Hurrah! Glad it's gone, and just in time for the weekend. Somehow, I'm sure that your scenario is the correct one. I can only imagine how one particular nose-cone office inhabitant felt about the sign.
The candy's all gone.
But before I go too, I paraphrase the immortal words of Joel Swadesh: Don't tell me you're a genius, let me figure it out.
What a lot of heat (though little light) over a marketing category.
so many points...at random:
Gregory Benford sometimes writes "hard SF".
Of the 2000+ "SF and Related" books published last year, I would be surprised if more than 20 were what I would call "Hard SF". Most male SF writers don't write hard sf, either.
Hard sf doesn't = physics. Or stories about scientists, either.
A question was raised over the weekend about the percentage of books put under contract which are never published. That number may be higher than any of us would like, but it is nearly always because the writer who signed the contract failed to deliver the manuscript. The number of completed books which are contracted but not published by the originally contracting publisher is so small as to make each instance a colorful industry legend. Most of those books have been subsequently published by another house.
Actually, you would. You'd just have to look at actual websites, on the actual web, rather than the magic strawman fantasy diorama no one but youself and the readers of Powerline can see.
I'm sure that he's just reading one of the other internets that President Junior told us about.
Sure, it's great that Iraqis got to vote for members of a constitutional convention. That, however, is not a sufficient result to justify the amount of death and destruction that has been rained down upon them in Junior's ill-conceived invasion to seize Saddam's non-existant WMD.
T: Since this is an open thread, let me just say that that sidelight link about Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher makes me want to wash out my mind with soap: ICK! ICK! ICK! ICK! ICK!
Allow me to offer you a Brain Bleach cocktail. Very useful for the aftermath of such thoughts.
What I'm reading: printed on paper, The Persian Boy. For work, other things on screen.
The answer to the question is at least five times. Three DUIs, two "mischief" arrests while at Yale. That's the minimum number, and who knows how many more? I'd like to see it asked. I don't for a minute think the questioner would get an answer.
Not all of us who post under our legal names are sucking up in hopes of getting something published.
The whole question of pseuds online is something I've been thinking about for a long, long time. I decided 20 years ago (ack! 20 years ago!) that I'd eschew handles and just go with my real name. The trickiest I ever got was to use my initials. Lots of people told me that it wasn't a good idea, because...well, booga-booga! But in all this time, I have never had a single problem or even unpleasant encounter arising from being visibly myself online.
Recently, I started a livejournal, and did it under a pseud. Not a very opaque pseud, to be sure, but still. I bowed to peer pressure, trying to fit into the lj culture. But it feels funny. I'd take it back if I could.
It is, in fact, a item of faith among the rabid Christian right that all liberals are atheists and hate Christianity. You can tell them otherwise, show them otherwise, till you're blue in the face, and they still won't believe it.
This is one of the vilest lies that the cynical right wing has promulgated. The games with the testimony on the FMA is just part of their attack. I doubt that the Democrats on the committee even noticed.
come Martinmas this year the last remains of feudalism will vanish so that all land law will be udal/nonfeudal
May I just say that I am honored to have friends, and friends of friends, who can post a sentence like this in the Year of Our Lord 2004.
Right on. Of course any of them can beat Bush. And any one of them, including Al Sharpton, would be a better President of the United States than the current office-holder.
Not to mention the broad new horizons for ego-scanning.
63.
Oh. my. God.
I read just read it to Tappan. At least we're both now speechless.
I'm glad I checked in here. Kathryn, I'm glad David got home! I hope Jim and Sondi did too. You guys do know that one of the couches in Tom's office is a fold-out bed?
And glad that Melissa got home too! How'd she do it?
Panix still isn't up, so I'm not getting any email either. I'll survive. I hope everyone has power by tomorrow!
Ahem, Mitch (and how nice to see your name), from Ohio, and don't object to PNH's comments in the least.
Especially up in the northern half, Ohio is extremely flat and industrial.
Glad to see that you guys have connectivity again. Was it squirrels after all?
Patrick, my friend, though it's understandable that you feel that all posts in your comments section are addressed to you, in fact I think that most of them are addressed to others. To the other commenters, sure, but more to the invisible, unknowable (at least to us, if not to you) number of people who read and nod and pass silently by.
As each day goes by, and the horror of unjust war weighs on our consciences, some of us cry out where ever we can, and trust our friends to know that we aren't yelling at them.
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