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Thursday, December 2, 2010
Comic 828: Autobiographical
[ALT: Having a positive attitude is almost tautologically good for your mental health, and extreme stress can hurt your immune system, but that doesn't mean you should feel like shit for feeling like shit.]
I kind of winced when Randy put this one up. It has that whole 'look at the obvious applicability to my situation!' thing going on for it, and that just makes it awkward.
Aside from that, kind of boring. Some of you seemed to like it, some others of you seemed to think it was the worst thing ever. I have approximately zero thoughts about the joke--it is just boring.
The art is interesting, though! Let's talk about that. The past two comics, Randy seems to be trying out new artistic elements: the uselessly placed last panel of yesterday, the weird shade of the background and the wombpanel of today. The problem is his art just doesn't have the ability to support conveying new ideas. I think one of the reasons the 5-minute comics worked so well is he didn't try to use the art at all. They were unapologetically crudely drawn.
Oh, and there's the throw-away jokes! The D&D stat-sheet was vaguely amusing. Less amusing was the one from yesterday, which I forgot to mention when writing the post: the address given was on Ash Tree Lane, which is a clear reference to House of Leaves. I'm normally all about references to HoL, but this one had no reason to be there, and felt like it was just trying to pander to those of us who have read it. YOU DID NOT SUCCEED, RANDY.
I'd apologize for being late, but I hate you all, so I'm not really sorry.
67 comments:
- StonecrusherDecember 2, 2010 at 8:00 PM
I actually didn't see the bottom half of the comic first. The first three panels would have been fine as their own comic.ReplyDelete
- LuigiHannDecember 2, 2010 at 8:52 PM
I thought the joke here was okay, but there's no reason for it to be six panels long. Punch it up, something like this: http://puu.sh/v7X I think that works betterReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2010 at 9:04 PM
I like the new comic, but the execution is a bit awkward. I guess that's pretty much what LuigiHann said, but the opinion of the first Anonymous poster is what everybody was really waiting to hear.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2010 at 9:05 PM
Wait, LuigiHann wasn't talking about the arsenic one. My opinion is therefore unique thus far!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2010 at 9:06 PM
the latest arsenic comic was actually quite funny in my opinion. I laughed out loud.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2010 at 9:17 PM
So, if I'm getting the joke right, they made the cocktails xkcd-themed, and everyone is choking and gagging because the cocktails contained heaping piles of shit?ReplyDelete
But seriously, it was a half-decent strip.
- LuigiHannDecember 2, 2010 at 9:25 PM
I was happy to google Arsenic-Based Life and see that it is an actual current events topic, and not just a made-up one.ReplyDelete
- FemalethothDecember 2, 2010 at 10:04 PM
Yeah, I thought 829 was basically good.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2010 at 11:22 PM
Ever since I found this site I have been incapable of laughing at an XKCD comic... Damn you, XKCD sucks.ReplyDelete
+100000 points for putting "House" in blueReplyDelete
it is one of my favorite books. it is also the only book I have ever convinced people to buy based on the typography alone.ReplyDelete
unrelated: I actually liked the latest comic. :(
- AnonymousDecember 2, 2010 at 11:57 PM
Holy shit, I rather liked the latest one too...ReplyDelete
However, I did have to stare at the last panel for a few seconds to realize what was going on. In fact, at first I thought all the reporters just got piss drunk or some shit before I realized that they were dying.
- AnonymousDecember 3, 2010 at 12:00 AM
Also, why is the word "House" in dark blue in this review? Am I going insane? Has the madness finally begun to take over? IS IT TIME FOR ME TO DON THE ROBE OF ERATIFUS AND LEAD THE UNHOLY ARMY TO DEFEAT THE EVIL LIGHT GOD OF THE NORTH?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 3, 2010 at 12:26 AM
I didn't get 829.ReplyDelete
If arsenic based lifeforms->ARSENIC IS POISONOUS is the joke, I'm glad I didn't get it. Please tell me I'm wrong.
- AnonymousDecember 3, 2010 at 12:28 AM
"Also, why is the word "House" in dark blue in this review?"ReplyDelete
It's a clear reference to House of Leaves. I'm normally all about references to HoL, but this one had no reason to be there, and felt like it was just trying to pander to those of us who have read it. YOU DID NOT SUCCEED, ROBBY.
- AnonymousDecember 3, 2010 at 12:35 AM
" I didn't get 829.ReplyDelete
If arsenic based lifeforms->ARSENIC IS POISONOUS is the joke, I'm glad I didn't get it. Please tell me I'm wrong.
The joke is that arsenic cocktails fit the theme of the event
6th panel. that's all
- TheMesosadeDecember 3, 2010 at 1:08 AM
I was thoroughly amused at how Megan (Is the black hair or the blonde one Megan?) finishes her sentence in the second panel with "I suck at parties."ReplyDelete
On a happier note, comic was okay on it's own right!
- AnonymousDecember 3, 2010 at 1:34 AM
It is quite nice that Randall managed to hold off on explaining the punchline until the alt-text.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 3, 2010 at 3:50 AM
The WikiHow thing was supposed to be a joke, right?ReplyDelete
Like, Randall doesn't seriously think people who talk to other human beings on a regular basis use WikiHow, right?
- AnonymousDecember 3, 2010 at 5:27 AM
Seems like he has an ill child in hospital. Thanks for sharing, Randall. Life sometimes isn't funny, and your comic hasn't to be either.ReplyDelete
That said, the follow-up 829 has got me laughing. Would like to see more like it.
- AnonymousDecember 3, 2010 at 5:27 AM
The last comic is pretty okay. The xkcdsuxredux take on it is very funny, indeed.ReplyDelete
But two things slightly bother me:
- Did Randall just forget to attribute the speech to anyone in the first panel? (i.e., did he forget to put a tail on that speech?)
- Did these people, NASA scientists, really believe putting arsenic in drinks was a good idea? Maybe this is a spiteful comic targeted at NASA...
Anyway, straight from my twitter, this text prefaces the link to today's xkcd:
"Hhahahah XKCD making the dream of every scientist come true"
...I don't get it.
today's xkcd is the first that made me laugh in a long time. i'm over it now. but i appreciated the "a-ha!" moment when i realized what was up.ReplyDelete
trying to stay positive here.
"Hhahahah XKCD making the dream of every scientist come true"ReplyDelete
Killing reporters, I suppose.
The mistake there is that Randall didn't make any "dream come true": he just made his well know, pathetic wish fullfilment shit, except this time it was possibly unintentional.
- AlsworthDecember 3, 2010 at 7:28 AM
Yeah, I think the point of that twitter is that every scientists dream is killing everyone who doesn't agree with them, or every member of the silly plebeian public who doesn't understand what they do.ReplyDelete
I can't speak for scientists, but judging from the attitudes of most of the scientists I know, this is a false assumption.
