Back to work tomorrow - 18 November 2007
Nov. 18th, 2007 11:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
silveradeptAdmittedly, it’ll be a short work week, because there’s a federal holiday this week. But before it, I scheduled in to have a thorough scrubbing and cleaning of one of the collections, so we’ll have earned it by the time we get to that point.
Everybody say hi to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dualistic, who recently took the plunge and decided I was worth friending. Stand up, introduce yourself, and tell me how you arrived here, please? We’re always curious to what sort of marketing techniques managed to draw you in.
According to one of our agents stationed around the Northeast, Doctor Football’s team continues their dominant march over the professional landscape, with The Michigan Man at the helm, throwing five scores in a sequence where the La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo scored on their first seven attempts.
Back in collegiate turf, there’s a lot of articles showing up about the alma mater. First, Lloyd Carr is retiring after the bowl game. Much speculation already happening this season, now there will be even more. The legacy likely to be left behind by Carr is going to be good, both on the field and off, even if some of us might wish that his career had ended better.
And how does a graduate student who’s spent twelve years on an M.B.A. make the New York Times? By being the Michigan Marching Band's pep-talk specialist.
The Atari corporation may be fading away from the video game consciousness, if revenues don’t improve for them. Of course, the products produced by Atari haven’t exactly been the ones people are talking about in the modern era. For classic gamers, Atari is still gold. To see the pioneer go is definitely a sign that the times have changed.
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a much stronger warning about the dangers of continued carbon dioxide production, forecasting a large amount of big, damaging changes that will result from a lack of action, as well as proposing alternatives that are supposed to be cheap in global economy terms. Moving down to the corporate level, making sure that electronics corporations aren't endangering others when they "recycle" old electronics is a good way of helping things out. On the much more local level, perhaps using nine ways to use one less plastic bag will also help with the environmental problem.
After British troops left the Basra area, violence is about a tenth of what it was when they were there. Apparently, if you remove an invading force and the daily reminder that there’s an invading force there, violence against the invading force goes away. Weird how that works, isn’t it? Additionally, West Point cadets got a speech that told them to keep their heads on why terrorism seems to work - and to provide appropriate response, without over-reaction, without playing into their hands, and without making the terrorists out to be anything bigger than they are. Military people are getting this talk. Political candidates should be getting it, too.
Oh, and if you wanted to know just how things are run at Guantanamo Bay, a procedure manual has been linked to the web, so now analysis can begin on that facet of things. Still doesn’t necessarily close down the prison there, but it might speed the process significantly, and get more people to strongly demand that their country be the beacon of morality and the rule of law that it claims to be.
Internet phenomenon, meet political candidate. Not sure whether to laugh, cry, or say “Old Meme!” at Mike Huckabee's "Chuck Norris Approved" campaign advertisement. Then again, it's really kind of difficult to read political campaign logos, too, so maybe it’s a mixing in the message somewhere?
Dangerous precedents - a power permitting the United Kingdom government to demand persons under suspicion provide their decryption keys or plaintext of encrypted files has been invoked, seven years after the original law was passed. The recipient claims that she doesn't use encryption, despite some encrypted files supposedly being found on her computer.
In New Orleans, it is news to someone that the city council is composed mostly of white people now. Probably only there because of the heightened racial tensions and perceptions in the city when the hurricane ripped through. Of more importance is the Supreme Court agreeing to review Tom Delay's 2003 Texas redistricting that added five Republican seats to the state's delegation. Of course, there’s plenty of political stuff going on whenever districts are being redrawn, but Delay did his about seven years before the law normally redraws districts, with helpful results to his party.
Taking the previous Fox Attacks Decency and going One! Step! Further! produces Fox News Porn, the new service that many of us already have on our cable foxes. Watching the right shows at the right time will give more than enough blurry softcore for anybody’s teenage male audience. Oh, yeah, did we mention that almost all of the stuff on Fox is women in those kinds of situations? If you’d like a bit more stark example of the attitudes here, try the following on for size. A lawyer defending a man on a rape charge said the sex could have been consensual because the woman has a history of sleepwalking. Wait, what? Consent, despite being unconscious? I don’t think that flies anywhere.
