I Don't Want to Be Normal. I Want to Be Healthy. #1 Dan Goodman, 1720 Como Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414. dsgood at iphouse.com or at gmail.com. 612-298-2354
Wednesday October 9, 2013 To Waite House for NAPS and produce distribution.
***The Geek Partnership Society (currently the major sf/fantasy fandom(s) group in the Twin Cities Metro) is now on Meetup.
***From politicalwire.com:
Headline of the Day
"IRS Official Says She Never Consorted With the Devil"
-- Associated Press, October 9, 2013.
***From Publishers Lunch (free email from Publishers Marketplace):
Book deal: "NYT bestselling author of WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S STAR WARS Ian Doescher's THE EMPIRE STRIKETH BACK and THE JEDI DOTH RETURN, completing the original Star Wars trilogy in iambic pentameter"
***From Twitter:
MarkMillerITPro @MarkMillerITPro
I hate it when I use the wrong word in my status and people just consume that I am stupid. Jeanette Breedt #quote
Julieanne Smolinski @BoobsRadley
I think more credit for the baby boom should go to food in the 1950s. Jello salad, or sex with just about anyone? You know what you'd pick.
Petteri Tarkkonen @ptarkkonen
"Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect." -Benny Hill #business
Gates Foundation @gatesfoundation
More than 2/3 in Kenya use mobile money. MT @BillGates: There are only 10 ATMs for every 100K adults in #Kenya. http://gates.ly/GGyAts
Retweeted by Futurist Watcher
Friday, October 11, 2013
Tuesday, October 8, 2013
Deep-fried Sashimi 10/06/13 Dan Goodman, 1720 Como Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414. dsgood at iphouse.com or at gmail.com. 612-298-2354
Sunday October 6, 2013 I thought "and their names were Adam and Eve" sf stories were no longer publishable. But at Minneapolis Central Library, new books included Tanith Lee's collection Space is Just a Starry Night; Aqueduct Press, 2013. It contains "With a Flaming Sword," one of the book's two non-reprint stories.
Another story, "Black Fire," references Adam and Eve more subtly. It appeared in Lightspeed in January 2011.
***From Twitter:
R.L. Ripples @TweetsofOld
Samuel Rouzee seeks a divorce from William Rouzee. That two men have been living as man and wife suggests a horrible state of affairs.DC1889
Sunday October 6, 2013 I thought "and their names were Adam and Eve" sf stories were no longer publishable. But at Minneapolis Central Library, new books included Tanith Lee's collection Space is Just a Starry Night; Aqueduct Press, 2013. It contains "With a Flaming Sword," one of the book's two non-reprint stories.
Another story, "Black Fire," references Adam and Eve more subtly. It appeared in Lightspeed in January 2011.
***From Twitter:
R.L. Ripples @TweetsofOld
Samuel Rouzee seeks a divorce from William Rouzee. That two men have been living as man and wife suggests a horrible state of affairs.DC1889
Monday, October 7, 2013
Deep-fried Sashimi 10/05/13 Dan Goodman, 1720 Como Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414. dsgood at iphouse.com or at gmail.com. 612-298-2354
Saturday October 5, 2013 It’s clear that Bryce was conceived in Dallas. But Jocelyn and Paige were conceived in New York City (in the borough of Manhattan). However, neither of those place names seemed to work as baby names, so Ron and Cheryl [Howard] went with the name of the swanky hotel where the twins were conceived: The Carlyle. Using that logic, Reed’s middle name should have been Volvo, but that car brand didn’t work as a baby name either, so the Howards went with the name of the quiet street on which the Volvo was parked in Greenwich, Connecticut: Cross Street. (If you’ve never heard of that "celebrity lovers’ lane" before, you’re not alone.)
http://babynamesinthenews.com/2013/09/19/names-that-reflect-where-the-baby-was-conceived/
Via tweet from Bruce Lansky.
Note: Subscribing to baby name Twitter accounts got me suggestions of pregnancy and baby supplies accounts.
