Sun Dec 01 2002 16:44:
Don't know what this would be. "Am I doing this right?"
"Are you still alive?"
"Well, yeah."
"You're doing it wrong."
Mon Dec 02 2002 15:49:
What if my father had had a weblog? what if he had a weblog now?
Sun Dec 01 2002 16:44:
Don't know what this would be. "Am I doing this right?"
"Are you still alive?"
"Well, yeah."
"You're doing it wrong."
Mon Dec 02 2002 15:49:
What if my father had had a weblog? what if he had a weblog now?
I've heard that some will take pot-shots at the things with shotguns,
just to get them out of the way.
Mon Dec 02 2002 20:09:
Just noticed this from Nick:
The designers of the shipping containers have the cargo's best
interests at heart. However, this means that watertight shipping
containers often make for nautical hazards that don't go away until
the damned things have rusted through. Many sailors curse the
floating shipping container (often empty ones will tip overboard if
not lashed down).
"That's pretty funny, because you could just--" "Tcccht!"
Tue Dec 03 2002 21:48:
"Oh, yes, these machines are very good at calculations, especially where logistics are concerned. We use them to determine the optimal prices for scarce economic resources."
Thu Dec 05 2002 15:19:
http://www.theredkitchen.net/ --start paying attention!
Thu Dec 05 2002 22:10:
http://www.geocities.com/camillesname/index1.html Camille for Links page
Fri Dec 06 2002 09:55:
who moved my method?: http://www.reciprocality.org/Reciprocality/r0/
Fri Dec 06 2002 10:57:
Good less options: -ginq. Also make functions for bg/fg/kill of job.
Fri Dec 06 2002 13:16:
Tinker, Tailor, Singularity, Spy
Mon Dec 09 2002 08:04:
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Mon Dec 09 2002 16:58:
They Want Incorrect Things
Wed Dec 11 2002 08:21:
Try devfs
Wed Dec 11 2002 09:10:
<leonardr> and of course once they get it into their hands they don't care
about i18n
<leonardr> they put english text in there, i'm sure
<leonardr> sometimes i envy the dead
<kmaples> of course
<kmaples> lazy bastards
Why don't I have a nightclub? [obvious answer #1] [obvious answer #2]
Update: [obvious answer #3]
Wed Dec 11 2002 09:11:
Jon's nightclub: http://studioz.tv/
Wed Dec 11 2002 10:19:
The Imposters
Wed Dec 11 2002 16:08:
xulplanet.com
Thu Dec 12 2002 09:54:
look at this when it's back up: http://lulu.esm.rochester.edu/kevine/turnkey/explore.html
Fri Dec 13 2002 15:08:
Kevin sez "Sexy Beast" stars a belligerent stack
too ra loo la rie,
Easy if you try,
Perfect for the shy
Blog and drink your chai,
While I kiss the sky
"ready for referendum!"
DDR like being a dictator
2 kinds of g.I. Joe
Dave clark 5, "history"
Margaret Dumont interviews Groucho Marx on NPR
Sat Dec 14 2002 17:26 stuff from sumana's notebook:
"all the big names will be there! Bob! Mary! Maybe even ;oe!"
More NewsBruiser slogans:
Cautious Revolutionary #2: "Ready for referendum!"
DDR like being a dictator surrounded by yes-men
Dave Clark 5, "History"
Margaret Dumont interviews Groucho Marx on NPR
Books:
Crowe: The Extraterrestrial Life Debate (Dover)
Agawa: The Reluctant Admiral: Yamamoto and the Imperial Navy
Harrison: Korean Endgame
James Q. Wilson: Bureaucracy
Sat Dec 14 2002 18:52 Stuff from Sumana's notebook:
"All the big names will be there! Bob! Mary! And maybe even Joe!"
too ra loo la rie
Easy if you try
Perfect for the shy
Blog and drink your chai
While I kiss the sky
Sat Dec 14 2002 18:54:
Lincoln: "Powerful forces... I'll fight for union!"
Sat Dec 14 2002 20:42:
"that most curious traveler Bernier"
Tue Dec 17 2002 09:29:
"the microstate experience": http://www.fo-dk.dk/Baggrund/microstate_experience.htm
Tue Dec 17 2002 14:42:
Unsuccessful sequels: "Everything Went", "The One Tower"
In olden days we thought each little
Bit of luck, each jot and tittle
Was heaven sent
Everything went!
Tue Dec 17 2002 20:29 Misc. notes from "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich": :
[...] == supplementary details I looked up on the Web, not in the book that I remember.