Gene Simmons thinks that piracy is killing the music industry, apparently causing the lost of anywhere from 100,000 to 1,000,000 jobs and that the recording industry has no idea how to make money. Well, half credit, as the second part is right. But Gene’s probably got more than enough money as it is, and the whole interview there sounds like someone who’s hoarding what he’s got and wants to squeeze as much as he can out of what time he has left.
Although it probably violates someone’s copyright somewhere, a pictorial tour of the Creation museum. That should be about as much as we see of that place for a while now, right? We’ve had a review, a picture tour, about the only thing we’d do is see it ourselves, as a curiosity, and frankly, I’m not spending the money, no matter what it costs.
Next-to-last for tonight is the Korean camp to help people beat an addiction to the Internet. As someone who’s turned in the occasional marathon session here and there, I can understand the addiction part. Of course, I also have other things interfering with my ability to be online for large amounts of time, like work. And I like to get out of the apartment on occasion and see people. Still, I wonder how bad things really are when camps like these appear.
Last for tonight, play around with the Ridiculous Futuristic Cereal Name Generator! (echoes and all) And when you’re done with those silly things, have a look at Bent Objects, creating art out of all sorts of everyday things, and Really Bent, it’s slightly older, slightly more mature cousin.
Bedtime, now. Maybe when I get my furniture, I’ll start putting things up on the walls.
Everybody say hi to
dualistic, who recently took the plunge and decided I was worth friending. Stand up, introduce yourself, and tell me how you arrived here, please? We’re always curious to what sort of marketing techniques managed to draw you in.According to one of our agents stationed around the Northeast, Doctor Football’s team continues their dominant march over the professional landscape, with The Michigan Man at the helm, throwing five scores in a sequence where the La-Li-Lu-Le-Lo scored on their first seven attempts.
Back in collegiate turf, there’s a lot of articles showing up about the alma mater. First, Lloyd Carr is retiring after the bowl game. Much speculation already happening this season, now there will be even more. The legacy likely to be left behind by Carr is going to be good, both on the field and off, even if some of us might wish that his career had ended better.
And how does a graduate student who’s spent twelve years on an M.B.A. make the New York Times? By being the Michigan Marching Band's pep-talk specialist.
The Atari corporation may be fading away from the video game consciousness, if revenues don’t improve for them. Of course, the products produced by Atari haven’t exactly been the ones people are talking about in the modern era. For classic gamers, Atari is still gold. To see the pioneer go is definitely a sign that the times have changed.
The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change issued a much stronger warning about the dangers of continued carbon dioxide production, forecasting a large amount of big, damaging changes that will result from a lack of action, as well as proposing alternatives that are supposed to be cheap in global economy terms. Moving down to the corporate level, making sure that electronics corporations aren't endangering others when they "recycle" old electronics is a good way of helping things out. On the much more local level, perhaps using nine ways to use one less plastic bag will also help with the environmental problem.
After British troops left the Basra area, violence is about a tenth of what it was when they were there. Apparently, if you remove an invading force and the daily reminder that there’s an invading force there, violence against the invading force goes away. Weird how that works, isn’t it? Additionally, West Point cadets got a speech that told them to keep their heads on why terrorism seems to work - and to provide appropriate response, without over-reaction, without playing into their hands, and without making the terrorists out to be anything bigger than they are. Military people are getting this talk. Political candidates should be getting it, too.
Oh, and if you wanted to know just how things are run at Guantanamo Bay, a procedure manual has been linked to the web, so now analysis can begin on that facet of things. Still doesn’t necessarily close down the prison there, but it might speed the process significantly, and get more people to strongly demand that their country be the beacon of morality and the rule of law that it claims to be.
Internet phenomenon, meet political candidate. Not sure whether to laugh, cry, or say “Old Meme!” at Mike Huckabee's "Chuck Norris Approved" campaign advertisement. Then again, it's really kind of difficult to read political campaign logos, too, so maybe it’s a mixing in the message somewhere?
Dangerous precedents - a power permitting the United Kingdom government to demand persons under suspicion provide their decryption keys or plaintext of encrypted files has been invoked, seven years after the original law was passed. The recipient claims that she doesn't use encryption, despite some encrypted files supposedly being found on her computer.
