The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Jon Marcus:

JamesK,

I like the gaming twist, but I'm not sure it's wholly convincing. (There's a lot of things Real Life (tm) throws at us that feel like an over the top GM. Truth may or may not be stranger than fiction, but it's often much less subtle.)

Still those tweets are really disconcerting, especially in retrospect. Interesting that he had enough presence of mind to realize that and try to destroy them.

Going off-topic here, but question to John Houghton way back @ 30 (or to Jim or anyone else knowledgeable):

105 starts scrambling proteins? That seems kinda low to me. My eldest son regularly went above 105 (via aural thermometer, but repeatable and in both ears) as an infant, with no noticeable damage. And my 9-year-old was up at 105 (aural, repeatable, both ears) just last week with something very flu-ish, and seems to be okay. No fancier treatment than ibuprofen and cool wet towels on the neck and arms.

I'm not bringing this up (and going off-topic) to be disagreeable. I'm seriously wondering what the "danger level" is. At what point would you say more drastic treatment necessary advisable?

Dresdan Codak, yes! God is powered by irony.

I remember hanging out with my dad, listening to Studs Terkel on WFMT. His story-telling, and the way he elicited the stories of others, was truly amazing.

Favorite anecdote: Working was published with a different cover than the one above, where the author's name was in a vaguely similar type. An outraged library patron complained that the library would circulate a smutty book like this "Working Studs", by Terkel.

"Just when you think McCain has hit bottom...he breaks through the crust and keeps on going."

Ah, so that's what they meant by "Drill, Baby, Drill."

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