'Can one imagine the frenzied German masses acclaiming a Schicklgruber with their thundrous "Heils"? "Heil Schicklgruber!!!"?'
What were the first two Reichs?
1st Reich: Holy Roman Empire
2nd Reich: Created by Bismark in 1871, after the defeat of FRance.
Houston Stewart Chamberlain
Hitler obtained the chancellorship [in January 1933] (as part of a
coalition government; [Nazis polled 33% in the November 1932 elections]) and called for new elections.
After the Reichstag fire, the constitution was suspended and the
opposition arrested. S.A. terror, political meetings banned. State
resources used for propaganda. The Nazis already controlled Prussia,
and Prussia backed the official interpretation of the fire. Despite
all this, the Nazi party still polled only 44% in the elections of
March 5, 1933.
Hitler needed a 2/3 majority vote to dissolve the Reichstag. He
suppressed the 81 Communists, and some Social Democrats. To win the
Nationalists over, he paid homage to the current president; apparently this made them feel better. Then, tada! Dictatorship!
The 90% Nazi vote people cite was from the election on August 19,
1933, but the last remotely free election Germany had was the one on
March 5th, 1933.
Hans Schmidt: blackmailed General von Fritsch
"Bavarian Joe"
p514: The "new Greece now figured as the cradle of western civilization and the home of perfect art. Athens had been entirely populated by artists; Grreek tragedy contained the ultimate wisdom on human life; Socrates was the wisest human who ever lived. He had been put to death by a vote of those consummate artists, but never mind. Read Plato and forgive.
p518: These strtictures are confirmed by the fact that actors and producers since his [Shakespeare's] day hjave foudn it neccessary to cut and trtanspose his scenes with a liberal hand. The public never hears all he wrote. Only about half of the 37 plays are ever staged; and although the producers do not, as in the 18C, use performing bears to pull in the crowd, they do add acrobats, change the place and time of the action, impose modern dress and telephones, and reinterpret the plot in flat contrardiction to its plain meaning. In short, these 16C pieces are quality yardage for anybody to tailor according to whim.
534: [For his life, the book to read is The Smith of Smiths by Hesketh Pearson; and for extrracts from his writings and correspondence it is Selected WRitings of Sydney Smith, ed. by W.H. Auden.]
654: This is to say that a historian who contemplates the infinite diversity of human character, the range of huuman desires and powers, the multiplicity of social and political institutions, the endless schemes proposed for improving life, the nuumberless faiths, codes, and customs passionately adhered to, fiercely hated, and in uncecasing warfare, the vast universe of art with its expressions in a galaxy of styles and languages--all these existing to an accompaniment of sacrifice, injustice, and suffering, persecution imposed or willingly endured--such a historian is persuaded that these challenges to the concrete imagination cannot be merged and reduced to a formula. History is not an agency nor does it harbor a hidden power; the word history is an ABSTRACTION for the totality of human deeds, and to make their clashing outcomes the fulfillment of some concealed purpose is to make human beings into puppets.
759: Enough has been said about the serious-absurd inthe arts, except for its side effect, the now standard practice for making the classic plays and operas acceptable. To most directors, modernizing means inventing trtavesties that will surprise and shock by a change of setting or purport. They offer a Tartuffe who is no self-seeking hypocrite but a sincere lover driven to subterfuge by passion; or again, a Don Giovanni in a wheelchair throughout the opera, because his boast of sexual conquests really conceals impotence.
That the words and the music of these (and other) works contradict the "interpretation" no longere bothers anyone. With this revisionist effort goes the habit of underlinig the meaning of the piece by untoward action--much kneeling and lying and rolling on the floor and long, close embracees to make sure the audiencece sees that the lovers are sexually intent. Shouting instead of speaking the lines completes the stage-absurd at its most emphatic.
Tue Dec 24 2002 19:01 From From Dawn To Decadence:
p341: "One suspects that to the first readers those strtetches were not dull, and herein lies a cuultural generality. What pleases most people in the art of their time is work that deals with the bits and pieces of knowledge and feeling that make up the common stock in everybody's mind. It may also include the memory of past art. A well-crafted mixture of old and up-to-date commonplacee feeds and flatters the reader or beholder's sensibility;' it is popular as long as that mental mosaic of the time persists. That such success depends on small detail is shown by the fact that contemporaries see differences between writers (or painteers or musicians), whose works seem to posterity indistinguishable."
Sat Dec 28 2002 12:02:
dada title: "I Married A Woman-And That's The Best Kind!"
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