My Neighborhood, 50 Years On
At last census, fiftytwo percent of SE Como's residents were college age. The local big institution is the University of Minnesota.
If distance learning really takes off, that percentage will drop drastically. Which would mean changes in local stores, bars, coffee houses, and restaurants.
Also much less change at the end of semesters, fewer beer cans among the litter, etc.
More certain changes? Signs saying "Free Wi-Fi" will be as quaint as motel signs advertising television are now.
There will be less paper litter. And unwanted telephone directories will be very, very rare.
The ethnic composition will change. There might be significant numbers of North Korean immigrants, for example.
Saturday, August 31, 2013
Friday, August 30, 2013
Godzilla, Warrior Princess 8/24/13 Dan Goodman, 1720 Como Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414. dsgood at iphouse.com or at gmail.com.
Saturday August 24, 2013 If it were legally and socially possible, I would have gone outside wearing sandals and sunscreen. 91F (just below 33C) might be an unremarkable high temperatures in some places. In Minneapolis, it's hot. And temperatures will be going up to 97F (36.11...C).
***Gail Collins, New York Times:
Next year, if we’re in the mood, we can celebrate the 40th anniversary of the day that Kathryn Kirschbaum, then the mayor of Davenport, Iowa, was told she could not have a Bank of America card without her husband’s signature.
The great thing about Equality Day is that it works in two ways. We can mull both how far we’ve come and how far we have to go. The one thought feeds the other. The idea of having 50 women in the U.S. Senate, or 250 female C.E.O.’s in the Fortune 500 seems less far-reaching if you contemplate the fact that in the 1960s, a spokesman for NASA said "talk of an American spacewoman makes me sick to my stomach." Now, one of the two American astronauts on the International Space Station is a woman, and that is so routine that we’re not even aware of her name. (It’s Karen Nyberg.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/24/opinion/collins-where-credit-is-due.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
Read the comments
***From Twitter:
Anna @ane09
RT @FixedOpsGenius: RT @SusanCosmos: "Don't dwell on who let you down, cherish those who hold you up." - Unknown #quote
Retweeted by Susan Cosmos
hollyhodson @hollyhodson
"@torque10: Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. — Golda Meir | RT @SusanCosmos
Retweeted by Susan Cosmos
Shira Lipkin @shadesong
Let it be known that @OrdQuelu has trimmed my bush and plowed my field. (Seriously, @OrdQuelu would like you to know precisely that.)
Saturday August 24, 2013 If it were legally and socially possible, I would have gone outside wearing sandals and sunscreen. 91F (just below 33C) might be an unremarkable high temperatures in some places. In Minneapolis, it's hot. And temperatures will be going up to 97F (36.11...C).
***Gail Collins, New York Times:
Next year, if we’re in the mood, we can celebrate the 40th anniversary of the day that Kathryn Kirschbaum, then the mayor of Davenport, Iowa, was told she could not have a Bank of America card without her husband’s signature.
The great thing about Equality Day is that it works in two ways. We can mull both how far we’ve come and how far we have to go. The one thought feeds the other. The idea of having 50 women in the U.S. Senate, or 250 female C.E.O.’s in the Fortune 500 seems less far-reaching if you contemplate the fact that in the 1960s, a spokesman for NASA said "talk of an American spacewoman makes me sick to my stomach." Now, one of the two American astronauts on the International Space Station is a woman, and that is so routine that we’re not even aware of her name. (It’s Karen Nyberg.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/24/opinion/collins-where-credit-is-due.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
Read the comments
***From Twitter:
Anna @ane09
RT @FixedOpsGenius: RT @SusanCosmos: "Don't dwell on who let you down, cherish those who hold you up." - Unknown #quote
Retweeted by Susan Cosmos
hollyhodson @hollyhodson
"@torque10: Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. — Golda Meir | RT @SusanCosmos
Retweeted by Susan Cosmos
Shira Lipkin @shadesong
Let it be known that @OrdQuelu has trimmed my bush and plowed my field. (Seriously, @OrdQuelu would like you to know precisely that.)