Captcha: nonikin. Most definitely not a mannequin.
- AnonymousDecember 3, 2010 at 8:13 AM
Re: 828ReplyDelete
Dear Randal: IVs are not tied around a person's arm. You could have just had that little grey line go into the guy's forearm and the message would have been fine.
He spelled hors d'oeuvres incorrectly. Who wants to bet he takes it down and puts it up with the correct spelling without any notice?
Captcha: Inest—new Apple product or a typo on the explanation of Randy's existence?
- AnonymousDecember 3, 2010 at 9:04 AM
The problem with the minor sloppy errors is that they exist, and are rather too common, not that he doesn't give notice. Can you imagine how rubbish it would be for the archives of a comic to be filled with little notes saying "Used to be "specifcly" before I changed it" or "The date here was originally wrong". Leaving a note for a minor change is an incredibly stupid idea. Every webcomic occasionally needs to correct a minor spelling issue or something, but I defy you to find a webcomic that operates the sort of ludicrous "Every minor change must be meticulously logged dammit!" policy that you seem to be expecting of Randy.ReplyDelete
Once again, problem is the sloppiness itself, not the documentation of the sloppiness.
- AnonymousDecember 3, 2010 at 9:12 AM
To be fair the spelling of hors d'oeuvres is so fucking unintuitive I don't expect anyone to get it right the first time.ReplyDelete
That said, if you're using a word like that you should probably look it up first. It's just unprofessional when you misspell things like that.
I honestly don't give a crap if he logs them or not. And yes, that would be ridiculous to have them listed on all the comics.ReplyDelete
But for a comic that claims to be one fourth about language, you'd expect there to be few, if any, spelling errors at all, so it shouldn't even be an issue.
Goddamit Randy. I was expecting at worst, that you would ignore yesterday's news completely. I was HOPING we'd get some quality nerd rage over the news coverage. After all, xkcd boldly takes the stand that unless reporters explain the difference between a million and a billion every time these numbers come up, they are actively lying.ReplyDelete
But no. Not only is there no nerd rage, but Randy fucking repeats the rageworthy aspect of the news coverage in the TITLE and the FIRST PANEL. I guess I've got to do the rage myself.
What was announced yesterday was not "arsenic-based life". It doesn't have "arsenic-based DNA". It's a typical carbon-based life form with carbon-based DNA that has the (admittedly interesting) ability to substitute arsenic for phosphorous. We don't talk about phosphorous based life/DNA, because phosphorous only makes up about 0.6% of most organisms.
i don't mean this to sound snotty or sarcastic at all, but thank you for pointing that out. i hadn't realized that at first, and now that you mention it, that is exactly what is going on, and i am going to go check the internets to read more about it to understand it more thoroughly.
who says people can't be civil on the web? :D
God I hated this one. What is more cliche at this point than complaining about people demanding sick people be optimistic?ReplyDelete
"Being sick sucks." This is an unoriginal point, Randall!
- AnonymousDecember 3, 2010 at 10:30 AM
That. Randall lost a good opportunity of being pedantic.
...who is making xkcd, and what did they make of Randall Munroe's corpse?
Re: 829:ReplyDelete
I literally PUKED OUT OF MY EYEBALLS
Seriously though, I actually enjoyed 829. Two (relatively speaking) quality comics in a row is coincidence. Let's hope monday's comic makes it into a pattern!
Re: 829.ReplyDelete
After I read a couple times in these comments that 829 was actually funny, I girded my loins and looked. And I did genuinely find it funny! Hooray!
The idea of speaking of "phosphorus-based life" is obscure, but not technically wrong. If you want to get super-anal, after all, there's way more hydrogen than carbon by molar quantities. When people say carbon-based they ought to say "carbohydrate-based", since there's a lot of oxygen in there, too, and we also have the water vs. ammonia debacle.ReplyDelete
To be honest, it's not surprising that Randy overstated it. He's a physicist and has consistently fucked up biology references or made them stupid (cuttlefish, anyone?)
Consider that when Gizmodo heard about GFAJ-1, they announced that NASA had discovered new life.
What the fucking hell, Gizmodo.
- AnonymousDecember 3, 2010 at 3:44 PM
Not pictured: necks.ReplyDelete
Necks were discontinued in xkcd #6.ReplyDelete
biology isn't "real" scienceReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 3, 2010 at 5:04 PM
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a unicorn, in that only virgins can make use of it.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 3, 2010 at 6:59 PM
Samantha said...ReplyDelete
"Necks were discontinued in xkcd #6."
Number 12, actually.
- AnonymousDecember 3, 2010 at 7:38 PM
There are necks at least until 147ReplyDelete
There is one neck in #6, and three neckless persons in #6. I would call that the first phasing out.ReplyDelete
Interestingly, #1 is the only comic that we can guaranteeably say that there was an intentional neck and not merely a misplacement of head-arms.
Necks began to be truly phased out starting #79. and that's the final word.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 4, 2010 at 1:57 AM
Speaking of early XKCD bullshit, I sometimes wonder: is #15 the first appearance of Megan? Is this the position that Randall initially fantasised about her being in long before she was spawning gun-toting tots?ReplyDelete
The first use of the name is 215, which is *A BREAKUP COMIC*. So that makes every subsequent usage 100% creepy.ReplyDelete
I think the ATTEMPTED DnD reference would have been much better if he had actually pulled it off properly. That is to say, maybe use actual stat categories rather than faking it. The top one is HR, which is supposed to be heart rate. Okay, that makes sense; it's something such a device would actually measure. CON, short for constitution is the one that makes the most sense; it measures health. SPD, presumably speed, is not at all a DnD or any type of roleplaying stat. The other 3 are also featured in DnD, but then that leaves 3 more that are conspicuously absent. Why would the machine measure charisma but not intelligence or wisdom? Ugh. It pisses me off because it shows off, yet again, the "good concept, bad execution" archetype of xkcd. I didn't even notice the (attempted) joke until I saw it mentioned somewhere, but now it bothers me greatly that he went for the joke and half-assed it. I wish I had never been alerted to its presence in this comic. BTW, this is coming from someone who's never played DnD; just familiar with its mechanics from Order of the Stick (a good stick figure webcomic) and games such as Diablo.ReplyDelete
Also, wtf is with the pose in the womb-panel? That is the most awkward (both drawn and irl) contortion of one's body that I can imagine.
Step it up Rob. Just because you are neutral about the comic doesn't mean there aren't things to critique about it. That is the point of this blog, right?
Captcha: stcess, the product of Randall's attempt at success.
