic has sped up and slowed
I've changed my travelling mode
This is Nebraska,
It's not like Alaska.
We've got the I-80 road.
I travelled Interstate 80 the first time at the start of the summer of 1968, going east from Denver on my first road trip. I drove my friend's new Chevelle directly away from my high school graduation. Bitter about the previous seven years at home and at school, I determined to never return.
At age 18 I had much to learn.
At that time I-80S existed only in segments, and wouldn't be named I-76 until the Bicentennial. I pulled off the two-lane in Julesburg, and while the attendant pumped my gas and washed my windshield I listened to the wind in the telephone wires and thought I'd heard the loneliest sound in the world.
The speed limit signs at that time changed from 70 to 80 with the daylight.
I drove to meet up with my music buddies in Illinois, sure we'd change the world with our music.
The summer didn't go according to plan. We came back to Denver in the middle of July when the pianist's mother died. The pianist and I didn't find day jobs and we didn't find much in the way of music jobs, either.
I travelled west on I-80 that winter for Xmas break; I had yet to learn to travel light, yet to learn that school books brought on vacation never add to knowledge but diminish the vacation's quality. Again the three musicians rode in the pianist's Chevelle, and got stuck in a snow drift outside of Cozad.
For the next four years I-80 served as my hitchhiking corridor to and from college. When I went to medical school I traveled the same highway, catching rides or thumbing.
Bit by bit I-76 reached completion and the four-lane finished skirting Omaha.
We moved to Iowa in 1985. At that time the speed limit was 55 and we had three small children. The twelve-hour drive to visit my parents thus dilated to eighteen hours until we learned to drive at night.
In May of 1989 I received a call as the sun was going down. My stepfather had a stroke; my mother told me not to come. Bethany brewed me a Thermos of real coffee and I left immediately. He died four days later, and I drove back with the radio off, alone with my thoughts.
My mother got sick in 1991 and died in 1993. During that interval I made the trip many times by air and by car. I learned how dead-end and bitterness define each other, and sap the joy from life.
We made the pilgrimage every summer to visit my father till the kids grew up and my father died. I travel I-80 less often now than I used to.
I have taken to making the trip in two stages; I have stopped tonight at a motel in Big Springs, now that I have a level of affluence that I didn't have the years that I travelled all night or camped briefly in Grand Island or slept a few hours in a rest area. Quieter, safer cars speed back and forth. Speed limits have gone down and then up. Gas mileage keeps improving. Nebraska highway maintenance remains a model of functionality.
I am on my way to an educational conference in Denver through the American Academy of Family Practice.
In the last forty years I've changed more than the road has.
This trip is the first time I haven't been in a hurry going or coming. I'm enjoying it a lot more.
Tags: Big Springs, Chevelle, Cozad, Grand Island, hitchhiking, I-76, I-80, I-80S, Interstate highway, Omaha, speed limits, travl light


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Folks the Dems have no wish to unite this country. If they did then we would not be reading about Sen Dianne Feinstein pushing for a new Assault Weapon Ban. Gun control is a very hot topic that will further drive a wedge through this country. . . she don't care folks. .. .
Instead of doing what they were elected to - FIX THE ECONOMY and our country she is going after our basic rights.
It has been shown time and again that not only is this a loser as a political move, but the more gun laws you have the more crime you have. . . Gun control does not work and it is proven.
Gun control is the land of dictators who need unarmed people to rule. . . it is not the way of a free people.
So what is she doing? Why take away our rights and spit on our Constitution? What do you have planned that you are afraid of your own fellow law abiding citizens?
Why do you want to disarm us?
Why do you want to leave women helpless and defenseless?
Why do you want to ban the most popular guns in the country for sporting and hunting?
Why do you continue to lie about what an assault rifle is?
Why do you continue to try to outlaw things you clearly don't understand like magazine and grips?
You don't do this if you are clean, you do this when you have plans that need us defenseless and unable to stop you.