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
Godzilla, Warrior Princess 8/21/13 Dan Goodman, 1720 Como Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414. dsgood at iphouse.com or at gmail.com.
Friday August 21, 2013 When I woke up, the muscles in my back had loosened considerably. Other muscles were also looser. I don't know what I did right.
***Sign: "Jesus Christ is Lord of the U of M." 1. What happened to the Father and the Holy Ghost? 2. The University of Minnesota is a state college. What about separation of church and state?
***Shopped at Dollar Tree. It's the only dollar store which actually prices everything at a dollar.
***From Twitter:
rivenhomewood @rivenhomewood
Ogden, Daniel. Dragons, serpents, and slayers in the classical and early Christian worlds: a sourcebook. Oxford, 2013. 319p $99.00
e! Science News @esciencenews 28m
Multiple genes manage how people taste sweeteners http://bit.ly/14DZkA9
[Saccharin tastes bitter to me. None others do, but one sweetener used in diet sodas doesn't taste sweet to me.]
Kevin Green @FixedOpsGenius
RT @CHRISVOSS: How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. Wayne Dyer
Friday August 21, 2013 When I woke up, the muscles in my back had loosened considerably. Other muscles were also looser. I don't know what I did right.
***Sign: "Jesus Christ is Lord of the U of M." 1. What happened to the Father and the Holy Ghost? 2. The University of Minnesota is a state college. What about separation of church and state?
***Shopped at Dollar Tree. It's the only dollar store which actually prices everything at a dollar.
***From Twitter:
rivenhomewood @rivenhomewood
Ogden, Daniel. Dragons, serpents, and slayers in the classical and early Christian worlds: a sourcebook. Oxford, 2013. 319p $99.00
e! Science News @esciencenews 28m
Multiple genes manage how people taste sweeteners http://bit.ly/14DZkA9
[Saccharin tastes bitter to me. None others do, but one sweetener used in diet sodas doesn't taste sweet to me.]
Kevin Green @FixedOpsGenius
RT @CHRISVOSS: How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours. Wayne Dyer
Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Godzilla, Warrior Princess 8/20/13 Dan Goodman, 1720 Como Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414. dsgood at iphouse.com or at gmail.com.
Tuesday August 20, 2013 Felt much better.
***At Steeple People Thrift Store, found a pair of shoes large enough for me. No price on them.
Explanation: most likely, someone had worn the shoes into the store, found a pair for sale they liked better, slipped on those, put their old shoes on the shelf, walked out without paying.
I got the shoes for free.
***"Why was this period perceived as a crisis by Whig elites? As Rogers notes, previous demobilizations had been much larger. The answer lies in the expanding number of newspapers, each reporting the behavior of soldiers at home after a long war and in the five hundred coffeehouses throughout London where such events were read and discussed. Rogers argues that this increased press coverage of crime increased the panic and anxiety of elite Londoners."
Citation: Dana Rabin. Review of Rogers, Nicholas, _Mayhem: Post-War Crime and Violence in Britain, 1748-53_. H-Albion, H-Net Reviews. August, 2013.
URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=38138
***From Twitter:
Poynter @Poynter
The Washington Post considered using automated writing (aka robots) to cover the region's many high-school sports: http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/221669/washington-post-considered-using-robot-sportswriters/#more-221669
***New Meetup Group!
Dorky Moms
Listed in: Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Geek Culture, Geeks & Nerds, Doctor Who, Moms, and 9 more topics.
Dorky Moms unite! Are you tired of not having anything in common with the other Moms on your block? They don't like Doctor Who? I'm so, so sorry! I am starting this group because I want to get to know other dorky moms! If you like Comic books, Doctor Who or Lord of the Rings (and similar things), this group may be for you. We can have dorky get togethers and let the kids play while we talk about Star...
Tuesday August 20, 2013 Felt much better.
***At Steeple People Thrift Store, found a pair of shoes large enough for me. No price on them.
Explanation: most likely, someone had worn the shoes into the store, found a pair for sale they liked better, slipped on those, put their old shoes on the shelf, walked out without paying.
