Mayakda writes:
Do you mean Oscar Andres Rodriguez Maradiaga (70 years old, Archbishop of Tegucigalpa, Honduras).
I'm not sure if he's addressed as Cardinal Maradiaga or Cardinal Rodriguez Maradiaga?
In a couple of weeks, if he gets the nod, he'll have a simpler name and it won't matter.
My favorite part:
A little plaque, in the "dreams of spaceflight" history section, not far from the TV set that endlessly shows clips of old SF films.
It thanks International Business Machines. And the National Air And Space Museum. And a bunch of other institutions.
And Ross Pavlac.
And William S. Higgins.
It's a bit surprising to see how many of PNH's North American correspondents are posting in the wee hours. I haven't noticed this before. Me, I took a lengthy afternoon nap and now I can't sleep.
I flipped channels and happened upon Sir Paul, staying to watch the rest of his set.
Most fascinating to me was a new piece of spectacle technology-- the band performed on a cross-shaped platform that was both a floor and a giant color video display.
During "Live and Let Die" it displayed a garish photomontage, to go with the exploding fireworks. (Better keep that blimp clear of the stadium!)
But during "Hey Jude," rings of green light began to ripple out from the piano in the center, and eventually became a host of percolating green bubbles. I loved it. If only Lawrence Welk had lived to see this.
Eventually, any of us will be able to have floors, walls, and ceiling swimming with color and light. Probably a Moore's Law thing. Can't wait.
(And the whole rig was portable-- set up and tore down in a jiffy, since they still needed to play half a football game in that space. Remarkable.)
As it happens, Livejournal is also out of commission today, having suffered a power loss at their data center last night, plus complications.
I hereby grant PNH and TNH permission to leave town whenever they want to, in order to visit friends in Boston, or for any other purpose they desire. I declare that such departure will not, in any way, reflect poorly on their committment to their political beliefs or their stature as upstanding citizens of their community.
Mary Kay:
Patrick: I have blatantly stolen your idea and the Kare schedule is now available at Gallimaufry should any choose to peruse it.
How's 'bout a link?
(In the original draft, I was three separate people, assigned to twelve panels. So my schedule is under revision, and I can't post it yet.)
Fran, this is not a good place to spread the word about your free Ipod.
No, I'm not clicking through to your links.
BSD writes:
Do I wish national voting were different? Sure. If my candidate is double-lined, I vote for him or her on the Working Families line, and if the post is too low that double-lining is assured, I tend to know why they're not and vote accordingly.
I need some education. I didn't understand this paragraph, except that it has something to do with voting. Or, to paraphrase, "[*]."
Lis Carey writes:
Laura, it looks like no one has answered, so I will:
"*" is a request for a footnote explaining a reference that the requestor has not understood.
Lis summarizes nicely. If you're curious, this article, this one, and this one ought to explain the origins of the in-joke pretty well.
It turns out to be a useful addition to our discourse, or as Andrew Plotkin said, "Great; I decide not to go to Minicon, and fandom decides (clearly in retaliation) to evolve in my absence."
David, is one allowed to say "[*]" in the Bloggiverse? That expression comes from another world.
(22)Still wondering. Did you ever see the Master and Commander film? How did you like it?
Last week an on-line survey came in from my alma mater, asking what became of alumni from the physics department. I dutifully filled it out.
Today a T-shirt arrived: heather, XL, NOTRE DAME PHYSICS, Feynman diagram where you'd expect a logo. Coming soon to a con near you.
Nice reward for a few minutes of my attention.
Wow. Rumsfeld has secretly made a visit to Abu Ghraib.
Prof. George Gollin at the University of Illinois has done some legwork on diploma mills. Here's a PDF of notes from his interesting talk.
The estimable Claude Muncey writes:
I am willing to wager a truly valuable no-prize that if we start searching all of Bush's statements since 9/11 we'll find this or something similar repeated any number of times, at least in the prepared opening statements that he reads as opposed to extemporaneous statements.
I claim the first No-Prize: Columbus Day, 2002. Aftermath of Bali attack:
"We've got to continue to work together; those of us who love freedom must work together to do everything we can to disrupt, deny, and bring to justice these people who have no soul, no conscience, people who hate freedom."
I am aware that I'm not really adding anything to this important discussion. Forgive me; it was a geek reflex to go looking.
Janet Croft writes:
CHip, unless I've totally forgotten my physics, which is entirely possible, a ton of feathers and a ton of lead would fall at the same rate, IF there was no air resistance. I suppose if you compressed the feathers into an object of the same size and smoothness of a lead ball, or conversely made feathers out of the lead, the air resistance would be moot.
You could have put his more strongly. A ton of feathers and an ounce (either sort) of lead would fall at the same rate, if there were no air resistance.
Physics buffs will enjoy this demonstration.
But CHip's point, that feathers and lead behave differently in the Coyoteverse of our flawed intuition, remains valid.
After two and a quarter centuries, we're still in love with Mrs. Malaprop, bless her.
(Nice to see Philip J. here.)
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