(It's deformed and misses the mark, but you can still tell what it was supposed to be. Just like many of his jokes!)ReplyDelete
And to those that would call me a hater or such and thus dismiss my criticism: I actually found 829 to elicit both a smile and a chuckle, and can't find anything bad to say about it. The result of which is I still have hope for xkcd being good in the future.
"Step it up Rob. Just because you are neutral about the comic doesn't mean there aren't things to critique about it. That is the point of this blog, right?"ReplyDelete
I don't critique things that fill me with an unending sense of apathy. in my estimation Carl's biggest problem was trying to critique things that he just didn't give a fuck about. he tried to live up to a standard that he basically couldn't.
I, on the other hand, have nothing but contempt for my audience, and have no interest in living up to anyone's standards.
- AnonymousDecember 4, 2010 at 10:12 PM
@hansolo22 You're right, but I get the feeling that maybe it isn't actually supposed to be D&D. There are plenty of other roleplaying systems, and I'm only familiar with a few of them.ReplyDelete
- Sherlock HolmesDecember 4, 2010 at 11:54 PM
Damn, Blogger ate my comment, but since I don't feel like re-typing it, here's the short versionReplyDelete
hansolo22: you're an idiot. There's no precedent for Randall liking/being a fan of/even referencing DnD so to hate something that has no reason to be a DnD reference for not being an accurate DnD reference makes you more moronic than most of the cuddlefish we get here.
But, Sherlock, didn't Randall aggrandize Gary Gygax himself at the time of his death? Was this ignorant lip service to the prime geek gods? Is this better or worse than being true to one's self? What does a dog doing nothing in the night prove? Shouldn't the dog have done nothing in the night in the first place?ReplyDelete
Well we can all tell that you're right about one thing! You definitely don't play D&D. Every character has a speed! Here's an example in case you don't believe me:
This is, of course, Mike Krahulik of Penny Arcade's character sheet for Jim Darkmagic. Now look up at the top right corner. Jim Darkmagic has a speed of 6! Speed is also a stat in earlier editions of D&D besides edition 4, which Krahulik was playing.
"See!", I hear you whine, "speed isn't listed with Str, Con, Dex, etc!" And that's correct. This is because the core 6 stats are defined either by dice rolls, or by a point distribution system. Speed, on the other hand is defined by your character's race, armor type, and how much shit they're carrying around.
However, the only relevant question is "Would a doctor care about someone's speed?" And in the language of D&D the answer would be yes, since various status effects (poisons, hexes, etc.) can cause a temporary reduction in speed. In other words a healthy speed is a healthy character.
NERD ARGUMENT REOPENED.ReplyDelete
Alternative theory:
That doesn't say speed at all! It says SPO2.
"But what the fuck is SPO2?" I hear you cry. All the answers to your questions lie ahead:
In other words the screen has two stats played straight, and three joke D&D stats.
- AnonymousDecember 5, 2010 at 5:50 AM
Arthur you forgot to address Hansolo22's mental disabilities and mention which orifice your blood is currently spraying out of.ReplyDelete
Arthur, you ass. You're almost certainly correct.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 5, 2010 at 7:57 AM
@Hansolo: I only don't understand one thing in your post: Why would you bother dismissing the criticism of being a "hater" on a site called XKCDsucks...?ReplyDelete
Everyone here is a miserable cretinous hater, or else we'd be out in the world enjoying ample nerd references and ample nerd orgies.
- AnonymousDecember 5, 2010 at 9:23 AM
not sure I'd want to be in an orgy with a load of ample nerdsReplyDelete
"Everyone here is a miserable cretinous hater"
Oh! So that's why I've started growing two new pairs of legs, and an exoskeleton.
- AnonymousDecember 5, 2010 at 4:11 PM
Actually Arthur that's probably just the inbreedingReplyDelete
(would explain why you BLEED out of your EYES so much too)
- AnonymousDecember 5, 2010 at 4:15 PM
...Blood orgy?ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 5, 2010 at 9:44 PM
@4:15: It's hard to avoid the conclusion: you were conceived in a blood orgy.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 6, 2010 at 6:37 AM
A blood family orgy.
Wow. You guys have no clue how happy you made me by being so offended by my post. I think I now understand why Rob still keeps this site up.ReplyDelete
@Raven - There (used to?) be people on here who would say to any criticism, "You're just hating on the comic to hate", which is not the case with me.
@Sherlock - This is so clearly a DnD/roleplaying reference that not recognizing it as such is beyond my comprehension.
@Arthur - You're clearly a douchebag, but at least you contributed something. Tell me, when have you ever seen a stat sheet with 5 stats? Even I know that there's 6. I just don't understand why Randall would make a reference like that, but do it so poorly. Nitpicking aside, that was my main point.
"Tell me, when have you ever seen a stat sheet with 5 stats?"
I've never seen a stat sheet with only the core stats either. I don't see you whining that his will save isn't listed on the screen either.
Here's the problem. It's already hard to read the stat text. Do you want Randiddle to make the text even smaller just to cram in three more stats? Would that make the joke funnier, or just make it harder for the reader?
- AnonymousDecember 7, 2010 at 5:27 AM
Arthur @11:19 - I think you're thinking of 'chitinous'.ReplyDelete


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Date: 7/1/2005 - 7/24/2005 (9 Performances)
Location: Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival - Thousand Oaks, California
Directed by: Jeffrey Combs
Starring: Lane Davies, Jane Longenecker, Julia Duffy, Richard Winterstein
Anne's Character: Queen Margaret
Genre: Play
Plot Summary: Richard III is the last of the four plays in Shakespeare's minor tetralogy of English history: it concludes a dramatic chronicle started by Henry VI: Part I and then moving through Henry VI: Part II and Henry VI: Part III. The entire four-play saga was composed early in Shakespeare's career, most scholars assigning Richard III a composition date of 1591 or 1592. Culminating with the defeat of the evil King Richard III at the battle of Bosworth field in the play's final act, Richard III is a dramatization of actual historical events that concluded in the year 1485, when the rule of the Plantagenet family over England was replaced by the Tudor monarchy. A full century after these events, Shakespeare's Elizabethan audiences were certainly familiar with them (as contemporary Americans are of their own Civil War), and they were particularly fascinated with the character of Richard III. Shakespeare's audiences could readily identify the various political factions and complex family relationships depicted in the play as they proceed from the three parts of Henry VI.