I got the shoes for free.
***"Why was this period perceived as a crisis by Whig elites? As Rogers notes, previous demobilizations had been much larger. The answer lies in the expanding number of newspapers, each reporting the behavior of soldiers at home after a long war and in the five hundred coffeehouses throughout London where such events were read and discussed. Rogers argues that this increased press coverage of crime increased the panic and anxiety of elite Londoners."
Citation: Dana Rabin. Review of Rogers, Nicholas, _Mayhem: Post-War Crime and Violence in Britain, 1748-53_. H-Albion, H-Net Reviews. August, 2013.
URL: https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=38138
***From Twitter:
Poynter @Poynter
The Washington Post considered using automated writing (aka robots) to cover the region's many high-school sports: http://www.poynter.org/latest-news/mediawire/221669/washington-post-considered-using-robot-sportswriters/#more-221669
***New Meetup Group!
Dorky Moms
Listed in: Sci-Fi/Fantasy, Geek Culture, Geeks & Nerds, Doctor Who, Moms, and 9 more topics.
Dorky Moms unite! Are you tired of not having anything in common with the other Moms on your block? They don't like Doctor Who? I'm so, so sorry! I am starting this group because I want to get to know other dorky moms! If you like Comic books, Doctor Who or Lord of the Rings (and similar things), this group may be for you. We can have dorky get togethers and let the kids play while we talk about Star...
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Godzilla, Warrior Princess 8/16/13 Dan Goodman, 1720 Como Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414. dsgood at iphouse.com or at gmail.com. Previous at dsgoodman.blogspot.com
Friday August 16, 2013 The New York Times has a culinary report from Montana, where meat slaughtered in a most unkosher manner is more legal than it had been.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/16/us/roadkill-gains-traction-as-a-home-menu-item.html?hpw
Deliberately running down deer for eating has not been legalized. And human roadkill doesn't seem to be discussed.
***From politicalwire.com:
Iranian politician Nina Siakhali Moradi had her city council election overturned by religious conservatives, who barred her from office for being too pretty, Iran Wire reports.
http://iranwire.com/en/projects/1961
"Anthony Weiner may be lagging in the race for New York City mayor, but he is winning in another area -- hot dog marketing," ABC News reports.
"The delicious combination of Anthony Weiner's name and his sexually suggestive Twitter antics were apparently too good to pass up for one Florida marketing man, who has joined forces with an Illinois hot dog company to create a hot dog brand called Carlos Danger Weiners, which he has incorporated into the company Carlos Danger LLC."
***From Twitter:
Pollster.com @pollster
HUFFPOLLSTER: Can Twitter Predict Elections? Not So Fast http://huff.to/1acYMIJ
Mickey McCauley @Mickey_McCauley
Somehow people who ask what you'll do in the zombie apocalypse get annoyed when you say you'll ride your Pegasus to safety
Retweeted by Ray Radlein
inhabitat @inhabitat
The world's first "Pestaurant" is serving up chocolate-dipped ants and salty crickets in London! http://bit.ly/16TNaXV
[Note: Deer, pegasi, and most insects are not kosher.]
Friday August 16, 2013 The New York Times has a culinary report from Montana, where meat slaughtered in a most unkosher manner is more legal than it had been.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/16/us/roadkill-gains-traction-as-a-home-menu-item.html?hpw
Deliberately running down deer for eating has not been legalized. And human roadkill doesn't seem to be discussed.
***From politicalwire.com:
Iranian politician Nina Siakhali Moradi had her city council election overturned by religious conservatives, who barred her from office for being too pretty, Iran Wire reports.
http://iranwire.com/en/projects/1961
"Anthony Weiner may be lagging in the race for New York City mayor, but he is winning in another area -- hot dog marketing," ABC News reports.
"The delicious combination of Anthony Weiner's name and his sexually suggestive Twitter antics were apparently too good to pass up for one Florida marketing man, who has joined forces with an Illinois hot dog company to create a hot dog brand called Carlos Danger Weiners, which he has incorporated into the company Carlos Danger LLC."
