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Further technical note

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Further technical note -- comment #1 from Xopher (Christopher Hatton)

Fri, 20 May 2005 17:41:53 -0500

See, if I had the burly minions I wouldn't need the cocktail. Or I would tell some.

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Posted May 20, 2005 5:41 PM by Xopher (Christopher Hatton)

Further technical note -- comment #2 from James D. Macdonald

Fri, 20 May 2005 17:51:10 -0500

One of these days I'm going to find a bar where they know how to make Sazeracs and I'll have 'em make me one.

Until then, I'll have my loving daughter make me chocolate chip cookies.

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Posted May 20, 2005 5:51 PM by James D. Macdonald

Further technical note -- comment #3 from Kevin Marks

Fri, 20 May 2005 18:38:23 -0500

Hi Patrick,
the easy way for the standalone post pages is to use the referer link:

http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/referer.html

eg blogs about this post

For main-page post links look at:

http://www.technorati.com/developers/help/cosmos.html for MT macros

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Posted May 20, 2005 6:38 PM by Kevin Marks

Further technical note -- comment #4 from Madeleine Robins

Fri, 20 May 2005 18:39:02 -0500

Can those of us who cannot understand a word of that first graph still have a cocktail anyway, just on accounta?

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Posted May 20, 2005 6:39 PM by Madeleine Robins

Further technical note -- comment #5 from Jonathan Vos Post

Fri, 20 May 2005 18:49:58 -0500

Cognitive dissonance. At my alumni reunion at Caltech, high officers of the administration extol the wonders that are streaming from the $600,000,000 Gordon & Betty Moore bequest, the largest gift ever to a private college in the US. Then they explain that the cocktails are only for those who bought lunch tickets. Damned if I'll cadge a drink from someone, that would make me seem like a *gasp* author...

Anyway, why self-publish pings, when Publish America will happily charge you to print an anthology of POD-pings and POD-pongs?

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Posted May 20, 2005 6:49 PM by Jonathan Vos Post

Further technical note -- comment #6 from Larry Brennan

Fri, 20 May 2005 20:32:26 -0500

Burly minions for a foot rub? {shudder} I'd find different minions and put the burly ones on other projects.

How about "minion of appropriate gender and body type with deceptively strong and/or gentle hands"?

Oh, and can I have a nice bourbon, one rock, instead of the suggested cocktail?

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Posted May 20, 2005 8:32 PM by Larry Brennan

Further technical note -- comment #7 from Larry Brennan

Fri, 20 May 2005 20:33:23 -0500

Gack, I just realized I transformed the fanners into foot-massagers. Paging Dr. Freud...

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Posted May 20, 2005 8:33 PM by Larry Brennan

Further technical note -- comment #8 from Xopher (Christopher Hatton)

Sat, 21 May 2005 00:01:57 -0500

Larry, the fans vote with their feet. So actually you're turning voters into massage, which even Freud could not make sense of.

Bedtime. Clearly.

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Posted May 21, 2005 12:01 AM by Xopher (Christopher Hatton)

Further technical note -- comment #9 from Nancy Lebovitz

Sat, 21 May 2005 11:55:17 -0500

If I had burly minions, I'd send most of them after spammers and just keep the one with massage training.

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Posted May 21, 2005 11:55 AM by Nancy Lebovitz

Further technical note -- comment #10 from John M. Ford

Sat, 21 May 2005 12:21:14 -0500

Le Burly Mignon

2 jiggers Old Overholt rye
couple big dashes Peychaud's bitters
2 tsp. anisette sugar

Combine. Drink. You can mess around with the Herbsaint glass and the lemon peel if you want, or have an attractive bartender on call, but we're assuming you aren't in a waiting mood.

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Posted May 21, 2005 12:21 PM by John M. Ford

Further technical note -- comment #11 from M. Uli Kusterer

Sat, 21 May 2005 13:14:49 -0500

"Mignon"? That's what we call AA batteries here in Germany :-X

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Posted May 21, 2005 1:14 PM by M. Uli Kusterer

Further technical note -- comment #12 from Xopher (Christopher Hatton)

Sat, 21 May 2005 16:01:30 -0500

A burly minyan? Ten BIG guys in yarmulkes?

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Posted May 21, 2005 4:01 PM by Xopher (Christopher Hatton)

Further technical note -- comment #13 from jennie

Sat, 21 May 2005 22:16:02 -0500

Anyone finding themself encumbered by surplus burly minions is invited to send the extras my way. Especially if said minions aren't very good at mixing drinks--so long as they can brew tea and give footrubs (mmmm....footrubs). It would be better for the burly minions if they were not taller than 6-foot three, since the ceilings here are low, and I do dislike cleaning bits of scalp off the light fixtures.

