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2/16/06 08:30 pm - Dilitation, etc
I had somone stick a tube down my throat again today. Fortunately, they
didn't encounter nearly as much difficulty as last time, so neither did
I. But they did take photos -- so I'm giving them to you all. Aren't I
nice? :) The one on the left is "before", the two on the right are
Also, I think someone needs to invent a drink called a "squeaky nail".
That way, you can get both greased and hammered at the same time.


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Miami Is Not Hot
13 Feb
By William Bixby
At the end of the 1st quarter of the NBA season, the Miami Heat are 8-7, and there are already rumors and grumblings that their coach, Eric Spoelstra, will soon be replaced by the team president and general manager, Pat Riley, if there is no drastic improvement in a very small amount of time. The Miami Heat are plagued by two problems that seem uncorrectable in the near future. One problem is structural and the other one is strategic. The Heat despite having superior talent at the 2,3, and 4 positions, suffer from extreme deficiencies at the 1 and 5 spots. And the extreme talent that Miami has are non-congruous on the basketball court. At the finish of the 1st quarter of the NBA season, the Heat are seriously under-achieving.
The Heat have major problems with inferior parts at important positions. Though they are physically more gifted than almost every team in the National Basketball Association overall, they were not well-constructed to win. The team has All-Stars at the shooting guard and power forward positions, the 2 and 4 slot respectively, and a certified Hall of Fame candidate at small forward spot, the 3. Dwayne Wade won a Finals MVP and a NBA championship. LeBron James is a 2-time NBA MVP, and Chris Bosh is a multi-skilled, multiple time All-Star. The three of them could form one of the best scoring trios ever hypothetically. With the talent that the Heat now possess, this team could possibly win multiple NBA titles. But, teams do not win championships in theoretical applications. To win in the league, every team needs solid play at the point and in the interior. And, at the point guard and center position, the Miami Heat are both under-sized and poorly skilled. Playing at point is an under-sized ball-handler, Carlos Arroyo, and a miniature shooting guard, Eddie House. And at the 5 spot, is a raw, offensively-limited center, Joel Anthony. The deficiency at the center position could be remedied with the addition of an over-sized rebounder. Center, once a talent-stocked position in the National Basketball Association, is now full of inept players that rarely score or block shots. Anthony was made in the same mold. However, with the firepower that Miami possesses, their center would need only to get extra possessions for the team with offensive and defensive rebounding and play sound help defense. Joel Anthony would be serviceable on any other squad in the NBA. But, because he lacks offensive prowess, superior size, and exceptional rebounding ability, he is a mediocre offering at center for this basketball team that is contending for a championship. The point guard position is where the Heat are reeling to find an adequate option. If Carlos Arroyo or Eddie House were the players relieving the starters, then their team would be a talented, championship caliber squad. Since they have both been starters, the opposing points salivate before they play the Heat. Carlos Arroyo can dribble the basketball. Unfortunately, he can not shoot it from beyond the free throw line. Since he is a small point and not exceptional quick or strong with the basketball, he does not penetrate or make assists. The fact that Arroyo plays matador defense further limits his time on the court and his contribution to the Miami Heat. Whereas Arroyo is under-sized, Eddie House is absolutely tiny. He is a good shooter from 3, but a sub par ball-handler. And though he is spirited on defense, he is not especially quick or strong, so he is overpowered or blown by regularly by the better point guards in the league. This year has had one of the better overall crops of point guards that the NBA has seen in recent history, so Arroyo and House are outmatched in nearly every game that they play. Louis Williams, a backup point guard, scored 12 points against him off the bench. Superstar point guards burn him for more than just points. Rondo had 17 assists against them. Chris Paul scored 13 pts and had 19 assists, while Deron Williams scored 21 points with 14 assists.The Miami Heat organization is scrambling to fill those positions with more cohesive parts to play with All-Star nucleus that they procured in the off season. The return of Mario Chalmers and Mike Miller from injuries should help fortify the point guard position somewhat. Both players give the Heat more size. Chalmers plays well on the defensive end getting deflections and steals and Miller should supply much needed efficient shooting on the offensive end. If the two mesh well with the Big 3, then the point guard problem may solve itself with time.
The center position is much less optimistic. Bosh, who looked like a good rebounder in Toronto, has been regularly out-rebounded by opposing power forwards and even by his two smaller teammates. And because he is still a better rebounder than his other teammates in the front court, the Heat are consistently out-rebounded by opposing squads. Illgaskus, Anthony, and Haslem all have pronounced flaws as NBA centers. Illgaskus is slow, methodical, and not at all athletic. If his 15 ft. set shot is not falling, then he is completely useless to Miami. Anthony blocks the occasional shot and is fairly athletic, but he is often sedentary and has a weak upper body. He also has no scoring prowess and few post moves. Haslem, though fiery and a decent rebounder, is completely under-sized. He gives up 3-4 inches to the power forwards in the league. At center he is 5-7 inches shorter than everyone that he guards. Unless the Heat find viable options at point guard and at center, they are destined to be defeated by the deep, well-rounded teams in the Eastern Conference, like the Boston Celtics and the Orlando Magic.
Despite having two positions that are over-matched on a nightly basis, the Miami Heat are still a better squad than their 8-7 record suggests. The Heat have three players that on any given night, can carry their team to a victory. However, the talent that they possess is being stifled by poor chemistry and misguided strategy. The primary focus of the Miami Heat has been the defensive side of the basketball. The idea that has spread through the locker room is that, regardless of whether the basketball is going in on the offensive end or not, you can always play tough defense. This logic is fundamentally flawed because two of the players on the floor are always incapable of defending their position well; the point guard and center are physically incapable of defending the opposition. Even Bosh has been a defensive liability at times. Without a great shot blocker, defensive liabilities can not be hidden, so the Heat need to focus on offense. They have the two of the best penetrators and one of the most versatile posts in the National Basketball Association all playing for the same team. However, when all three of them are on the court at the same time, the offense idles. All three players seem to defer to each other. If one player asserts himself at the offensive end, then the other two become spectators. The Heat, whether purposefully or not, are running isolation plays throughout the entire game. The answer to this offensive apathy is one of three different offensive philosophies. 1. Miami could have James or Wade play the point and run pick and roll basketball with Bosh. This leaves the other superstar on the other side of the court for the long jumper or weak side penetration. LeBron is the better passer, Wade is the better penetrator, and Bosh can either roll to the basket or slip out for a short jumper. 2. The Heat can run a modified triangle offense that focuses more on the cuts to the rim than on post play, since Bosh is the only effective post player. This would keep everyone moving, keep the defenses honest, and minimize the team's only glaring offensive weakness, consistent post play. 3. The Miami Heat could incorporate a dribble drive offense. This offense should maximize the team's offensive abilities. Running the dribble drive offense is predicated on having quick, athletic guards, and Miami has the two best guards in the league at getting into the paint. James and Wade would be positioned across from each other on the wings of the basketball court which will create spacing and keep the defense spread. The guard with the basketball attempts to penetrate. If he can score, then he does. When is he is cut off, he passes the ball to his teammate across from him. That guard penetrates towards the hole left in the defense by the first penetrator. If he can get to the basket, then he scores. When the defense converges and stops his progress, the ball is passed out for a long shot, to another penetrator, or to a cutting big man. Everyone is utilized, and no defense can stop that many talented players. Miami is not losing games because of talent, but they are losing because of their approach to the games. The Miami Heat need to change philosophy soon or it could cost the Heat a championship and Spoelstra his job.
The Miami Heat pulled a coup d' etat when they convinced Chris Bosh, a multiple time All-Star, and LeBron James, the reigning NBA Most Valuable Player, to join Dwayne Wade, their franchise player in South Beach. The organization persuaded their entire roster that winning was more important than their legacies, that championships were more valuable than money, and that they could make a greater collective history by foregoing their personal achievements. The Heat franchise is right. With a few slight changes in personnel and coaching philosophy, Miami could beat any franchise in the league. If the Heat wins multiple NBA championships, fans outside of Miami may even jump back onto the LeBron bandwagon. But if they do not win, and win quickly, then there might be drastic changes in the front office. And if that does not work, then the Miami experiment will be deemed a failure and so will its each of one of the talented trio.