***From Twitter:
Pollster.com @pollster
HUFFPOLLSTER: Can Twitter Predict Elections? Not So Fast http://huff.to/1acYMIJ
Mickey McCauley @Mickey_McCauley
Somehow people who ask what you'll do in the zombie apocalypse get annoyed when you say you'll ride your Pegasus to safety
Retweeted by Ray Radlein
inhabitat @inhabitat
The world's first "Pestaurant" is serving up chocolate-dipped ants and salty crickets in London! http://bit.ly/16TNaXV
[Note: Deer, pegasi, and most insects are not kosher.]
Godzilla, Warrior Princess 8/15/13 Dan Goodman, 1720 Como Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414. dsgood at iphouse.com or at gmail.com. Previous at http://dsgoodman.blogspot.com
Thursday August 15, 2013 Southeast Library, to pick Vincent Fortanasce, The Anti-Alzheimer's Prescription.
Fortanasce is a neurologist with genetic susceptability to Alzheimer's.
***Shopped at the Wedge Coop.
***ACA meeting (Adult Children of Alcoholic and Otherwise Dysfunctional Families.)
I got my six year medallion.
***From Twitter:
Disalmanac @Disalmanac
Today in 1769, Napoleon was born. He was Emperor of France, King of Italy, and Assistant Superintendent of Sanitation for Prussia.
tpt Almanac @tptAlmanac
#thisdayinmnhistory On Aug 15, 1967 @MNDailyNews noted U of M prof who docked student grades for wearing mini skirts
Retweeted by MNHistoricalSociety
Glyn Moody @glynmoody
Women who fear being forced to marry abroad told to hide spoon in underwear - http://bit.ly/1bAlMzj clever approach
[The spoon shows up on an airport metal detector, and airport security takes them away for a private talk.]
Thursday August 15, 2013 Southeast Library, to pick Vincent Fortanasce, The Anti-Alzheimer's Prescription.
Fortanasce is a neurologist with genetic susceptability to Alzheimer's.
***Shopped at the Wedge Coop.
***ACA meeting (Adult Children of Alcoholic and Otherwise Dysfunctional Families.)
I got my six year medallion.
***From Twitter:
Disalmanac @Disalmanac
Today in 1769, Napoleon was born. He was Emperor of France, King of Italy, and Assistant Superintendent of Sanitation for Prussia.
tpt Almanac @tptAlmanac
#thisdayinmnhistory On Aug 15, 1967 @MNDailyNews noted U of M prof who docked student grades for wearing mini skirts
Retweeted by MNHistoricalSociety
Glyn Moody @glynmoody
Women who fear being forced to marry abroad told to hide spoon in underwear - http://bit.ly/1bAlMzj clever approach
[The spoon shows up on an airport metal detector, and airport security takes them away for a private talk.]
Sunday, August 18, 2013
Godzilla, Warrior Princess 8/14/13 Dan Goodman, 1720 Como Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414. dsgood at iphouse.com or at gmail.com.
Wednesday August 14, 2013 To Waite House for NAPS (Nutritional Assistance Program for Seniors) food.
And the twice-monthly produce giveaway. This time, they had a lot of zucchini. Much, much, much zucchini.
***Sent Ed Meskys two sets of information, related to questions raised in THE VIEW FROM ENTROPY HALL #49.
1) A story John Boardman had been searching for (about what would have happened if Joseph hadn't become a slave in Egypt): "Hands Off" by Edward Everett Hale. I'd forgotten author and title, but uchronia.net (devoted to alternate history) has a chronological listing of old stuff.
2) Information on polygamy (polygyny, to be precise) in Jewish law. Quick and dirty summary: Banned for Ashkenazim unless certain very strict conditions are fulfilled. Not exactly banned for other Jews, but extremely rare except where civil law permits it.
***New York Times article on falling population in Germany (with mention of similar problems elsewhere in Europe -- though not everywhere.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/14/world/europe/germany-fights-population-drop.html?hp&_r=1&pagewanted=all&
***From Twitter:
Matt Novak @paleofuture
1980s College Dean: Universities Will Collapse Because of Liberals http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/1980s-college-dean-universities-will-collapse-because-1139210184
ACES @copyeditors
Another save by a copy editor. RT @TheSlot "How to protect your garden from rabbis." Yeah, glad I caught that typo.