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Posted May 21, 2005 10:16 PM by jennie

Further technical note -- comment #14 from Tim Walters

Sat, 21 May 2005 23:03:14 -0500

The burly minions have the weekend off, so I went down to BevMo, picked up some Herbsaint, and whipped up a Sazerac. Taggart calls it "a symphony inside your mouth;" I would say that it's actually Bartok's Second Piano Concerto inside your mouth. (That's a very good thing.)

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Posted May 21, 2005 11:03 PM by Tim Walters

Further technical note -- comment #15 from mary

Sun, 22 May 2005 13:11:38 -0500

I'll take issue with the claim (on the link) that this was the first cocktail. Starting in 1655 British sailors were granted a daily half-pint of rum, which they tended to gulp down early, spending much of the day sailing "three sheets to the wind". In 1740 Admiral Edward Vernon, whose nickname was "Old Grog" because he wore a cloak made of a fabric called grogram, got fed up with sailors getting drunk in the morning. He decided to mix the ration of rum with a quart of water, thus inventing "Grog". In 1795 lime juice was added to prevent scurvy, and this became "Navy Grog". In the British West Indies, sugar plantation owners added sugar to the mix, and voila: Planter's Punch. Here's the Jamaican doggerel: "One of sour, two of sweet, three of strong, four of weak."

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Posted May 22, 2005 1:11 PM by mary

Further technical note -- comment #16 from Mez

Sun, 22 May 2005 15:04:22 -0500

'"Mignon"? That's what we call AA batteries here in Germany' -- gives one to think about new recipes for sauces for filet mignon :)

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Posted May 22, 2005 3:04 PM by Mez

Further technical note -- comment #17 from Mary Kay

Sun, 22 May 2005 16:39:51 -0500

ROFL. I love you guys.

Alas I not only have no burly minions handy (what with Jordin being out of town for 2 1/2 weeks - Sob) but also have no Peychaud bitters, nor rye, nor Herbsaint. I guess I'll have to make do with some Lagavulin. Or possibly some of that cask strength MacAllan. Life is hard.

MKK

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Posted May 22, 2005 4:39 PM by Mary Kay

Further technical note -- comment #18 from Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey

Mon, 23 May 2005 17:00:44 -0500

Mary Kay writes:

Alas I not only have no burly minions handy (what with Jordin being out of town for 2 1/2 weeks - Sob)...

I can report that he looked well when I saw him, um, Friday I think it was, among the Space People. We had a five-minute conversation, and I fully expected to hold a longer one later in the conference, but I was busy in a bunch of meetings, and never did glimpse him again, darn it.

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Posted May 23, 2005 5:00 PM by Bill Higgins-- Beam Jockey

Further technical note -- comment #19 from Kevin Marks

Thu, 26 May 2005 17:13:02 -0500

Patrick, another geeky note:
You should update your to include the new feeds so they can be auto-discovered:

becomes

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Posted May 26, 2005 5:13 PM by Kevin Marks

Further technical note -- comment #20 from Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Fri, 27 May 2005 13:05:28 -0500

Kevin, wouldn't it be the other way around? The Atom feed is supposed to be the full-text one.

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Posted May 27, 2005 1:05 PM by Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Further technical note -- comment #21 from Kevin Marks

Sun, 29 May 2005 03:52:59 -0500

doh!
Yes sorry, I edited in the title without reading too carefully which one.

The markup was right, with the title text changed as you say.

Praise editors!

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Posted May 29, 2005 3:52 AM by Kevin Marks

Further technical note -- comment #22 from Lisa Giovanni

Tue, 31 May 2005 07:02:21 -0500

>Le Burly Mignon

>2 jiggers Old Overholt rye
>couple big dashes Peychaud's bitters
>2 tsp. anisette sugar

My god, that�s brilliant! Thanks.

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Posted May 31, 2005 7:02 AM by Lisa Giovanni

Further technical note -- comment #23 from John

Thu, 12 May 2011 12:14:46 -0500

I agree with Lisa!

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Posted May 12, 2011 12:14 PM by John

Further technical note -- comment #24 from Xopher sees possible spam probe

Thu, 12 May 2011 13:08:45 -0500

No payload, but this is a really old thread and the comment is one that could easily be auto-generated.

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Posted May 12, 2011 1:08 PM by Xopher sees possible spam probe

Further technical note -- comment #25 from James D. Macdonald

Thu, 12 May 2011 13:50:47 -0500

If it's a probe we'll find out soon enough.

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Posted May 12, 2011 1:50 PM by James D. Macdonald