You do this when you want to usurp the rights and Constitution of this country and don't want us citizens to be able to stop you. . . . .
Thank GOD the House is still held by the GOP and the Senate is still majority pro civil rights.
We need to watch everything they do, and here is the proof. . . . they are not working in our best interest already and it has not even been a week since the election.


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Preview: Apertura 2010 Semi FinalsNovember 22, 2010
Preview: Apertura 2010 Semi Finals
And then there were four. The semi-finals are set and now four teams are left looking for all the glory, the 2010 Apertura Championship. The quarter-finals gave us some interesting and intense games, but it also gave us a big surprise. Cruz Azul, the Superlider of the regular season were kicked out by 8th seeded Pumas, in what many people saw the biggest surprise of the season.
The favorites won their first leg 2-1, but the surprising young squad of Pumas made a comeback in the second leg winning 2-0 (3-2 aggregate). Cruz Azul ends their great season with a disappointing loss, sending heartbreak to all their fans who had high hopes for their team this season.
The other favorite on the other hand, Monterrey, moved on to the semi-finals, in an intense match up with Pachuca. After a 1-1 tie in the first game, Monterrey and Pachuca tied in an intense second game 3-3. By far the best game of the quarter finals. After two ties, Monterrey moved on because of their better position on the table throughout the league.
One of the most anticipated match ups in the quarter finals was Santos vs Jaguares. After two games played, Santos moved on to the semi-finals with an aggregate score of 2-1. This match up did not live up to its expectation based on the teams run towards the end of the season. In the second match when it seemed that the game was going to end 0-0, Santos was awarded a penalty that sealed the game for them and sent Jaguares home.
The "brothers" of this years liguilla went head to head in an intense first game, that surprisingly ended 0-0. Back in the Azteca, America showed its dominance over San Luis and easily beat "Los Gladiadores" 4-1 and moved on to the semi-finals waiting for its next opponent.
Now we have four teams going head to head trying to reach this seasons final. Both match ups, on paper, seem to be interesting games. Here is a preview of the 2010 Apertura Semi-finals...
Monterrey Vs Pumas
(2nd) Monterrey vs. (8th) Pumas
Apertura 2010 result: Monterrey 5-2 Pumas
Preview: Pumas comes into this game highly motivated after beating Cruz Azul and proving many people wrong, including me. Monterrey beat Pachuca in an intense game, but also come in having one of the best overall seasons behind Cruz Azul. But in the Liguilla anything can happen. Both Pumas and Monterrey are looking to reach the final, and how the quarter finals where, the winner in this series is hard to predict.
On paper, Monterrey is the favorite because of their regular season and their consistency throughout it, but after what Pumas did to Cruz Azul, both teams seem even in this match-up and should put on a great show for us.
Prediction: Pumas advances (3-2 aggregate)
Pumas vs Monterrey, Thursday 25th @ Estadio Olimpico
Monterrey vs Pumas, Sunday 29th @ Estadio Tecnológico
Santos Vs America
(3rd) Santos vs. (4th) America
Apertura 2010 result: America 3-2 Santos
Preview: The real test for America seems to be in the semi-finals vs Santos. After cruising in the game vs San Luis, America will now be tested by a stronger team. Santos had a very even match up with Chiapas, and moved on to the semi finals after playing two even games vs Jaguares.
America will have to make their home an advantage in the first game. Santos is one of the toughest teams at home, and can easily take that to their advantage playing in front of their crowd. There really isn't a favorite in this match up, but this looks to be another even match, and we should expect two good entertaining games.
Prediction: Santos advances (4-3 aggregate)
America vs Santos, Wednesday 24th @ Estadio Azteca
Santos vs America, Saturday 27th @ Estadio Corona


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I think a traumatic experience is what makes one question life most.
Before I went on a "trip of a life time" I was in a really good place, probably the happiest I had ever been…but was this just because I knew my situation was temporary and I was moving? Or was I genuinely happy? I guess we will never know.