Retweeted by Lillian Cohen-Moore
Wednesday August 14, 2013 To Waite House for NAPS (Nutritional Assistance Program for Seniors) food.
And the twice-monthly produce giveaway. This time, they had a lot of zucchini. Much, much, much zucchini.
***Sent Ed Meskys two sets of information, related to questions raised in THE VIEW FROM ENTROPY HALL #49.
1) A story John Boardman had been searching for (about what would have happened if Joseph hadn't become a slave in Egypt): "Hands Off" by Edward Everett Hale. I'd forgotten author and title, but uchronia.net (devoted to alternate history) has a chronological listing of old stuff.
2) Information on polygamy (polygyny, to be precise) in Jewish law. Quick and dirty summary: Banned for Ashkenazim unless certain very strict conditions are fulfilled. Not exactly banned for other Jews, but extremely rare except where civil law permits it.
***New York Times article on falling population in Germany (with mention of similar problems elsewhere in Europe -- though not everywhere.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/14/world/europe/germany-fights-population-drop.html?hp&_r=1&pagewanted=all&
***From Twitter:
Matt Novak @paleofuture
1980s College Dean: Universities Will Collapse Because of Liberals http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/1980s-college-dean-universities-will-collapse-because-1139210184
ACES @copyeditors
Another save by a copy editor. RT @TheSlot "How to protect your garden from rabbis." Yeah, glad I caught that typo.
Retweeted by Lillian Cohen-Moore
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Godzilla, Warrior Princess 8/12/13 Dan Goodman, 1720 Como Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414. dsgood at iphouse.com or at gmail.com.
Monday August 12, 2013 Picked up pills at HealthPartners Riverside Pharmacy. They came with the usual warning against breastfeeding while using the medication.
***From Twitter:
Bit Rebels @bitrebels
Turn Your Bathtub Water Into An Immersive Interactive Touchscreen - http://bit.ly/1cuVXEI
[Yes, it's a serious post]
wwwtxt (1988–94) @wwwtxt 10 Aug
The computer hobbyist spirit is almost dead. Perhaps what is really wrong here is a lack of curiosity or unwillingness to experiment. 93MAR
wwwtxt (1988–94) @wwwtxt 10 Aug
I think the only reason this author set his book in 2013 was to include virtual reality. 93JUL
Tom Standage @tomstandage
On one occasion New York's 19th-century pneumatic tube system was used to transport a cat between post offices #Hyperloop #VictorianInternet
Retweeted by Benjamin Lukoff
========
Dennis Lien Aug 10
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Daniel S. Goodman <dsgood@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thursday August 8, 2013 Adult Children Anonymous meeting. (Adult Children of Alcoholic and Otherwise Dysfunctional Families Anonymous.)
>>
>> One poster on the meeting place's wall quoted a sermon John Robinson gave to Pilgrims in 1620:
>>
>> "We limit not the truth of God to our poor reach of mind
>> To notions of our day and place, crude partial, and confined
>> No, let a new and better hope within our hearts be stirred,
>> There is yet more light and truth to break forth from God's Holy Word."
**********
>Nope. These are lyrics from an 1850 hymn by George Rawson, based on alleged prose "farewell" by >Robinson to the Pilgrims, not a sermon as such.
>See "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_Light_Presbyterians under "Origin of the Name 'More >Light'" section.
Lee Gold Aug 5
On 8/5/2013 2:21 PM, Daniel S. Goodman wrote:
>>Friday August 2, 2013 Idea I probably won't do anything with: A proposed US constitutional >>convention to clarify the Second Amendment
>I've always felt one should start by looking at the Northwest Ordinance's use of "regulatd" and >"militia" http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/nworder.asp
Thanks for that link. It does make sense. However, political discussion of the Second Amendment mostly is discussion of magic. Either guns are white magic, or they're black magic.
