Well, I certainly won't bet against that.
Cassandra-- Thanks for the recommendations. They sound like just what I'm looking for.
*clicks over to Amazon*
about all this neat music stuff:
Is there a book? I mean something for someone who's not a musician. A layman's book that helps the musically ignorant understand modes and scales and tuning and intervals.
Maybe with a CD?
Certainly, many pies are needed to clean up the whole mint explosion. OTOH, I found it amazing to see just how many whole leaves of mint it takes to produce a mince of three tablespoons. Whole plants of leaves.
Barry Ragin asked: 3 whole tablespoons of fresh mint?
Yes, three whole tablespoons. It's so delicious the way the mintiness bounces off the sweetness of the carrots and the tanginess of the yoghurt/cream cheese (my substitution) with the subtle underlayment of the onions all the way through. You can use spearmint as an interesting substitution for plain mint; it makes it sweeter, almost but not quite a dessert. Maybe with coffee?
re: mint
Mollie Katzen's Russian Carrot Pie recipe calls for three whole tablespoons of fresh mint and is delicious, especially if you replace the cottage cheese with a half-and-half mixture of plain yoghurt and whipped cream cheese. Oh-- and I found it easier to grate the carrots rather than "thinly slice" them, but then I'm not a very patient cook.
Jonathan, I re-read Chasm City by Alastair Reynolds a few months ago. The "revival amnesia", suffered temporarily by some and permanently by others, presented as a side effect of interstellar travel is what came to mind. These things are a hot emotional button for me, given my own neurological challenges.
Michelle K says: A situation like that, where the person has nothing to lose, would I think be an appropriate test case.
Of course, Michelle, that's gotta be it.
I have to laugh at myself, because the only application I was thinking of was as a way of preserving the body during slower-than-light interstellar travel.
MD² says: Strange, almost everyone I showed the photo has made that "mammary" comment. Oh, and one hanging scrotums also.
My photography teacher called himself an anti-abstractionist saying, "a banana is just a banana!" If any student ever hinted that a banana might have associations with anything not-banana (especially without context), my teacher would stomp around, puff on his hand-rolled cigarette, and mutter, "It's Jesus in a torilla, man. Jesus in a tortilla."
"What makes people want to buy a book that's entirely available online...?"
Like Sandy, I have read books in libraries which I then bought. I also have bought a book in paperback, found it to be wonderful, and then purchased it in hardback. In these cases I find I want to have the bookness of a story as well as the story itself.
Hey c'mon, it might be fun -- you'll never know until you try it...
Heh. You first. *g*
But seriously, it's not the horrific-sounding process or the being dead part. It's the after waking part when you're sorting through your brain, realizing that you can't recognize faces anymore, or remember your trip to California, or find your way around your hometown, or conjugate the verbs of your second language. They can't ask dogs about these problems.
Gah, again.
Plans to test the technique on humans should be realised within a year, according to the Safar Centre.
Not on this human. Gah.
They really really really believe that George Bush and Co. are doing what's best for the US.
Since I put the "Bush Lied" bumper sticker on my car, several of my neighbors have become markedly cooler towards me, and (wonder of wonders) their kids no longer try to climb the tree in my yard when they think I'm not looking. Well, shoot, if I'd have known I could get rid of those kids that easily, I'd have plastered my whole house with anti-Bush slogans years ago.
OTOH, several other neighbors have started chatting politics with me, in the sly way undercover agents have of trying to ID each other in enemy territory. Maybe we can start a secret club or something.
--from the cadmium red Shenandoah Valley, Virginia
S. Dawson:
Mirror Mirror: A novel by Gregory Maguire is a retelling of the Snow White fairy tale set in 16th century Tuscany.
Jack V. re Rock the Vote: Ad after ad on MTV, all with the aim of convincing young people that here was a way to be part of a group of really cool young people. You loser sitting at home on the couch on Friday night, you want to be one of them, don't you?
That ad is manipulative, as, surely, all advertising is. Astroturf organizations certainly use manipulative, even deceptive, ads to promote their causes, but advertising is only one part of what makes an astroturf org, and not even the largest part.
I take an example from the pharma industry, who spreads money to both Right and Left as they see fit, From Patient Activism to Astroturf Marketing by Bob Burton and Andy Rowell:
When a PR crisis emerges, such as withdrawal of drug approval, companies seek to turn third-party "partners" into corporate shields. A key task in a crisis is to "deploy third parties to advance your cause," explained Maxine Taylor, the director of corporate affairs at Lilly UK. Third parties should be called on, she suggested, "to share the spotlight if possible, or indeed to divert the spotlight of media attention from you."
One possible example of this strategy occurred in July 2002 when the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that it was abandoning its study of the effects of Prempro, Wyeth's market-leading hormone replacement therapy (HRT) drug. NIH had originally planned an eight-year trial of the drug, but it only took five years to accumulate conclusive evidence of increased health damage to women who use the drug over time. The announcement was reported with shock in media outlets around the world, which had long been accustomed to glowing reports of HRT.
Women's health and consumer groups welcomed the decision, but the announcement precipitated a crisis for Wyeth, which had a 70% share of the HRT market and earned $900 million annually from sales of the drug. Its share price plummeted, and plaintiff lawyers filed a class-action lawsuit.
Support, however, came from the Washington, DC-based Society for Women's Health Research (SWHR), which condemned the NIH decision and distributed op-eds and letters to newspapers around the country. Reporting in Washington Monthly, Alicia Mundy noted that Wyeth and other drug companies are represented on the group's corporate advisory board, but details of the group's funding remain obscure. "Our attorney says it is confidential information that we don't distribute," Mundy was told when she inquired.
The SWHR website notes, however, that Wyeth has been a corporate sponsor of its annual fundraising ball at the Washington Ritz-Carlton. In fact, Wyeth underwrote the entire glitzy affair, which promoted Prempro so enthusiastically that one attendee complained it was "like they were doing an ad for Wyeth."
Wyeth either created or co-opted SWHR and made it a tool of its corporate self: a tool that it designed to appear as an independent agency. The SWHR, the tool, uses cunning advertising to make consumers believe that it's working to help them, when in fact it's working to support the cause of its sponser. Imagine a pyramid balanced on its point; the point is advertising, the whole pyramid is the astroturf.
Todd Larason,
Celery salt is dried celery seeds ground together with sea salt in approximately a 1:2 ratio.
Vernor Vinge's A Fire Upon the Deep has ancient, alien, inadequately indexed archives of information and programming located in deep space. ISBN: 0812515285 for the paperback.
Trent, I explored your site; I read the manifesto and about probability over possibility and the rest: I disagree.
To my mind, probability limits in that it considers ideas in light of only what we know now. Possibility expands by pushing ideas to the edge of what we know and beyond. This is what I want to read.
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