***From Twitter:
wwwtxt (1988–94) @wwwtxt
If the Apple II ever dies, I'd be really surprised. Nearly one out of every ten Apple computers in the world is a IIgs. 89MAR
Future Crimes @FutureCrimes
“@mbgrinberg: Predictive Policing: The Role of Crime Forecasting in LE Operations http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR233.html#.UlBNJiCTBVM.twitter … via @RANDCorporation
Saturday October 5, 2013 It’s clear that Bryce was conceived in Dallas. But Jocelyn and Paige were conceived in New York City (in the borough of Manhattan). However, neither of those place names seemed to work as baby names, so Ron and Cheryl [Howard] went with the name of the swanky hotel where the twins were conceived: The Carlyle. Using that logic, Reed’s middle name should have been Volvo, but that car brand didn’t work as a baby name either, so the Howards went with the name of the quiet street on which the Volvo was parked in Greenwich, Connecticut: Cross Street. (If you’ve never heard of that "celebrity lovers’ lane" before, you’re not alone.)
http://babynamesinthenews.com/2013/09/19/names-that-reflect-where-the-baby-was-conceived/
Via tweet from Bruce Lansky.
Note: Subscribing to baby name Twitter accounts got me suggestions of pregnancy and baby supplies accounts.
***From Twitter:
wwwtxt (1988–94) @wwwtxt
If the Apple II ever dies, I'd be really surprised. Nearly one out of every ten Apple computers in the world is a IIgs. 89MAR
Future Crimes @FutureCrimes
“@mbgrinberg: Predictive Policing: The Role of Crime Forecasting in LE Operations http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR233.html#.UlBNJiCTBVM.twitter … via @RANDCorporation
Sunday, October 6, 2013
Made From Recycled Politicians 10/03/13 Dan Goodman, 1720 Como Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414. dsgood at iphouse.com or at gmail.com. 612-298-2354
Thursday October 3, 2013 Downloaded the final volume of the Child Ballads from Project Gutenberg.
"O haud awa' frae me," she says,
"I pray ye lat me be;
I winna gang into your bed,
Till ye dress me dishes three:
Dishes three ye maun dress to me,
Gin I should eat them a',
Afore that I lie in your bed,
Either at stock or wa'.
"Its ye maun get to my supper
A cherry without a stane;
And ye maun get to my supper
A chicken without a bane;
And ye maun get to my supper
A bird without a ga';
Or I winna lie in your bed,
Either at stock or wa'."
"Its whan the cherry is in the flirry,
I'm sure it has nae stane;
And whan the chicken's in the egg,
I'm sure it has nae bane;
And sin the flood o' Noah,
The dow she had nae ga';
Sae we'll baith lie in ae bed,
And ye'se lie neist the wa'."
Captain Wedderburn's Courtship
***Adult Children Anonymous meeting.
***Synaesthesia and Sexuality: The influence of synaesthetic perceptions on sexual experience
http://www.frontiersin.org/cognitive_science/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00751/abstract
Thursday October 3, 2013 Downloaded the final volume of the Child Ballads from Project Gutenberg.
"O haud awa' frae me," she says,
"I pray ye lat me be;
I winna gang into your bed,
Till ye dress me dishes three:
Dishes three ye maun dress to me,
Gin I should eat them a',
Afore that I lie in your bed,
Either at stock or wa'.
"Its ye maun get to my supper
A cherry without a stane;
And ye maun get to my supper
A chicken without a bane;
And ye maun get to my supper
A bird without a ga';
Or I winna lie in your bed,
Either at stock or wa'."
"Its whan the cherry is in the flirry,
I'm sure it has nae stane;
And whan the chicken's in the egg,
I'm sure it has nae bane;
And sin the flood o' Noah,
The dow she had nae ga';
Sae we'll baith lie in ae bed,
And ye'se lie neist the wa'."
Captain Wedderburn's Courtship
***Adult Children Anonymous meeting.
***Synaesthesia and Sexuality: The influence of synaesthetic perceptions on sexual experience
http://www.frontiersin.org/cognitive_science/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00751/abstract
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Made From Recycled Politicians 10/01/13 Dan Goodman, 1720 Como Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414. dsgood at iphouse.com or at gmail.com. 612-298-2354
Tuesday October 1, 2013 Federal Government largely shut down, first day.
***Shopping day. Wedge Coop, first.
Steeple People Thrift Store.
HealthPartners Riverside pharmacy, to pick up meds. Came with the standard warning not to use if I'm pregnant or breastfeeding.
***From Ansible 315:
RUMBLINGS. _Beach of the Dead 2013:_ the annual Brighton zombie parade has been cancelled owing to 'health and safety fears.' That's what this troubled world needs -- safer and healthier zombies.