Monday August 12, 2013 Picked up pills at HealthPartners Riverside Pharmacy. They came with the usual warning against breastfeeding while using the medication.
***From Twitter:
Bit Rebels @bitrebels
Turn Your Bathtub Water Into An Immersive Interactive Touchscreen - http://bit.ly/1cuVXEI
[Yes, it's a serious post]
wwwtxt (1988–94) @wwwtxt 10 Aug
The computer hobbyist spirit is almost dead. Perhaps what is really wrong here is a lack of curiosity or unwillingness to experiment. 93MAR
wwwtxt (1988–94) @wwwtxt 10 Aug
I think the only reason this author set his book in 2013 was to include virtual reality. 93JUL
Tom Standage @tomstandage
On one occasion New York's 19th-century pneumatic tube system was used to transport a cat between post offices #Hyperloop #VictorianInternet
Retweeted by Benjamin Lukoff
========
Dennis Lien Aug 10
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 5:53 PM, Daniel S. Goodman <dsgood@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Thursday August 8, 2013 Adult Children Anonymous meeting. (Adult Children of Alcoholic and Otherwise Dysfunctional Families Anonymous.)
>>
>> One poster on the meeting place's wall quoted a sermon John Robinson gave to Pilgrims in 1620:
>>
>> "We limit not the truth of God to our poor reach of mind
>> To notions of our day and place, crude partial, and confined
>> No, let a new and better hope within our hearts be stirred,
>> There is yet more light and truth to break forth from God's Holy Word."
**********
>Nope. These are lyrics from an 1850 hymn by George Rawson, based on alleged prose "farewell" by >Robinson to the Pilgrims, not a sermon as such.
>See "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/More_Light_Presbyterians under "Origin of the Name 'More >Light'" section.
Lee Gold Aug 5
On 8/5/2013 2:21 PM, Daniel S. Goodman wrote:
>>Friday August 2, 2013 Idea I probably won't do anything with: A proposed US constitutional >>convention to clarify the Second Amendment
>I've always felt one should start by looking at the Northwest Ordinance's use of "regulatd" and >"militia" http://avalon.law.yale.edu/18th_century/nworder.asp
Thanks for that link. It does make sense. However, political discussion of the Second Amendment mostly is discussion of magic. Either guns are white magic, or they're black magic.
Monday, August 12, 2013
Our Universe's Horoscope
For the sake of this exercise, I make two assumptions: One which I don't believe, and one which hasn't been proven or disproven (so far this week.)
1) Astrology works.
2) Our universe budded off from an older universe.
If both are true, it is possible to draw up a natal chart for our universe. Provided, of course, we can obtain certain needed information.
What are the physical and spiritual laws of the parent universe, and how do they affect astrology? If they don't allow stars to form, something else will need to serve as markers.
In the parent universe's time, when was our universe born?
For the sake of this exercise, I make two assumptions: One which I don't believe, and one which hasn't been proven or disproven (so far this week.)
1) Astrology works.
2) Our universe budded off from an older universe.
If both are true, it is possible to draw up a natal chart for our universe. Provided, of course, we can obtain certain needed information.
What are the physical and spiritual laws of the parent universe, and how do they affect astrology? If they don't allow stars to form, something else will need to serve as markers.
In the parent universe's time, when was our universe born?
Friday, August 9, 2013
Thursday August 8, 2013 Adult Children Anonymous meeting. (Adult Children of Alcoholic and Otherwise Dysfunctional Families Anonymous.)
One poster on the meeting place's wall quoted a sermon John Robinson gave to Pilgrims in 1620:
"We limit not the truth of God to our poor reach of mind
To notions of our day and place, crude partial, and confined
No, let a new and better hope within our hearts be stirred,
There is yet more light and truth to break forth from God's Holy Word."
***From politicalwire.com:
The Dumbest Candidate Ever?
Stephanie Banister, of the Australian One Nation movement "did her campaign no favors" in a television interview, "mistaking Islam for a country, confusing haram with Koran and drawing a blank on the nationwide disability scheme," the Sydney Morning Herald reports.
