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text: Well, at least we know it's going into production. The much longed-for M version of the BMW 1 Series is a reality, albeit one shrouded in, um, shrouds for a while. Really, BMW has been doing more teasing than an old-time burlesque artiste. This picture shows one of the three colors the 1 Series M is expected to come in: Valencia Orange Metallic. The other two are Alpine White and Jet Black. It's been rumored that this could be a limited edition of only 2,700 units, each one with a manual transmission, which kind of sounds like crazy talk, but BMW has recently done the limited-run Frozen Gray M3.

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Tuesday, October 5, 2010
This is why there aren't any pretty frame pictures
There's new noises in my shop-sounds of sawzalls and hammers banging and prying out nails. In a quest for more storage space my building superintendant has appropriated my office. I had a nice upstairs space that was part of my shop, although technically I was not charged any rent for it. I moved into this shop in late 1996 and have accumulated a lot of stuff since then. The 160 square ft. office was about 25% of my total space and it was a good place to store my old music gear that was choking my house. This photo is a view of where the office used to be, up a flight of stairs. It had a window that looked down on my workspace, a colossal 538 square ft.
This is not where you want to stand in the event of an earthquake. I have no doubt that a good deal of this stuff that used to be in the office will come cascading down with anything 4.0 or above on the Richter scale.
This used to be the office. I have no idea what it will become , but I know that I will no longer be welcome in this space. While it is always good to periodically purge and try to keep an orderly shop, this practice does not come naturally to me and I was not really ready to give up this space, especially on only two days notice. For better or worse, Rock Lobster cycles is shrinking. Maybe I'm only a Langostino now
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- AnonymousOctober 13, 2010 at 4:04 PM
Hang in there brother. Sometimes a kick in the pants like this is exactly what's needed in order to move on in life and reach another level...ReplyDelete
On the verge of a move myself, I am empathetic. Boxes of gear from the mid-80's on have piled up and it pains me twice over...how I let so much accumulate and the struggle to move it on. I never considered myself a collector, hoarder, or junker, but this move and how much I purge will re-define what definition I adopt :)
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Pawlenty told Gregory on Meet The Press that when it came to whether homosexuality was a choice or an innate part of a person's character, "the science in that regard is in dispute" and that it was unclear whether it was "behavioral or partly genetic."I've long been an opponent of the "It's not a choice!" crowd, though really my opposition is to the whole way the question is framed, because the choice/not-a-choice dichotomy doesn't make any sense to me, and either side of the equation is perfectly useful to the homophobes.
"There's no scientific conclusion that it's genetic," he said. "We don't know that. So we don't know to what extent, you know, it's behavioral and-- that's something that's been debated by scientists for a long time. But as I understand the science, there's no current conclusion that it's genetic."
Thankfully, this point is made in an excellent comment on the post at TPM. There are no permalinks to comments, so you'll have to scroll down to the comment by "kmellis" that begins "Right. Having a strong genetic component doesn't exclude environmental components and, additionally, this doesn't tell us how much the proportions between the two varies between individuals." The final paragraph of the comment is a good summing up, though the whole comment really deserves to be read:
But I think we've gone past the science into a kind of dogma (understandably, but still) that, as I detail above, has some negative implications that we should think carefully about. It seems to me that now is about the time that we should change our focus away from the genetic argument and fully to the social justice and moral philosophy argument. We should be going all-in on asserting the acceptability of non-traditional sexual orientation and move away from the inherently defensive genetic determinist argument.As to the science, I don't have time to get into all that right now, but I'd recommend the chapter called "Sexual Orienteering" in Brain Storm: The Flaws in the Science of Sex Differences by Rebecca M. Jordan-Young for a start, since it's recent and gets at some of the problems with the studies of homosexuality that have tried to find a "gay gene" or some equivalent.
And I must admit, I prefer Weird Al's vaguely Butlerian "Perform This Way" to Gaga's "Born This Way".


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Thanks to a grant from one big business and a nonprofit organization, two small-business owners in Utah have received money and training that will help them take their business to the next level.
Sam's Club and SCORE, a nonprofit that offers mentoring to small businesses, collaborated for the grants, which awarded each business with a $1,000 gift card to Sam's Club and an all-expenses-paid trip to Texas, where participants attended a workshop geared toward helping them learn new skills to better run their companies.
Kris Rudarmel, who owns Taylorsville's Anchor Water Damage and Restoration with her husband, received one of the grants. She said she went to the two-day workshop in January and learned about different ways to market the boutique-style emergency flood-service business, including using YouTube videos and blogs.
"I took away some awesome ideas," Rudarmel said. "A lot of it was a review for me, but there were two ideas that should really help our business grow."
Along with the workshop, Rudarmel's business received $1,000 to spend on business expenses at Sam's Club.
With the money, she said she was able to update accounting software, purchase two external hard drives and make plans to buy a new computer.
"It's just things I needed, but I didn't want to spend the money on," she said.
Rudarmel and her husband, Frank, have owned their own business for 12 years, but they started Anchor Restoration seven years ago. She said that while the company started with just the two of them, they are now close to having 10 employees.
Anchor Water Damage and Restoration specializes in flood cleanup and carpet cleaning. It serves areas from Park City to Tooele and Ogden to Provo.
Rudarmel said the business has been successful because it offers quality work and a customer-service program driven by inspirational and motivational messages.
"We're not just an emergency flood service," Rudarmel said. "We help our customers by inspiring them."
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These jinks are so hi, you'll need an altimeter.
The worst part about leaving for Spokane, aside from the Spokane part, which Good God I don't even like looking at the word Spokane, is that I'm ass-deep in a new obsession and the whole time I'm over there I'm going to be bouncing off the fucking walls.
I'd essentially resigned myself to sitting the office Warmachine fetish out, but when I thought about why I had done so, I couldn't come up with anything concrete. I had to parse my assumptions for awhile before I realized that it came down to painting. I've seen unpainted armies on the board, had the temerity to field units thus once or twice, and more or less decided that if I couldn't honor the table it wasn't worth it.
I believe I mentioned that I had some Warmachine miniatures on my desk as decorations, but when things took off around here I suddenly found myself equipped to participate, and did so because why not. It'd be like having a sword and a shield over your mantelpiece, purely for looks, but then orcs ransack your neighborhood and you decide that you might as well manifest your latent warrior nature. It was the sort of night you have a handful of times in your life, where you kinda think, yeah. What I did tonight is what I want to do basically all the time.
And as much as it might terrify me, that means painting. Painting, as such, is something that Gabriel does. The key learning for me, then, is that there is painting, but there is also applying paint to things, and the second one is something anybody can do.
This realization occurred at a fortuitous juncture. A friend of mine had reached some threshold in his self-conception where he could accept that boardgaming had eclipsed his love for wargaming, or at any rate, it had eclipsed his desire to continually paint his own armies and then paint his friends' armies, forever surrounded by raw, grey plastic, a crown of warped sprues his only reward. So I said, why yes, I will take stewardship over your paints and your instructional DVDs and to a certain extent your pulverized wargaming dreams.
I wasn't aware this was something I wanted to do at all, but the urge to complete this squad is cinched around my neck. It's absolutely a kind of Zen practice, applying pigment, and it's beyond strange to me that the part which kept me on the periphery of this hobby for so long has reliably delivered so much enjoyment. I spend two, three hours a night painting these fucking things. And when I finish this post, I'll be doing it again. I think I've almost perfected the leather on their little bags (!!!!).
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