GENRE PURITY MASTERCLASS. Outing Lois McMaster Bujold as a writer of romance rather than True SF: 'Bujold tips her hand in the eloquence of her language (normally a good thing) and the attention to detail that only women would find attractive: balls, courts, military dress, palace intrigues, gossiping, and whispering in the corridors. All of this is right out of Alexander Dumas.' (Paul Cash, 'When Science Fiction is Not Science Fiction', _Amazing_, 4 September) [NL/JDN]
From politicalwire.com:
Dean Chambers, the man who helped "unskew" polls during the 2012 presidential campaign to show Mitt Romney was actually leading, now says President Obama is gay.
"I think Sullivan is right, but not for the right reason. I do believe that Barack Obama is in fact our first gay president. But I believe this for entirely different reasons. I believe the man actually is gay."
From Twitter:
Harvard Biz Review @HarvardBiz 8m
Do Depraved Thoughts Make You More Creative? http://s.hbr.org/1hjjIwt
Sara Benincasa @SaraJBenincasa 18m
Pretty psyched to have gotten health insurance in 2013 from one of the same companies that denied me in 2012. The #ACA is my jam.
Retweeted by Zerlina Maxwell
Tuesday October 1, 2013 Federal Government largely shut down, first day.
***Shopping day. Wedge Coop, first.
Steeple People Thrift Store.
HealthPartners Riverside pharmacy, to pick up meds. Came with the standard warning not to use if I'm pregnant or breastfeeding.
***From Ansible 315:
RUMBLINGS. _Beach of the Dead 2013:_ the annual Brighton zombie parade has been cancelled owing to 'health and safety fears.' That's what this troubled world needs -- safer and healthier zombies.
GENRE PURITY MASTERCLASS. Outing Lois McMaster Bujold as a writer of romance rather than True SF: 'Bujold tips her hand in the eloquence of her language (normally a good thing) and the attention to detail that only women would find attractive: balls, courts, military dress, palace intrigues, gossiping, and whispering in the corridors. All of this is right out of Alexander Dumas.' (Paul Cash, 'When Science Fiction is Not Science Fiction', _Amazing_, 4 September) [NL/JDN]
From politicalwire.com:
Dean Chambers, the man who helped "unskew" polls during the 2012 presidential campaign to show Mitt Romney was actually leading, now says President Obama is gay.
"I think Sullivan is right, but not for the right reason. I do believe that Barack Obama is in fact our first gay president. But I believe this for entirely different reasons. I believe the man actually is gay."
From Twitter:
Harvard Biz Review @HarvardBiz 8m
Do Depraved Thoughts Make You More Creative? http://s.hbr.org/1hjjIwt
Sara Benincasa @SaraJBenincasa 18m
Pretty psyched to have gotten health insurance in 2013 from one of the same companies that denied me in 2012. The #ACA is my jam.
Retweeted by Zerlina Maxwell
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Made From Recycled Customers 9/25/13 Dan Goodman, 1720 Como Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414. dsgood at iphouse.com or at gmail.com. 612-298-2354
Wednesday September 25, 2013 "As early as 1804 some New England Federalists had discussed secession from the Union if the national government became too oppressive."
"Secession was again mentioned in 1814–1815; all but one leading Federalist newspaper in New England supported a plan to expel the western states from the Union. Otis, the key leader of the Convention, blocked radical proposals such as a seizure of the Federal customs house, impounding federal funds, or declaring neutrality. Otis thought the Madison administration was near collapse and that unless conservatives like himself and the other delegates took charge, the radical secessionists might take power. Indeed, Otis was unaware that Massachusetts Governor Strong had already sent a secret mission to discuss terms with the British for a separate peace."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartford_Convention
***Smartphone app, learned about on Twitter:
40% of the food we produce goes to waste.
25% of us don't know our neighbors' names.
70% of us are overweight.
16% of Americans lack enough food for a healthy lifestyle.
99% of us don't need a second helping of the beef lo mein.
LeftoverSwap solves all of these problems.