Today, readers and audiences may find it exceedingly difficult to follow the overlapping webs of political intrigue, family relationships, and personal vendettas. Fortunately, while a full knowledge of historical context would certainly enhance a modern reading of the text, it is not really necessary. The play, in fact, is dominated by Richard the hunchback Duke of Gloucester, who becomes Richard III through a series of horrible acts, killing off his enemies, his kinsmen, his wife and most of his supporters before reaching the Battle of Bosworth and crying out "My kingdom for a horse." In a work that is as much melodrama as history, Richard is a pure, self-professed villain of monstrous proportions. His evil drives the plot; and until his final defeat by the Duke of Richmond (who became Henry VII) in the play's last act, the good forces opposing him are weak, splintered, and ready prey for his schemes.


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I am shocked, stunned and appalled by these proposed conference changes.
They're disgusting!
I am shocked, stunned and appalled by these proposed conference changes.
They're disgusting!
Maryland and Rutgers to the Big Ten? Come on that sucks.
All for the almighty dollar because the Big Ten Network can collect more tribute from those lucrative east coast eyeballs. Pull in those TV markets from DC to New York, charge higher cable fees and you are talking some serious money.
The Big Ten has been using the logo B1G because Big Ten graduates can count and adding Rutgers and Maryland definitely does not add up. Of course the Big Ten has been math challenged for two decades.
Money talks and a century of tradition gets tossed into the dumpster.
The Rutgers Scarlett Knights and the Maryland Terrapins - blah! Turtles in the Big Ten, err Twelve, err Fourteen! When does the counting end?
Maybe not for awhile. There are reports the Big Whatever might pick off Georgia Tech, North Carolina and Virginia from the ACC and slide them into making the Big....um, what's the count up to.....Seventeen?
Notre Dame there is an eighteenth seat waiting for you. But not for Duke. Sorry Blue Devils, I am guessing it's football first and great basketball programs can twist in the wind.
Anyway, internet scuttlebutt says the Rutgers Knights and Maryland Turtles might reshape the conference into divisions that look like this.
Ohio State
Penn State
Michigan State
As a Hawkeye in the land of Gophers I am absolutely happy to put the new Eastern riffraff into what is becoming an Eastern Division. But, it's sad to consider the plight of a team like the Badgers.
In football, the Buckey boys from Madison would likely have to drop playing two traditional Big Ten schools and pick up games against the Turtle and Knight interlopers.
I'm assuming there would still be crossover games, so the Gopher-Badger football game would be safe. Surely, the Big Whatever would never end the longest, continuous series in college football history. Besides, that axe is cool.
Not as cool as the pig, which is safe in Iowa City, where it belongs, thank you very much Gophers.
However, as a Hawkeye, I mourn the damage this conference realignment might do to an Iowa-Wisconsin game. At eight conference games and fourteen teams, the Hawks and Badgers would meet twice in twelve years. The Hawkeyes host the Badgers at Kinnick once every twelve years? Depressing.


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After prosecuting cases in Shawnee County for several years, Chris Scott says he was looking for a new opportunity. And that's what brought him to the Leavenworth County Attorney's Office.
After prosecuting cases in Shawnee County for several years, Chris Scott says he was looking for a new opportunity. And that's what brought him to the Leavenworth County Attorney's Office.
Scott, 33, is a new assistant county attorney for Leavenworth County. He will be prosecuting person felonies, which he said includes crimes such as batteries and assaults, and drug cases.
"I just started on Monday," he said.
One of the things he's been doing this week is reviewing cases for filing charges, something he didn't do when he worked at the Shawnee County District Attorney's Office. Cases there were reviewed for charges by other attorneys.
Scott also has been observing cases this week in Leavenworth County District Court. He said there are differences between jurisdictions in terms of how things are run.
Another thing he's having to adjust to is a paperless office.
Scott said he's originally from Topeka. He graduated from the University of Kansas in 2001 with a bachelor's degree in business administration. He worked in the corporate world for a little more than four years before staring law school at KU.
"I just decided I wanted to do something new," he said of his decision to go to law school.
He graduated from law school in 2008. And that year, he went to work for the Shawnee County District Attorney's Office. He started there prosecuting juvenile offender cases but also worked on felony traffic cases and DUIs.
"I was in the gang and drug unit for a while," he said.
He then worked on a general case load.
Scott said he applied for the position with the Leavenworth County Attorney's Office in early December and went through an interview process. He learned he'd been hired earlier this month.
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Banaue is a town on the Cordillera mountain range in the north of the island of Luzon, in the Philippines. It is mainly visited for its stunning rice terraces, which are a UNESCO World Heritage site.
Get in
By bus
Getting to Banaue directly might take a lot of effort if you're not taking a direct route from Manila or if you don't have a tour agency to help you. There are few possible ways to get to Banaue — Manila - Banaue (direct), Manila - Baguio - Banaue, Manila - Baguio - Bontoc - Banaue.
Ohayami Trans
Manila-Solano, Nueva Vizcaya-Banaue ifugao - buses heading to Tuguegarao (e.g. Baliwag transit, Victory, etc.) pass by the town of Solano. Several jeepneys ply the Solano-Banaue route or the Solano-Lagawe, Ifugao route. From Lagawe, one can then take another jeepney to Banaue.
Manila-Tarlac-Solano-Banaue - buses heading for Baguio pass by Tarlac. Vizcaya liner plies the Tarlac-Solano route at 5 am.
By car
The distance between the Balintawak Cloverleaf, in north Manila at the beginning of the North Luzon Expressway and the Welcome to Banaue sign, is about 332 km. The road is paved all the way to Banaue. Travel time can be as long as 9 hours due to the several blind curves through the mountains.
Best day to travel is on good Friday of Lenten season, Christmas day and new year's day. It will take about 7 hours only by car with a reliable driver.
Get around
Jeepneys (converted jeeps/bus) and tricycles (trikes) (little motorcycles with side cars) are easily available around Banaue. Vans can be hired with driver/guide. Expect to hike some to great places to see that are not on the roads.
There is a public jeepney plying the Banaue-to-saddle-point (start of trek to Batad village) route daily. See Get Out, below for more info.
Many kinds of carved woods.
Native rice wine or sugarcane wine at all inns and lodges.
The grand old lady, Banaue Hotel, is probably the priciest option you'll find but offers regular cultural shows in the evenings (Ifugao dance and music) that are also open to non-guests. The pool is small but a nice place to hang out when you're tired of trekking up and down rice terraces.
Closer to town, there are a multitude of hostels and guesthouses offering much more reasonably priced accommodations.
There are several internet cafes around the town, the rate ranges from 50 to 20 pesos per hour.
Get out


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An Adams Township man who made up fake identities to victimize teenaged girls he befriended on Facebook will spend 14 to 28 years in prison.
William Ainsworth, 55, pretended to be teenaged boys to garner the trust of more than 600 unsuspecting teens in Beaver, Butler and Allegheny counties. Once those teens added Ainsworth's personas to their "friends" list, he preyed on the vulnerable, convincing girls to share their secrets, open their trust and send him naked photographs.