I do know, that after leaving for this trip, making a mess of my life and coming home, I'm the saddest I have ever been…but is it because of the trip specifically? Or is it because of my past, my childhood, feeling lost with university ending and having no idea what I want to do with my life? I guess we will never know.
This traumatic experience has brought me to this thought though…is life just a constant cycle of finding happiness, losing it, and then, trying to find it again?
I think this may be true…great…


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The body found in a Bihar forest was of Lucas Tete, one of the four policemen abducted by Maoist guerrillas five days ago, and not of Abhay Kumar Yadav, Deputy Inspector General of Munger Shah Rukh Majeed confirmed today.
The body was found near Simratali forest under Chanan police station in Lakhisarai. Yadav was said to have been killed at around 4 p.m. Thursday, six hours after the expiry of the Maoists' second deadline of 10 a.m. The killing took place following a decision by a 'jan adalat' or kangaroo court, a Maoist spokesman had said.
The Maoists said the policemen would be killed unless eight jailed Maoist leaders were released.
The Maoists have also warned the Bihar government of more attacks if the operations against the rebels did not stop immediately.
If politicians were abducted by maoist then what Government would have done?
Killing is not solution of any problem, maoist should keep their points in front of Government?
Why policeman's have to pay for their life?


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'Trick 'r Treat 2' Announced
Posted on Monday, October 28th, 2013 by Peter Sciretta
Trick 'r Treat was destined to become a cult classic. Screenwriter Michael Dougherty's feature directorial debut Trick R Treat sat on the shelf for over two years, before being dumped on DVD/Blu-ray by Warner Bros — despite earning great reviews and buzz from a handful of screenings. The horror anthology has become a staple of the halloween watching line-up of so many of my friends, but I don't think anyone ever expected a sequel…
Announced at Monday night's fan screening in Hollywood, Dougherty surprised the crowd by announcing a sequel during the Q&A session. No more details were announced. Header photo thanks to uhnet. After the jump you can see a better resolution look at the logo and read some quotes.


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Clooney plans film on bin Laden driver
Latest update : 2008-08-13
"Ocean's Eleven" superstar George Clooney has reportedly bought the film rights for a book on the detention and trial of Salim Hamdan, Osama bin Laden's driver, who was sentenced last week to five and a half years in prison.
George Clooney has snapped up the film rights for a book based on the detention and trial of Osama bin Laden's driver, it was reported on Wednesday.
Entertainment industry newspaper Daily Variety said it was not clear what role Oscar-winning actor-director Clooney would take in the project, which will be based on Jonathan Mahler's book "The Challenge."
The story spotlights the efforts of US Navy lawyer Charles Swift and Georgetown law professor Neal Katyal to secure a fair trial for Salim Hamdan, who was last week sentenced to less than five years in prison.
The sentence was later described by Swift as a "stunning rebuke" to the government's case against Hamdan. Prosecutors had demanded the Yemeni be jailed for 30 years, portraying him as a cunning Al Qaeda warrior.
According to Variety, Clooney could direct, write and star in the film. The report said Clooney was considered a perfect choice to play the role of the idealistic lawyer Swift.
Clooney, the star of the "Ocean's 11" films who won an Oscar in 2006 for his role in the spy drama "Syriana," will next be seen in Joel and Ethan Coen's black comedy "Burn After Reading."
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My wife was away on a women's religious retreat so I was riding solo this past weekend. This would not be a problem normally, but my two athlete's had a very busy schedule.
Crazy Youth Parents Series
Here is the crazy schedule that I managed this weekend.
Friday - Golf match and basketball tryout for my son and soccer practice for my daughter.
Saturday - Basketball game, soccer game and select basketball tryouts for my daughter and basketball tryouts and baseball game for my son.
Sunday - Basketball game and soccer game for my daughter. My son, thankfully, had the day off.
