I Don't Want to Be Normal. I Want to Be Healthy. #8 Dan Goodman, 1720 Como Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414. dsgood at iphouse.com or at gmail.com. 612-298-2354
Friday October 18, 2013 Last night, I ate turkey livers. Today, I was over whatever I'd had. I think the turkey livers contributed.
Pedantic note: I ate what I'm certain was turkey giblets, including livers. The Wedge Coop has been labeling them just "giblets." For all I know, they're imported crosstime from an alternate world in which different fowl were domesticated.
"Keep calm and chive on" Seen on a car.
***Got a flu shot.
***From Twitter:
Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly
RT @make First two 3D printers in Haiti will be put to work printing umbilical cord clamps & other medical devices. http://bit.ly/1c2Ia8s
Laura Anne Gilman @LAGilman
"Dear God." - otherwise jaded houseguest on reaction of cats to my opening a tin of sardines... #furrysharks
Means of Exchange @MeansofExchange
What happens when a slum in Mombasa adopts its own complementary currency: http://bit.ly/1115ID3 via @BrookingsInst
Elf Sternberg @elfsternberg
Dennis Miller told a caller, "This is the America Americans chose in 2012." Caller: "Most Americans aren't Americans then!"
R.L. Ripples @TweetsofOld
The U. S. bureau of education has endorsed the effort to educate high school girls to make them efficient wives and housekeepers. MO1913
Hard Sci-Fi Movies @HardSciFiMovies
Police begin using "pre-cognitives" to prosecute crimes that have not yet occurred. The Supreme Court deems the practice unconstitutional.
Saturday, October 19, 2013
Friday, October 18, 2013
I Don't Want to Be Normal. I Want to Be Healthy. #6 Dan Goodman, 1720 Como Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414. dsgood at iphouse.com or at gmail.com. 612-298-2354
Thursday October 17, 2013 From brotherguy on LiveJournal: "...Since it has significant theological content (the title is, Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial?) and both my co-author and I are members of a religious order, that means that we have to be sure not to embarrass the order too much with what we say, so it has to go past someone higher up to check for theological howlers. (My last book garnered a comment that 'the statement you make on page 213 was specifically condemned by the Council of Nicea'. Well, I didn't know... I added the word 'not' to that sentence.)"
***Feeling better, but not up to par. Skipped the Adult Children Anonymous meeting.
***From email:
The Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast Museum, "Where Everyone is Treated like Family," is the former home of Lizzie Borden, who remains in the center of a whodunnit involving the murder of her parents--to this day
***From Twitter:
Dan Goodman @dsgood
.@USRealityCheck "Genetically modified crop pioneers" How were they modified? Were the geneticists who modified them also honored?
Thursday October 17, 2013 From brotherguy on LiveJournal: "...Since it has significant theological content (the title is, Would You Baptize an Extraterrestrial?) and both my co-author and I are members of a religious order, that means that we have to be sure not to embarrass the order too much with what we say, so it has to go past someone higher up to check for theological howlers. (My last book garnered a comment that 'the statement you make on page 213 was specifically condemned by the Council of Nicea'. Well, I didn't know... I added the word 'not' to that sentence.)"
***Feeling better, but not up to par. Skipped the Adult Children Anonymous meeting.
***From email:
The Lizzie Borden Bed & Breakfast Museum, "Where Everyone is Treated like Family," is the former home of Lizzie Borden, who remains in the center of a whodunnit involving the murder of her parents--to this day
***From Twitter:
Dan Goodman @dsgood
.@USRealityCheck "Genetically modified crop pioneers" How were they modified? Were the geneticists who modified them also honored?
Thursday, October 17, 2013
I Don't Want to Be Normal. I Want to Be Healthy. #6 Dan Goodman, 1720 Como Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414. dsgood at iphouse.com or at gmail.com. 612-298-2354
Wednesday October 16, 2013 Sickish. At least partly Fall allergies, I suspect.
***In my opinion, the House Republican leadership has done for responsible conservatism what Frank and Jesse James did for the banking industry. But now, at the last minute, they acted responsibly.
****October 15 Seawasp says:
"> Thoughts: Ability to transmit sensations other than sight and sound might
> make computer dating sites more interesting. 'This is what my [body part]
> feels and tastes like.'
"> I haven't seen this done in science fiction. Has anyone else?
"Well, that sounds like immersive VR with selectable transmission (for your dating idea).
