Wow. That thing you linked to in the beginning is . . . wow. REAL dumb.
So . . . 50% of tetanus cases were in the unimmunized, therefore tetanus immunizations are pointless.
Yeah, but when 90% of your population is immunized, that means that 50% of them happen in the other 10%, and 50% happen spread out in the OTHER 90%, so that you're 9 times safer if you have the shot.
People are stupid.
xeger (26) wrote: Hmm... if I didn't know any better, I'd wonder if there's actually two tunes being written to here, just based on scansion...
Or, it's also possible that people are writing verses for the same tune, but at varying levels of skill.
But the most likely situation is that people are writing verses for multiple tunes, with vastly varying skill levels.
Back at MiddleMan HQ
Ida's made a new pal.
"I'm sorry, Dave -- YOU can't do that.
But I sure will," says HAL
An' it's who'll slash ye this time
Who'll slash ye noo?
The lass who slashed ye last, lad,
She no will slash ye noo.
I've been working on hot drinks for a while now.
Some of the simple ones are classics: boiling water, brown sugar, dark rum, and butter. Delicious.
Or all sorts of toddy variations: boiling water, brandy, honey, nutmeg.
I've got three Blue Blazer variations I've worked out, all of which are lovely for cold days:
2 oz boiling water, 2 oz overproof (American) rye whiskey, or bourbon, 1 oz turbanado sugar, 1 dash Fey Brothers Orange bitters.
Put into one metal tankard, light on fire, pour back and forth from tankard to another tankard, while it's blazing. Serve.
My other variations are Slivovitz and honey and boiling water, and absinthe and sugar and boiing water.
I've been working on hot drinks for a while now.
Some of the simple ones are classics: boiling water, brown sugar, dark rum, and butter. Delicious.
Or all sorts of toddy variations: boiling water, brandy, honey, nutmeg.
I've got three Blue Blazer variations I've worked out, all of which are lovely for cold days:
2 oz boiling water, 2 oz overproof (American) rye whiskey, or bourbon, 1 oz turbanado sugar, 1 dash Fey Brothers Orange bitters.
Put into one metal tankard, light on fire, pour back and forth from tankard to another tankard, while it's blazing. Serve.
My other variations are Slivovitz and honey and boiling water, and absinthe and sugar and boiing water.
In a post-apocalyptic Liverpool, a man (CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON) seeks revenge on the warlord (DEREK JACOBI) who murdered his wife after she refused his advances. He insinuates himself into the company and employ of the warlord's eldest son (EDDIE IZZARD), and sows dissent and murder to destroy the family which destroyed his wife, and now threatens his sister.
(Okay, so I'm cheating. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0286921/ )
RE: #27:
As I recall, it WAS an eighteen-gun squid.
Modified.
RE: #27:
As I recall, it WAS an eighteen-gun squid.
Modified.
I have to admit that, when I saw that airports were doing that, I was tempted -- but I didn't! -- to show up with a gallon bottle of clearly-labelled bleach, and a gallon bottle of clearly-labelled ammonia.
Just, y'know, to see. . .
Seriously, though -- if you were a terrorist, wouldn't creating clouds of poison gas in the airport be almost as effective a form of terrorism as blowing up a plane?
From the Chicago Trib:
"Karr has apparently been living abroad since being released from a California jail in 2001 after an arrest on child pornography charges. He is being brought to Colorado, where he will face charges of first-degree murder, kidnapping and child sexual assault, Ann Hurt, an official with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said in Thailand."
Like most sane people, my reaction was "WTF? Why the hell is the Department of Homeland Security involved in this, let alone in freakin' THAILAND?"
The 24-hour news channels are all abuzz with the potential confession of some random guy in Thailand who says that he killed Jon-Binet Ramsey, or however you spell it.
They're NOT all abuzz with the fact that President's warrantless wiretapping program has been found BOTH illegal AND unconstitutional.
Just sayin'.
As to the difference between heavy cream and whipping cream: whipping cream is heavy cream with stabilizers such as carrageen and the like added.
When Cook's Illustrated did a taste test, nobody could detect ANY taste difference between the two, nor did they find that either was particularly easier to whip up. Whipping cream was somewhat more stable at room temperature, and took longer to "break" -- if you store whipped heavy cream for several days, it starts weeping, and whipped whipping cream takes longer -- but, have you EVER in your life had fresh whipped cream stay around for days?
I tend to use whipping cream more than heavy cream, mainly because that's what Costco sells in bulk, but they're mostly interchangable. I guess if you're grossed out by eating seaweed stabilizers, you might want to stick to the heavy cream, but it really doesn't matter.
As to why the cream didn't whip up -- no clue whatsoever. Someone put light cream in the carton by accident?
Aren't all Nigerian scams considered (simplified) "Spanish Prisoner" variants?
My favorite Buddhist joke (and, in my experience, Buddhists are among the folks most happy to laugh at their religion, which is why I trust them) is, "Why can't the Buddha vacuum under his sofa?"
"Because he has no attachments."
Like the kids on Telegraph sitting around begging for money and occasionally calling their friends on their cell phones.
How does your job contact you if you are homeless and you don't have a cell phone?
A few things that smart homeless people have, because they're dead cheap, and are absolutely necessary if you want to ever get OUT of homelessness:
1) Cell phone, so that current and potential employers can contact you. Is also a safety issue. Also allows you to contact social workers, and have them contact you.
2) Used laptop, to maintain files, update resume', &tc.
3) Internet account of some form -- using libraries is okay, but it is better to have WiFi on your laptop, in order to be able to use the Web for job searches, and search for aid that may be available to you.
Following up to Dan Blum's idea -- the other half of Foster's Rule is that small animals get big.
Which means that we can, at the very same time that we are making pigmy mammoths, also make giant badgers!
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