For security reasons, continue on your way past the incident. The officers know what they are doing.
For security reasons, do not form lasting emotional attachments.
Great idea for a photo shoot. I'm getting very cold just thinking about it, though.
My friends and I use to calculate our sex numbers relative to other people. If you have slept with someone, your sex number for that person is 1. Your sex number for anyone that they have slept with is 2, and so forth. For example, my Al Stewart number is 2.
Now, via Boing Boing again, I discover that people are studying this. Once again, ahead of our times.
This is the best analysis on privatizing Social Security that I have seen. You want to read it, trust me.
It makes far more sense than the actual proposals.
(Via, unsuprisingly, Boing Boing.)
It's all over the web. Web Zen is doing it. Boing Boing is doing it.
Of course, speaking as a shipping supplies nerd, I was into bubble wrap way before it was cool.
If this link really does have the crawl text for Episode III, Lucas is even more out of control than I thought. General Grievous? He's just making fun of the fans, now.
This is an exceptionally cool idea: The Virus line of synthesizers comes with plug-ins for your favorite composing program. Rather than doing the synthesis in software, bogging down your computer, it communicates via USB with the synth, and the synth does the synth thing and returns the results.
And you can play it as a keyboard. I hope it sounds wonderful, because this is a very nifty idea.
Years ago, when I worked at Oberheim Electronics (working on the DPX1, gobble, gobble), Dave Smith's first Sequential Circuits was still around. Like Tom Oberheim and Roger Linn, he was a brilliant analog engineer. Like Roger Linn but unlike Tom Oberheim, he got out while the getting was good, just ahead of the Yamaha DX-7 destroying the US synthesizer industry.
Smith was, in fact, largely responsible for the invention of MIDI, since he didn't want to have to build yet another damned sequencer. He also held a patent on the scanning keyboard, resulting in what must have been a nice little royalty stream.
But Smith's back, and he's making utterly drool-worthy equipment. I'm not 100% sure, but this seem to have an architectur similar to the Oberheim Xpander and Matrix-12 (although it probably doesn't use dual 6800s as the processors). It also seems to have the wonderful advantage that you can feed external audio through the filter array, not just the output of the generators.
Yum.
Songs available from Mperia.com. Not only are they a stylish and delightful dark-rock-guitar-goth band, but when I ordered their CD, I received a keyring with it. Mperia.com is a single-song download site I can actually live with.
I'm not sure that I am entirely ready to buy into the vegetarian lifestyle, let alone the vegan one, but as long as we're talking chickens, United Poultry Concerns clearly has their heart in the right place.
I'm trying the blogging client ecto for this post, to see if it can do off-line writing. To do this, I just removed the Ethernet cable from my laptop.
OK, not bad. Seems much improved from the first time I tried it.
Two adults, in a four seat car, one driving, one in the back seat, where the one driving is not a professional.
The new Merchant of Venice is rated “R — some nudity.” I don't remember nude scenes in that particular play, but my high school production of it would have been greatly enhanced if we had left them in.
From the BBC: "A devout Baptist couple who bought a Doris Day DVD from a supermarket were shocked to find a sex film instead."
My favorite quote: "My wife and I were very shocked but we watched it until the end because we couldn't believe what we were seeing."
No doubt, no doubt.
An Oklahoma state senator, apparently realizing that his state has not been the butt of jokes for a while, wishes to bring back cockfighting.
Brilliant idea. I think another good sport would be putting Oklahoma state senators in a ring, two at a time, and telling them that the family of the loser will be killed and eaten at the victory banquet of the winner.
Of course they wouldn't get any choice in the matter, you sentimental fool. Oklahoma state senators don't feel pain like we do.
I'd pay good money to see it.
Suppose that a man's wife is murdered. Unhinged by grief over this murder, the husband buys a gun and kills an innocent man who happens to look like the murderer.
In the US' current foreign policy analysis, the husband's act being criminal means that it was, in fact, acceptable that his wife was murdered, and criticism of that murder simply detracts from the criminality of the husband's actions.
I was entirely and completely prepared to hate this blog entry by the founder of GoDaddy.com. The whole strut-and-preen “I'm such a success that I can barely stand it” school of small business writing really does not do it for me.
That being said, the “rules” that he offers up are actually very spot-on advice to anyone who starts a business, and they are not just duplicates of things I’ve seen elsewhere.
As my customer service manager just pointed out to me, the phrases "If you are a customer, you are right" and "if you are not right, you are not a customer" are logically equivalent.
To start the new year, a collection of links that I don't think I've blogged about before . . .
The BBC finally got around to covering the HIV scare in the porn industry. Although the level of reporting is up to the BBC's usual high standard, the article has the usual anthropological feel to it. I'm still waiting for the mainstream-media reportage about porn that is more insight than sweeps-week.
The quote that stood out for me was:
The producers blame the performers, and cannot believe they have not banded together to demand that condoms be used.
Those whacky performers! All the producers would love, just love for them to all to use condoms, but since they aren't demanding it . . . well, what can we do?
Well, of course, producers could require it, but I guess they are quivering in fear in front of the all-powerful Porn Actors Guild, or something.
For an adult business, porn has a lot of growing up to do.
For the moment, I've turned off comments due to comment spam overloading the server this is hosted on. As soon as I figure out a clever solution, they'll be back on.