"OOO! How about this! Computer dating where your date controls the sensations you can access! So like many games, you get achievements at various levels of successful dating. *Bing* Your recent dates have made _Your Date_ very happy. You have unlocked Breasts!"
I was thinking about using the Net to find people for in-person dating. But this does sound interesting.
From Twitter:
RAND Congressional @RAND_OCR
Just ended: brief on preparing for possibility of #NKorea regime collapse. Download book free http://bit.ly/1cupGuk pic.twitter.com/d9ZdYZMHuS
Retweeted by RAND Corporation
Davho Pldal @SnarkOnTap
*spit-take* RT @AlanColmes: GOP Rep: Press To Blame For Falsely Reporting We Wanted To Repeal Obamacare http://colm.es/1cuObHC #p2
Kory Stamper @KoryStamper
Oh, email: "Just because a word is in historic print, or because people used it, doesn't make it a word!!" By this logic, words don't exist.
Retweeted by Copyediting
Wednesday October 16, 2013 Sickish. At least partly Fall allergies, I suspect.
***In my opinion, the House Republican leadership has done for responsible conservatism what Frank and Jesse James did for the banking industry. But now, at the last minute, they acted responsibly.
****October 15 Seawasp says:
"> Thoughts: Ability to transmit sensations other than sight and sound might
> make computer dating sites more interesting. 'This is what my [body part]
> feels and tastes like.'
"> I haven't seen this done in science fiction. Has anyone else?
"Well, that sounds like immersive VR with selectable transmission (for your dating idea).
"OOO! How about this! Computer dating where your date controls the sensations you can access! So like many games, you get achievements at various levels of successful dating. *Bing* Your recent dates have made _Your Date_ very happy. You have unlocked Breasts!"
I was thinking about using the Net to find people for in-person dating. But this does sound interesting.
From Twitter:
RAND Congressional @RAND_OCR
Just ended: brief on preparing for possibility of #NKorea regime collapse. Download book free http://bit.ly/1cupGuk pic.twitter.com/d9ZdYZMHuS
Retweeted by RAND Corporation
Davho Pldal @SnarkOnTap
*spit-take* RT @AlanColmes: GOP Rep: Press To Blame For Falsely Reporting We Wanted To Repeal Obamacare http://colm.es/1cuObHC #p2
Kory Stamper @KoryStamper
Oh, email: "Just because a word is in historic print, or because people used it, doesn't make it a word!!" By this logic, words don't exist.
Retweeted by Copyediting
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
I Don't Want to Be Normal. I Want to Be Healthy. #5 Dan Goodman, 1720 Como Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414. dsgood at iphouse.com or at gmail.com. 612-298-2354
Tuesday October 15, 2013 Ada Lovelace Day
Method of recording brain activity could lead to mind-reading devices, scientists say
http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2013/october/parvizi.html
***Gary Shteyngart wrote recently that he chose to set his novel, “Super Sad True Love Story,” “in an unspecified near future, because setting a novel in the present in a time of unprecedented technological and social dislocation seemed to me shortsighted.” Even so, Mr. Shteyngart’s novel “proved prescient all too quickly.” Soon after it was published, many aspects of the book’s satirical near-future world — from transparent clothing to smartphone apps that help people hook up in bars — had become commonplace.
It’s a problem all novelists have to contend with, to a certain extent. Fiction is supposed to reflect reality, in some way or another. But reality is constantly changing. It can take years to write a novel and in those years, history marches on. Wars break out and governments are toppled, perceptions shift and new gadgets are invented....
http://preview.tinyurl.com/lt6jg54
Not mentioned in the article: Failure to observe what's already happened. In the 1950s, English science fiction writers (notably Arthur C. Clarke) took for granted that England would continue to be a Great Power on Earth, and would become one in space. The UK was no longer a Great Power.
I'm not sure when it should have been obvious that the Soviet Union wasn't going to take over the world.
***From Twitter:
Eric W. Dolan @EWDolan
Lithuania moves to takes advantage of Polish ban on ritual slaughter http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/15/lithuania-moves-to-takes-advantage-of-polish-ban-on-ritual-slaughter/ …
Tuesday October 15, 2013 Ada Lovelace Day
Method of recording brain activity could lead to mind-reading devices, scientists say
http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2013/october/parvizi.html
***Gary Shteyngart wrote recently that he chose to set his novel, “Super Sad True Love Story,” “in an unspecified near future, because setting a novel in the present in a time of unprecedented technological and social dislocation seemed to me shortsighted.” Even so, Mr. Shteyngart’s novel “proved prescient all too quickly.” Soon after it was published, many aspects of the book’s satirical near-future world — from transparent clothing to smartphone apps that help people hook up in bars — had become commonplace.