Ten athletic events in three days for two kids with one parent. I know parents who have 5 or 6 very active kids. I know single working parents who somehow keep up with today's young athletes. I applaud you both.
The Main Point
Being parents of athletes is not easy. Being a single parent of athletes is nearly impossible. The responsibilities are seemingly endless. This past weekend I did the following tasks to prepare my kids for the weekend of sports. I washed uniforms, tied shoes, searched for and found missing equipment, practiced with the kids in the yard, shopped for new basketball shoes, arranged for rides, drove teammates home, went online to download directions, drove 250 miles, cooked meals, prepared water bottles, watched games, practices and tryouts, encouraged my kids, talked to coaches, consoled and cheered for my kids. To handle a schedule like this you need to be prepared and you need help. I made a chart of all the activities and I worked deals with other parents to carpool.
I had a great weekend. I saw a win and a tie in soccer against some really tough competition, I saw a heartbreaking loss in a basketball tournament final and a blowout win, and both my kids made the select teams that they tried out for.
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
Youth Sports: How Do Single Parents Do It?
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- AnonymousOctober 13, 2010 at 11:17 AM
That would be the weekend for hell for many dads.ReplyDelete
But if you and your kids love sports, it sounds like a perfect wkend!!!
I get that for Stats Dad, if was heaven.
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A life's work…
What were you doing 20 year's ago… and where will you be 20 years from now… and how is what you're doing today going to get you there?
It's not often you can see a direct line between aspects of your past with aspects of your present, and if you can, it's not usually a direct "golden path", more a meandering curve perturbed by major random events of one's life. Looking at the 'biographies' of great people it's also rare to find such direct callings. But recently I've seen video of such a journey.
Recently I've become obsessed with the TED videos. Great talks by great people, which will leave you inspired… The range of topics covered is amazing, as are the presentations themselves. Microsoft unveiled it's Photosynth (seadragon) technologies at one such talk, and if you look at a talk from a few years ago you can see where Microsoft's Surface technologies came from, but Microsoft is just a minor player in the history of TED talks. Other amazing ones include talks that introduce string theory, chronicling the spread of aids in Africa – and making remarkable predictions as to the epidemic's future, coverage of news coverage, how to inspire creativity, amazing presentations on statistics of world economies- and how we can eliminate poverty with them. One of the most thought provoking ones I've seen recently was about how the US needs to re-structure it's military to handle situations like Iraq. (Al Gore's movie An Inconvenient Truth supposedly came from his TED presentation)
So it was with some interest that I watched a video of a TED talk from 1984, by the the guy who would later create the One Laptop Per Child project (OLPC). The OLPC project has recently become mired in infighting and bickering, but they've also recently unveiled plans for version 2.0. The goal is to produce a small computer for children, that can replace Text books in remote and developing countries, as well as connect to the Internet so people from around the world can self teach… all for a budget of at or under $100 USD… Considering that countries like China and Brazil now spend on the order of ~$50 per child for text books for children, this meta text book would be not that unfeasible. Think of a hitchhiker's guide but for school children.
Think about what's being shown in this video, and when it was created. In 1984 Steve Jobs introduced the world to the Macintosh. A revolutionary computer that showed the world how to use a mouse, and the beginnings of digital video on a computer (the Mac's famous Welcome screen), and really- it was most people's introduction to a computer that could fit inside your house, let alone one that could fit on your desk. The Internet, world wide web, and wikipedia weren't even conceived of yet, but looking at that video we can see the start of hyer-linking, interactive learning, and touch based computing. Don't forget the touch based surface that that Microsoft Surface is based on was shown at TED in 2006… Yet here its shown in a video from 25 years ago!
Head of the Class
Once again Webkit is teh win!
But with a tutor like Dave Hyatt how could it not?
Right behind them of course it Opera, but they're not shipping the fixes until they're done their current release cycle for Opera 9.5.
Meanwhile Firefox is still stuck at 68/100, and well IE8… See me after class.
