The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Patrick Connors Sees Comment Spam:

#874:

Lenny Skutnik: Hero and Bad Example.

In '89 at my EMT class, they told us "don't become a victim yourself", and showed us the video where he jumped into the icy Potomac to illustrate the point.

Had I been at the Air Florida crash, I might have done the same thing. Nowadays, maybe not.

At my north-central Phoenix precinct (very Republican, judging by the campaign signs in the neighborhood*, though our Democratic state representative and her husband the Congressional candidate live in the same precinct, right around the corner** from us) I arrived an hour after the polls opened and was vote #70. There was little waiting, and a few belated early ballots were dropped off while I was there.

Ma Connors and the daughter both voted early by mail: Ma can't stand in line long, and the daughter lives in New Zealand.

I am tempted to go down to Dem HQ for the party's party tonight, but I have school, so it'll be late-night Olbermann and the web for us.

* including a homemade McCain/Palin one, with big photos taped to it. I was tempted to do a midnight run and replace the Palin picture with Tina Fey and see if anyone noticed, but I never got around to doing it, besides which tampering with campaign signs is illegal here in AZ.

** by Phoenix standards, anyway.

If truly irritated, disemvowel, then arrange in five character groupings (as is traditional in crypto). Like so:

ftrly rrttd dsmvw lthnr rngnf vchrc trgrp
ngsss trdtn lncry ptlks

I'd save that up for an extra special troll. H'mm, I guess I ought to write the Perl script.

#36, Bruce: And I want to design it! Just not sure when, though.
It's crunch time in the Death Star trash compactor of my day job.

19, and a number of them were guesses.

Double post.

Double post.

Apologetic commentary on double post, noting clumsy fingers, slow internet, and nearby dinosaur sodomy as mitigating factors.

Skipping ahead here: I keep a tab for each thread I follow as well, but as I leave a thread, I click on the date header of the last message I read in that thread, then place the bookmark.

When I return, I click on the bookmark and I'm back where I was.

It's easy enough in Safari to clean up the duplicate bookmarks; not sure about other browsers.

Skipping ahead here: I keep a tab for each thread I follow as well, but as I leave a thread, I click on the date header of the last message I read in that thread, then place the bookmark.

When I return, I click on the bookmark and I'm back where I was.

It's easy enough in Safari to clean up the duplicate bookmarks; not sure about other browsers.

118:

Pretty good. I have co-workers in San Francisco. (I'm in Phoenix). If and when they have another earthquake I'll have to put in a little overtime. Fortunately, the servers are well away from SF.

#695: Hey, look, it's my bood guddy Ferry Toy!

I performed at AZ Renaissance Festival for 10 years. He was entertainment director when I started and therefore hired me. He also warned me that the mandolin is Not As Easy As It Looks. I play it anyway.

I have a Sony Reader. Are your books available in some other electronic form?

I just tried to join LT, discovered that I already am in there (chatworthy). I do own more than two books, really.

Jim at #197. Urk! Thanks for the warning. I'm on Cipro through Tuesday, so I will continue to avoid marathons. But I still need to go clean the garage today.

Abi @862 or so:

I will so sing that at the next filk.

And maybe nominate it for a Pegasus Award next year.

As soon as I get all of the orange juice cleaned off the keyboard.

#657: Which is why databases can be so confusing once you get into many normal form

(database geekery: it would be complicated to explain)

#563: Yeah, a couple two three times in Pittsburgh.

Bruce@337:

Mmm. Hoagies.

I moved from Pittsburgh to Harrisburg to take my first job after college, and was shocked to discover I'd moved out of hoagie country. I could buy all the subs I want, but they were cold, pale, imitations of the True Hoagie. Of course, at the time, no one west of Carlisle could make a proper cheesesteak, so there were compensations. But I'd grown up on hoagies.

Finally, I taught the pizza place down the street how to make a proper hoagie - meat, and cheese on the bread, into the oven open-faced, then add the lettuce and onions and (no tomato slices for me, thanks) and then the seasoning.

I haven't lived there for 25 years - I wonder if the place still exists (it's on South Union street in Middletown), and if so, is there anyone there who can still make a hoagie.

Now I'm hungry.

More proof that the squirrels - not las cucarachas - are truly our next overlords:

Will Shortz' Desperate Plea for Help

Will Shortz, puzzlemaster for the New York Times, has for many years now presented a new puzzle every week on NPR's Weekend Edition Sunday. At the end of the segment, he presents a puzzle challenge for the following week. Usually, it's a word puzzle.

Not today.

I, for one, welcome our new rodent overlords.

Fragano@53: <pause, looks up paratwa>.

Um, no, but only because assasinations are so icky.

Looks like a good series, though.

Oops. Only one of me will be at Westercon; the other will be at the Emergency Backup Facility. We draw straws to decide which of me goes where at what time.

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