We arrived late at Hillary Clinton's Seattle rally, and there wasn't a lick of security screening. We were in an overflow room, but with enough effort somebody could have gotten line of sight on her.
I'm too trusting. I didn't even think about the possibilities until this post.
Are there two points here? 1:Contact is king (or at least coequal with content) and 2:There's a need for ham-recognition software.
Perhaps there's room for a sideways corollary: there's a need for contact-recognition software. If 'ham' is content, then 'feast' could be called the enjoyment of ham.
There's only so many hours in a day, so it's advisable to spend a certain amount of it keeping up with existing community - 'feasting' - and a certain amount fishing for new content and/or community - 'feast-seeking'.
A feast-seeking agent would be one that incorporates ham-recognition while bearing in mind the seeker's tastes and willingness to experiment ("My seeker likes to talk about A, so I'll suggest A' to them but not B.")
#39 ("I really wouldn't worry about a NK attack.")
I'm not one whit worried about a NK attack, and I live in Seattle. But then, I wasn't worried about an Iraqi attack, either, and look where that got us.
Speaking of attacks on Seattle, I'm still giggling at what the local newspaper said about the '1000 day siege' mentioned in the movie adaptation of Children of Men.
Robert at #39: and here I thought the pirate problem in Canada was strictly an internal problem.
Bravo, Jim.
Amy said, "First, consider a spherical turkey of uniform density..."
I also like to visit the Apple Japan trailer site, because they have trailers for some Japanese movies
"For the first time in years they don't have an anointed one ready to go."
I thought Jeb was being groomed as the next Great White Hope.
My favorite,albeit depressing, bookstore query.
Middle-aged man walks in, wanders around, sighs a bit, then approaches the counter.
"Do you have any books on how to get divorced?"
"Yes," I say, heading for our Law section.
"My wife sent me to get one."
Oh, yes. It was the day after Christmas.
But... but... I hate hearing about people's dreams in blogs.
But... I liiiike these!
Manoman, I hope this gets corrected very soon! We need as much of your brilliance as we can get.
Don't tell me I've been wrong all these years in following Ring Lardner's advice:
"A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
"Personally I have found it a good scheme to not even sign my name to the story, and when I have got it sealed up in its envelope and stamped and addressed, I take it to some town where I don't live and mail it from there. The editor has no idea who wrote the story, so how can he send it back? He is in a quandary."
- Ring Lardner, How to Write Short Stories
Scribner's, 1924
Ow. I understand, having had my first one last year. Am in no rush to repeat the experience.
Amy gets them often, and swears by Imitrex, which she must use early enough or it's no good. Thrusting hands into water as hot as you can stand can help.
Get better!
-Edd
Perhaps, Vicki, it is time for a strike rather than a /strike. That is, all proofreaders working for the current government refuse to provide their services. Then judges everywhere can work in solidarity with the one in San Francisco, and refuse to enforce laws that are poorly proofread.
I remember one Marvel comic book that was about a 'real' superhero. It was THE HUMAN FLY, published in the late 1970s (www.badpress.co.uk/humanfly/frameset.html). His schtick was that he performed stunts to prove to those who'd lost limbs or been badly burned that they too could bounce back as he had.
DAZZLER, also from Marvel, was supposed to work in reverse, with a real person tapped to sing as the superhero. The real-life singer's career never took off, but the comic book character is still around, albeit sans a title to call her own.
"From David Elworthy,
posted on September 8, 2003 06:51 PM:
This is more related in spirit than in detail, but if you ever go to Seattle, pay a visit to the underground streets."
The streets were built up first, so pedestrians had to climb ladders - in some places twenty or so feet tall - to cross streets. There's an anecdote about a horse stepping from the street to the sidewalk and breaking its neck.
Teresa, thanks for the fascinating material! I only visited NY once, back in 1976, for a few hours between planes. I spent most of it walking around and marveling at how many ethnicities were packed into so few blocks.
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