Two of the girls agreed to meet Ainsworth. One of them had sex with him.
He was sentenced Monday by Butler County Judge Tim McCune.
Ainsworth, who pleaded guilty to more than 75 crimes including involuntary deviate sexual intercourse and solicitation of unlawful contact with a minor, said the 2011 deceit "started out as an innocent act."
Ainsworth claims he first went on Facebook with a completely different intention: To monitor the activities of his own twin teenaged girls and be sure they were not getting involved with shady characters.
But while on the Internet, Ainsworth, who has a white beard and thinning hair, pretended to be a young surfer from Florida and a rebellious high school drop out
Court records allege Ainsworth concocted an "elaborate and disturbing" tale of the fictitious identities, intertwining the persona's lives, using photographs from other places to bolster his claims. At one point, he announced the death of one of the personas.
Once in the teen's confidence, Ainsworth's personalities allegedly would compliment the victims, and discuss their problems at school and at home.
In the process, he convinced five of the girls to share naked photographs of themselves with him. Two of the girls were convinced to meet with Ainsworth.


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@DEPRECATED is not a valid header tag.
dev-util/pkgconfig -> virtual/pkgconfig
Update copyright years in headers
fix @MAINTAINER formatting
Drop binutils depend from x-modular.eclass, bug #385659.
trim useless trailing whitespace
Add deprecation information.
Drop cleanup_fonts from xorg eclasses as it's now handled by font.eclass. (bug #315369)
tweak handling of default vars so that eclass-manpages can better pick things out
Update eclass to depend on correct util-macros version.
Existence of fonts.alias files prevented removal of otherwise empty font directories. Bug #249190 by Martin Väth.
Use correct docdir placement. Per bug #290622.
Dropped workaround for bug #278221: nothing was broken with stable fontconfig version and all unstable fontconfig versions now have the sandbox.d file.
set MIT as the default license for x-modular ebuilds
Fix "undefined nls useflag" warning for some fonts packages. Per bug #263142.
Allow fonts to override --with-fontdir, for fonts installing more than one typeface. Drop fix_font_permissions as it doesn't do anything and is handled by font.eclass already.
x-modular.eclass: Added workaround for bug #278221: fc-cache in fontconfig 2.7.0 do chmod. Should be dropped after X fonts will be patched to avoid fc-cache run during make install.
update the x-modular eclass to what was in the X11 overlay : - EAPI=2 support - regroup all the "inherit" logic near the top - improved live git ebuild support
Fix typo in eclass-doc. x-modular_src_configure->x-modular_src_compile.
update the DRI checking code to new USE flags in xorg-server 1.5.3 (fixes bug #252084)
install proto docs in /usr/share/doc/${PF} (fixes bug #164917)
(#259491) Stop using prepalldocs, stuff is breaking because of the eutils.eclass change.
quote variables wrt bug #258232
x-modular_dri_check(): Keep working when xorg-server doesn't support USE=dri.
(#235629) Die if build succeeds but install fails.
(#226187) The MODULE override wasn't working correctly because of a logic error made when refactoring.
Change the MODULE setup to a case statement. Thanks to Bo Ørsted Andresen, who finally got me to do it.
Allow ebuilds to override the module they download from, so we need less special-casing in here.
Typo: CONFIGURE_OPTIONS, not CONFIGURE_OPTIONTS. Custom configure options weren't getting through before, and now they will.
(#219581) Stop applying driver patch to install manpages to 4x.
(#214531) Add nls to IUSE for fonts with PN ending in -cyrillic.
Allow PATCHES to be an array. Based on change in ruby-gnome2.eclass.
Download things in the 'util' module from the right place.
Make sure that packages needing eautoreconf run get it run. This fixes a bug accidentally introduced when setting default values so this eclass could be documented properly.
Use braces around variables.
Move to new documentation style used by app-portage/eclass-manpages.
add $DOCS variable for src_install phase
(#199062) Fix which packages show debug USE flag (John W Eckhart).
Remove old build dependency upon man / man-db for building X
Integrate with git.eclass, so live git ebuilds are trivially easy. Just copy an ebuild to -9999.ebuild, and it automatically does everything else: inherits git.eclass, sets up the repo, sets a blank SRC_URI, unpacks properly, and creates a ChangeLog.
Update URL for driver patch to mirror://gentoo instead of Josh_B's dev space (Mark Kowarsky).
(#178378) Check for ECONF_SOURCE, so you can do builddir != srcdir.
(QA) RESTRICT clean up.
Update my email address spyderous->dberkholz.
Add additional documentation of useful variables XDPVER and XDIR.
Set WANT_{AUTOMAKE,AUTOCONF} for snapshots (Matthias Schwarzott, bug #154657).
Only inherit font.eclass on fonts so we don't get USE=X for everything. This requires the inherit line to move below the FONT setup. Idea from Diego Pettenó.
Simplify fonts.scale and fonts.dir generation a bit -- stop using ttmkfdir, always use mkfontscale. Also, run from the build system since they are in DEPEND and not RDEPEND.
Start using font.eclass: Replace create_font_cache() code with a call to font_pkg_postinst(), and call font_pkg_postrm() in x-modular_pkg_postrm(). Also move EXPORT_FUNCTIONS down to the bottom so font.eclass functions don't override x-modular.eclass ones.
Stop using two different ways to detect font directories.
(#149857) Allow man-db as well as man.
Install hwdata files if they exist.
Fix for the case where the autotools files are somewhere other than $S.
Require >=sys-apps/man-1.6b-r2 to look in [0-7]x sections (Daniel Robbins).
Allow the driver patches to be disabled.
alpha now has binutils-2.16.1-r3 stable so we can remove the exclusion on alpha.
Add multilib intelligence for removing .la files for drivers and modules.
Wrap binutils dep in !alpha till they stable it
Go back to the better hardened setup, now that the binutils patch tarball is on mirrors.
Need to quote > symbol (Andrew Gaffney).
(#138580) Make drivers only require USE=xorg on xorg-server versions >=1.1, so they actually have IUSE=xorg.
Restore the old gcc-specs-now check as well until binutils gets fixed.
Remove binutils dep till the tarballs actually exist.
We need to dep on >=sys-devel/binutils-2.16.1-r3 so hardened works properly.
- we no longer need to die on hardened toolchains as of binutils-2.16-r3
Loadable drivers don't build if the xorg USE-flag isn't set. (bug #135873)
Install ChangeLog if it exists.
We do not require anymore a specific version of sys-apps/man.
Only use individual/ locations for releases. The X11R# should just be branded copies of them.
