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take your faith in a benevolent deity and smoke it: stories like this are all too common but still hard to deal with. He was working to make his life better and I know his role models played a big part in that.
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Billmon sums up his war commentary. My takeaway is we need more non-specialists.
Month: December 2006
Vote early, vote often
I just dropped this in the submission queue at JPG Magazine for their 9-5 theme.
<update> Thanks for the votes so far!
I need to look over the themes that they haven’t yet scheduled and keep them in mind: might see some stuff that will fit.
TiVo ordeal over?
Well, I took delivery of a new power supply for this TiVo Series 2 I have been trying to make work. No luck at all. I guess something else is wrong but I have no idea what. If it’s a bad board, I would just expect it to fail right off. We’ve ruled out a bad disk and I actually put the original one back in since i haven’t been able to make it act up. If I send it back for TiVo to fix, that’s the drive that will be in it.
And that looks like my last best hope. They want $159 to restore it to spec: I can likely sell the power supply on eBay for close to what I paid for it, if it’s not returnable, and I’ll just keep the 160 Gb drive for other purposes (did you know a 160 Gb drive actually formats to 127 Gb? Talk about shrinkage.)
fence, tall grass
Nicolai_g has a new shot up called “bad motel painting” and my mind immediately flashed to this shot I scanned and posted a day or so back. Same tonal range, innocuous subject. Maybe a challenge is in order: find the most mundane landscape or cityscape that could still be hung in a Motel Western Terrace Inn . . . .
815 Marcus: 13 years on
Atlanta resident and faithful correspondent Frank Steele updates the story of the Habitat house I photographed 13 years ago. My, how the ‘hood has changed.
will we see his like again?
“There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. The age of Pericles was also the age of Phidias. The age of Lorenzo de Medici was also the age of Leonardo da Vinci. The age of Elizabeth also the age of Shakespeare. And the New Frontier for which I campaign in public life, can also be a New Frontier for American art. For what I descry is a lift for our country: a surge of economic growth; a burst of activity in rebuilding and cleansing our cities; a breakthrough of the barriers of racial and religious discrimination; an Age of Discovery in science and space; and an openness toward what is new that will banish the suspicion and misgiving that have tarnished our prestige abroad. I foresee, in short, an America that is moving once again. And in harmony with that creative burst, there is bound to come the New Frontier in the Arts. For we stand, I believe, on the verge of a period of sustained cultural brilliance.”
— John F. Kennedy, Sept. 13, 1960Here’s the kicker: these words appeared in a letter to the editor of Musical America!
Tom Hartley adds: “And the age of George W. Bush was also the age of Britney Spears.”
*sigh*
I just received a freezer full of steaks for Christmas and I’m going to enjoy every bite. Because homo sapiens are omnivores. And who am I to defy science, anyway?
But what the other creatures lack — and we enjoy — is the ability to choose. We wear clothes, we build housing, we goof around on teh Internets, all out of choice. We can also choose not to eat the other creatures who can’t make those choices.
now that’s holiday spirit!
From the woman who lost her home so New London, CT, could have a new shopping experience, to the people — without being mean-spirited personally — who supported the move :
courant.com | In Eminent Domain Case: Bah, Humbug:
Here is my house that you did take
From me to you, this spell I make
Your houses, your home
Your family, your friends
May they live in misery
That never ends.
I curse you all
May you rot in hell
To each of you
I send this spell
For the rest of your lives
I wish you ill
I send this now
By the power of will
Apparently, it’s OK to do this as long as you don’t mean anything personal. And money fixes everything. That’s a fine values statement.
She missed a golden chance to to put an acrostic with a more pungent message. Submissions in comments?
links for 2006-12-21
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Polish legislators want to anoint Jesus as “honorary king” (isn’t he consider King of the World by believers? Does he need a separate deed to Poland?) but the church opposes it: sez Parliament has better things to do.
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hardened php? yeah, that sounds like a good idea. looking into it now.
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not sure he should be as humble as he sounds: getting three guys to show up for practice and a gig — especially if they have actual lives — is an accomplishment. Looks like fun.
anyone use Safari with the USPS self-service postage system?
This time of year, anything that keeps you from having to set foot in the post office is an unalloyed good thing. So when I had to mail a package today, I went to the USPS website to pay for a postage-paid label I could use.
Safari still just doesn’t cut it: it does everything except print the label, for whatever reason. <grumble> FireFox — which I switched to a couple of weeks ago — has no trouble at all. I wasn’t sitting here at the laptop when I started, otherwise Safari’s continued weakness wouldn’t have been noticed.
Has anyone gotten this to work?
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