It’s a problem all novelists have to contend with, to a certain extent. Fiction is supposed to reflect reality, in some way or another. But reality is constantly changing. It can take years to write a novel and in those years, history marches on. Wars break out and governments are toppled, perceptions shift and new gadgets are invented....
http://preview.tinyurl.com/lt6jg54
Not mentioned in the article: Failure to observe what's already happened. In the 1950s, English science fiction writers (notably Arthur C. Clarke) took for granted that England would continue to be a Great Power on Earth, and would become one in space. The UK was no longer a Great Power.
I'm not sure when it should have been obvious that the Soviet Union wasn't going to take over the world.
***From Twitter:
Eric W. Dolan @EWDolan
Lithuania moves to takes advantage of Polish ban on ritual slaughter http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/10/15/lithuania-moves-to-takes-advantage-of-polish-ban-on-ritual-slaughter/ …
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
I Don't Want to Be Normal. I Want to Be Healthy. #3 Dan Goodman, 1720 Como Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414. dsgood at iphouse.com or at gmail.com. 612-298-2354
Monday October 14, 2013 Columbus Day, Anti-Columbus Day, Canadian Thanksgiving
Thoughts: Ability to transmit sensations other than sight and sound might make computer dating sites more interesting. "This is what my [body part] feels and tastes like."
I haven't seen this done in science fiction. Has anyone else?
***I'm not in the target audience: Emailed invitation to a presentation on the Shroud of Turin.
***From Twitter:
Evil Wylie @EvilWylie
I’ve read Amish vampire fiction before, and it’s pretty much what you’d expect. You don’t need electricity to change into a bat.
Reason @reason
Ohio Republicans Attempt to Eliminate Minor Parties; Libertarians and Greens Push Back - http://bit.ly/18fwaMz
Retweeted by Benjamin Lukoff
Hard Sci-Fi Movies @HardSciFiMovies
A boy and his sister discover a space alien and provide him refuge in their home closet. Their parents correctly identify it as a groundhog.
Retweeted by rivenhomewood
Andrew Shaffer @andrewtshaffer
The long-awaited 3rd chapter of my NSFW Edward Snowden erotic fanfic: http://www.literaryrogue.com/edward-snowden-fanfic/chapter-3.html …
Retweeted by Evil Wylie
Evil Wylie @EvilWylie
"She stared at him for a moment and then flung out her arms, shouting, 'There is no baby, lizardman!'" actual line from "lizard erotica"
Monday October 14, 2013 Columbus Day, Anti-Columbus Day, Canadian Thanksgiving
Thoughts: Ability to transmit sensations other than sight and sound might make computer dating sites more interesting. "This is what my [body part] feels and tastes like."
I haven't seen this done in science fiction. Has anyone else?
***I'm not in the target audience: Emailed invitation to a presentation on the Shroud of Turin.
***From Twitter:
Evil Wylie @EvilWylie
I’ve read Amish vampire fiction before, and it’s pretty much what you’d expect. You don’t need electricity to change into a bat.
Reason @reason
Ohio Republicans Attempt to Eliminate Minor Parties; Libertarians and Greens Push Back - http://bit.ly/18fwaMz
Retweeted by Benjamin Lukoff
Hard Sci-Fi Movies @HardSciFiMovies
A boy and his sister discover a space alien and provide him refuge in their home closet. Their parents correctly identify it as a groundhog.
Retweeted by rivenhomewood
Andrew Shaffer @andrewtshaffer
The long-awaited 3rd chapter of my NSFW Edward Snowden erotic fanfic: http://www.literaryrogue.com/edward-snowden-fanfic/chapter-3.html …
Retweeted by Evil Wylie
Evil Wylie @EvilWylie
"She stared at him for a moment and then flung out her arms, shouting, 'There is no baby, lizardman!'" actual line from "lizard erotica"
Monday, October 14, 2013
I Don't Want to Be Normal. I Want to Be Healthy. #3 Dan Goodman, 1720 Como Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414. dsgood at iphouse.com or at gmail.com. 612-298-2354
Sunday October 13, 2013 "A Few Geniuses More" (working title, sf short) is now going well.