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Since its initial reveal at SOE Live this year, we've
heard a lot about the AI (artificial intelligence) of the mobs in
Next. I hope the team can deliver on its promises because I'm
pretty excited about
them and let's face it – mob AI has generally been
beyond stupid for over a
decade now. This, despite the original EverQuest having some pretty
takes on mob behavior. In fact, there are some aspects of that AI
system that
we need to see make a return.
One of the (many) things that bugs me about most current
games is that no matter what, a mob will never try to get away once
engaged in combat. Why? On a fundamental level, it doesn't
make any sense.
Rather than stand there trying to kill a player, even when
it's obvious the battle
is not going their way, why don't mobs turn around and run
away? Well guess
what. Back in the day, they actually did.
Despite the limitations of programming and computer power
in the late 1990s, the AI of individual mob types appeared far more
than what most mob AI consists of today. Sure, there are games that
have healer
mobs that bolster their buddies, but at the end of the day, you know
still going to stand right where they are until one of you is dead.
In EverQuest, most mobs would turn around and run when
they got down to 20% health. If left uncontrolled, the amount of wrath
could bring down on a group was nearly limitless. It was bad enough
when it
happened on the surface, in a large and open zone area. When it
happened in the
depths of a dungeon, it could very easily spell disaster for not only
party, but everyone else in the same dungeon. While that mob was
running away
from you at full speed (it would slow down the lower you got its
health), it
was also aggroing everything around it. The trains this could cause
were epic,
to say the least.
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Not every mob was like this though. Some would only run
away if they were the only mob fighting with you. Others would stay and
as long as any other mob was engaged in the fight. Others still would
only stay
to the bitter end if there were another mob of the same type embroiled
in the
battle. For example, a goblin might stay in a fight if another goblin
attacking you at the same time, but would run off when it hit 20%
health, even if
a skeleton had come along and joined the battle. At the same time, a
wolf may
see a fight through to the end no matter else was attacking you, but
would turn
and run if it were by itself. Mobs such as any undead would never run,
and why
should they? They're undead.
The system may have been implemented over a decade ago,
but for me, it still added more depth than we see in games today. It
players time to learn the behavioral patterns of each mob when they
hunting in a new zone. For me, this was half the fun of exploring new
zones and
dungeons. You never knew just what type of fights you were going to
yourself embroiled in.
Keeping the above system in mind, imagine this in a zone
that was wide open, but had a constant random sampling of wandering
Rather than always following the same path, these mobs were also
programmed to
start in a direction a set number of degrees in addition to the last
mob that
spawned from that point. This meant that you constantly had different
coming in from varying divergent paths on a regular basis. Combine this
the need to sit for significant amounts of time in order to heal up and
mana and you added yet another element of interest in the game. With
very few
exceptions, finding a safe spot to camp and hunt from was not an easy
because you never knew when some mob was going to wander by and clean
clock while you were still recovering from the last battle.
Now to be fair, if the system only worked as I described
it above, that would kind of suck – always having to be
standing by ready to
DPS burn a mob as quickly as possible every single time it got to 20%
would get
old quickly. Once again though, the EverQuest team designed multiple
mechanics that all relied on each other. In this case, enter the power
of class
imbalance, but specialized roles.
Enchanters may have had a hellish time trying to fight
anything on their own past level 5, but there was no other class in the
that could keep complete and utter control over a large-scale fight. By
various mobs mezzed (frozen) for significant amounts of time, it
allowed the
group to take down mobs efficiently and quickly. I think the art of
control (it really was an art) has been lost over the years. It needs
to come
Along with an Enchanter, a Druid or Necromancer was
invaluable in these groups as well. I'll go ahead and stir up
a little
controversy here… Druids were good for snares (being able to
slow a mob's run
speed down significantly), but Necromancer's were even
better. Sadly, a lot of
people didn't group with Necros since they had a reputation
of being a solo
class, but we were so much more. Why do I think we were better at
snaring? Easy
– it's called the Engulfing Darkness line of
spells. Not only were they a DoT
(damage over time), but the spell had an additional ability that the
snares did not. A mob would turn to run at 20% or so. Depending on the
mob, the
Engulfing Darkness line of spells caused it to stop dead in its tracks
once it
hit 15-10% health. That may not sound like much, but in a tight
dungeon, having
a mob stop on a dime rather than continuing to move forward (even
slowly), was
a massive benefit.
With all we've heard about the amazing AI that's
to control each individual mob in EverQuest Next, I'm pretty
damned excited.
Personally, I hope we see a return of some AI behavior that makes true
control a valued skill again. Of course, that's not the only
thing I want to
see a return of. There are plenty of other topics. Like the need for
stats to
actually matter, for example. Back in the day, it took forever to find
first magic item and that sole addition of +1 it granted your strength
great. But as usual, that's a topic for next week!
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No animals in this post. If that is what you are looking for, check out the last post. Or click on the Africa tag to get them all.
I didn't even notice on that Oldupai Gorge was on the itinerary until we got to the Ngorongoro crater, but I was really excited once I learned we would be seeing it. Here is the view from the observation area on the rim.
In case you think I spelled it wrong, I did not. The local name is Oldupai Gorge, named after the Oldupai plant that grows in the area. It was mis-transcribed as Olduvai in one of the original messages and the name stuck.
It is really odd in a third world, middle of nowhere sort of way. Here you have a UNESCO world heritage site. Where some of the most important discoveries in history have been made and where important archeological work continues. You want to guard a place like that, don't you?
Yup. That's it.
We got to go down into the gorge. It was exciting just to be there. Here is a view back towards the observation area where there is a very small museum.
They point out all the strata you can see in the rock, demonstrating the different eras represented here.
This is still an active archeological site, but the workers had left for the season. We did not get to go to their camp, which is the same one the Leakey's used. We went the other way.
We walked to the site where the 1.75 million year old Paranthropus boisei was found.
And here's the marker.
Next time back to animals.


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Cast Member: Wang Baoqiang
A World Without ThievesJun 28, 2015
This is a lustrous production that flatters to deceive, aiming for the intellect, but eventually preferring to show empty spectacle and supposed depth.
AssemblyFeb 18, 2015
A personal story told on a grand scale 'Assembly' is as good as war flicks get, finding a near perfect balance between a personal journey and large scale combat.
Detective ChinatownOct 22, 2018
Stories of mismatched characters rely on the relationship between the two and 'Detective Chinatown' has a pair who play off each other's quirks remarkably well.
Fairy Tale KillerMar 10, 2015
'Fairy Tale Killer' tries so hard to be an intelligent thriller that it forgets to be thrilling or exciting.
Fire Of ConscienceMar 13, 2015
While the narrative and tone get a little muddled and the pace dips here and there, 'Fire of Conscience' is still a good tough-as-nails cop thriller with some brutal action.
Kung Fu JungleApr 4, 2015
'Kung Fu Killer', despite its B-movie title and the odd moment of cheesiness, comes very close to bringing back the elation one felt when watching golden era Hong Kong action cinema.
Little Big SoldierApr 13, 2015
It's definitely still a Chan movie through and through though, and as bizarre as it sounds, it does give you a slapstick yet emotional tour de force with a cutting edge.
Lost In ThailandApr 14, 2015
'Lost in Thailand' is a remarkable debut for writer/director Xu Zheng, especially as his turn as the film straight man is also so impeccable.


