I don't know what Teresa's doing for Cylert these days, but today I ran across a plea from another user who's run out. Issues can spread very far, very fast via Twitter; hopefully this new crusade will cause a few ripples.
tiny squeaking wheels in the middle of the night
Vegetable oil is good for that; just apply to the center bar with a napkin, and you should have a nice silent wheel for at least a few weeks. (Do not use anything poisonous, because the beasties will lick it.)
I'm very sorry about Porco Bruno.
"Aureliano" might be an appropriate name for the new guy, given the permanent Ash Wednesday splotch; or would that be ill-omened?
The best rant I've seen about FBOFW's plot contrivances is Shaenon Garrity's essay, "Why I Hate Anthony". (Garrity is the creator of Narbonic, one of the two best online comics about adventure, romance, and mad science.)
I'm terribly shocked and sorry. Who's going to turn the perfect epigrams now?
RuTemple @ #165, Book Burro works just fine with Firefox 1.5.0.7 (the latest 1.* release); I don't know whether it plays nice with the 2.0 beta.
I don't know why it's not listed with the main Firefox extensions page, either, but it started life as a Greasemonkey script and made the jump to extensionhood fairly recently. (For pure client-side scripty goodness, Greasemonkey users should also check out the regional Amazon library mashup scripts at userscripts.org.)
I have been thinking about working up a Greasemonkey script to do client-side pseudo-threading on Making Light comment threads. (As procrastination goes, this is more productive than solitaire.)
Marilee @ #143: I don't know if Alan Sepinwall, the Star-Ledger TV columnist who used "Mary Sue", is a fan; but he does seem to know the lingo: he used "tuckerization" on his blog in a review of this week's "How I Met Your Mother". (Spoilers, for them what cares.)
In completely unrelated Open Thread goodness, Book Burro is my new favorite Firefox extension. When you view a book listing at a supported online bookstore (Amazon, B&N, Powells, etc.), it gives you a drop-down of comparison prices for that book at the other stores. Power to the purchaser, baby.
They're liveblogging the National Spelling Bee over at A List of Things Thrown Five Minutes Ago. The Bee blogging crew includes special guest blogger Shonda Rhimes, the creator of Grey's Anatomy.
I had Serenity Fung in the pool, but "alcazar" just knocked her out of Round 5.
I believe the comedian in the "Gobble, Gobble" particle is Frank Caliendo. Here's his Wikipedia argument.
Happy birthday! I hope the birthday loot is sparkly and piled high.
Whisperado is two-thirds bloggers, two-thirds Jewish, two-thirds computer professionals, two-thirds left-wingers, two-thirds car owners, and two-thirds Brooklynites.
The one on the right is on the left, and the guy in the rear is a Methodist?
My father is a professor of pharmacology, and on the editorial board of the US Pharmacopeia (although not on the neurology drug committee, alas), so I asked his advice.
His first recommendation was to talk to the AARP. If you're over 50, you're eligible for membership. They're very good at fighting this sort of campaign, and the FDA _listens_ to them.
His other suggestion was to see if a similar drug is manufactured overseas. It wouldn't be listed in the U.S. Physician's Desk Reference, but you could check (or ask your pharmacist to check) the Pharmacopeias for Japan, England, Holland, and Germany. He also said a faster way to do this would be to call the previous manufacturer and ask if they know of any overseas equivalents; they all know what the competition is doing.
Meanwhile, I'm going to see if I can get you a useful contact within AARP.
So how does one buy the CD? (CDBaby doesn't seem to know about it yet.)
I gave my copies of the "Serenity" comic book away to a fellow fan, but I did love those covers. I wish they'd gone somewhere. I was expecting a lot more fill-in for the developments between the TV series and the movie. More plot would also have been nice.
Whedon's X-men comic is glorious because he's pulling in all kinds of loose threads and references from twenty years ago; he's writing the 80's X-men with Whedon dialogue. Throw in some Talking Heads music and I'm liable to start having high school flashbacks.
I can very much do without Spike and Illyria as buddy cops, thank you. ("He's a resurrected vampire. She's a resurrected demon-god. They fight crime!")
I think it's a good idea; co-blogging means always having someone else to blame for lack of updates. And you can always untangle and revert if it doesn't work out.
I was kinda hoping for "Electromake". Or maybe "Making Electrons".
"Welcome to the Occupation".
I'm very sorry to hear that. It sounds like sleeping through the Bush administration is a better idea in theory than in execution.
Oo, marmalade. That's a great place for all the citrus to have gone, but I'm still having visions of tilapia with a Buddha's Hand balsamic reduction, or sole in an uglifruit-white wine sauce.
I'm definitely going to try the ginger thing, Greg; thanks for posting it.
I've just watched the PBS Nature episode on venomous creatures, which included a blue-ringed octopus paralyzing a crab and a cone shell stinging and eating a live (and appalled) fish, so right now the idea of eating tentacled things creeps me out. (But they certainly have it coming.)
Teresa, how is it possible that you of all people had no citrus in the house?
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