***Comments to me:
October 9 Lee Gold. "A recent article I noticed on Salon or on GoogleNews disclosed that federal rules allow unpaid interns to continue working for free, with the result that interns are now doing a lot of work during the shutdown."
http://www.salon.com/2013/10/08/government_quietly_being_staffed_during_shutdown_by_unpaid_interns/
"You might be interested in the various rumors recently debunked by Snopes in which the Federal Government cloaks Mount Rushmore, shuts down the Amber Alert system, and threatens to arrest Catholic chaplains in the military if they hold Mass."
I wonder why specifically Catholic chaplains?
August 23 Lee Gold <lee.gold@ca.rr.com>
"On 8/23/2013 4:09 PM, Daniel S. Goodman wrote: 'I sometimes wonder how a teleportation network would affect where people live. If they could commute from places with extremely low housing prices to jobs anywhere, how many would do it?'
"Places with extremely low housing prices may have higher rates for heating & air conditioning
(or will you cheaply teleport hot/cold air to them?). They may also have more annoying noise levels and smells and other problems."
These are among the things which people who now make such moves run into. Plus weather they're not used to, high food prices, unaccustomed poisonous plants, less choice of utility providers ....
August 20 Fred Lerner. "Deer certainly are kosher, if slaughtered properly. A bit of googling should take you to sources for kosher venison. We used to get kosher bison from a butcher in New Haven, but they haven't had any lately. (I'd hate to be the guy who has to get up close and schecht the critter!)"
Thanks for the correction.
August 22 Lee Gold. "> 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.
"How do they tell whether a deer was accidentally hit or deliberately run down?
Or illegally shot (out of season, maybe) and then disguised as an accident victim?"
"> 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
"Did the article say she was too pretty?
Or just that she was a young woman behaving improperly?"
It said she was too attractive.
""> [Note: Deer, pegasi, and most insects are not kosher.]
"Deer split the hoof and chew cud, and therefore are kosher -- if they are properly slaughtered.
http://www.jewfaq.org/kashrut.htm -- 'Cattle, sheep, goats, deer and bison are kosher.'
"Pegasi would probably get classed as a variant of horse -- which doesn't split the hoof OR chew cud. But if you could persuade your rabbis to class pegasi as flying animals, then they might get by on the grounds that they're not any of the forbidden species. In practice, though, kosher rules only accept birds for which there's a tradition of Jews eating them. The turkey squeaked through on its resemblance to chickens, as I understand it. A "pegasus" built on a deerlike or goatlike body might qualify, and this means that deerlike depictions of unicorns would qualify and horselike ones wouldn't."
Sunday October 13, 2013 "A Few Geniuses More" (working title, sf short) is now going well.
***Comments to me:
October 9 Lee Gold. "A recent article I noticed on Salon or on GoogleNews disclosed that federal rules allow unpaid interns to continue working for free, with the result that interns are now doing a lot of work during the shutdown."
http://www.salon.com/2013/10/08/government_quietly_being_staffed_during_shutdown_by_unpaid_interns/
"You might be interested in the various rumors recently debunked by Snopes in which the Federal Government cloaks Mount Rushmore, shuts down the Amber Alert system, and threatens to arrest Catholic chaplains in the military if they hold Mass."
I wonder why specifically Catholic chaplains?
August 23 Lee Gold <lee.gold@ca.rr.com>
"On 8/23/2013 4:09 PM, Daniel S. Goodman wrote: 'I sometimes wonder how a teleportation network would affect where people live. If they could commute from places with extremely low housing prices to jobs anywhere, how many would do it?'
"Places with extremely low housing prices may have higher rates for heating & air conditioning
(or will you cheaply teleport hot/cold air to them?). They may also have more annoying noise levels and smells and other problems."
These are among the things which people who now make such moves run into. Plus weather they're not used to, high food prices, unaccustomed poisonous plants, less choice of utility providers ....
August 20 Fred Lerner. "Deer certainly are kosher, if slaughtered properly. A bit of googling should take you to sources for kosher venison. We used to get kosher bison from a butcher in New Haven, but they haven't had any lately. (I'd hate to be the guy who has to get up close and schecht the critter!)"