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I love Family Sessions. They always produce such pretty photos!
This session was no exception...
The bosque trees are finally starting to change color, drop leaves, and look a little more like Autumn. And the sun light was perfect for this session!
I love this location because of all its different elements. From the big bosque trees, to the Rio Grande River, to the Sandia mountains in the background. AND its prettiest this time of year!


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Here are two collections of images with the first from the Arrival of the Iveron Icon on Friday, Saturday's STOTS commencement and the Vigil of Pentecost. The second collection covers Pentecost Sunday with Kneeling Vespers and services on Monday.
2018 Pilgrimage Pentecost Sunday and Monday
2018 Pilgrimage Friday and Saturday
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Ebenezer Bright Primary School in Kirinda, Uganda, is now proceeding with the project to complete a three-classroom block started three years ago by the school community. Through Classrooms for Africa a donor from Western Canada has sponsored this project. The classrooms will be ready for start of the new school year in February 2015 and will supplement the two-classroom block funded by Classrooms for Africa in 2013. The project manager and school administrator writes that "storms in August destroyed two of our temporary classrooms so this money (through Classrooms for Africa) has come as a result of answered prayers and fasting by the teachers". We are privileged to be a part of this story!
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Long Island City, NY
Visit one of only two elevator museums in the world—and the only one in the U.S.
The New York City skyline wouldn't exist without the elevator, an invention that allowed architects to build upwards into the sky.
Join Field Agent Sandi Hemmerlein (on special assignment from Obscura LA) on a ramble through the eccentric collection of long-time elevator industry professional Patrick Carrajat, who has collected many of his personal artifacts and a number of historical donations into The Elevator Historical Society.
Located on the second floor of the Q Medallion Taxi Building in Long Island City, it's only museum in the U.S. dedicated to vertical transportation. On our visit, especially arranged for the New York Obscura Society, you can explore his collection of antique elevator and escalator parts like car switches, motors, and wooden molds. You can also peruse memorabilia including vintage advertisements, photos, and more.
No topic is off-limits in the intimate Q&A that will follow our tour of the museum—anything from "love in an elevator" to the common nightmare of plummeting in an elevator free fall. Nobody knows more about elevators than this guy. Carrajet, now a septuagenarian, was both a COO of a major elevator service company and founder of another one. He's worked for years as an elevator consultant and as an expert witness in lawsuits involving elevator or escalator accidents.
Come delve into the world of hydraulics and counterweights!
January 9th, 1pm - 2:30 pm
at The Elevator Historical Society
Notes for this adventure
- The museum is not normally open on weekends, so we have arranged special access just for our Obscura Society members.
- This event takes place in Queens, a short walk from the E, M, 7, and G trains.
- Ironically, the museum is up a flight of stairs, and there's no handicap access to the second floor on weekends.
- Expect cool temperatures inside the building, so bundle up!
- A portion of the proceeds from ticket sales will benefit The Elevator Historical Society
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Today we opened the entirety of Cascade Brook, Jennings Peak, and the remaining section of Drake's Brook (Jnct 5 to 6). Newly opened trails will be a bit soft and there are a few spots of thin cover so keep your eyes open. The Hairpin turn on Drake's Brook came out a bit bumpy today with the soft snow mounding some, so use caution there. The Livermore side of the North and the outer loop in the South were day groomed on 1/8/18 and will be the freshest groom for Wednesday. Everything is in great shape with a little dusting coming in today. If you've been looking for an excuse to play hooky at work, consider this great snow your reason.
There are still spots left and we are still planning to hold the Women's Clinic and Freeman Clinic this weekend despite some less than ideal weather patterns predicted. The warmth should make it easy to have fun!


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Should the PGA Tour scrap its wrap-around season?
There is no off-season in professional golf thanks to the relatively new wrap-around schedules on both the PGA Tour and European Tour. Should they scrap this plan and have a break?
Yes, writes Alex Perry
Hey, remember when Justin Rose won the 2018 FedEx Cup? Of course you do, it was literally days ago – with the small matter of the Ryder Cup in-between.
And now we sit here already one tournament into the 2019 campaign. But still with three months of 2018 to go.
All sports have an off-season. It's where the athletes recuperate and work on their games for the following year, and the fans briefly flirt with other pastimes for their kicks.
When the club football season stops from May to August, we take that time to reflect on the seasons past and ahead. Which players will come and go? Will there be a change of manager?
Golf doesn't give us this time to sit back and take stock. One PGA Tour season merges into the next without so much of a draw for breath.
Why do we need a wrap-around season? Answer: We don't.
Both the PGA and European Tours take breaks from early December until the New Year. Why would this not be your natural season end?
There are enough different climates across the USA that you could comfortably begin the season in January and climax with the FedEx Cup in late November – then take five or six weeks off so we can all immerse ourselves in the hectic festive schedules of other sports, particularly football, both association and American.
Similarly, the European Tour season ends in November then begins again the following week with a quick flit around Asia, Australia and South Africa before its Christmas break.
For me, having the first event of a season the week after the often enthralling climax to the previous campaign dilutes the excitement somewhat – and it's even more frustrating when the alternative is staring us all right in the face.
No, writes Dan Murphy
Of all golf's many scheduling issues, the FedEx Cup Play-offs being followed immediately by the start of the new wrap-around season offends me the least.
Call me a freak, but I find the start of the Fall Series events, the first of which, the Safeway Open, took place in California over the weekend, reinvigorating.
For the first time in several weeks, there are some narratives that interest me. There are some new players. And it means something to them because they are playing for their futures.
If you want to know what I can't get into, it's the FedEx Cup Play-offs.
You are watching the same players getting richer by the week. It doesn't mean anything beyond that – not to me at least.
Except that perhaps they must be relieved to be another week nearer having some time off.
For the rest of the year, I marvel at the PGA Tour's ability to spread its big names around.
No matter when you switch it on, there is a Phil or a Dustin or a Rickie or a Jordan.
Then, in the FedEx Cup they all play every week for what seems like months.
They're not fine-tuning their games for a major or trying to find some form for the season ahead. They are, to coin Ernie Els' memorable description, cashing in on wheelbarrow season.
Once we get to the Safeway Open, the air is clear again and the hype has evaporated.
It's ideal for the time of year – low-key golf that doesn't pretend to be anything else building gently towards 2019. You can take it or leave it. I take it.


