Whee.

[silveradept]

Got to get up tomorrow nice and early, and just got back in from water polo official training. So this should be quick.

First, happy birthday, welah!

Then, the rest: If you want to make your Apple superiority just that much more known, you will soon be able to invest in an iPhone, Apples hybrid iPod-mobile phone-mobile broadband offering.

Apparently, adding milk makes black tea less healthy. It still makes the tea taste better, depending on how bitter it started, but apparently the milk negates some of the health benefits of the tea.

Liberal Eagle requests that the newly elected majority party be as partisan as it possibly can be. Because that way, things getting done could be considered the high priority, rather than “getting along” in some endeavour that will screw everybody. Especially since at least one New Yorker thinks Steven Colbert is a Republican reporter. So some clear delineations could really help.

Speaking of the media, All Spin Zone is not pleased that the Washington Post decided not to run graphic images of civilians killed at Haditha. All Spin Zone says that running images, “too graphic” or not , of what’ actually going on in Iraq could make for some major public and political opinion about what to do with Iraq. By choosing not to run the pictures obtained, All Spin Zone argues emphatically that the Washington Post permits atrocities to continue, and equates the paper with Holocaust deniers (Godwin’s Law may apply here). I’m kind of surprised. With as much as newspapers claim falling circulation and dwindling dollars, the chance to plaster something that will draw eyes would normally be something to jump at. The Post decided not to.

Perhaps it’s a show of solidarity with the war. Or maybe the post editors subscribe to the theory that war is not about how much pain you inflict, but how much you can stand, and decided not to add additional damage to the American populace and increase their clamor for war to stop. As word continues to leak about the rush job of execution that was Saddam Hussein, and how after convicting and hanging on a lesser charge, all the other charges were dropped, it sounds a lot like there’s damage being piled up anyway. Why not pile on?

There’s some great real estate available for purchase - Vlad the Impaler's castle for 40 million pounds. In the higher price range, the independent country of Sealand is for sale.

An aquarium to wrap about a toilet tank. I’m not sure they’ll take the place of the bathroom reader, but they’ll at least give you something pretty to stare at.

Al Gore wants more than just for people to see the movie. Recently, Al Gore trained at least 1,000 volunteers on how to give global warming presentations. Some of the material is the same from the movie, others different, but Al Gore wants the message to get out, and the supporters to be legion.

This is a pretty good example of why some fandoms show their spiny sides to most people after closing the doors and viewing everyone outside the fandom as evil persecutors. In making a commentary about how unsafe it would be to engage in eating nuts for a soulbond if one had an allergy, the response that appears is all about people running to say, "zomg! Soulbonding? Mental help, lol.". These are the Intertubes, I realize, and such substandard behavior could be expected, but seeing it all together in one place is disturbing, to say the least. As I said, people shouldn’t really wonder why groups get defensive when new people find them.

Lastly, though, taking advantage of a couple sillythings. Under the cut we have the Azumanga LJ friends (which took forever to get right) and the Endless (Sandman) LJ Friends, which was right on the first time. So.

Azujournal Daioh! LiveJournal Username Worst subject in school? Child Super Genius 2dlife Hyperactive Idiot vampireduzie The Serious One blacktigr Ditzy Transfer Student klepi Cool and Quiet Pet Lover yarha Competitive Sports Freak mightysemprini Crazy Homeroom Teacher maritzac Respected PE Teacher hollygrahm This Fun Quiz created by Joel at BlogQuiz.Net

The Endless LiveJournal Username Give your dream a name... Destiny alfedenzo Death shadesfox Dream kira_chan Destruction bladespark Desire miss_moonbat Despair jokermage Delirium las This Fun Quiz created by Joel at BlogQuiz.Net

See? They work out just fine, don’t they?

So after all that, I’m turning in to bed. I think the sleep will do me good. If nothing else, the cold has fallen down to a totally manageable level. Now I just wish it would go away.

Comments

[woodburner.livejournal.com]

Why don't you people just drink sweet iced tea like sensible folk do.

[silveradept]

Because I hate iced tea even more than I do black tea without sweetener. Green tea, however, at least for me, is quite tasty, so I have a good tea to drink.

[woodburner.livejournal.com]

Weirdos, all of you. :P

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

You like Lady Grey, and that is black tea.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

That soulbonding thing is really sad. I mean... okay, I think that it's a kind of silly idea, that actual other souls inhabit your head, especially fictional characters, but you know, that's their business, not mine. It's pathetic that these people are mocking it like that, and even more pathetic that some of them have gone over to the original post and trolled it.

[silveradept]

As I said, good example of why people can be so defensive if you ask them about their fandoms or their unique views on life.

Total Tangent:

[reaverta.livejournal.com]

...I just realised your LJ entries are the only nod to reading-the-news I bother to do so.

Perhaps I need to look out for the more mainstream stuff too. >.>

Re: Total Tangent:

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

Reading SA's lj actually got me to pay more attention to the news, believe it or not. I feel so much more informed, and I'm actually able to discuss current news with people! (plus it sparks some interesting debates with people over some of the stuff)

Re: Total Tangent:

[silveradept]

My LJ is about the only reading-the-news I get to do, either, unless I pick up a copy of the daily campus rag. I should probably pay more attention to the mainstream, too, but I do okay with what I get from my sources.

Re: Total Tangent:

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

Have you checked out quicknews?

Have the best

-=TK

[jokermage.livejournal.com]

Apparently, adding milk makes black tea less healthy. It still makes the tea taste better, depending on how bitter it started, but apparently the milk negates some of the health benefits of the tea.

Here's a trick, drink white, yellow or green teas. No need for cream or sugar.