LeftoverSwappers don't feel the need to eat an enormous restaurant portion, and instead pass it on to a hungrier neighbor, in turn learning their name and avoiding excess calories. Through increasing the efficiency of each plot of land dedicated to food production, we can reduce our intensive use of natural resources, and reduce our expansion into sensitive environmental areas.
http://leftoverswap.com
***From Twitter:
GalleyCat @GalleyCat
Would you like a glass of "Red Satin?" E.L. James helps create ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ wines: http://mbist.ro/190wN8J
isalmanac @Disalmanac
Today in 1951, Mark Hamill was born. George Lucas has removed Hamill from the original "Star Wars," replacing him with a CGI walrus.
Jessica Misener @jessmisener
i think we're all ignoring the real news here: portland has a VEGAN STRIP CLUB
Retweeted by Ben Smith
Wednesday September 25, 2013 "As early as 1804 some New England Federalists had discussed secession from the Union if the national government became too oppressive."
"Secession was again mentioned in 1814–1815; all but one leading Federalist newspaper in New England supported a plan to expel the western states from the Union. Otis, the key leader of the Convention, blocked radical proposals such as a seizure of the Federal customs house, impounding federal funds, or declaring neutrality. Otis thought the Madison administration was near collapse and that unless conservatives like himself and the other delegates took charge, the radical secessionists might take power. Indeed, Otis was unaware that Massachusetts Governor Strong had already sent a secret mission to discuss terms with the British for a separate peace."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hartford_Convention
***Smartphone app, learned about on Twitter:
40% of the food we produce goes to waste.
25% of us don't know our neighbors' names.
70% of us are overweight.
16% of Americans lack enough food for a healthy lifestyle.
99% of us don't need a second helping of the beef lo mein.
LeftoverSwap solves all of these problems.
LeftoverSwappers don't feel the need to eat an enormous restaurant portion, and instead pass it on to a hungrier neighbor, in turn learning their name and avoiding excess calories. Through increasing the efficiency of each plot of land dedicated to food production, we can reduce our intensive use of natural resources, and reduce our expansion into sensitive environmental areas.
http://leftoverswap.com
***From Twitter:
GalleyCat @GalleyCat
Would you like a glass of "Red Satin?" E.L. James helps create ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ wines: http://mbist.ro/190wN8J
isalmanac @Disalmanac
Today in 1951, Mark Hamill was born. George Lucas has removed Hamill from the original "Star Wars," replacing him with a CGI walrus.
Jessica Misener @jessmisener
i think we're all ignoring the real news here: portland has a VEGAN STRIP CLUB
Retweeted by Ben Smith
Tuesday, October 1, 2013
Is Your Future Strange Enough?
Prediction 1: Three months from now, the weather will be exactly the same as it is today -- all over the world.
Prediction 2: Twenty years from now, human society will be exactly the same as it is today. Take the United States, for example. Americans will have the same political beliefs, consider the same matters most important, have the same sexual mores, listen to the same kinds of music (if not the exact same music you like now.)
The first prediction is more likely to be accurate.
Two hundred years from now: The United States will probably remain the most powerful country in North America. It's unlikely to still be the world's most powerful country. (I do think it's likely the US won't be among the weakest nations. The country which exported frankfurters to Frankfurt, hamburgers to Hamburg, and bagels to Warsaw is adaptable.)
If the current major parties survive, they'll be very different from what they now are.
Any music which survives from our time will almost certainly be played rather differently than it is now.
Two thousand years from now: English, like every other living language, will be changed enough so if you were brought forward into that time you'd need to relearn it. Any cities which remain from our time will be much changed.
Prediction 1: Three months from now, the weather will be exactly the same as it is today -- all over the world.
Prediction 2: Twenty years from now, human society will be exactly the same as it is today. Take the United States, for example. Americans will have the same political beliefs, consider the same matters most important, have the same sexual mores, listen to the same kinds of music (if not the exact same music you like now.)
The first prediction is more likely to be accurate.
Two hundred years from now: The United States will probably remain the most powerful country in North America. It's unlikely to still be the world's most powerful country. (I do think it's likely the US won't be among the weakest nations. The country which exported frankfurters to Frankfurt, hamburgers to Hamburg, and bagels to Warsaw is adaptable.)
If the current major parties survive, they'll be very different from what they now are.
Any music which survives from our time will almost certainly be played rather differently than it is now.
Two thousand years from now: English, like every other living language, will be changed enough so if you were brought forward into that time you'd need to relearn it. Any cities which remain from our time will be much changed.
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