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An entertaining day today - 08 August 2007
Aug. 9th, 2007 01:28 amToday was a good day for me, at least - went bowling, where I posted up a 145/178/176 sequence, having found a magic ball that I could work with and a relatively consistent approach and throw. After that, there was some poking about in parks for letterboxes, and a baseball game closed out the night. The home team won, and I got to watch someone hit a grand slam. Pretty nice dinger, that one.
There were other apparently momentous occasions happening while I've been out here. For better or for worse, asterisk or no, Barry Bonds hit home run 756 onTuesday, making him the current leader in most home runs hit in a career.
Michelle Malkin makes a strong point about coverage of the conflict in Iaq - reporting what actually happens, rather than what you want to believe, is a fundamental responsibility of news and journalistic organizations. Mind you, she dresses this in a "liberals love to belive that the war in Iraq is going problematically to the point that our troops are committing genocide" kind of glove, but the underlying message is sound. The Michigan Senate's chief of staff, however, isn't waiting to give one site a chance, banning the Blogging for Michigan blog, citing that taxpayer money and senatorial time should be better spent on material "applicable to the jobs staff were hired to do" The problem with cutting off a blog that has opinions against yours is that it looks like censorship - there needs to be much more concrete reason in place that your own opinion about whether it's worth the time and money. Some time later that day, the blog ban was rescinded, and the chief of staff is ordering a full review of Senate policies regarding emploee use of the Internet. Which will give them that much more solid reasoning, no doubt, on any future decisions being made regarding where the Seators can and cannot access the web.
A rather interesting round-up of items regarding the Republican Party - Young Republican perverts become older republican perverts, possibly having obtained promotions along the way. There have to be plenty of Democrats that would make a list like this, too. Still, that list is much longer than it should be for anyone.
The United Kingdom has denied Iraqi traslators that have helped UK forces asylum according to a Times report. I can't tell from the BBC report whether Downing Street or any of the other MPs have made any official statements about the matter or not.
The following link has a process that repurposes an object and turns it into art. By doing so, it creates origami made of toilet paper. My suspicions are that the material in use is several-ply, rather than the single, barely-effective shets that I have had the distinct lack of pleasure from using at various points in my life.
Trivia today from Blue Egg - how long does it take before idling is a worse choice than turning the car off? In similar environmental materals, a record number of beaches have been declared unsafe for swimming, and the likely extinction of a river dolphin found only in China. In trying to help the environment some, a process called "resonation" will speed up the decay of Hume corpses so that they degrade into dust in two hours time. Regarding potentially new environments and things adapting to them, a supposedly eight million year-old bacteria is alive and growing. For some, this means that as very old ice melts, things locked away in them might start thriving and creating difficulties for Humes again.
In matters regarding the preferences we have in finding mates. First, men with more feminine faces were considered better for long-term relationships. I wonder if this is something that has to do with the stereotypical qualities associated with men and women, and whether that's the kind of thing that's influencing these decisions.
Regarding education, or the lack thereof, a group that claims to be able to help homosexual people get rid of their attractions has won the ability to promote itself to the same audiences as Gay-Straight Alliances. Equal access, I suppose, has done its work again. Even in things like this, that don'are not considered to be anywhere near scientifically supported. Perhaps this is one of he new battlegrounds being opened up for the kids. I can only hope that they go into it equipped sufficiently to be able to navigate this minefield.
The oddest thing for tonight is the 2.5m Lego person that washed ashore in Zandvoort. Not much to explain on that, other than it's a big Lego. Or maybe I'm just out of ideas, and should go to bed. Which I will be doing so, now.
There were other apparently momentous occasions happening while I've been out here. For better or for worse, asterisk or no, Barry Bonds hit home run 756 onTuesday, making him the current leader in most home runs hit in a career.
Michelle Malkin makes a strong point about coverage of the conflict in Iaq - reporting what actually happens, rather than what you want to believe, is a fundamental responsibility of news and journalistic organizations. Mind you, she dresses this in a "liberals love to belive that the war in Iraq is going problematically to the point that our troops are committing genocide" kind of glove, but the underlying message is sound. The Michigan Senate's chief of staff, however, isn't waiting to give one site a chance, banning the Blogging for Michigan blog, citing that taxpayer money and senatorial time should be better spent on material "applicable to the jobs staff were hired to do" The problem with cutting off a blog that has opinions against yours is that it looks like censorship - there needs to be much more concrete reason in place that your own opinion about whether it's worth the time and money. Some time later that day, the blog ban was rescinded, and the chief of staff is ordering a full review of Senate policies regarding emploee use of the Internet. Which will give them that much more solid reasoning, no doubt, on any future decisions being made regarding where the Seators can and cannot access the web.
A rather interesting round-up of items regarding the Republican Party - Young Republican perverts become older republican perverts, possibly having obtained promotions along the way. There have to be plenty of Democrats that would make a list like this, too. Still, that list is much longer than it should be for anyone.
The United Kingdom has denied Iraqi traslators that have helped UK forces asylum according to a Times report. I can't tell from the BBC report whether Downing Street or any of the other MPs have made any official statements about the matter or not.
The following link has a process that repurposes an object and turns it into art. By doing so, it creates origami made of toilet paper. My suspicions are that the material in use is several-ply, rather than the single, barely-effective shets that I have had the distinct lack of pleasure from using at various points in my life.
Trivia today from Blue Egg - how long does it take before idling is a worse choice than turning the car off? In similar environmental materals, a record number of beaches have been declared unsafe for swimming, and the likely extinction of a river dolphin found only in China. In trying to help the environment some, a process called "resonation" will speed up the decay of Hume corpses so that they degrade into dust in two hours time. Regarding potentially new environments and things adapting to them, a supposedly eight million year-old bacteria is alive and growing. For some, this means that as very old ice melts, things locked away in them might start thriving and creating difficulties for Humes again.
In matters regarding the preferences we have in finding mates. First, men with more feminine faces were considered better for long-term relationships. I wonder if this is something that has to do with the stereotypical qualities associated with men and women, and whether that's the kind of thing that's influencing these decisions.
Regarding education, or the lack thereof, a group that claims to be able to help homosexual people get rid of their attractions has won the ability to promote itself to the same audiences as Gay-Straight Alliances. Equal access, I suppose, has done its work again. Even in things like this, that don'are not considered to be anywhere near scientifically supported. Perhaps this is one of he new battlegrounds being opened up for the kids. I can only hope that they go into it equipped sufficiently to be able to navigate this minefield.
The oddest thing for tonight is the 2.5m Lego person that washed ashore in Zandvoort. Not much to explain on that, other than it's a big Lego. Or maybe I'm just out of ideas, and should go to bed. Which I will be doing so, now.