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Next: Layout Parameters, Previous: Position Parameters, Up: Window Frame Parameters
Frame parameters usually specify frame sizes in character units. On
graphical displays, the
default face determines the actual pixel
sizes of these character units (see Face Attributes).
text-pixels in its
car, the cdr of that cell specifies the width of the frame's
text area in pixels.
Emacs will try to keep the width and height ratio of a child frame
unaltered if that frame has a non-
keep-ratio parameter
(see Frame Interaction Parameters) and its parent frame is resized.
Since the outer size of a frame is usually unavailable before a frame
has been made visible, it is generally not advisable to use
floating-point values when creating decorated frames. Floating-point
values are more suited to ensure that a child frame always fits within
the area of its parent frame as, for example, when customizing
display-buffer-alist (see Choosing Window) via
Regardless of how this parameter was specified, functions reporting the
value of this parameter like
frame-parameters always report the
width of the frame's text area in characters as an integer rounded, if
necessary, to a multiple of the frame's default character width. That
value is also used by the desktop saving routines.
width, except vertically instead of horizontally.
height and
width what
user-position parameter (see user-position) does for the position parameters
top and
nil allows to make a frame narrower than that with the
consequence that any components that do not fit will be clipped by the
window manager.
nil allows to make a frame
smaller than that with the consequence that any components that do not
fit will be clipped by the window manager.
fullboth, or
maximized. A fullwidth frame is as
wide as possible, a fullheight frame is as tall as possible, and
a fullboth frame is both as wide and as tall as possible. A
maximized frame is like a "fullboth" frame, except that it usually
keeps its title bar and the buttons for resizing
and closing the frame. Also, maximized frames typically avoid hiding
any task bar or panels displayed on the desktop. A "fullboth" frame,
on the other hand, usually omits the title bar and occupies the entire
available screen space.
Full-height and full-width frames are more similar to maximized frames in this regard. However, these typically display an external border which might be absent with maximized frames. Hence the heights of maximized and full-height frames and the widths of maximized and full-width frames often differ by a few pixels.
With some window managers you may have to customize the variable
frame-resize-pixelwise (see Frame Size) in order to make a
frame truly appear maximized or full-screen. Moreover, some window
managers might not support smooth transition between the various
full-screen or maximization states. Customizing the variable
x-frame-normalize-before-maximize can help to overcome that.
Full-screen on macOS hides both the tool-bar and the menu-bar, however both will be displayed if the mouse pointer is moved to the top of the screen.
toggle-frame-fullscreen command (see Frame Commands) in the "fullboth" state.
Normally this parameter is installed automatically by that command when
toggling the state to fullboth. If, however, you start Emacs in the
"fullboth" state, you have to specify the desired behavior in your initial
file as, for example
(setq default-frame-alist '((fullscreen . fullboth) (fullscreen-restore . fullheight)))
This will give a new frame full height after typing in it <F11> for the first time.
fit-frame-to-buffer-margins when fitting this frame to the buffer
of its root window with
fit-frame-to-buffer (see Resizing Windows).
fit-frame-to-buffer-sizes when fitting this frame to the buffer
of its root window with
fit-frame-to-buffer (see Resizing Windows).


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While a darker tone pervades many of the films nominated at the 80th Academy Awards, there is a discernable lack of high-profile directors, with last year's Scorseses and Eastwoods missing from the roster. Come Sunday, Feb. 24, the winners will be announced on ABC. Below are some prognostications on who will probably win, who should win, and who doesn't have a chance at winning, but deserves one.
Best Picture: In all likelihood, No Country for Old Men will win the coveted prize. While Atonement won the best picture honor at the Golden Globes and is nominated here, it missed garnering a best director nomination, a sure sign that there is trouble for the film. There could be an upset here between the two, but it's unlikely. Juno and Michael Clayton are minor pictures that should relish a nomination on their own. It's the magnificent There Will Be Blood that should win, but probably won't, due to its undersized, late release.
Best Director: Once again, No Country for Old Men directors Joel and Ethan Coen will win this award along with best picture for their concise and critically-acclaimed direction work. Tony Gilroy and Jason Reitman, for Michael Clayton and Juno, respectively, will have to simply enjoy the nomination. Paul Thomas Anderson's work in There Will Be Blood is a tremendous advancement for the director, but it is Julian Schnabel's work in the enchanting and heart-wrenching fantasia The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, that should win the award.
Best Actor: Riding a slew of pre-Oscar awards, Daniel Day-Lewis will win the trophy for his dominating work in There Will Be Blood. George Clooney (Michael Clayton), Johnny Depp (Sweeney Todd), and Tommy Lee Jones (in the lesser-known In the Valley of Elah) have little chance against Day-Lewis' achievements. Had Day-Lewis not been in the running, however, Viggo Mortensen should have won for his continually bold work in Eastern Promises.
Best Actress: This year is host to some remarkable - if little-seen - work from veteran actresses. As to who will win, it's a true toss-up between Marion Cotillard for La Vie en Rose as the French singer Edith Piaf, and Julie Christie in Away From Her, as an Alzheimer's patient. Christie should win, with Laura Linney (The Savages), Ellen Page (Juno) and Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth: The Golden Age) basking in nominations for smaller work.
Supporting Actor: There is little doubt that Javier Bardem will win and should win the award for his turn as the brutal villain in No Country for Old Men.
Supporting Actress:
Blanchett (like Bardem) is an almost unanimous favorite for her role as a Bob Dylan allegorical figure in I'm Not There. She will win, and should win, for this remarkable transformation.
Notable Snubs: Joe Wright, director of Atonement, and Sean Penn, director of Into the Wild, as well as Wild for Best Picture.