Thanks for the correction.
August 22 Lee Gold. "> 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.
"How do they tell whether a deer was accidentally hit or deliberately run down?
Or illegally shot (out of season, maybe) and then disguised as an accident victim?"
"> 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
"Did the article say she was too pretty?
Or just that she was a young woman behaving improperly?"
It said she was too attractive.
""> [Note: Deer, pegasi, and most insects are not kosher.]
"Deer split the hoof and chew cud, and therefore are kosher -- if they are properly slaughtered.
http://www.jewfaq.org/kashrut.htm -- 'Cattle, sheep, goats, deer and bison are kosher.'
"Pegasi would probably get classed as a variant of horse -- which doesn't split the hoof OR chew cud. But if you could persuade your rabbis to class pegasi as flying animals, then they might get by on the grounds that they're not any of the forbidden species. In practice, though, kosher rules only accept birds for which there's a tradition of Jews eating them. The turkey squeaked through on its resemblance to chickens, as I understand it. A "pegasus" built on a deerlike or goatlike body might qualify, and this means that deerlike depictions of unicorns would qualify and horselike ones wouldn't."
Saturday, October 12, 2013
I Don't Want to Be Normal. I Want to Be Healthy. #2 Dan Goodman, 1720 Como Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414. dsgood at iphouse.com or at gmail.com. 612-298-2354
Thursday October 10, 2013 At Steeple People Thrift Store, found a manbag which I liked better than the one I'd been using.
Across Lyndale Avenue to the Wedge Coop.
***Among the new books at Central Library, found: Paula Guran, The Mammoth Book of Angels and Demons. (Mammoth is the publisher; unfortunately, none of the angels or demons are mammoths.) Recommended; theological accuracy not guaranteed.
***I arrived at the Adult Children Anonymous meeting place with a large backpack. Someone remarked that I was obviously prepared for any emergency.
No, I said. I only had one elephant gun.
***From politicalwire.com:
Drunk Dial Congress
A new service randomly connects you to the office of a Member of Congress so you can yell at them.
drunkdialcongress.org
***From Twitter:
Jim Antle @jimantle
Don't believe the liberal pollsters on the shutdown. These are the same skewed polls that said Obama would be reelected.
Retweeted by Josh Gerstein
Friday October 11, 2013 The Star Tribune had an article on the upcoming Zombie Pub Crawl. The Brain Eating Contest will use veal brain tacos, which I'd never heard of before.
***Intentional communities designed for autistic people:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/10/garden/the-architecture-of-autism.html?hpw&pagewanted=all&_r=0
***From Twitter:
Nancy Friedman @Fritinancy
Portmonthteau of the day: Socktober. http://soulpancake.com/socktober/
Swedish Canary @SwedishCanary 9 Oct
Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords as a basis for a system of government is starting to sound better every minute.
Retweeted by Bug G. Membracid
Thursday October 10, 2013 At Steeple People Thrift Store, found a manbag which I liked better than the one I'd been using.
Across Lyndale Avenue to the Wedge Coop.
***Among the new books at Central Library, found: Paula Guran, The Mammoth Book of Angels and Demons. (Mammoth is the publisher; unfortunately, none of the angels or demons are mammoths.) Recommended; theological accuracy not guaranteed.
***I arrived at the Adult Children Anonymous meeting place with a large backpack. Someone remarked that I was obviously prepared for any emergency.
No, I said. I only had one elephant gun.
***From politicalwire.com:
Drunk Dial Congress
A new service randomly connects you to the office of a Member of Congress so you can yell at them.
drunkdialcongress.org
***From Twitter:
Jim Antle @jimantle
Don't believe the liberal pollsters on the shutdown. These are the same skewed polls that said Obama would be reelected.
Retweeted by Josh Gerstein
Friday October 11, 2013 The Star Tribune had an article on the upcoming Zombie Pub Crawl. The Brain Eating Contest will use veal brain tacos, which I'd never heard of before.
***Intentional communities designed for autistic people:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/10/garden/the-architecture-of-autism.html?hpw&pagewanted=all&_r=0
***From Twitter:
Nancy Friedman @Fritinancy
Portmonthteau of the day: Socktober. http://soulpancake.com/socktober/
Swedish Canary @SwedishCanary 9 Oct
Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords as a basis for a system of government is starting to sound better every minute.
Retweeted by Bug G. Membracid
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