Peak WEB
Incase you didn't realize the title of this post and the previous one – PEAK CRUFT – are a reference to Peak Oil, and in all 3 we can expect drastic changes.
Again I'm referencing the Joel on Software article about Martian Headsets… which recently has received quite a bit of flack.
There's a certain (large) segment of web developers who are feeling full of Schadenfreude at IE8's (potential) troubles, and I must admit I myself am among them (see one of my previous posts). The upcoming free for all that will be IE8's introduction will cause mass amounts of confusion (if current plans are carried out), but those of us who are forced to work in webdesign, figure that Microsoft has really just made it's bed, and now it has to sleep in it.
Quickly now how many web browser can you name?
- Telnet
- Netscape 3
- Netscape 3.1
- Netscape 4
- Netscape 4.2
- Netscape 6
- Mozilla
- Firefox 1
- Firefox 2
- Firefox 3
- Flock
- Camino
- Safari 1
- Safari 2 (WebKit)
- Safari 3
- Safari Mobile (iphone)
- Firefox light
- Opera
- Opera Light
- Assorted Mobile device and cellphone browsers
- oh… and Lynx
And that's just off the top of my head… essentially there are for all intensive (math) purposes an infinite-1 number (∞-1) of web browsers, and for each web browser there's been basically an infinite number of web pages designed and tested (∞). Using my horrible analysis of algorithm's knowledge from Uni that works out at:
(and yes I realize I should use n instead of ∞, but it's Ω notation ie. worst case)
That's right, there's an Order infinite number of combinations of web pages and browsers. Looking at the graphs in the Martian Headset article this is quickly apparent by the lines in the pictures. And since all the above browsers implement the same things slightly differently (there's no compiler to tell you you've created a mal form web page). Granted a large fraction of the above web pages can be removed by attrition, as well as limited support of the differing web standards (html/xml/xhtml), but it doesn't change the big-O Order (magnitude) of the problem.
So what to do? That's the one point the Martian Headset post is short on… He spends hundreds of words re-iterating the problem, but without proposing a solution. Joel's solution? Capitulate, and let the current broken standard of the web continue and fester.
The thing is that, as an IE 8 user he's oblivious to the prejudices experienced by minority users. Like racism, it's very hard for members of the majority to understand the pain that others in a minority experience (ok, racism might be a stretch, but point remains the same). Members of the majority can ignore problems, and trust that the might makes right argument will prevail with respect to web browsers and web standards. The problem here is that with IE and the last couple of versions, the mob has been heading for a cliff.
Again back to the Martian Headset post, Joel talks about how there's no standard implementation and the standards documentation is difficult to follow. I'm not about to argue that the W3C documentation isn't hard to follow, it is. But it's complicated in the way that a legal contract is complicated: it eliminates all possible forms of wiggle room. And really that's what a standards document is. It's a contract that you have to follow if you want to properly implement something, the thing is there's no penalty (besides marketshare) if you don't follow it. And by standards documents standards it's ridiculously easy to read. Compare it to the TCP/IP RFC (and that's one of the simpler RFC's out there). Standards documents aren't designed for vanilla web developers. They're designed for web browser developers.
The thing is that these browser developers are infact translating these documents into different standard implementations that other browser developers can compare their work to. The first big step in this direction was the old Netscape standard documentation – that was all but ignored by Microsoft, followed by the more recent Acid tests (Acid 1, Acid 2, Acid 3), and kudos to Microsoft, they're following suit. This can only lead to good things, and don't be fooled by 3 "small" acid tests vs. Microsoft's 700 unit tests. The acid tests each have hundreds of sub tests, and only if they all run properly will you see the proper output.
Peak CRUFT
There's only so much bailing wire and bubble gum you can tack on before the thing is going to just fall apart. And the creaking you're hearing is Windows.
Yesterday someone who shall remain nameless forwarded me an article about the recent IE flamewar.