She also claimed that ''Jews follow Jesus Christ''.
From Twitter:
William Brazill @InstantFiction
He moved like a polo player, she thought, a man used to commanding a mount and scoring. It thrilled her that he might see her as a goal.
[Not the best romance writing I've seen.]
GlenHiemstra @GlenHiemstra
Modafinil - the time-shifting drug - would you stay awake for 40 hours straight if there were no side effects? http://buff.ly/14kkiXT
inhabitat @inhabitat
Find out why this school district in Texas plans to start micro-chipping their students http://bit.ly/19k1dbY
One poster on the meeting place's wall quoted a sermon John Robinson gave to Pilgrims in 1620:
"We limit not the truth of God to our poor reach of mind
To notions of our day and place, crude partial, and confined
No, let a new and better hope within our hearts be stirred,
There is yet more light and truth to break forth from God's Holy Word."
***From politicalwire.com:
The Dumbest Candidate Ever?
Stephanie Banister, of the Australian One Nation movement "did her campaign no favors" in a television interview, "mistaking Islam for a country, confusing haram with Koran and drawing a blank on the nationwide disability scheme," the Sydney Morning Herald reports.
She also claimed that ''Jews follow Jesus Christ''.
From Twitter:
William Brazill @InstantFiction
He moved like a polo player, she thought, a man used to commanding a mount and scoring. It thrilled her that he might see her as a goal.
[Not the best romance writing I've seen.]
GlenHiemstra @GlenHiemstra
Modafinil - the time-shifting drug - would you stay awake for 40 hours straight if there were no side effects? http://buff.ly/14kkiXT
inhabitat @inhabitat
Find out why this school district in Texas plans to start micro-chipping their students http://bit.ly/19k1dbY
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Tuesday August 6, 2013 National Night Out. I didn't attend any of the local gatherings -- which, considering the evening's weather (episodes of hail and rain), was just as well.
But there will be a "PPL National Night Out" gathering on the 16th at Van Cleve Park. (The National Night Out movement has had a schism.)
***T-shirt: "Ce n'est pas un t-shirt."
***Seen at the Minneapolis Central Library, a Christian sf novel which I disrecommend: The Tuloriad, (Oct 2009, John Ringo, Tom Kratman, publ. Baen, 1-4391-3304-2, $26.00, 385pp, hc)
Main reason for disrecommendation: Tom Kratman doesn't demonstrate as much Christian charity as th average Satanist.
***Shopped at St. Vincent De Paul thrift store and the Wedge Coop. Paid for next thirty days of no-contract phone service.
At Southeast Library, picked up a collection of George Orwell's essays.
From politicalwire.com:
Bonus Quote of the Day
"What are you going to do about it, grandpa?"
-- Anthony Weiner, quoted by the New York Post, to a 69-year-old man who objected to Weiner touching him at an AARP mayoral forum.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/lf27bjt
From Twitter:
R.L. Ripples @TweetsofOld
Mondays have been designated "Hangman's" day in South Carolina. "We should worry." MN1913
But there will be a "PPL National Night Out" gathering on the 16th at Van Cleve Park. (The National Night Out movement has had a schism.)
***T-shirt: "Ce n'est pas un t-shirt."
***Seen at the Minneapolis Central Library, a Christian sf novel which I disrecommend: The Tuloriad, (Oct 2009, John Ringo, Tom Kratman, publ. Baen, 1-4391-3304-2, $26.00, 385pp, hc)
Main reason for disrecommendation: Tom Kratman doesn't demonstrate as much Christian charity as th average Satanist.
***Shopped at St. Vincent De Paul thrift store and the Wedge Coop. Paid for next thirty days of no-contract phone service.
At Southeast Library, picked up a collection of George Orwell's essays.
From politicalwire.com:
Bonus Quote of the Day
"What are you going to do about it, grandpa?"
-- Anthony Weiner, quoted by the New York Post, to a 69-year-old man who objected to Weiner touching him at an AARP mayoral forum.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/lf27bjt
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Monday, August 5, 2013
Thursday August 1, 2013 ACA meeting (Adult Children of Alcoholic and Otherwise Dysfunctional Families.)
