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03:22 pm
[Link] | Those who made it to lunch @Charles may remember me mentioning the sapeurs, and those who didn't may also find them interesting:
http://articles.latimes.com/2006/nov/28/world/fg-dressers28 for an article
http://zonezero.com/exposiciones/fotografos/mediavilla/ for some pictures
Tags: i found something, interesting
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08:11 pm
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The Return
10/15, or so they say. If you've never had his chicken, you should plan to go. It's amazing.
Current Mood:  hopeful
Tags: food, slightly cryptic, the unknowable future
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09:12 pm
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I R DUMMY
Obviously, Dollhouse and My Own Worst Enemy share a universe.
Current Mood:  silly
Tags: sf, tv
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08:35 am
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He's with his brothers now
Whatever his faults were, they were not lack of compassion, drive, or competence.
Current Mood:  sad
Tags: i'm trying to say something meaningful, politics
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11:28 pm
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I probably lack the juice but I might as well try
Lazyweb time:
Short story in which aliens restrict humans to earth for the usual reasons In the form, mostly, of alien memoranda and reports, which end with ( SPOILER )
Current Mood:  curious
Tags: help me, i'm asking a question, sf, this is cryptic to me
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04:42 pm
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So maybe I WILL buy a setting book
Scroll down. You can probably guess, this was predicted before 4e launched.
Current Mood:  bouncy
Tags: dnd4e, gaming, possibly a little bit cryptic
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05:02 pm
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I don't think I've ever seen them fight
And I've been reading for 10 years.
PA is having a bit of a disagreement. Let's not export that disagreement to here -- I'm sure everyone reading this knows everyone else's opinions on the topics.
Current Mood: curious
Tags: i found something
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12:16 am
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And sometimes I'm perfectly wrong
apparently a sequel to Halting State involving 3D printers. What are the criminal applications? Comments that it's well known that one of the first applications of any new technology is pornography....
So arbitrary realdolls, I guess.
via, ultimately, ML.
Current Mood: content
Tags: i was told about something, sf
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06:01 pm
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Once Upon a Time, I Made a Joke That Was True
At the relevant time -- call it January 2002 through sometime in 2007, when we just gave up trying to understand his motivations for anything -- one of the big questions among those of us who weren't fond of GWB was "what's the real reason he wants to invade Iraq?". Threats of violence had quickly returned Saddam to compliance with the inspection regime, the No-Fly Zone and associated surveillance kept him securely contained, a free Kurdistan was wobbling to its feet, and any Al-Qaeda connection was based upon tenuous evidence of a distant alignment (held against compelling evidence of a vicious mutual antipathy).
By then, the "Corporate Greed-Monger" narrative for Bush and his controllers had already overcome the "Religiously Obsessed Bumpkin" narrative (though both had currency, along with "Monomaniacal Hegemony Humper" and "Daddy-Obsessed Revenge Seeker"). Back then, I made, to at least some people seeing this now, this joke.
"Joke".
Ha. Ha. Ha.
Well, I suppose it's better than my other joke theory.
Tags: i did something, politics, you can't possibly call this cryptic
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08:21 am
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I was about to post "Somebody's getting fiiii-rrreedd"
But then I read the addendum at the bottom.
Current Mood: amused
Tags: i found something, politics
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11:36 am
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This is why I have to keep apologizing
I'm not up on CA solicitation/incitement/vicarious liability laws, but I have to imagine that EA's lawyers were either not consulted* or awful nervous about this
*I typed "consluted". Freudian typo? YOU DECIDE!
Current Mood:  aggravated
Tags: gaming, hate, law
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09:31 am
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Prediction
Charles Stross's next book (described only by title and what it's not here) will concern a system (probably highly-automated with distributed human components (possibly a hijacked altruistic distributed-computing platform) for generating arbitrary, high-quality, realistic pornography featuring arbitrary persons.
Said pornography will then be used for some kind of financial shenanigan -- either a major stock manipulation (most likely of a large entertainment company, but possibly of an insurer/bank by causing them to pay out completion insurance on a major production) or, for the weirder but smaller payoff, a move in the royalty backed bond secondary market.
Current Mood: curious
Tags: books, sf, the unknowable future
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10:29 am
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Glad he didn't get that spot on the bench
Senator Sessions: Unable to distinguish between "should" and "can".
Current Mood: annoyed
Tags: politics, possibly a little bit cryptic
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07:39 am
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Annals of the Unsurprising
Everyone said this BEFORE they announced the Chrome browser. Everyone said this WHEN they announced the Chrome browser. Everyone has said this SINCE they announced the Chrome browser.
Now Google says it.
[via bb]
Current Mood: shocked
Tags: google
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02:57 pm
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Remake Madness
Be still my ●Heart.
Current Mood: chipper
Tags: gaming, i found something, possibly a little bit cryptic
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05:30 pm
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pleasedon'tsuckpleasedon'tsuckpleasedon'tsuck
My personal-favorite show starting with alien gibberish chanting (yes, more favorite than Farscape) to be remade/rebooted/sequeled (it's not clear).
If this goes as well as the BSG reboot, I'll finally get to wear my own version of Emily's actually-very-terrifying Halloween costume. Sadly, this has been a dream of mine for more than a decade, but no one would have gotten it.
Current Mood: bouncy
Tags: syfy, things that i love, tv
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08:29 am
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A Link
To a Good Show You're Probably Not Watching. A Recap on the Creator's Blog.
Current Mood: amused
Tags: leverage, possibly a little bit cryptic, tv
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05:43 pm
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Why We're Incommunicado
![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) negativeq started feeling sickish on Thursday. By Friday evening she felt terrible. Yesterday, her doc said it's possibly pig plague (though likely not), gave her a course of Tamiflu, and sent her home with instructions to stay there.
So right as my back feels better, I'm under a suggested self-quarantine for at least the weekend, and if I feel bad at all am not to go to work tomorrow.
It's probably a good thing we wound up canceling Saturday's plan.
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09:27 pm
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Fuck You Fox
Schizophrenia is not funny.
Schizophrenia is not heart-warming.
Both of the above go for all mental illness, and quadruply for schizophrenia.
Current Mood: annoyed
Tags: possibly a little bit cryptic, tv
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12:49 am
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Old Familiar Faces
With Inu-Yasha finally over, Rumiko Takahashi is writing Rin-ne (which, ht to erinfinnegan is available free at her US website). We're only four chapters in, so I'm not really able to review it, but I can say some things about it.
- it is clearly a Takahashi-drawn manga. Very much so.
- It bears certain similarities to Bleach, at least so far. Consider, however, how different the start of Bleach was to everything that went after.
- I still find cheapskate gags funny.
Current Mood:  nostalgic
Tags: i was told about something, manga
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