Joel does a great job explaining what the issues are, and what the problems are as well as where we stand currently. He also briefly touches on stuff he's talked about before, mainly why Windows 95 was so great (which coincidently just so happens to be when Joel of Joel on Software last worked for Microsoft). His argument is that basically 1/3rd of the code in windows 95 was compatibility stuff so that code that worked on older versions of windows still worked on windows 95. This includes code to make horrible horrible hacks that worked before still work on windows 95. His rant about the idealists and the pragmatists is basically re-iteration of this point.
And it's a valid point. The reason Windows has dominated to this point is because what worked on windows 3.x, worked on windows 95, and what worked on windows 95 worked on XP. But things are starting to break down…
Eventually in all software you have to give up on what you had before and start fresh. Microsoft has so far managed to avoid this up to this point. Other manufacturers have already run smack dab into this problem. Apple ran afoul of this when they transitioned from OS9 to OSX, Linux hits this on a regular basis, but usually on a much smaller scale every time a new major revision of the kernel is released. The fact that Microsoft has managed to avoid this to this point is a testament to the people they've had working with them, but it's become the expected behavior. And that behavior is going to come back and bite them in the ass.
When you do new things, you have to expect some of the old things not to work with your new things.
For all intensive purposes windows has become
on a highway of supercars.
There's only so much bailing wire and bubble gum you can tack on before the thing is going to just fall apart. And the creaking you're hearing is Windows.
Vista is a bastard child. Microsoft realized around windows 2000 that they needed to start fresh and crated a decent operating system, but due to marketing and time they had something that was windows XP underneath and all shiny on top.
To add all the new features they're going to need for a next generation Operating system they're going to have to start fresh.
Tabula Rasa (clean slate – not the video game)
With no back ties to previous cruft they can design features that are un-encumbered (new graphics layers, new file system layers, new registry stores, etc). This is also why Microsoft has been focusing on Virtualization technologies so much lately.
Once again Microsoft is cribbing Apple's hard earned lessons. When Apple transitioned to OSX they added an emulation layer that allowed the modern operating system, to run the old broken OS9 inside it. It wasn't perfect, and it allowed Adobe (one of their then premier partners) to be lazy and wait 2 years before issuing a new version of Photoshop for the new OS and the new Intel architecture, but it meant that almost all programs worked, (albeit slowly).
Once again to see the future of the windows platform you only need look as far as the closest mac.
The only possible way Microsoft has of preserving functionality with newer and newer versions of Windows it to emulate the previous versions. In the past that meant running code that had been designed to mimic older code, but windows has become so huge it's become required that you run the entire operating system as a separate process in a separate emulated environment.
Microsoft is once again trying to shrink the foot print and the noticeably of virtualization with their new HyperV technology…. basically only emulating the parts of the operating system that a program accesses so that your program thinks it's running inside windows 95, when it's actually running on the latest and greatest version of windows, without spinning up a version of Windows 95 inside a VPC.
This is great, but it means in your next install of Windows, you'll be installing every version before it (in a massive 40Gig or so install – at least that's my guess of the what the final install will be), but storage is cheap. The question is will Microsoft charge you for the pleasure of running all their crappy old code?
Karma Police
So today MIX started.
I watched the live keynote, which really was focused on developers like me.
Silverlight 2 beta 1 was released, which is a big deal, but not what I found most interesting.
They had the Team lead for Internet Explorer 8 on stage to present and reveal IE 8 for the first time. Recently IE 8 has been in the news because of announcements in the team blog about standards used, as well as certain design decisions.
(Let alone that I find it extreeeemly interesting how the revision cycle for IE has accelerated dramatically since Firefox has started hitting critical mass)
The man on stage (I've forgotten his name already1) mentioned what I believe has to be the best quote about IE and web development evar:
My son knows I work on IE, and he sees these things about security on the web, and he asks me 'daddy did you break the internet?'. My response is no, but if you're a web developer you might think differently.