Part of what was discussed: "Adult children guess at what normal is."
Which brought to the surface something I'd been coming to realize for a while. In one sense of "normal," there's no way I could manage it. I deviate too much from the norm. In good ways (above average intelligence, ability to come up with ideas.) In bad ways (ADD/ADHD, minor degree of cerebral palsy.) And in one which I consider neutral (synesthesia of various kinds.)
And I'm a few years older than the Baby Boomers. Which means that what was normal when I was growing up is way out of date.
Another ACA member has a saying; "I don't want to be normal. I want to be healthy."
I think I'm getting there.
***Read Volume 3 of The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny. Among information in this volume: After Zelazny quit his job to write full time, his production didn't go up. He wrote no more than he had when he also worked full time at the day job.
***Apologies to anyone in whom the following arouses unwanted lustful thoughts.
From Ansible 313, THOG'S MASTERCLASS:
_True Romance Dept._ 'But then the tips of her breasts became erect on their own, and the flood in her loins washed morals, despair, and all other abstract assessments away in a cloud of some sort of divine cologne of his. Now his big generative jockey was inside her pelvic saddle, riding, riding, riding, and she was eagerly swallowing it swallowing it swallowing it with the saddle's own lips and maw -- all this without a word.' (Tom Wolfe, _Back to Blood_, 2012)
Part of what was discussed: "Adult children guess at what normal is."
Which brought to the surface something I'd been coming to realize for a while. In one sense of "normal," there's no way I could manage it. I deviate too much from the norm. In good ways (above average intelligence, ability to come up with ideas.) In bad ways (ADD/ADHD, minor degree of cerebral palsy.) And in one which I consider neutral (synesthesia of various kinds.)
And I'm a few years older than the Baby Boomers. Which means that what was normal when I was growing up is way out of date.
Another ACA member has a saying; "I don't want to be normal. I want to be healthy."
I think I'm getting there.
***Read Volume 3 of The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny. Among information in this volume: After Zelazny quit his job to write full time, his production didn't go up. He wrote no more than he had when he also worked full time at the day job.
***Apologies to anyone in whom the following arouses unwanted lustful thoughts.
From Ansible 313, THOG'S MASTERCLASS:
_True Romance Dept._ 'But then the tips of her breasts became erect on their own, and the flood in her loins washed morals, despair, and all other abstract assessments away in a cloud of some sort of divine cologne of his. Now his big generative jockey was inside her pelvic saddle, riding, riding, riding, and she was eagerly swallowing it swallowing it swallowing it with the saddle's own lips and maw -- all this without a word.' (Tom Wolfe, _Back to Blood_, 2012)
Friday August 2, 2013 Idea I probably won't do anything with: A proposed US constitutional convention to clarify the Second Amendment; supported by groups with rather different ideas of what "the right to bear arms" should mean.
And found myself thinking about adding functional constituencies to Congress.
***Never let it be said that American politics is a few clowns short of a circus.
From politicalwire.com:
August 02, 2013
Quote of the Day
"We all are freaky. He just exposed his freaky-ism in the wrong way."
-- Jimmy McMillan of The Rent is Too Damn High Party, quoted by Politicker, endorsing Anthony Weiner in the New York City mayoral race.
For those who don't keep up with such news: Anthony Weiner sent x-rated messages (in some of which he exposed himself) to various women. Some of them after he had supposedly stopped doing so.
And found myself thinking about adding functional constituencies to Congress.
***Never let it be said that American politics is a few clowns short of a circus.
From politicalwire.com:
August 02, 2013
Quote of the Day
"We all are freaky. He just exposed his freaky-ism in the wrong way."
-- Jimmy McMillan of The Rent is Too Damn High Party, quoted by Politicker, endorsing Anthony Weiner in the New York City mayoral race.
For those who don't keep up with such news: Anthony Weiner sent x-rated messages (in some of which he exposed himself) to various women. Some of them after he had supposedly stopped doing so.
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