The important thing here is that, for the first time, a completely incoherent rightwing gasbag has been called out by a major publication designed to be center-to-right for being an incoherent gasbag.
People are starting to mention that the right-punditocracy is not only naked, but pretty fucking ugly that way.
Those with the IE problem: as PNH and TNH have noted, f11 twice (fullscreen/unfulscreen) generally solves it.
The creator of the Stephenson pastiche was certainly entertaining, but it was the easy way out. The proper way to pastiche Tolkien-Stephenson is simply to insert the appendices to Return of the King, or the entirety of the Silmarillion, as scattered 15 page digressions.
(Including also, of course, chapter-long monolgues and set-pieces meant to explicate the economy of the shire, or comparing Dwarvish, Elvish, and Orcish metallurgy.)
Weee. Alton Brown. Man's a total geek. All my best nonstandard technique comes from him.
Speaking of which, this week's blockbust came about largely because the person so entranced with the Riddick character from Pitch Black that he wrote fanfiction about him also happened to be the rising action star who played Riddick....
As much as I like Mr. Ellison, the safe harbor provisions of the DMCA (a generally hateful law, but perhaps not so much in this case) are rather clear, and unless AOL knew about and was asked to do something about the piracy, it's really hard to imagine them on the hook. I'll read the opinion, though.
JvP: Your kid's name isn't Hikaru, is it?
"Secular version of hell" nothing -- the Talmud states an affirmative requirement to cite one's sources.
Oh, and "planning to sue" has the same meaning, generally, as "My dad can beat up your dad", or an internet-mediated "I'm gonna come kick your ass" or "3y3 \/\/i11 h4xx0r j00!!!!!!!111!!!".
Xeger: modulo a latinate degree name and it being a double major (ooh, fancy), that's my undergrad background. In LS now, 2/3rds of the way to a JD, actually using both.
And intending to use all three. Intending, of course.
Randall P:
The Avenue Q folks would probably be cross with you -- it was probably a joke, but the one who is an Alum from my current school mentioned that their next project (assuming that the recent Muppet-movements don't allow for Kermit, Prince of Denmark) is EC done up in the Avenue Q, CTW-with-bad-behaviorr, style.
No, FSU is not the most respected> school.
Oh. And posting aimids open on the web is not the best idea. Bad actors have discovered aim and are automating.
Please note that the NYPost was not always a rag, and its current horribleness is due to current ownership, not inherent character.
The ellipsis thing as pause is very prevalent in translated-from-japanese text-based entertainments: Manga and RPG video games, to be precise.
[Pause while I rifle through some untranslated manga I have lying about]
Looking at Flame of Recca V5, I see that not only is "..." frequently used for what seems to be voice trailing off, but frequently in an extended form ("......") as the initial or sole characters of a line or even bubble when someone is struck speechless (Kage Houshi on page 24, for instance). This latter use is nigh-constant in FF8, as it's about 75% of the main character's lines. (Of the remaining 25%, 20% is "Whatever". About 5% of his lines are actual speech. Stupid Squall.)
It's certainly influenced my use of the ignoble ellipsis. Just as reading Brust/Paarfi has made me engage in extensive clause-piling.
I happily live on an island in the outflow of an enormous river, thank you very much.
Speaking of water politics, it's important to remember that Tammany/Tweed graft produced a water-system vastly larger than anyone could possibly conceive of needing when it was built. Thank goodness for Plunkett's "Honest Graft".
I apologize for myself, and I believe others, if we have needled a wound opened by exhaustion and the depth of night, whatever that wound may be.
It WAS on the main page, but now Which thousand words is back on top.
Vassilissa: at the moment? Any flat surface I don't need for walking, sleeping, or eating.
Well, I'm not a celticist. Intellectual packrat, sure, but who isn't? (Where I sit, I'm in constant danger of my grandmother's History of the Jews being knocked onto my head by my grandfather's medical text.)
Put simply, we're the sort of people who are always out of bookspace.
Physics and CS are both, to me, branches of the same majestic tree: Pure Math. CS reduces faster to purity, but ultimately physics does as well, transforming from particles and planets to n-body, relativistic, and schröedinger equations.
One of our exams questions was simply a bunch of equations and algorithms, with the instruction "Classify each as P or NP. Provide a reduction. If it is NP, is it NP-Complete?*" the N-body problem was on there, as were som financial questions, and what I think was a quantum equation of some sort.
(At the bottom was this footnote "*For extra credit, demonstrate NP-Completeness and then provide a reduction to P")
Ahhh, kimchee, king of preserved vegetables (the one true Pickle is thy Queen, and her progeny are numerous).
My primary food-avoidances are almost all texture-based: squid, octopus, clam, and uni sushi; most arthropods; Natto; and overcooked legumes and cruciforms (those cruciforms that are harmed by long cooking, that is). I will try nearly anything else, though there are some foods that I've tried, but simply can't manage to successfully eat: Poultry feet fall into this category, as does spice beyond a certain, exceedingly high, level.
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