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

yellow? never heard of it. I've heard of white and green, and even the new "red", but what's a yellow tea?

I'm one of those people who drinks black tea and drinks it british style - creame and sugar, though I can do without the creame when i have to.

[jokermage.livejournal.com]

Yellow Tea is produced like green tea only you take longer to dry it out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_tea

It isn't very common outside of China, as far as I can tell.

More on classification:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea#Processing_and_classification

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

I found it on Teaspring.com, but they group it wit hthe white, so I'm not sure which is which.

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

Tea: Earl Grey, hot!

Have the best

-=TK

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

I like earl grey, but i'm more partial to Irish breakfast

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

Oooh, yes. Twinings Irish and English Breakfasts are both sheer delights.

I'm curious to try this newfangled "red" tea out of South Africa, which is not to be confused with Chinese red tea, or green tea (which it is called after brewing) has no xanthines, and is sweet enough not to need cream and sugar. Very cool!!!

Have the best

-=TK

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

I keep seeing the Red, and keep not buying it....I get scolded whenever I buy more tea cos I've got SO MUCH of it.

I agree on the Twinings. Now, if only I could get loose Twinings Irish Breakfast without special ordering it from the website!

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

Is there a Cost Plus/World Market near you?

Have the best

-=TK

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

Not that I know of.

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Mayhaps they carry it at Meijers...

Have the best

-=TK

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

I think i've looked already, but it's possible they've added it...i'll have to look.

[silveradept]

White and green teas for me. If yellow's just well-charged green, I could drink that, too.

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

Apparently, adding milk makes black tea less healthy.

Meanwhile, Britons are significantly less likely to have throat cancer than their Indian counterparts, who drink their tea without milk but otherwise have the same diets (after all, the best cuisine in England is Indian).

Have the best

-=TK

[silveradept]

So sometimes you drink it with milk, and sometimes you drink it black, and you hope to get the best of both worlds?

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

Perhaps. In my case, I can't drink it at all because of the theophylline content (the caffine-like substance).

Have the best

-=TK

[silveradept]

Unfortunate. We'll have to find some other drink that you can have that you can drink much of to improve your health.

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

There is one out there. I hear some people call it dihydrogen monoxide.

Have the best

-=TK

[starkruzr.livejournal.com]

CLOSED PLATFORM WHAT

[silveradept]

?

Error: Cannot deduce context.

[starkruzr.livejournal.com]

iPhone.

[silveradept]

Okay. Now is that iPhone is working on a closed-source platform or something like that you're objecting to (or pumping up?)

[starkruzr.livejournal.com]

The source of the platform is not something I'm even moderately concerned about.

What DOES bother me is that Jobs is asking consumers to pay $600 for a computing platform that you can't install anything on or run any outside applications on. He says "I don't want people to think of this as a computer. We've reinvented the phone." -- whatever, Steve. You make a HUGE deal out of the fact that the thing "runs OSX," show us some seriously impressive hardware capabilities in a device that small, and then say "Isn't this great? By the way, you can't touch it."

No Terminal. No ssh. No Firefox. No VLC. No mplayer. No games. No kismet. No Skype.

The promise of a device like this lies in its ability to be extended into ANYTHING, all with the fantastic UI engineering and rock-solid underpinnings of OSX underneath it. It could have been Apple's new sub-laptop device, but instead they are choosing to destroy that opportunity before it starts.

Put it this way: If they had chosen to leave the APIs open and provide an SDK, I would have jumped on this thing faster than you can say "640K ought to be enough for anybody."

As it is, I'm looking at a Blackjack.

[silveradept]

Got it, and explained that way, I agree. If Apple's pouring all the tech into it, why not make it a multipurpose sort of device - it'll do phone and web and a lot of other things. With that, Apple could almost make Palm look nervous.

[starkruzr.livejournal.com]

"Almost?" Developers LOVE XCode. Objective C is a joy to write code in. The ability to easily port simple OSX apps to this machine would make the iPhone platform an instant rival to Palm, Windows Mobile and Pocket PC.

[silveradept]

If a slew of apps appeared that could run on the phone, then Apple's product would rival Palm and Windows Mobile. I just wonder whether there's enough of the other components than storage that such apps could run with all the promised functionality. Would Apple build in a little extra RAM for that kind of purpose?

[torakiyoshi.livejournal.com]

Macintrash doesn't do multipurpose. They do multitask (but not realy), and leave multipurpose to the people who get the true benefit of their R&D: Micro$oft.

Have the best

-=TK

[idan-cohen.livejournal.com]

It makes me sad that the souibonding folks take a concept so beautiful and grandly paranoid - written characters actually developing into sentient entities within their writers' mind - And turn it with the full strength of their will at <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/soulbonding/269857.html>Rogue from the X-Men.</a></i> That has to deserve a bit of mocking. But it is okay. It <i>builds character</i>.

[idan-cohen.livejournal.com]

My html also builds character.

[starkruzr.livejournal.com]

Are you coming to BC2007, by any chance?

[idan-cohen.livejournal.com]

Only in the sense that if a wormhole appears to carry me screaming into that nerdy dark abyss, I will be forced to travel it's horrible wake.

(No.)

[starkruzr.livejournal.com]

It also sounds like you wouldn't want to go even if you could.

Is this an accurate analysis?

(I'm dense.)

[idan-cohen.livejournal.com]

Pretty much, sir.

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

I'm confused. Are you mocking that specific person who posted, or the concept of soulbonding?

[annaonthemoon.livejournal.com]

I really think the fish tank in the toilet is a bit silly. I realize the fish aren't anywhere near the toliet water or flush mechanism, but really - when a goldfish dies, he gets flushed down the toilet....what those poor fish must go through each time they hear it flush!