Well, that was interesting.
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silveradeptEverything's all in order now, so it's mostly a matter of time and waiting. I'm trying to find things so that I can keep myself occupied over my wait-time, and I think I'm going to succeed pretty easily. Although I still haven't found a pub or place out here that I can get up tomorrow early-like and watch the football game. But that would mean finding somewhere out in the middle of Washington that would carry the Big Ten network. Pffftahahahahahahaha.
Newt suggests "Nine Nineties in Nine", a series of 90-minute debates between the candidates for President in the nine weeks leading up to the 2008 election. And not debates as we know them, with drinking games attached, but actual conversations, off-script. Naturally, almost nobody has signed onto the idea. Perhaps they'd rather believe Ted Nugent's denunciations of Senators Obama and Clinton that involved the usual American opinion-expression involving violence.
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bradhicks on Senator Craig - the furor over this is that he acts like a person who is hiding something, something that could explode in a very messy scandal-like manner during an election year. Even if he's clean, that he looks suspicious is enough for people to try and call for his resignation.
On a different but related note, Iowa rules that same-sex couples can marry. Tick off another state, and watch as the dominoes slowly start their descent.
Anyway, I've run out of time again, so I think I'll be posting and signing off, then.
Paranoid movie executives think you're using your cell phone to pirate movies. The quality is crap, mind you, but a copyright violation is a copyright violation, so soon we may have not just "turn off cell phones" but "no cell phones permitted".
Things for all writers to keep in mind, especially fandom writers. Now in handy haiku format.
Are we failing our geniuses?, Time asks. I don't think they've been around what happens with gifted children if they have to ask the question. Of course we are. After all, we suspend ingenious students when they pull off something that requires ingenuity and a little bit of social engineering.
Newt suggests "Nine Nineties in Nine", a series of 90-minute debates between the candidates for President in the nine weeks leading up to the 2008 election. And not debates as we know them, with drinking games attached, but actual conversations, off-script. Naturally, almost nobody has signed onto the idea. Perhaps they'd rather believe Ted Nugent's denunciations of Senators Obama and Clinton that involved the usual American opinion-expression involving violence.
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bradhicks on Senator Craig - the furor over this is that he acts like a person who is hiding something, something that could explode in a very messy scandal-like manner during an election year. Even if he's clean, that he looks suspicious is enough for people to try and call for his resignation.On a different but related note, Iowa rules that same-sex couples can marry. Tick off another state, and watch as the dominoes slowly start their descent.
Anyway, I've run out of time again, so I think I'll be posting and signing off, then.
Paranoid movie executives think you're using your cell phone to pirate movies. The quality is crap, mind you, but a copyright violation is a copyright violation, so soon we may have not just "turn off cell phones" but "no cell phones permitted".
Things for all writers to keep in mind, especially fandom writers. Now in handy haiku format.
Are we failing our geniuses?, Time asks. I don't think they've been around what happens with gifted children if they have to ask the question. Of course we are. After all, we suspend ingenious students when they pull off something that requires ingenuity and a little bit of social engineering.
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Date: 2007-09-02 08:56 am (UTC)1) Iowa married one couple and registered to marry 30-something more before a higher judge issued a stay. It's no longer being performed.
2) Drive around enough and some bar will have it. The one right outside my door was Michigan central, the one two blocks away was swarming with USC fans later in the evening.
3) Failing geniuses is nothing new and hardly surprising. There's actually a lot of distrust/resentment in America of "smarts". In return, smart people have difficulty seeing situations from a "regular Joe" point of view which leads to a wide social gap.
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Date: 2007-09-02 04:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-09-02 09:23 pm (UTC)2) There's not as many pubs around, or so I thought. Perhaps in town, I'll find acouple places. I know there's at least one alumni group in Seattle, but I'm not sure I want to drive into there just for the football games.