The guy on stage had an agenda of 8 items about IE 8 (get it?, yeah I didn't laugh either). These prob. don't match the guy's slides, but these are the points I came away with:
Part 1 was the announcement that IE 8 would support CSS 2. Which was A) big news, so big they announced it a few weeks back B)Important to web developers C) met by crickets in the audience and D) deserved a better response.
Part 2 was another huge announcement. IE 8 would be changing it's rendering model so that it defaults to Standards based rendering by default (again met by silence from the crowd). This means that pages that look bad in current versions of Opera, Safari, and Firefox, but look ok in IE 7 will be busted in IE8. This means the web developers should be able to design a web page that would work on 99% of browsers…. this is HUGE, this hasn't been possible since IE3 and the days of Netscape 3, back in 1996!!!!
Part 3 User interface changes for ajax and HTML 5.
Part 4 and 5 were about Activities and WebSlices… I'm not too sure what to say about these yet, but I'm worried… very worried… There's no spec for either of these, and they're designed for integration of feed type data into a web pages like those annoying smart tags you find on certain websites (you know those links that aren't actually links, but popup context windows with ads in them). The other half of them seems like the return of the old "if we can't beat them, bundle it with a free automatic update product" strategy. Google maps is arguably superior to MSN maps, but the rest of the Activities seems to be a straight move against Google tools by Live services.
Bad Microsoft! Bad Microsoft!… haven't you learned anything from the multiple $1,000,000,000 (one billllllliiiioooonnnnn dollars Mr. Powers) fines the EU has been giving you for not playing nice?
Part 6 was performance improvements…. it's faster.
Part 7 was a Developer tool bar, for doing proper JS debugging…. this looks a tad familiar.
Part 8 was of course a live beta of IE8 that you could (and I have downloaded).
So the final karma tally:
Good Karma
- Implementing CSS2 properly.. bye bye box model hacks!
- Defaulting to standards style rendering
- Donating Tests for Standardization
- Providing Feedback and Implementation details on Standards
- Fixing webpage debugging
Bad Karma
- Webslices and Activites…. are these using hardcoded keywords in the class attribute!?!?!?!?
- Defaulting to using your personal service instead of the industry standard for activities
- Implementing a half assed version of a spec
- Not having Silverlight work in
IE8edit:Stupid installers, have to install them in the right order…. still doesn't work in Firefox 3.0b3 though
it would appear that the IE team has actually generated some good karma for a change…. too bad it doesn't make up for the last decade of webdeveloper torture they're responsible for.
1Apparently his name is Dean Hachamovitch


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Fast forward a number of years from my first visit to New York. I am working at Bloomingdale's in Chicago. I would soon have the Christmas Shop added to the departments I managed for them. I am being flown to New York and put up overnight for the company's Christmas Shop seminar where we will meet the buyers and be briefed on the goods being featured in the stores that holiday season.
Earlier that year, during a winter getaway to Key West, I had met a couple who lived in Manhattan with whom I got along famously. They invited me to visit and stay with them whenever I wished. I arranged two days off after the seminar to do just that. As Bloomie's was paying my airfare this trip would be totally free of cost. I was gonna' make out like a bandit.
After a full work day I caught the train to the airport and boarded my flight. Since it was only a three day trip I was able to get by with just my gym bag. This was prior to 9/11 and carry on restrictions were somewhat more relaxed in those days. After landing in Newark I boarded the shuttle into the city which took me to Grand Central Station, and the adjoining Grand Hyatt Hotel where I would be staying, again on Bloomingdale's dime, that first night. I had to get up early enough to get to the seminar the next morning so ordered room service and waited...and waited and waited. After 2 hours and several phone calls the order was finally delivered to my room. It was on the house due to the problems I had incurred getting it there at all.
