The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Michael Croft:

Cat litter, specifically crystal desiccant style cat litter, is ideal for drying out electronics that accidentally got in water. You can't prevent some water damage, but you may get it dried out before more damage is done.

I learned this trying to salvage an iPhone for a friend.

Everyone knows that Jedi Knights are really Unicorns.

This is the worst website I know, starting with the basic concept of "a picture of text" and ending with the content.

I am wearing my Hawai'ian shirt, because it's hard to get worked up while wearing a Hawai'ian shirt.

I have several friends who are replacing their newsfeeds with puppycams.

I'm a big fan of early voting. We voted at the grocery store. "Oh, look, the polls are open. You go vote now while I keep shopping, and we'll switch when you're done." I predict that early voting (like everything but 'the people didn't want him') will be blamed for John McCain's loss and that there will be a movement to eliminate it.

A long, long time ago...
I can still remember
How that satire used to make me smile.
And I knew if McCain could win
That I could make those people grin
And, maybe, they'd be happy for a while.

But October made me shiver
With every bail-out they delivered
Bad news in my inbox;
I couldn't take one more shock.

I can't remember if I cringed--
His VP pick was quite unhinged
And something touched me deep inside
The day the satire died.

So bye-bye, Mister Maverick guy.
Tried to fear 'em, tried to smear 'em,
Turned out that was a lie.
And them Wasilla gals were drinkin' whiskey and rye
Singin', "this'll be the day that I die."
"this'll be the day that I die."

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That looks like about 2.75 Claudes on the Rains/Renault scale.

It's the mother of all tongue juts...

Can we get a catchy name for this, please? Something that parallels "Bush Derangement Syndrome" would be ideal.

Obama Choleric Disorder?

Well wishes from Texas. We're thinking good thoughts for you.

Teresa: I think you should ask the McCain webmasters to add ML to the list of liberal sites.

It might be kind of fun to engage in a bit of internet dickery by following those instructions to the letter. Mind you we'd need a collective false name. Travis Tea, perhaps?

So, the arrival of this data coincided with the arrival of Office 2008 on my computer. I decided to see if it was all that good. I went to all of the stories, got the exact date, and put it in a table. I had Excel calculate the TTL for each #3, throwing out the gag one from May.

Not knowing shite about statistics, I boldly added a trendline, decided the data looked like a 3rd order polynomial, and extrapolated the next three dates that looked good on the chart.

I can tell you will all the confidence I have in this data set that we should get Al Qaeda's #3 on April 20th, August 10th, and February 26th (assuming we haven't changed tactics by then).

See? The surge is working!™

Hmm. Site wants to install a browser plugin for DivX, but it's not from the DivX site. Color me suspicious. Are we sure this is safe?

(Ideally, I'd like it to be safe as in "Someone I trust inspected the code" rather than safe as in "everyone else seems to be fine"...)

Wired Magazine has a 250 word short-short story contest. 250 word max, must be about the DS game Orcs and Elves, and will be judged on teh funneh.

How many Dinosaur and Sodomy entries do you think we can generate?

We're packing to get ready for the moving vans to arrive to move our crap from Lawrenceville, NJ to Austin, TX.

We're making Jambalaya to celebrate being someplace where we can get Jambalaya without using a box with Zatarain's on it. Also, we're busy packing, so an entire day to make Roux is beyond us this week.

I think the general availability of the ingredients for Jambalaya is an outcome of Hurricane Katrina.

1/2 pound Andouille Sausage
1/2 pound shrimp, uncooked and deveined
1 box Zatarain's Jambalaya mix
1 can Ro-Tel

follow directions on box. cook in crock-pot and sample throughout day. Move T-day dinner up to "when you're hungry".

I'd like to see 24 or some other show or movie depict the good guys torturing the wrong guy. It'd be a great set-up for an action film.

The guy looks like he's totally rotten, he starts out a smug a-hole, the tension wratchets up and up and the good guys do a little light electro-genital wire-up, possibly with angst on their parts. Eureka, Mr. Smug breaks down and begs and doesn't know anything, but soon he confesses. The coppers go get the guys he accused to get them to stop torturing them, and the real bomber dies in a fatal car wreck on his way to get the bomb. Meanwhile the cops publicize their vast success in protecting us by catching this terrorist and his friends, just before they were going to act. They release this news just when the opposition is scoring political points and it drives the left's good news off the front page.

Who's telling that story? Not Keifer.

The only place torture works is in books and movies.

This is why 24 is immoral.

I believe it.

Something similar happend to Thomas Dolby when he flew in to Logan for his summer tour. They opened his computers, pulled out the hard drives, and then crammed them back in, breaking all the pins on the controller cards.

Since the samples were on one HD in the machine and the backups were on the other HD in the same computer, the first few shows were a bit light, until he re-worked his samples...

Lee @128:
You're thinking of John McEnroe. He doesn't seem to have been ostracized over his SuperBrat antics.

Does Michael Jackson count?

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