A coworker related an essay he had read where the writer posited that Republican fears about Democrats manifested as zombies and Democratic fears about Republicans manifested as vampires in the popular culture.
I wondered if fears about Libertarians manifested as werewolves.
Is there a reference implementation in Erlang?
A flt r-mvwllr wll b rspnsbl fr a ftr wr.
A polaroid photo of my mother and father holding me when I was a few months old. Mom's wearing cool catseye framed glasses. Dad looks tired, but happy. I'm laughing for all my small self was worth.
My pins. I look for them when I'm traveling to remember where I've been, and wear them on my fleece jacket, or attach them to my pack. Japan was great for that. I could buy pins for a 100 yen coin from vending machines.
A big piece of rose quartz given to me by a woman I was smitten with back in graduate school.
The little steampunk robot avatar that is my "work wardrobe" in Second Life. It's become iconic. Though some residents have accused me of looking at small appliances with a lustful eye.
Thinking of you all, and glad you took the warning signs seriously.
Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
And thank you, Jim, for writing that piece about warning signs.
Woah, he lit them up, and I will need to go back and study how he did that whole "mean kids" riff without it sounding like a whinge.
Someone hoisted by the self-publishing petard has been championed by a pro-censorship group. Owch.
I see a glorious and friendly rivalry between you and io9.com! Colbert, er, I mean Fandom Wins!
But the parties are not government institutions, and for better or worse, get to determine how they nominate their candidates.
The office holders have a stake in who sits on the top of the ticket, and they have invested time and resources into the party.
Doesn't mean they make good choices, of course, but neither does a system that's biased towards the candidate who can hire the best media management squad.
Those potato chips sound good.
Paula @88, you think Google's AI is screwy, just mention R*n P*ul in a blog post and you'll be awash in triumphalist consuite libertarians.
Fragano @19: I thought about restoring the Assyrian Empire as a craft project, but gave up when I priced all the gold leaf and camel hair brushes I'd need.
I hear the MIT first years have to restore the Hapsburgs as their biology lab practical.
"Mommy, why does Uncle Frank keep velociraptors in the attic?"
"For the children who ask too many annoying questions, Timmy."
Apollo 8 and the Christmas Eve broadcast from the Moon.
Will they be serving an complimentary ration of Victory Gin on those Thanksgiving week flights?
I make a point to watch the Cowboy Bebop episode Wild Horses every year in early February, and have a shot from the bottle I keep on top of the fridge.
JvP: Feynman's having an interesting 'afterlife' in Elizabeth Bear's first two novels. A hell of a guy who I only know from James Glick's biography. I'm a bit jealous that you knew the actual man as a friend. :)
One of my coworkers, just back from two weeks in Europe, taunted me with the perfection of the pizza he had in Italy.
Thin crust, sauce, and cheese: minimalism at its finest.
I'll be at WisCon as well, and if you folks want to volunteer a couple of hours to help your fellow members in the computer area, contact me. I still need people to help Saturday morning, Sunday afternoon, and Monday.
If you're blogging about WisCon, link back to Technorati in your post so that people can find all the convention related posts on one page:
<a href="http://technorati.com/tag/wiscon" rel="tag">wiscon</a>
Trip reports, restaurant reviews, plugs for your panels, reports from panels, party reports, complaints, praise, etc. are all fair game for tagging.
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