The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Scott W:

Michael I @728:

I saw this calculation on Thursday, and I think I saw another instance of someone noting that the physics was problematic at best, but I can't recall where I'd have seen it

Exhumed Zombie Taft is clearly going to get back to work breaking up trusts. This time his methods will involve less law, more brain eating.

Goodness, yesterday was fantastic. Obama was sworn in, I went to a good concert and I came back to my friends' house to find that a picture I'd taken made the front page of Making Light.

Lee @11: I don't know, and now wish I'd have asked. Most of the shoes were in pairs and looked to be in at least secondhand store condition.

There was an protest in Dupont Circle today featuring a large inflatable Bush-in-flight-suit and shoes to throw. Most everyone was very happy to toss a pair.

I posted some pictures of it to my flickr page.

fidelio @#193 Saying, in tones of sincere concern, "Poor Senator McCain--he looks so frail and weary" is worth a shot, too. It's not rude and disrespectful to point out how much he's been through, and how much the mileage shows.

Do you think we can get David Tennant to say those six words to bring down McCain's candidacy?

Susan @ 12: How recent do surgeries and/or tooth extractions have to be to make the thrombolytics a problem?

I'd hazard to guess that with the reference to becoming an instant hemophiliac, issues arise with not fully healed cuts, a lack of clotting and these things occurring out of sight (internal bleeding). Maybe there's also a blood thinning element to it all, as well.

Xopher, I'm saying that to me it sounds like they're passing off the work of others as theirs. I'm admitting that I could be wrong or allowing that it could be an exceptional imitation, but I don't believe either to be true.

Being friends with some band members, you're in a better position than I to know about Children of Glass' recording of the song, Xopher, but when I said it sounds exactly like the movie version, I meant exactly. I played my mp3 of the soundtrack song a second or so ahead* of the CoG version and to my ear they're identical, including every bit of the vocals.

I do hope that my ears are playing tricks on me, because if they are, that's an excellent bit of sincere flattery.

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*I couldn't get them to play synchronously, so I tried to keep them close together and really listen to distinctive elements.

Xopher, to me it sounds exactly the same as the version sung by T.V. Carpio in the movie.

Xopher @ 160:

That's from the Across the Universe, the musical with Beatles covers that came out last year, and you have the interpretation nailed.

If I remember how the scene was shot, the singer was watching the football team and cheerleaders practice. At first, the audience is supposed to think she's singing to and pining for the quarterback, but slowly the realization comes that she's all in for the cheerleader. Since the movie's set in the 60's, she (the singer) doesn't have a hope of holding her hand (the cheerleader's).

David Harmon @968:

On a first pass, I got this.

Something relating tunnel vision with television keeps trying to come to the fore brain, but it's not quite here yet.

Serafina @111: That's what makes me suspicious here. Not only is Obama charismatic, but his charisma is approved by Frank Rich and Maureen Dowd and Andrew Sullivan and Chris Matthews and their corporate masters: a whole parade of people whose interests I despise.

That is, to me, the first criticism of Obama's charisma that gives a rational reason to be more suspicious than normal of a person who's doing some wooing.

I do think, though, that you have the approval a little backwards. The immediate reaction I recall from his keynote address at the DNC in 2004 was a number of people saying "I want that guy to be President. Real. Soon. Now." I think he has a gravity, a sense of reality, a presence, that makes it nearly impossible for a lampooning similar to what happened to Dean post-Iowa. With that, there's not too much the corporate masters can do. Obama has too much money to be shut out. He's too popular for that, too; people would know that Something Is Fishy.

Charisma is about getting people to pay attention. Charisma is viral marketing before the internet. Charisma is a tool.

I hardly imagine it's Obama's only tool, and I hardly imagine that his policy is shallow to the point of depending on his charisma to make things happen.

Lee @32

I was always a bit annoyed that I could never convince my family to play Eurorails. It's too bad I didn't find out about Nipponrails until long after we had stopped doing routine family gaming, I think they might have gone for the shorter game length.

Faren:

I saw an article in the Chicago Tribune about pizza beer recently (it's here) My first thought was to wish it was nutritionally similar to the maple mead bug butter in A Civil Campaign. Even though the pizza beer won't be, I'm tempted to go to the restaurant that has it on tap.

Fade Manley @ 593:

My Mom doesn't like driving on Interstates because she's uncomfortable going as quickly as everyone else and from having nearly everyone pass her quickly by because of her reduced speed.

Since I'm comfortable driving at Interstate speeds, I have a standing offer to be the driver in situations where such speeds are commonplace.

Amusing. Just as I was making one last comment thread check before going to sleep.

ethan @23

The way I know how to do that is to use the name anchor

(a name="$name"),

replacing the paranthesis with less than/greather than signs, having the word you want the tag anchored to, for instance, the first word in a paragraph, and then closing the tag (/a), with the same replacement rules.

Then, to reference the tag, use the url of the specific entry and add #$name directly after the .html eg:

http://www.example.com/entry5.html#$name

There might be more elegant ways to do this, but I do know it works on blogger citing this example

Serge @17:

That behavior could be from AVG certifying the mail, which, assuming I remember correctly, was AVG adding it's own style of approved stamp to the bottom of the email. Outlook might very well see that appendage as an attachment, and flag appropriately.

To change it, look at the properties section of the E-mail Scanner component, click on configure and de-select the "certify mail" box.

Faren @ 563

I missed that match, and was surprised by the score; Roddick had been playing so well up to that point and the set and a half I watched of Federer's quarterfinal looked a little shakey.

Hopefully Gonzalez continues playing well and the final will be great.

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