Make sure twm gets a SRC_URI by adding x11-wm to categories to have individual SRC_URI's for.
(#116698) Filter -Wl,-z,now LDFLAGS in the server and drivers.
Create a new function x-modular_dri_check(), and move the USE=dri check from x-modular_unpack_source() into it.
Move the check for gcc vanilla specs into a separate function, x-modular_specs_check. This makes it easier for ebuilds to modify their src_unpack() and reuse functions from x-modular_src_unpack(). Do the same with elibtoolize, moving it into x-modular_reconf_source().
(#120057) Enabling DRI in drivers requires that the server was built with support for it.
Make sure docs get compressed.
Switch to eautoreconf instead of autoreconf, to get extra goodness. Tested by Flameeyes, based on his patch. Keeping the versioned deps on autotools because it's possible for someone to only have a too-low version installed based on autotools eclass deps.
Clarify error message when attempting to emerge hardened (bug #127742 c22,23).
Add a category check for setting FONT also.
(#103174) Don't install fonts.* files when they're autogenerated, to avoid errors with FEATURES=collision-protect.
Attempt to clarify vanilla gcc message.
Make USE=debug work more nicely with FEATURES=splitdebug.
Remove 7.0-rcX SRC_URI's.
Add category-based SRC_URI's for individual releases.
(#121728) util-macros conditional dep was reversed.
Use -g instead of -ggdb.
Add USE=debug support.
Set the license of modular X packages to the name of the package itself.
util-macros shouldn't DEPEND on itself. Makes it a tad difficult to install with a correct dep resolver. Reported by ciaranm.
No need to pass --disable-static for drivers anymore, that's the default.
Apply whitespace checks from repoman to eclasses.
Move mkfontscale and mkfontdir into RDEPEND from DEPEND; they're used in pkg_* so need RDEPEND for binary packages. Reported by Michael Frank <email@example.com>.
Add SRC_URI for 7.0 release.
Add SRC_URI for RC4.
Clarify docs.
Add some documentation on how to use the eclass.
Remove outdated comments about fonts.
(#115085) Add mkfontdir and mkfontscale to DEPEND for fonts.
Re-enable the installation of driver manpages to 4x instead of 4. Fixes bug #29541.
Fix all single-bracket tests [ ] to be double-bracketed [[ ]] for consistency.
Move elibtoolize from x-modular_unpack_source() to x-modular_src_unpack() so it gets executed _after_ x-modular_reconf_source.
Prevent packages that bork with hardened gccs from building. Based on Starling's patch in bug #110506.
Major rework of font handling for 7.0RC3's new --with-fontdir and --disable-iso8859-*. Add a default pkg_postrm() to clean out font directories only containing metadata.
(#114503) Update util-macros dep to 0.99.2 for man page installation locations.
Update package path for RC3.
Changed xorg-x11 blocker for clarity.
(#112480) Add RDEPEND on >=sys-apps/man-1.6b-r2 so it looks in the [0-8]x/ directories.
Add RC2 to SRC_URI list.
Drop collision-protect warning for now as we're probably going with a blocker.
Add an error about collision-protect in case we allow monolithic->modular upgrade paths without unmerging the old version first.
Modify block so that release candidate metabuilds are allowed.
Add elibtoolize to fix shared lib problems on MIPS, fBSD, etc...
Restrict util-macros dep to >=x11-misc/util-macros-0.99.0_p20051007.
Update SRC_URI to look in 7.0 RC1 location first, then RC0. Also only active font code if pkg starts with 'font-', not just 'font'.
Add blocker on <x11-base/xorg-x11-7.
Restore double brackets between ||'d test for --disable-static, and keep then on the same line as if.
Requires >=dev-util/pkgconfig-0.18 for PKG_CHECK_EXISTS.
Apply whitespace check from repoman to eclasses.
fixing disabling of static drivers. bug #104071
added --force to autoreconf because we need libtoolize --force --copy and not just --copy
Don't build .a files for drivers; Don't install libtool archives for server modules in /usr/lib/xorg/modules.
Create x-modular_src_configure() and x-modular_src_make() so people can do actions in-between them, if necessary.
(#102554) Don't mention X11R6, since this is now X11R7.
Autodiscover font directories so there's no need to specify FONT or FONT_DIRS in font ebuilds.
Add encodings as RDEPEND and font-alias as PDEPEND for all font packages.
Add a default pkg_postinst(), which only does something for font ebuilds. Add font setup code, which is activated by setting FONT=yes and FONT_DIRS=<subdirs>, where they fall into /usr/share/fonts/<subdir>. Sample of this is the font-misc-misc ebuild. This ensures correct fonts.* setup, which isn't happening currently since each subpackage provides its own fonts.* but installs into the same dir as other packages.
Eclass for modular X ebuilds.
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The Carmi Public Library has been buzzing with activity over the past month. In addition to several special events, including Story Time with "It's a White County Christmas," the facility has played host to a lot of regular visitors and circulation is holding steady.
The Carmi Public Library has been buzzing with activity over the past month. In addition to several special events, including Story Time with "It's a White County Christmas," the facility has played host to a lot of regular visitors and circulation is holding steady. The news is a positive note to end the year on for the library board, which has managed the budget well for 2012 to also end on a healthy fiscal note.
President Andy Acord asked for several committee reports at the Tuesday, Dec. 4 meeting. Ralph Anselment noted the house committee was working fine while Lloyd Stills updated the board on the finances, noting very little change from the previous month.
Carmi Public Library Director Stephanie Dennis gave an overview of activity at the library. She said the foot traffic in the library is constant with the use of the computers. She also noted there are 92 registered on the e-books and the library is averaging 20-30 checkouts per month by members. The library also spent $1,049 on books for November, which includes audio selections.
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An update was also given on Polaris, the new computerized library system being installed. The new software will still go live April 9, 2013 but training on the system has changed slightly. Due to the Illinois Heartland library system including 1,705 staff members that need to be trained on the system, Heartland will assign trainers to work with staff members to provide instruction for the system.
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Questions and answers on the list of air carriers subject to an operating ban in the EU (the "black list")
1 How is the European Community blacklist updated?
All Member States and the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) have the obligation to communicate to the Commission all information which may be relevant to updating the list. This may include reports showing serious safety deficiencies of an air carrier (such as reports of Safety Assessment of Foreign Aircraft inspections performed at airports within the European Community), operating bans imposed by third countries, audit reports drawn up by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) following safety inspections (in the framework of the Universal safety Oversight Audit Programme) of the civil aviation authorities of the 189 Contracting parties to the Chicago Convention, as well as accident-related information or other serious incident-related information.