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Baka to Test to Shoukanjuu
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Publisher: Enterbrain (Kadokawa)
Status: Complete (Main series is 12 volumes/18 volumes with side volumes)
Everyone gotta know this one~!
The idiotic, chaotic, funny, and definitely stupid story of the idiot group of friends trying to take on every other class.
For those who don't know:
The school's classes are based on the scores.
F being the worst so they get the worst facilities and the opposite holds true.
The school happens to have developed experiments to summon fantasy creatures, whose HP and power are your test score.
So, F class challenges the other higher classes to take over their facilities~
Ridiculous and fun series~
Same author as Grand Blue manga
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The anime was simply awesome. I love this bizarre kind of comedy, the author just kept having fun with the setting and it really brought me in. Take my upvote, good sir.
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Since Grand Blue has just ended, wondering if anyone wanna upvote this now?
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Visiting address
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4th floor (map)
Moltke Moesvei 31
Professor John Zaller,
Department of Political Science,
Date: Thursday 24 July 2008 - 16.00
Location: Eilert Sundt's building, Auditorium 1
The lecture will address the role of party, race, and the Iraq War in the contests for the Democratic and Republican nominations in 2008 and in the fall general election.
John R. Zaller is a political scientist and professor specializing in American politics and public opinion at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1984.
His first book, The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion (1992), explored how political messages reach the public and influence its thinking. His more recent work has focused on the mass media in A Theory of Media Politics: How the Interests of Politicians, Journalists and Citizens Shape the News (1999) and political parties in The Party Decides: Presidential Nominations before and after Reform (2008), written together with Marty Cohen, David Karol and Hans Noel.
Zaller served for eight years on the US Board of Overseers of the National Election Studies and has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
This is a public event, and after the one-hour lecture, questions are welcomed.
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Workers from a bankrupt window factory in Chicago have opened their own employee-owned cooperative. We look back at how it started: the 2008 worker lock-in of the Republic Windows and Doors factory.
How sound designers make sports sound exciting - even if they have to fake it.
The first and only women's professional baseball league came into existence during World War II.
While reporting in Moscow during the Cold War, American journalist George Krimsky found himself entangled in the personal drama of the Stalin family.
When Levi Felix left his power job, he set out to travel the globe and disconnect from his phone. He wound up starting a camp for other adults to do the same.
One afternoon, Ed Rosenthal went for what he thought would be a short hike in the Mojave Desert. Then he got lost.
Margareta Claesson and her husband, noted physiologist Knut Schmidt-Nielsen, studied the camel and found the key to its survival is in its nose.
Author Robert Macfarlane reads from his latest book.
A childhood friend of Anne Frank remembers a vibrant, curious girl.
Brian Bushway became legally blind when he was 14 and learned to use a soft clicking sound to orient himself. He now teaches the technique, echolocation, to other blind people.
Photographer George Steinmetz on how he uses a glider to soar above deserts and vast wild spaces to capture the view from above.
An audio meditation on riding the bus to work every day.
Writer Jeremy Miller goes looking for the exact center of the U.S. population, and finds that its movement has paralleled the country's westward expansion and development.
Artist Bo Gehring makes portraits with a slow moving camera set to music. His work has been recognized by the National Portrait Gallery.
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"Get a Job", is a common thing to hear when you are demonstrating against anything. If you protest the high level of unemployment, there will still be oblivious hecklers that scream "get a job", as they tear by in their gas guzzlers. I guess the irony is lost on them. The meme is a common one, many conservatives believe that if there are any jobs available, there should not be unemployment. They paint a picture of entitlement where the job seeker is lazy. Speaking from experience, being unemployed is one of the more exhausting occupations I've ever had.
When you're unemployed and without a trust fund or wealthier relative, you live in a state of fear. You don't know how your bills will be paid and if you can afford basic needs for your family. Things like haircuts, and new shoes for kids seem kinda luxurious, cable tv is out of the question. You live differently than your peers and can watch how your lack of funds excludes you from simple events you used to enjoy. You feel a bit of shame at using government programs as the safety net they are intended to be. Your sense of self was shaken to the core at your layoff; now putting your best foot forward elicits nothing but an automated response that says, "don't call us, we'll call you" if you're lucky. When you're unemployed, getting a decent job is always on your mind, whether or not you are currently revising your resume. In order to get a job quickly, you contort your abilities, experiences, and desires wildly to fit what ever job vacancy arises; you lie because the job that fits you just right no longer exists. You are told that you are selfish if you actually want the job you seek to align with your values and skill sets. You are supposed to take any job.
The reality of jobs available is bleak. The town I live in does have some jobs available, the vast majority available to non-professional college graduates are less than living wage. Living wage here is $11.35/hr with no medical insurance/costs covered. Accepting less than living wage in this town while having dependents means "securing" a life of poverty. You cannot find clean, well kept, desirable housing on a less than living wage salary. If you got a $10 an hour job and worked 40 hours a week, that would net you about $1067. General recommendations for a manageable, livable budget suggest that you should only spend a third of your income on housing. That makes for a housing budget of around $360. If you have any children or elders living with you, that amount simply will not buy housing without forcing you to sleep in the same room as your dependents; and the chances of a landlord or roommate wanting to rent to you with that kind of overcrowding known up front, is very small. This is assuming that you can get anyone to rent to you because, you cannot prove that you have an income. If you actually want to take the family dog with you, well, you can add a hundred or so dollars to a typical rent and add some extra (non-refundable) pet deposit up front. The only housing attainable with a budget of less than $600 for two bedrooms is either out of town (so must then add the extra gas costs for driving the kids into school) or are in houses who's kitchens are used to cook meth. Safe, affordable housing is not just a catchphrase, it is a real crisis for millions of people finding themselves a casualty of "class warfare".
It's one thing to take a philosophical hard line when it comes to necessities like housing, "well, that'll make those lazy unemployed people find more/better work", but it is cruel when the "more better work" never materializes. Let's assume that you have a good friend willing to live with your kids and you can "afford" (a relative term when you have no income to afford anything with), $600/month. Your utilities and phone will likely cost you at least $200/month – what employer hires someone that has no contact phone, likely you will also need a computer/email/internet access to actually do any job searching. So for the most basic living expenses, you now have $267. This is assuming that you have strict usage limits on all of your utilities and data resources and did your homework (online) to find the best possible deals and programs to sign up for. While dealing with securing shelter, you should be sending multitudes of customized and well researched resumes. It is expected that you tailor every resume to reflect how you are the best candidate for a job and preferrably build up your online presence with an online resume or networking site. You are not supposed to show any signs of stress (employers can smell desperation a mile away), your clothes are supposed to be impeccable (even if you live in your car), and transportation must be a non-issue (and if your car isn't up to snuff, it could be a red flag indicator of how you manage things).
On your leftover $267. you must figure out how to buy a month's worth of food, cover medical expenses, buy gas/cover vehicle repairs, fulfill any debt obligations, and forget about any gifts for birthday or holidays. Forget about spending on things like your kids yearbook, your kids bringing gifts to parties they are invited to, meals out, even short trips away, or enjoying your free time (due to the stress of life and guilt of what you "should" be doing). Taking a job for less than living wage means accepting the fact that you will be busting your ass for 40+ hours a week and still be in a panicked state of poverty, unable to provide enough for your family.
Conservatives believe in authority and tradition over all else. Many conservatives believe that in the above scenario, the unemployed person is reaping what they sew – they must not deserve better because God is the ultimate judge and provides what people deserve. Folks have a right to believe what they want to, but I'm here to tell you that it's a set up. The system we work within – a capitalist system – is designed to keep taking money from the have-nots and giving it to the haves. Down in the lower economic levels of our society, there just aren't enough living wage jobs to go around. Lots of people are willing to work but can't sign on for continued poverty, especially if it means losing the medical and food safety nets – the only secure pieces of the puzzle – that they have without accepting that sub-wage job. Conservatives value hard work but, perhaps because of our private culture of pride, maybe they don't realize how much hard work is involved in being unemployed. You are constantly trying to make something work, constantly re-inventing yourself, constantly giving self pep talks and never getting paid for any of it.
Progressives value empathy. They are more likely to realize that unemployment is only a corporate "adjustment" away. They realize how bad it would be if they did not have their regular salary and benefits to depend on, how close they are to crisis without them. Progressives realize that bad things do happen to good people; and they want to have compassion. Progressives look at the above trailer and think about the reputation of trailer park neighborhoods (not that there aren't some good ones), and they recognize that if they found themselves on the receiving end of a pink slip while scratching their head, they would not want to raise their children in substandard housing. The idea behind "the rising tide lifts all boats" is that conditions will be good for all of us, not just a lucky few. I'm not a fan of our culture of secrecy. I believe that when we talk to our fellow citizens, even humans, we should not hide our struggles, but speak about them plainly. It helps those struggling to feel less lonely.
Raising a family on a living wage is tough enough. You have to be diligent with a very tight budget and never get unlucky – like with a major car repair, illness, or tragedy – in order to keep your head above water and live without accruing debt. It is not realistic to ask the same of a family trying to get by on less. Once you are in poverty, so many problems with seemingly simple solutions become insurmountable. The economic system in place exploits the plight of the desperate family and does not value the quality of human life or skill sets. If you find yourself wanting to tell someone, "Get a Job", it can only be assumed that you have a job you're pleased with. Instead of chiding, reach out and see how you might be able to help.


