the art of writing is discovering what you believe
David Vitter steps to the Senate floor fresh from banging a hooker to tell me that marriage is the most important institution EVAR…. And this clown handles religious affairs for a moral scold who’s responsible for hundreds of thousands of needless deaths.
It’s the hypocrisy, stupid.
And the point is that “conservatives” and religious nutjobs far more satisfying targets. David Vitter steps to the Senate floor fresh from banging a hooker to tell me that marriage is the most important institution EVAR. Ted Haggard says gays are bad then runs off to schtup (sp?) a male escort. And this clown handles religious affairs for a moral scold who’s responsible for hundreds of thousands of needless deaths. Pardon my delight in their destruction.
I’m not sure I can use all of it, as I had never heard of the E4 process, which the Ektachrome IR film wants (will it yield anything in Diafine?)
…I have never had them with film in them: I have a bag of empty one someone gave me, but this is a first.
A bit of a windfall today. Not sure what I can expect from all this, some of it is over 30 years old. And I hadn’t heard of some of these either. I’m not sure I can use all of it, as I had never heard of the E4 process, which the Ektachrome IR film wants (will it yield anything in Diafine?) The Panatomic-X is tempting, but rated at 32 means I need to find the right situations for it. There was even a bog-standard roll of TMax 100 in there. The B&W IR films will get tested, at least.
And the little cans are very cool. I have never had them with film in them: I have a bag of empty one someone gave me, but this is a first. And now to see if I can find out what’s in that big rusty tin.
The contents of the tin is some kind of rollfilm, wider than 120. There’s quite a bit of it. I snipped off a bit (it was still in the factory packaging but it looks like, you know, film. It’s 2.75 inches or 70cm mm wide, and really really long. I would guess 100 feet as it seems the right size for a daylight loader.
At my birthday or Christmas, I request as my only present that my kids, nieces and nephews burn me a disc of their favorite music in the last year, or so.
…When I am traveling overseas I ask students who befriend me to burn me a CD of their favorite local tunes, and boy does this beckon forth some great unknown stuff.
Here’s what works for me. At my birthday or Christmas, I request as my only present that my kids, nieces and nephews burn me a disc of their favorite music in the last year, or so. It is an easy gift for them to make, and a great learning experience for me. The few tracks I can’t stand, I just delete. The stuff I love I seek out on iTunes to purchase more of. From this I get the fashionable tunes.
This trick actually works even better with kids not your own. When I am traveling overseas I ask students who befriend me to burn me a CD of their favorite local tunes, and boy does this beckon forth some great unknown stuff. [From Radio David Byrne]
Oh, but wait. He uses these tracks as a way to find and buy these artists’ other work. Huh. No one could have predicted that this would happen.
Perhaps they should have called it the Phoenix OS?
Perhaps they should have called it the Phoenix OS?
I’m building out a PC to donate to my kids’ school for the PTA and parents to use for various projects, and I am using FreeBSD 7 as the OS. It will be replacing a 233MHz screamer with Windows 98: anything is an improvement 😉
GNOME will look enough like Windows for most people, I expect. But if Haiku was further long and it had support for what people expect (ie, equivalents to the office apps people are used to) I would have been sorely tempted.
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I have been subscribed to a couple of “song of the day” podcasts, notably KEXP’s, but also the ones offered by KCRW and MPR…. It seems like there must be more new and interesting sounds available that they don’t have to pick the same track a day apart.
I have been subscribed to a couple of “song of the day” podcasts, notably KEXP’s, but also the ones offered by KCRW and MPR. But I have noticed a small problem in their selections.
Do you see what I am referring to?
These are just example I remember off the top of my head: I think there are a couple more. It seems like there must be more new and interesting sounds available that they don’t have to pick the same track a day apart.
“If you’ve got a Hillary and McCain race, you’ve got a third option: That’s the pistol on the bed table.”
— Pat Buchanan on MSNBC.
Stay classy, Pat.
“If you’ve got a Hillary and McCain race, you’ve got a third option: That’s the pistol on the bed table.”
— Pat Buchanan on MSNBC.
[From Quote of the Day]