For the purpose of updating the list, the Commission is assisted by the Air Safety Committee composed by technical air safety experts from all the EU Member States (plus Iceland, Norway and Switzerland which, however, have no voting rights) and chaired by the Commission (the Commission does not have any voting rights). Acting on a proposal by the Commission, the Air Safety Committee adopts its opinion by qualified majority, which is then submitted to the European Parliament before final adoption by the Commission and subsequent publication in the Official Journal.
The decision to include or remove a carrier (or a group of carriers certified in the same State) is taken on the basis of the common safety criteria annexed to the "Basic Regulation" (Regulation 2111/2005/EC establishing a Community list of banned carriers). These criteria take into consideration, for instance, the existence of safety deficiencies on the part of an air carrier, or the lack of ability (or willingness) by an air carrier or authorities responsible for its oversight to address safety deficiencies, operating bans imposed by third countries, audit reports drawn up by third countries or international organisations (ICAO) and substantiated accident related information. All criteria are based on international aviation safety standards.
2 To whom does it apply?
The rules establishing the Community list of banned carriers apply to all air carriers irrespective of their nationality – EU and non-EU ones. The rules apply only to commercial air transport, that is to air transport of passengers and cargo for remuneration or hire. The rules do not apply to private and non-commercial flights.
European air carriers are vetted against EU safety rules, which comply with international rules but follow stricter procedures and sanctions. Non-EU air carriers are vetted against internationally binding safety standards established by the 1944 Chicago Convention and its annexes. The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) was established by this Convention.
3 How often is the list updated and what is the timeframe for this? Is there not a risk that it will quickly become obsolete?
In accordance with "the Basic Regulation", the Community "blacklist" may be updated whenever the Commission deems that it is necessary, or upon request of an EU Member State. In any case however, at least every three months, the Commission verifies whether it is appropriate to update the list. Of course, every decision to impose a ban must be the result of a careful assessment and including a suitable right of defence for all carriers under investigation. However, this can be done very quickly in urgent cases where an immediate threat to air safety is detected.
4 How can an airline be cleared and taken off the list?
If an airline considers that it should be taken off the list because it complies with the relevant safety standards, it can address a request to the Commission or a Member State, either directly or through its civil aviation authority. Only the Commission or a Member State may ask for the list to be updated. The Air Safety Committee will then assess the evidence presented by the airline and/or its oversight authority to substantiate its request for being withdrawn from the EC "blacklist" and formulate its opinion to the Commission.
5 How is an airline added to the list?
The procedure is the same as that for updating the list. If the Commission or a Member State acquires evidence indicating serious safety deficiencies on the part of an airline or its oversight authority anywhere in the world, they ask for the list to be revised immediately. Indeed, in such cases Member States have the obligation to ask for the update of the "blacklist". A decision is then taken in the light of the common safety criteria for banning established by the "Basic Regulation".
Where the Commission is of the opinion that the continuation of operations into the Community of an air carrier is likely to constitute a serious risk to safety and that such risk has not been resolved satisfactorily at national level (by measures taken by the civil aviation authority of a Member State) it can take provisional measures, whereby the carrier is banned from entering the European air space. These measures are then presented to the Air Safety Committee for confirmation or modification.
6 What do the common safety criteria cover?
These objective and transparent criteria were drawn up during the adoption process of the "Basic Regulation" on the basis of work undertaken by the Air Safety Committee of experts, taking into account the long and rich experience of Member States in this field. They focus mainly on the safety related information available in the Member States and in the Commission and the European Aviation Safety Agency. The criteria reflect measurable and verifiable documented evidence of:
The Commission takes a decision to impose a complete or partial ban on an airline only after it has analysed these different factors on a case-by-case basis, and after having given the airline in question the right to explain its position, and after having held detailed consultations with the oversight authority of the airline concerned and with the Air Safety Committee of experts.
7 Does the inclusion of an airline in the EC "blacklist" always mean that it is no longer allowed to fly in Europe?
YES. As long as the air carrier is subject to a total ban, it cannot operate with its aircraft and personnel in the EC. The airline is placed on Annex A to the regulation whereby the "blacklist" is updated. Equally, as long as an air carrier is subject to a partial ban it can operate only with the aircraft stipulated in the Regulation and cannot expand its network. The airline is placed on Annex B to the regulation whereby the "blacklist" is updated.
Nevertheless, banned airlines can still fly their aircraft into the Community for maintenance (notably to resolve safety deficiencies in this area) without carrying any passengers or payload – the so-called "ferry flights". Also, banned airlines can use other airlines (their aircraft and personnel) on the basis of contracts called "wet-lease agreements". In this way, passengers and cargo can still be transported but only by airlines which fully comply with the safety rules. Furthermore, aircraft which are used for government or state purposes (e.g. transport of the heads of state and/or government), escape the requirements of ICAO. Therefore, these aircraft are considered to be operating "state flights" and can therefore fly into the EC even if they are banned from operating commercial flights. Such flights need however a special authorisation as foreseen by ICAO, from all the Member States that the plane flies over as well as from the state of destination.
Finally, banned airlines cannot enter the airspace of any Member State and fly over their territory while they are banned (totally or partially).
8 Does the list prevent EU Member States from taking individual safety measures at a national level?
NO. The general principle is that whatever measure is considered at national level must be also examined at Community level. When an air carrier is considered unsafe and therefore banned in one Member State, there is an obligation to examine this measure at EU level with a view to applying it throughout the European Union. Nevertheless, even where a ban is not extended to the EU, there is scope for Member States to continue to act at national level in certain exceptional cases, particularly in emergencies or in response to a safety issue specifically affecting them.
9 What are airlines' "rights of defence"?
Airlines which have been banned, or which are being investigated in view of a potential ban, have the right to express their points of view, submit any documents which they consider appropriate for their defence, and make oral and written presentations to the Air Safety Committee and the Commission. This means that they can submit comments in writing, add new items to their file, and ask to be heard by the Commission or to attend a hearing before the Aviation Safety Committee, which then formulates its opinion based on these proceedings and the materials submitted prior to or during the hearing. The rules foresee that carriers and authorities are given a deadline within which they have to respond.
10 Is there not a risk of retaliation by affected countries?
The Commission's sole aim is to improve aviation safety, which is in everyone's interest, and in no way to affect a country's economic or social development. Countries affected can put in place technical assistance measures to help airlines achieve a satisfactory level of aviation safety. Moreover, the Commission is always ready to explore any possible way of cooperating with countries which show a genuine intention of addressing their shortcomings with regard to aviation safety.
