Plum soup (served cold) is purple and delicious.
Xopher @ 719: Sorry to hear about your layoff!
Substitute "June" for "February" and I'm in exactly the same position (I found out four weeks ago, right before going on three weeks' vacation...) My job is being outsourced to the Ukraine, specifically.
If anyone needs an automated testing specialist starting around July, please let me know!
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I'm playing tonight (mostly bass guitar) at Different Skies in beautiful (and very sfnal) Arcosanti, Arizona. In the likely event that you can't make it in person, we're streaming the show over the web at Stillstream.
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Iain Coleman @ 281: I think "woo" may have originated either on Ben Goldacre's Bad Science blog, or on the associated forums.
I've been hearing it since the Eighties at least (although it was more likely to be the full "woo-woo" back then).
Steve Taylor @ 65: Edith Sitwell poetry
If you can track down a copy of Hermione Gingold and Russell Oberlin's rendition of Façade, do. It's amazing. It's never been released on CD, as far as I know.
Wish I was in Switzerland right about now for this Mervyn Peake exhibition.
Fafblog is back. I mean really back.
Q: But they've been just months away from a bomb for years now.
A: I know! Which means in terror years, Iran already has a bomb... in your child's precious brain!
Q: But that's where she keeps her sugarplum dreams!
A: That's why it's up to us to already have being stopped them!
Also, Death has a blog, and Amadis of Gaul is a blog.
Andy Wilton @ 341: What could be more individualist than standing up to authority?
Why, standing up to political correctness and the indoctrination of the America-hating liberal media, of course.
Seriously, that's how some of these guys think.
I think there's at least some truth behind our national self-image of individualism and self-reliance, but it's also a very popular marketing strategy used to sell anything and everything, from automobiles to authoritarianism.
Bruce Cohen @ 337: Thinking about it some more, there's Earth Abides, The Postman, Always Coming Home, and The Long Tomorrow. I'm not sure the idea of cooperation-based response to the apocalypse is all that unusual in American SF, although the individualist response is certainly popular.
Bruce Cohen @ 333: Algis Budrys' "Some Will Not Die" is the only post-apocalypse story written by an American citizen (not native-born, note) I can think of where the point that cooperation will naturally overcome the "war of all against all" is made well.
How about Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank?
The saddest song I can think of is My Mom by Chocolate Genius.
TexAnne @ 296: I don't know if I've ever said that in a blog comment, but I've said it in conversation with sincere and benign intent, as a way of making it clear that I'm open to disagreement.
xeger: I second or third the Dowland recommendations, and would add Purcell's Music For The Funeral Of Queen Mary and Pergolesi's Stabat Mater.
Charlie Stross @ 266: The cognitive framework for a caste-system never developed here.
That's not exactly the case.
Serge @ 229: One cheese dutch and one Danish crunch coming right up.
Earl Cooley III @ 224: I guess I'm not the only person that occasionally gets "Dutch" and "Danish" confused.
Rob Potter @ 61: And therefore (by extension), if you choose not to obey the law then you should [forfeit] your say of what the law is?
I wasn't addressing the prisoner issue, only your suggestion of limiting the franchise based on service.
For what it's worth, I consider disenfranchising felons (while incarcerated) defensible, for the reason you state, but am not convinced that it's desirable.
Rob Potter @ 56: Or, maybe members of society should EARN the right to franchise by some form of service to society
In my opinion, if you have to obey the law, you should get a say in what the law is.
Terry @ 915: no flutes were played, but I, and Tim, noodled a bit on members of the flageolet family
But in French, that's flûte à bec, and even in English you can say "fipple flute."
I just call mine the EMI (Emergency Musical Instrument).
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