The next morning I had breakfast at a diner nearby and took a cab to the site of the seminar, checking my bag at the hotel till I could pick it up prior to going to the apartment of my friends. In accordance with my style sense at the time I was dressed in bright colors. A claret jacket, black pants, red and black print vest and red and black striped tie. I kept my color pallet to two tones and felt I looked stylish but professional. When the elevator doors opened to the space where the seminar was being held I found myself in a sea of gray and navy blue suits. To say I stood out is an understatement. Even the men's ties were muted and if a single woman was wearing something other that a pump with a one inch heel I didn't see her. That morning I defined "Didn't get the dress code memo."
We got through the seminar and were invited to the Christopher Radko showroom a few blocks away. Carrying the bag of Christmas swag we were given by the vendors, I still have the ornaments I received that day, I made my way to the showroom. I stopped along the way to pick up tee shirts for my neighbors who were looking after my cats while I was gone, burying them in the bottom of the swag bag. The vendor representative at the showroom was short, adorable and obviously gay. His butterfly bow tie made him even more adorable. We discreetly flirted as he gave us a tour of the showroom.
Leaving the showroom I picked up my bag at the hotel and headed to my friends apartment on the Upper West Side. One of them was an attorney and made a nice living, the other studying to become a nurse.Their apartment was comfortable, and by New York standards, rather commodious. It had the long,thin living room/dining room, which is ubiquitous in New York, two bedrooms and a single bath. It was a pre war building with many of the unit's period details intact. From the window in the bathroom St. John the Divine could be seen. It was under renovation, however and completely covered with scaffolding. We had a wonderful reunion and caught up over drinks at a nearby bar that night.
As one member of the couple was working and the other was in school I had the days to myself. My plan was to visit the Museum of Modern Art, having missed it the first time I was in New York. Prior to the museum I planned a short visit to the Calvin Klein underwear showroom to drop in on a friend working there who I had met working at Bloomingdale's. After a pleasant chat, I set out again. When I arrived at the museum I discovered that, oddly, the museum was closed on Wednesdays, the day I was there. Finding a map at a subway station I realized I was walking distance from the Metropolitan Museum. With an entire day on my hands I decided to pay it a visit instead.
On previous visits to this institution I was awed and enthralled by the treasures house there. Work had been hectic over the months prior and I was drained. After my time touring the galleries that day I felt as if a portion of my soul had been restored. Great art often has this effect on me.
The next day I returned to the Museum of Modern Art. I arrived prior to the Museums opening time so shopped at the museums store, open even though the museum at that hour was not. When the museum opened I revisited the artworks I had seen on my first New York visit. I was, again, deeply moved by Van Gogh's "A Starry Night". It appeared a special exhibition was being installed so a portion of one floor was closed. I ended up getting through the museum very quickly and finding myself back out on the street with several hours left prior to being picked up for my flight home.
When I first arrived I paged through a copy of the New York Times. Carol Burnett was opening in a new play on Broadway. I noticed at the time that there was a Thursday matinee. Theatre matinees are usually on Wednesdays so this stuck in my head. I quickly obtained a copy of the Times, checked the arts section to see what theatre it was at and raced, through a New York lunch hour crowd, to the theatre.
There is an odd sensation I have experienced on each of my visits to New York. The air is so dirty and sooty that I can feel a film building up on my face as I move through the streets. This may be a projection or imagination on my part, but I swear that is true.
The play was at the Martin Beck Theatre, renamed the Al Hirschfeld Theatre in 2003. Built in 1924 it was designed to be the most opulent theatre of it's day. It's beautiful Moorish inspired byzantine style interior added to the experience and enjoyment of going to the theatre. The play, "Moon Over Buffalo" was slight, silly and a triumphant return to Broadway for the legendary Carol Burnett after an absence of 30 years. It garnered Tony nominations for her and her costar Philip Bosco. It was a delightful end to my short stay.
After the play I raced back to the west side and grabbed my bag from my friend's apartment. My hired car took me back to the Newark airport where I boarded my plane for home. When I returned and mentioned to a friend that I had just come back from New York she said "And when you got off the plane in Chicago you looked around you and said Sky! Trees! Air!"
I did indeed.