11 How is the public informed about the EC "blacklist" of unsafe airlines?
The latest version of the list is made available to the public online at http://ec.europa.eu/transport/air-ban/flywell_en.htm. The Commission also liaises closely with European and international travel agent associations each time that any changes are made to the list in order that they may be in the best possible position to aid their clients – the passengers – in making informed decisions when making their travel arrangements. Moreover, the "blacklist" regulation also obliges national civil aviation authorities, EASA and airports in the territory of the Member States to bring the EC "blacklist" to the attention of passengers, both via their websites and, where relevant, in their premises.
12 In what way does publishing the list help European citizens travelling beyond EC territory?
Publishing the list provides useful information to people wishing to travel outside the European Community - where the EC flight ban does not apply - in order for them to avoid travelling with these airlines. The list also safeguards the rights of consumers who have bought a trip at a travel agent which includes a flight operated by an airline on the EC "blacklist".
The "blacklist" regulation also establishes passengers' right to know the identity of every airline they fly with throughout their trip. To this effect, the contracting carrier is required to inform passengers of the identity of the operating air carrier or carriers when making a reservation, whatever the means used to make the booking. The passenger must also be kept informed of any change of operating carrier, either at check-in or, at the latest, when boarding. The Regulation also gives passengers the right to reimbursement or re-routing if a carrier with which a booking has been made is subsequently added to the blacklist, resulting in cancellation of the flight concerned.
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With 1000+ pages of LotR, I have a hard time believing this is the best joke Randall could have made. Or even an above average one. If you disagree, can I remind you: the joke is they were stuck in a hole. Because you know, if you are stuck in a hole with all your hole digging equipment, and the whole place is made of stone, why can't you carve some stairs in the walls of your hole? Like, carve hand and foot holds and climb out?
But I digress. What I was trying to say was, this doesn't strike me as the end result of "what's a funny joke about lord of the rings?" so much as the end result of "I'm going to turn to a random page in lord of the rings and try to make the best joke I can out of whatever I find there." And who knows, maybe this is the best joke that can be made out of the Dwarves unleashing the Balrog or whatever (maybe not, but let's pretend). In that case, the solution isn't to say "hey, this is the best I can do with this incredibly specific topic, sweet, let's post it" but to say "Well if this is the best I am going to get out of this particular lotr passage, I should really try a few more passages and see if they lead to anything better."
It feels, to take a new tack, like a Mystery Science theater 3000 joke. Read the first three panels in your best Ian McKellen voice, then switch to your best Tom Servo voice and add "So deep they were stuck in the hole, forever. The end, kids!" Mike (mike rules!) and Crow laugh quickly and the movie moves on, and you forget the mediocre joke because while watching it you also hear 400 other jokes making fun of it. This one doesn't stand out, but it's better than nothing, the only other choice the mst3k people have. Randall has more choice: if a joke isn't great, just keep writing until one is better. And if you can't think of any good jokes, get out of the webcomic business.


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Four derelict properties in Ford City are a major step closer to being abated
At their afternoon session Tuesday, Kern County's Board of Supervisors voted 4-0, with 3rd District Supervisor Mike Maggard absent, to declare one property on Adams Street and three properties on Madison Street public nuisances.
The supervisors' votes declared the properties abandoned and dangerous and ordered abatement involving the demolition of the structures.
One property, an apartment building at 424 Adams St., has tenants.
"Thank God for considering this property," said Taft City Councilmember Dave Noerr, who spoke at the public hearing on the Adams Street property as a resident of the Taft area, not as a councilmember.
"This is Third World living conditions," he said. "The tenants have been taken advantage of. There are law enforcement issues for Taft Police Department and for Sheriff's deputies.
"(The property) doesn't meet codes. Subsidence (of the structure) has created problems. Raw sewage collects there. There is no way to mediate these issues with what the entire area is worth."
Charles Lackey, county director of building inspection, presented the staff report on the four-plex property.
"There are on-going violations," Lackey said. "It's a substandard property ... (with a) three-and-one-half-foot settlement on one side. There are breaks in the water and sewer lines with the settlement.
"The building is continuing to settle and create problems. There has been no owner response."
Lackey asked the board to order demolition of the structure, with the owner given 30 days to abate the nuisance or county staff will seek bids for abatement, he said. Estimated cost of demolition is about $30,000, according to staff.
Former owner Pablo Alvarez, who said he sold the property to his mother, claimed that there are no problems with the water, sewer or gas lines.
"It has been rented for over 10 years," Alvarez said. "There are no pipe breaks. I don't see it as unhealthy or unsafe.
"The only problem is when it rains. The sewer line in the street is clogged and there's no way for the water to get into the sewer."
Lackey and 4th District Supervisor David Couch strongly disagreed with Alvarez.
"I have personally seen sewage there," Lackey said. "There is three-and-a-half-feet of settlement."
Couch stated: "I have seen this property. Noerr said it pretty well. No one should be required to live in that way.
"I refer to the CAO (Chief Administrative Officer John Nilon) on how to handle the tenants. Make sure the tenants are taken care of."
Fifth District Supervisor Leticia Perez asked if there is a fund that would aid the tenants. She was told by staff that there is funding for emergency housing but not on-going housing. However the property owner might have to pay relocation benefits to the tenants, staff reported.
While a hearing was held on the Adams Street property, no one appeared on the Madison Street structures and all three – at 114, 303 and 306 Madison St. – were declared public nuisances and ordered for demolition as part of the consent agenda vote.
Abatement costs are estimated at $15,000 each for 114 and 303 Madison and $30,000 for 306 Madison.
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Stuck! Oh, the Path of Zen
Anyway, the point is that the path of Zen goes from here to here and what we learn to do is be what we are – stay put, in other words.Interesting post at Sweeping Zen
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The Three Pillars of Zen: Teaching, Practice, and Enlightenment, by Philip Kapleau Roshi
Hardcore Zen : Punk Rock, Monster Movies, & the Truth about Reality, by Brad Warner
Warner, an early-'80s hardcore punk musician, discovered Zen in college, moved to Japan to make B-grade monster movies, and eventually became a bona fide Zen master by formally receiving "dharma transmission." Yet true to his punk spirit, he relentlessly demands that all teaching, all beliefs, all authority-including his own-must be questioned. ("Why should you listen to me? Who the hell am I?... No one. No one at all.")
Hardcore Zen : Punk Rock, Monster Movies, & the Truth about Reality, by Brad Warner
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A respected Zen master in Japan and founder of the San Francisco Zen Center, Shunryu Suzuki has blazed a path in American Buddhism like few others. He is the master who climbs down from the pages of the koan books and answers your questions face to face. If not face to face, you can at least find the answers as recorded in Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind, a transcription of juicy excerpts from his lectures.
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Anyway, the point is that the path of Zen goes from here to here and what we learn to do is be what we are – stay put, in other words.Interesting post at Sweeping Zen
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