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Cisco's patent lawsuits played a role in the decision.
The macro storm is far from over.
Because sometimes, leaf and spine are not enough.
Analysts disagree on whether Arista should be worried.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34906609046986325192018-09-17T02:53:18.436-07:00The Grey-Beard LoonThe Loonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3490660904698632519.post-62898219739467759182012-07-02T23:06:00.001-07:002012-07-02T23:06:03.121-07:00Shake 'em up babyThere is a really scary volcano, El Hierro, in Spain's Canary Islands that lately threatens to dump a large mountain into the ocean, setting off tsunamis that could wreak havoc in various places, including, possible, the U.S. East Coast. Jó Frímann, an Icelander I believe, runs a great volcano blog if you don't have enough miscellaneous worry in your life. Take a peek. A really big natural disaster should take people's minds off the economy; might even shut up the presidential aspirants.The Loonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3490660904698632519.post-14653914861783923852012-06-28T08:18:00.001-07:002012-06-28T08:18:32.242-07:00Quick grinFrom an agricultural cousin of herself, this funny vid. The Loonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3490660904698632519.post-3836837780912134062012-06-27T23:55:00.003-07:002012-06-28T08:20:40.866-07:00On finalityYou get to a certain point and you start to think about check-out time, not necessarily morbidly but with some close attention. Everyone I know of a certain age will tell you that the desideratum is not to avoid dying but to avoid dying slowly and miserably in the grasp of doctors and hospitals. If you've ever wondered how doctors feel about shuffling off, an essay in Zócalo Public Square by a doctor, Ken Murray, enlightens and maybe suggests a good idea for that next tattoo should maybe be 'NO CODE' across your sternum.
Years ago, Charlie, a highly respected orthopedist and a mentor of mine, found a lump in his stomach. He had a surgeon explore the area, and the diagnosis was pancreatic cancer. This surgeon was one of the best in the country. He had even invented a new procedure for this exact cancer that could triple a patient's five-year-survival odds—from 5 percent to 15 percent—albeit with a poor quality of life. Charlie was uninterested. He went home the next day, closed his practice, and never set foot in a hospital again. He focused on spending time with family and feeling as good as possible. Several months later, he died at home. He got no chemotherapy, radiation, or surgical treatment. Medicare didn't spend much on him.
Read all here. It's really interesting.The Loonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3490660904698632519.post-74108573338578313482012-06-26T11:34:00.001-07:002012-06-26T11:34:30.725-07:00Election seasonLooks like a long, painful year for citizens of the republic, what's with the intensifying of the interminable presidential election. The two candidates are so annoying that the one I like least is always the last one I saw on TV. Obama's little back-door immigration stunt was a cheap play that particularly irritated. Mexico is in a presidential election now, but no matter who wins down there, the next Mexican president will continue unwonted meddling in American immigration policy. An engineer friend sends along an interesting vid on a border tactic with possibilities. The Loonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3490660904698632519.post-61906990795109045632012-06-13T18:28:00.005-07:002012-06-13T18:28:59.975-07:001KI just noticed that this is Post #1000. Whoda thought it was gonna go on that long? Anyhow, this video tickled me inordinately; in a world of ugly, stupid public exhibitions, it's a lovely thing. The Loonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3490660904698632519.post-9290584488575008642012-06-10T22:29:00.002-07:002012-06-10T22:29:43.065-07:00More crossdressingNot up there with the lovely Miss Bayrat, a rather unattractive professor in Georgia has been popped for trying to peddle his wares – rather cheaply – while dressed up all girlie. From the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: 'A highly acclaimed University of Georgia German professor was arrested Thursday for prostituting himself for $60, authorities said.' Read it all here and pipe the pic. Guy's got tenure; they probably can't do anything to him.The Loonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3490660904698632519.post-63967532050391616482012-06-10T22:22:00.002-07:002012-06-10T23:03:03.266-07:00Water Safari   The first boat in, #314, came across the choppy bay to arrive at 11:30 p.m., Sunday night. Number 314 was a chalk bet if you could've found anybody to fade the action. Two of the paddlers are pro paddlers from Belize, the brothers Cruz, on the near end of the group pic. They are so well conditioned that one year I was down there, they were kicking a soccer ball around on the grass of the bayfront after they dragged the boat up the steps. Always an entertaining thing, watching the first boat come in. Guess we've had about all the excitement we can stand until next year. Had a small chat with the official photographer of the Water Safari, a nice girl from Austin. She isn't paid for the job but can sell pix if she gets buyers. Just the job for somebody with, maybe, student loans. She is married to a musician … a perfect Austin story if only the guy were her boyfriend and not her husband and not just a musician but a drummer.The Loonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3490660904698632519.post-10877743688226625722012-06-10T22:15:00.001-07:002012-06-10T22:15:42.093-07:00Big weekend in **Adrift This is our big-deal weekend here – Shrimpfest Friday & Saturday, followed by the Water Safari boats coming in late Sunday. Shrimpfest seemed a little repressed and smaller, maybe because a lot of the usual food vendors may have gone down the coast to bigger and more lucrative pickings in Rockport. It was still fun. The beauty above was the winner of the Miss Bayrat contest, usually good for a grin or two. My wife caught the shot before the contest. There was only one other contestant, but there is no doubt that this lovely could have swept a much larger field, given such attention to dress and makeup. Shrimpfest is always fun. A piratical pair from Houston joined us, the principal pirate being a qualified local. He found many, many old acquaintances to chat with. The first mate of the pirate crew held up with her usual dignified restraint. Music played until late, and I had a couple of you-kids-get-off-my-lawn moments with all the traffic and people parking on our street.The Loonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3490660904698632519.post-34227214923035659862012-06-07T20:56:00.002-07:002012-06-07T20:56:29.058-07:00PoMo gooIf you occasionally have the misfortune to read anything current of academic writing in the squishier fields, you will – or at least I will – shake your head at the ornate, obfuscatory density of it all. Try this:
1. Smith and Lyotardist narrative In the works of Smith, a predominant concept is the concept of postconceptual culture. But Foucault's model of capitalist nationalism suggests that language may be used to marginalize the proletariat, but only if the premise of postdeconstructivist dematerialism is invalid; if that is not the case, narrativity has significance. The main theme of the works of Smith is the role of the participant as poet. Sontag uses the term 'neocultural discourse' to denote a self-supporting totality. Thus, the subject is contextualised into a postdeconstructivist dematerialism that includes art as a paradox. An abundance of narratives concerning Lyotardist narrative may be found. But Lyotard promotes the use of predialectic textual theory to challenge hierarchy.
But, wait … the whole thing is a shuck. Thing is, it reads like stuff that is published and taken seriously. The excerpt is taken from an entry in a site you'll find here, The Postmodernism Generator. Go there and snicker at the PoMos. A note at the bottom pages refers to a fine joke, a bogus article by a physics professor – that's a real field – that was accepted by a cultural-criticism journal. Those people are so annoying and grotesque.The Loonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3490660904698632519.post-87191103982163572032012-05-16T14:25:00.003-07:002012-05-16T14:25:56.105-07:00And peace comes dropping slow ...Well, Rancho San Fulano de Buffalo isn't exactly the Lake Isle of Innisfree, but it is generally peaceful in a chaotic and busy way. I've been here for a week and a half and mostly have accomplished the needful, to the point that I now get a few hours every day to sit very still in a lawn chair [loaned by a friend; i forgot to bring my own] and read while I listen to the robins and bobwhite quail and meadowlarks and even, blessedly, a couple of mockers who hang around the manor house [a FEMA trailer] to keep in touch with a homeboy. The meadowlark is the state bird of Kansas and a fine choice it was. As a new guy in a hamlet of fewer than 300 souls, I am the object of considerable curiosity to locals. They drive by slowly, eyeballing me, or stop and debrief me if they have some plausible pretext. Then they tell me their life stories. I don't think I so much represent a possible sympathetic ear as a fresh ear. Their stories are often sad; this part of the world is very poor and scuffles are the ordinary mode of employment -- cutting firewood [how many fireplaces can there be?], scrapping, doing pick-up jobs. Disability is the second-place employer. People look sound, but I guess inside they are unable to work. Another reaction is a fierce dedication to work, a frightening sense of industry. Sooner or later, you will hear the get-'er-done catchword. I mostly like the people, but they are of a different tribe from my own, maybe a bit less into kidding as a choice for communication.The Loonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3490660904698632519.post-20627270541963154382012-05-05T19:02:00.002-07:002012-05-05T19:17:19.816-07:00Faraway places with strange-sounding namesWe are in Okieabad, where we observed the spring rites followed by our people on the first Saturday in May. Despite close attention to the sacred writings - The Daily Racing Form - I failed completely to understand the signs and portents, especially the one that indicated I'll Have Another was due to win the Derby. Herself, in a nice lick of scriptural interpretation, hit a $66 ticket and was obliged to buy dinner. Them's the rules at our house. And that is where fortune smiled on us. She found some restaurant-review site that included a complaint about having to drive the 25 miles to Okarche to get fried chicken and what the food was like there. So, we nailed down the location of the place, Eischen's, a huge country-town beer joint and a valuable cultural experience. You want fried chicken, you order a fried chicken, thirteen bucks. No other choice, unless you want two chickens. No coffee, no tea ... beer, soda pop, and water. Principal side, okra, a massive tub for $6. There's some other stuff, a couple of sandwiches, Frito pie, like that, but that's mostly peripheral. The chicken comes with a little basket of light bread, pickles sweet and dill, and slices of onion. They bring you six or eight big sheets of paper, and that's the dishes. It's the kind of chicken that reminds you why fried chicken was our great celebratory meal when we were kids. It's a long way from KFC. So, if you ever find yourself in OKC, drive out to Okarche and eat fried chicken and salve the pains of life. Who cares if Daddy Nose Best finished up the track? Some things are more important. Tomorrow, herself will take the Amtrak back to Austin [a deal for 40 bucks], and I will press on to El Rancho San Fulano for a time of contemplation and reading. No, wait, further noddling around reveals that Guy Fieri, who does a food show, Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, has visited Easchen's. The publicity appears to have done no damage to the integrity of the food.The Loonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3490660904698632519.post-12356130381661171942012-04-27T06:12:00.004-07:002012-04-27T06:12:37.222-07:00Breakfast of championsDewberry cobbler … what do the pore folks have for breakfast?

The Loonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3490660904698632519.post-16581156934892099502012-04-26T22:33:00.000-07:002012-04-26T22:47:21.973-07:00Back againI've been busy for the last week on a little gig, pick up some cigar money. I come back to the world and find nothing but more horrors. For instance, a sorry bill that just slid through. Excerpt:
Previously, CISPA allowed the government to use information for "cybersecurity" or "national security" purposes. Those purposes have not been limited or removed. Instead, three more valid uses have been added: investigation and prosecution of cybersecurity crime, protection of individuals, and protection of children. Cybersecurity crime is defined as any crime involving network disruption or hacking, plus any violation of the CFAA. Basically this means CISPA can no longer be called a cybersecurity bill at all. The government would be able to search information it collects under CISPA for the purposes of investigating American citizens with complete immunity from all privacy protections as long as they can claim someone committed a "cybersecurity crime". Basically it says the 4th Amendment does not apply online, at all. Moreover, the government could do whatever it wants with the data as long as it can claim that someone was in danger of bodily harm, or that children were somehow threatened—again, notwithstanding absolutely any other law that would normally limit the government's power.
Go and read the whole thing here and gag. The 4th Amendment to the Constitution has been effectively negated by the bogus War on Terror. And a story on the TSA vermin:
The grandmother of a 4-year-old girl who became hysterical during a security screening at a Kansas airport said Wednesday that the child was forced to undergo a pat-down after hugging her, with security agents yelling and calling the crying girl an uncooperative suspect.
Read all of that one here. Some happy day, those who have worked for the TSA will be spat upon in the streets. They are as slimy a lot as we've had in this country for a long time. Makes you hate to fly. The world's unhappiest sight is a moron with a badge and a clipboard. And, as long as I'm on this tear: The Loonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3490660904698632519.post-1336880821318879272012-04-16T13:42:00.006-07:002012-04-16T14:33:00.608-07:00The perfect googoo headlineI get a couple of lefty newsfeeds. They often have stuff on certain financial happenings that are less likely to show up in the big press. I read them wearing the same skeptical spectacles I wear for everything I read, right or left [or, in an old adage of the trade, 'If your mother says she loves you, check it out']. A headline on one story today tickled me unreasonably:
Transgender, Gender-Nonconforming People Among First, Most Affected by War on Terror's Biometrics Craze
Now that's the occasion for alarm in Austin and sheer panic in San Francisco. There's a joke about a make-believe NY Times  headline:
World to end Wednesday, women, minorities to suffer most
NB: That's a joke, but it rings true to the Times' grotesquely slanted reporting.
In the middle of all the Titanic centennial hooha, I recall a joke at the Vicad [or maybe it was a real Advocate headline]:
Titanic sinks; no Victorians hurt
Was amused by the big front-page story in the Vicad this morning, a hard-hitting, scrappy, courageous exposé on a honkytonk's dress code. I mean really, people. It'll probably win an award.The Loonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3490660904698632519.post-45845481468784276152012-04-15T08:40:00.002-07:002012-04-15T08:44:25.348-07:00Rough winds do shake the darling budsI've passed springs on the high plains of eastern New Mexico, where the relentless wind can disturb the psyche, going on for days and days and days at a time, the howling a background to every other sound. The last few days here in **Adrift haven't been that bad but bad enough to get on the ole nerves.
It's not just us. To see how the rest of the nation fares, take a peek at http://hint.fm/wind/ and see what's blowing in the wind all across the country.The Loonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3490660904698632519.post-11125675400350120702012-04-13T14:50:00.002-07:002012-04-13T14:52:44.367-07:00EnnuiSo, a friend complains, legitimately, that I've not said a word here for too long. So, a word [or more precisely, a vid]:

For anyone who's ever been annoyed [did you know that annoy and ennui are etymologically related way upstream?] by a snotty cat.The Loonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3490660904698632519.post-71288383637327973622012-04-02T08:28:00.003-07:002012-04-02T08:31:49.163-07:00Asian AggiesA bit of fascinating grassroots engineering that makes small but real improvement in quality of life for poor Asians [Filipinos, I take it].
The Loonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3490660904698632519.post-5525464905232465282012-03-31T22:02:00.003-07:002012-03-31T22:15:31.312-07:00Gods of the Copybook Headings"You have only always to do what is right. It will become easier by practice, and you enjoy in the midst of your trials the pleasure of an approving conscience." ~ Robert E. Lee (1807-1870)
"Always do right. That will gratify some people and astonish the rest." -- Mark Twain
And Kipling's poem:

AS I PASS through my incarnations in every age and race,
I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market Place.
Peering through reverent fingers I watch them flourish and fall,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings, I notice, outlast them all.

We were living in trees when they met us. They showed us each in turn
That Water would certainly wet us, as Fire would certainly burn:
But we found them lacking in Uplift, Vision and Breadth of Mind,
So we left them to teach the Gorillas while we followed the March of Mankind.

We moved as the Spirit listed. They never altered their pace,
Being neither cloud nor wind-borne like the Gods of the Market Place,
But they always caught up with our progress, and presently word would come
That a tribe had been wiped off its icefield, or the lights had gone out in Rome.

With the Hopes that our World is built on they were utterly out of touch,
They denied that the Moon was Stilton; they denied she was even Dutch;
They denied that Wishes were Horses; they denied that a Pig had Wings;
So we worshipped the Gods of the Market Who promised these beautiful things.

When the Cambrian measures were forming, They promised perpetual peace.
They swore, if we gave them our weapons, that the wars of the tribes would cease.
But when we disarmed They sold us and delivered us bound to our foe,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "Stick to the Devil you know."

On the first Feminian Sandstones we were promised the Fuller Life
(Which started by loving our neighbour and ended by loving his wife)
Till our women had no more children and the men lost reason and faith,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "The Wages of Sin is Death."

In the Carboniferous Epoch we were promised abundance for all,
By robbing selected Peter to pay for collective Paul;
But, though we had plenty of money, there was nothing our money could buy,
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings said: "If you don't work you die."

Then the Gods of the Market tumbled, and their smooth-tongued wizards withdrew
And the hearts of the meanest were humbled and began to believe it was true
That All is not Gold that Glitters, and Two and Two make Four
And the Gods of the Copybook Headings limped up to explain it once more.

