There is nothing like discovering a pack of aging bros in the wild.
Serves me right for going to a happy hour at The Grove.
September 2011
IMPORTANT QUESTION — is Frankenstein’s monster, technically, a zombie? Discuss.
August 2011
Just got home from SF. Was inside my apartment for five whole minutes before fleeing to an air-conditioned restaurant. #iguessitssummernow
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If there’s finally no newspaper you can hold in your hands, and only a small percentage of the old revenue, there will also be no more newsprint, presses, trucks, gasoline to put in them and a physical plant, which account for all but a small percentage of the old cost.
The question is, what will be in tomorrow’s newspapers, paper or pixelated?
With all that newspapers have lost, they have something no other outlet has: the staff, institutional knowledge and experience to put things in perspective.
” —Truthdig - Confessions of a Dead Tribune
Really great piece from an LA Times reporter on his recent layoff, and what’s going wrong with traditional journalism right now. Definitely worth reading.
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RT @loneswords: @lizlet As Neil deGrasse Tyson notes, “intelligent” design is defeated pretty quickly when you realize that most of the …
“Attached hereto as Exhibit D is a true and correct copy of a still image taken from Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film “2001: A Space Odyssey.” In a clip from that film lasting about one minute, two astronauts are eating and at the same time using personal tablet computers. The clip can be downloaded online at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ8pQVDyaLo. As with the design claimed by the D’889 Patent, the tablet disclosed in the clip has an overall rectangular shape with a dominant display screen, narrow borders, a predominately flat front surface, a flat back surface (which is evident because the tablets are lying flat on the table’s surface), and a thin form factor.”
—FOSS Patents: Samsung cites Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ movie as prior art against iPad design patent (via mikehudack)
Tom Clancy's Net Force - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia →
en.wikipedia.org
Reading the plot descriptions of these books is A GOOD TIME.
“Thomas Hughes is an aide to an important government minister. Using his position, he gains access to many secret passcodes and pieces of information. Using his racist assistant, Platt, he posts secrets on the web. All the time, he is diverting attention from his real plan: to steal $150 million and own the government of Guinea-Bissau. Again, Net Force find out his plan and manage to stop him.”
“Robert “Bobby” Drayne is a chemist who is far away from the competition. He deals in “Thor’s Hammer” - a drug which can make people superhuman in strength and intelligence. He is making money by selling it over the ‘Net. Net Force are asked to help investigate and locate the dealer. He is eventually killed, in a surprising twist, by someone working for a pharmaceutical company.”
“An army base is attacked and NetForce is called in to track down the culprits. It turns out that the bad guys are using a massive online VR game to have people test ways of getting into the bases. Captain Lewis, an attractive computer woman who works with Jay on the case turns out to be the criminal though she tried to seduce Jay throughout the book. She is finally caught in the end.”
TEN BOOKS in this series. TEN BOOKS. And a young adult spin-off series called Net Force Explorers! These have to have been written by robots. Oh, god, what if I’ve stumbled across part one of the robot uprising? Crap oh crap oh crap must post now before they track my loc—
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“Oh, God. What did you do to her? RT @chrisbrown Please pray for Virginia.”
—Danny Zuker, in one of 10, No, 11, No, 12 Actually Funny Quake Tweets. (via slacktory)
Coming up to the Bay Area this weekend, and plan to spend at least Friday wandering around SF. Anything/anyone I should do/see/buy/eat?
RT @kpereira: I need to get back to New Orleans. PLEASE read this, and GET ANGRY: http://t.co/Bf9LXO5
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This week’s TV poll: Which under-the-radar show is one you wish other people were watching? (My answer: “Leverage.”)
Missouri girl expelled for making rape claim →
cbsnews.com
The girl was first raped at Republic Middle School in the spring of 2009, according to the lawsuit. After the mother notified the school, the girl described the rape and “multiple sexual assaults” she’d experienced at school that year to Duncan, Mithelavage and Ragain. They then told the mother that they thought that her daughter made it all up.
During subsequent meetings described in the lawsuit as “intimidating interrogations,” the lawsuit says the officials told the girl that they thought she was lying about the rape. The girl’s mother was later told that her daughter recanted her story during one of those meetings.
The family’s lawyers note in the lawsuit that the girl’s school file contains a psychological report describing her as adverse to conflict, passive and “would forego her own needs and wishes to satisfy the request of others around so that she can be accepted.”
Following instructions from the school, the girl wrote an apology to the boy she accused of raping her and had to personally give it to him, according to the lawsuit.
Oh, and she’s a special education student in the 7th grade. Just in case your head wasn’t already heading towards the blender.
Yeah, we don’t have a problem with rape culture in this country. Not at all.
