the art of writing is discovering what you believe
There’s no glorification of the war or the man in this. Just read it.
SI.com – Magazine – Pat Tillman: Remember His Name – Tuesday September 5, 2006 5:46PM:
Even as a boy Pat Tillman felt a destiny, a need to do the right thing whatever it cost him. When the World Trade Center was attacked on 9/11, he thought about what he had to do and then walked away from the NFL and became an Army Ranger….
“I don’t want to be 80 and look back and realize I did nothing. People think taking a year off is such a big deal, unthinkable. I think working for 40 years straight is unthinkable
http://allspinzone.com/blog/?itemid=3311
I started using this again a few days ago, when I discovered the service could post entries here of each day’s bookmarks. I find a lot of stuff that either rates a mention without comment or just needs to be noted, and this makes a useful way to do that. It’s not like I have anything insightful to add on most things, so why try? del.icio.us posting tools are available as bookmarklets or as an option within NetNewsWire, so it’s even easier than posting a weblog entry.
And according to my WordPress dashboard, this will be post number 3700. That’s in just a bit more than 4 1/2 years. 800+/year, more than 2 per day.
[taken after posting]
Can you say logorrhea?
We are now at the start of a long process of rationalization over the US defeat in Iraq. The most common of these rationalizations include: if only we had “…not disbanded the Baathist army,” “…sent in more troops,” or “…become better at nation-building.” However, in each case the approach is one dimensional, since we tend to view ourselves as the only actors on the stage. The actions and reactions of the opposition are discounted and explained away as fluff and background noise (those pesky terrorists…).
Anyone remember this?
guys like me were ”in what we call the reality-based community,” which he defined as people who ”believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.” I nodded and murmured something about enlightenment principles and empiricism. He cut me off. ”That’s not the way the world really works anymore,” he continued. ”We’re an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you’re studying that reality — judiciously, as you will — we’ll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that’s how things will sort out. We’re history’s actors . . . and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do.”
Study it or clean up afterward?
“Valerie Plame was recruited into the CIA in 1985, straight out of Pennsylvania State University. After two years of training to be a covert case officer, she served a stint on the Gree
http://trac.syr.edu/tracreports/terrorism/169/
Chris Clarke linked to this and I found this one fact to be startling:
Advertisements are constantly promoting foods that are fried and high in fat and sugar. The fact that children can be exposed to such ads through television, might explain the strong relationships found between television viewing and obesity in children. High sugar drinks probably contribute to weight gain as well. Just one extra glass of soda or fruit drinks per day can increase a child’s risk of becoming obese by 60%. This evidence makes a strong case for limiting the amount of high sugar drinks consumed by children [emphasis mine].
Think about that next time you see some kid getting a 20 oz soda from a machine or at Mickey D’s. Ask yourself when he last drank 20 oz of water or 8 oz of milk.
Michael Pollan already says more about processed foods and better than I can, and Clarke also links to this piece on the global reach of obesity. The comments from readers are informative as well: people want to eat/live better but the economies of scale society has been taught to value are undermining that.
These are some notes I have been sharing with some folks on f295 on how I develop large format film in a daylight tank. I’m not currently equipped to do tray development of sheet films, nor am I especially motivated to try it. So I use the equipment I have — stainless steel tanks (I do have one Paterson tank, but have not tried it for this) — and it seems to go pretty well. You need at least a 32 oz tank for this, and my instructions may need adjustment if you use a larger one, especially as regards keeping the film in the soup when you invert the tank.
It’s pretty simple. Read through the steps before trying it, just to get a sense of the flow, and by all means try it with some expired sheet film to see how they fit in the tank.
I have a big changing bag, so I take my film holders, my tank, and some rubber bands in there. I wrap the rubber bands around the palm of my hand, just up to my thumb. This makes it easy to get them off when you gently bend the film.
I take the film out of the holder, gently bend it in half the long way (so the 4 inch-wise edges touch) and gently slip a rubber band around it to keep it folded. Did I mention doing this gently?
Put it in the tank and keep going. As you get more sheets in there — four or more — you will need to work them around a bit to get them in there.
You can get at least 4 in there, perhaps 6 (especially if you folded them across the 4 inch axis).
What I am finding is that they ride up in the tank sometimes and the rubber bands keep them from dropping back down when I invert the tank during agitation. Your development will be uneven if that happens. I put a 35mm reel on top of the sheets when I did this last night and it worked fine with 6 sheets.
Simple as that. I then take the sealed tank out and process it like anything else.
Works just fine. The tricky part has been getting the right amount of soup in there: I have underestimated it a couple of times and ended with negs that are underdeveloped on one end. 800 ml is the right amount: with a D-76 solution at 1:3, I only use 200 ml of stock developer for 4-6 sheets. Questions? Leave a comment.
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“Valerie Plame was recruited into the CIA in 1985, straight out of Pennsylvania State University. After two years of training to be a covert case officer, she served a stint on the Gree
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