As it will be in the future, it was at the birth of Man
There are only four things certain since Social Progress began.
That the Dog returns to his Vomit and the Sow returns to her Mire,
And the burnt Fool's bandaged finger goes wabbling back to the Fire;

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins
When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins,
As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn,
The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!The Loonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3490660904698632519.post-88754655621702274702012-03-28T23:22:00.006-07:002012-03-28T23:32:08.084-07:00Springin the South is pretty spectacular. We just made a great loop through Louisiana to Mississippi to Arkansas and then back home. My wife, devotee of natural beauty, went to Garvan Gardens in Hot Springs when we stopped off there. As our ostensible aim was to see the Rebel Stakes at Oaklawn, I stayed in the room and studied the scriptures, called by some The Daily Racing Form, hoping to divine the intentions of the gods of the track. We were both rewarded, she with an aesthetic experience of the first order, I with some good tickets on a round-robin parlay. She took pictures.

In Mississippi, the dogwoods and wisteria and such were all over abloom. It was a fine trip.The Loonhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3490660904698632519.post-5776304422263443232012-03-22T09:24:00.002-07:002012-03-22T09:28:48.989-07:00Maybe she thought crack meant something elseHeadline from world's worst newspaper:

Woman arrested for allegedly hiding crack cocaine in buttock area
She may have thought that the name of the drug was an instruction for application. The copy editor who wrote the headline was having a little fun with a routine drug arrest.The Loonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3490660904698632519.post-57325392519235286642012-03-21T07:24:00.002-07:002012-03-21T07:28:51.435-07:00HerdersA quickie I couldn't resist.

I am just fascinated and amazed by border collies. One of my favorite stories ever was one I wrote about a border collie field trial in Elgin, outside of Austin. The funny thing about this vid is the dog herding the flock of men in just the way that it would herd a flock of sheep. The narrative mimics a popular Brit TV show, called something like 'A Man and His Dog,' that features working dogs in competition.The Loonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3490660904698632519.post-72746587745932930272012-03-14T05:43:00.003-07:002012-03-14T05:56:49.812-07:00Road tripWe're off on our big spring trip. We took off Monday morning and drove to Lafayette, La. Every time I go to Lafayette I ask myself why I never lived there. I lived in places I couldn't stomach but did anyhow, so why not a place I really like? The problem is life is both too long and not long enough such that I'm almost certainly not going to get a degree in geology or live in Lafayette, both interesting prospects. Just rambling here. As my mama said not long before she died, 'The trouble is we live too damn long.'
We are in D'Iberville, Miss., having spent yesterday afternoon hacking around Ocean Springs, Miss., which town I recommend. Maybe 1970 I was working in Chicago and the Tribune Sunday roto mag ran a piece on an artist named Walter Anderson who lived on the Gulf Coast. He was such an intriguing character and his art so appealing that I swore someday I'd go see it. Forty-odd years later I made it and will testify that Walter Anderson's art is wonderful. I did something very similar with Frncisco Goya's art. Fell in love with it in my late teens and made it to the Prado at age 60. Today: On to Vicksburg. Mamaw's chasing ancestors and I just read a book about Grant's western campaigns, so there's something for everybody.

This is likely raggedy post, given it happened on a lobby computer.The Loonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3490660904698632519.post-73986479925440347142012-03-11T22:48:00.006-07:002012-03-12T05:58:38.141-07:00Which way does your compass point?Here's an entertaining little test of your political leanings. It's on two axes, one for economic left/right, one for social libertarian/authoritarian.
Try it at http://www.politicalcompass.org/ and see what you get. My leftish friends think I'm a reactionary and my right friends think I'm a communist. They may all be kinda right, as I fall very close to the 0-0 of a perfect moderate. I am –3.50 on the left/right axis, which makes me a little bit to the left, and –1.54 on the libertarian/authoritarian axis, which makes me just a tad libertarian. Try it and see what you are. I fall in the southwest [corrected, Sugar. Thx.] quadrant.The Loonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3490660904698632519.post-66775046320321247832012-03-08T14:51:00.003-08:002012-03-08T14:57:39.114-08:00Leave your kidwith Mamaw Mad-dog from **Adrift, and you're likely to come home to a kid with purple fingernails.

The Loonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-3490660904698632519.post-41663364806722714812012-03-07T19:17:00.003-08:002012-03-09T06:10:56.330-08:00Solar stormsAccording to the public prints, cosmic disruption is afoot, if we can believe the story,and I think we can. The Roomba just ran amok in the livingroom, making a silly humming sound and then setting forth on a quest of its own, determined only by the desires of a Roomba's heart. I pulled plug and smacked the off button to silence it. Then the TV started talking in a quavery voice. Is the cosmos making war on me? Who can know? It often feels like it. This could be interesting.The Loonhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com


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AAA Card Challenge #54: Time to Jungle00:00
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Fabby ugly bird Santa!ReplyDelete
This bird reminds me of the "grinch"! Super coloring job. Great shadow. :)ReplyDelete
Gotta love those birds. Your coloring of this guy is awesome!ReplyDelete
Awe, he's not ugly...... To his Momma! Love the cardReplyDelete
Great colouring! He cracks me up in his Santa hat.ReplyDelete
Super fun take on the bird stamps!ReplyDelete
This just came up on my pinterest page! Crazy cute! Can you tell me is the phrase "it's time to jingle" a rubber stamp?ReplyDeleteReplies
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Ireland is one of the most widely searched vacation spots on Google and it's easy to see why. It's one of the most beautiful places you can visit with one of a kind stories to be told. Worldwide there are many reasons why Ireland is a great place to visit and here's why:
- In one year the amount of fans that visited Ireland grew from 5,000 to 100,000.
- It's one of those countries that people feel they are called to visit. The sweeping landscapes offer a gorgeous view of green mixed in with the many sheep that you can find all over the countryside.
- Music, the Celtic music that is played just about everywhere will put you in the mood for an Ireland visit.
- Although the weather can be up and down at times the warm atmosphere of Ireland makes it well worth the trip. The locals are warm and inviting and they are more than willing to serve up some good food and cold beer. The friendly people of Ireland offer you experiences that include Guinness and turf fires with great music playing in the background. It's a great opportunity to have the warmth of being at home while on vacation.
- It's offers so much mystery and serenity. There are so many myths and legends that you can wrap your head around to experience what life was like many years ago in Ireland.
- You feel a sense of calm when you step onto the soils of Ireland and you get the feeling of being at peace in the country. It's the kind of place you can visit that you won't feel rushed in. You can settle in and relax as the lifestyle is laid back and easy going. You can stop and enjoy the view for the beauty of it without feeling the need to rush from one place to another.
- The air is clean and so are the towns. It's a simple way of life that offers up warm and inviting pubs where you can talk with locals like they are old friends. Which is great on those cold nights when you are in search of a warm fire and a smiling face. There is a mass amount of history, music, architecture and art all around you to keep you busy all the time.
- Everywhere you look you will see greens so lush and as far as the eye can see. The views are unparalleled and there isn't any other place on earth like it. Everything is old and has a history attached to it that dates back far longer than any place in America. Around each and every turn is a new mystery to be discovered.


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So these things have absorbed my interest lately, there is a whole society of homebuilders that have built hundreds of unique designs.
This site is the holy grail of the movement, some are incredible, some you wouldn't believe what they packed into a little tiny space.
Most start with a 4' x 8' Harbor Freight trailer and build up from there. Keeping the sidewalls based within a 4'x8' sized plywood sheet, the costs and weight are as minimal as possible. If everything is laid out well, you have 6'6" or so of sleeping length.
It's all me and the ol' lady need - bear-resistant sleeping, a galley, and easy to pull and park. If I pull off the design I'm thinking of, I'll be into it for less than $1000.00 including a new trailer frame.
Just wondering if anybody has ever messed with one before.


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