In New Orleans, it is news to someone that the city council is composed mostly of white people now. Probably only there because of the heightened racial tensions and perceptions in the city when the hurricane ripped through. Of more importance is the Supreme Court agreeing to review Tom Delay's 2003 Texas redistricting that added five Republican seats to the state's delegation. Of course, there’s plenty of political stuff going on whenever districts are being redrawn, but Delay did his about seven years before the law normally redraws districts, with helpful results to his party.
Taking the previous Fox Attacks Decency and going One! Step! Further! produces Fox News Porn, the new service that many of us already have on our cable foxes. Watching the right shows at the right time will give more than enough blurry softcore for anybody’s teenage male audience. Oh, yeah, did we mention that almost all of the stuff on Fox is women in those kinds of situations? If you’d like a bit more stark example of the attitudes here, try the following on for size. A lawyer defending a man on a rape charge said the sex could have been consensual because the woman has a history of sleepwalking. Wait, what? Consent, despite being unconscious? I don’t think that flies anywhere.
Gene Simmons thinks that piracy is killing the music industry, apparently causing the lost of anywhere from 100,000 to 1,000,000 jobs and that the recording industry has no idea how to make money. Well, half credit, as the second part is right. But Gene’s probably got more than enough money as it is, and the whole interview there sounds like someone who’s hoarding what he’s got and wants to squeeze as much as he can out of what time he has left.
Although it probably violates someone’s copyright somewhere, a pictorial tour of the Creation museum. That should be about as much as we see of that place for a while now, right? We’ve had a review, a picture tour, about the only thing we’d do is see it ourselves, as a curiosity, and frankly, I’m not spending the money, no matter what it costs.
Next-to-last for tonight is the Korean camp to help people beat an addiction to the Internet. As someone who’s turned in the occasional marathon session here and there, I can understand the addiction part. Of course, I also have other things interfering with my ability to be online for large amounts of time, like work. And I like to get out of the apartment on occasion and see people. Still, I wonder how bad things really are when camps like these appear.
Last for tonight, play around with the Ridiculous Futuristic Cereal Name Generator! (echoes and all) And when you’re done with those silly things, have a look at Bent Objects, creating art out of all sorts of everyday things, and Really Bent, it’s slightly older, slightly more mature cousin.
Bedtime, now. Maybe when I get my furniture, I’ll start putting things up on the walls.
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Date: 2007-11-19 07:50 am (UTC)You can take the Rocker out of the Jew but you can't take the Jew out of the Rocker. No matter what, he'll be Chaim Witz wanting to get all that he can get and make sure no one stops him from getting all he wants.
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Date: 2007-11-19 02:03 pm (UTC)I'm reading the reactions in the ESPN article and elsewhere and I can't help but wonder why people seem to think that if you have a bad season, you need to retire. I mean, look at JoePa - He's had how many bad seasons? Then again, I suppose that even though UM and PSU are both in the Big 10, you can't really compare Carr to JoePa. Just about the only coach left in the NCAA you *can* compare to JoePa is Bobby Bowden. I guess it's possible Carr just got tired of coaching since he's being moved to being athletic director, and I'm sure that's a good move for him, but I can't help but wonder if he just is bowing down to the pressure instead of taking a stand and saying "no, I can do this".
bent stuff amused me. so did the dirtier stuff.
Yay for wall art! You still haven't hung anything up?
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Date: 2007-11-19 03:13 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-11-19 03:18 pm (UTC)I guess that's another big difference between PSU and UM fans. We never want JoePa to leave, even if we've had a rough season.
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Date: 2007-11-20 08:01 am (UTC)As for JoePa, he's synonymous with Penn State. I'm sure when the ol' fart finally kicks the bucket, the boosters & regents will put him into a frozen tube ala Austin Powers & stick him out in front of the Administration Bldg to keep him there in Perpetuity. That or make the College version of Lenin's Tomb - completely built out of Beer cans, kegs & lingerie.
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Date: 2007-11-20 08:05 am (UTC)do I get a free pen if I tell you all my secrets? I like pens
Date: 2007-11-20 01:05 pm (UTC)as for me, I mostly use LJ to discuss/rant about my day, and to post various stories, poems and weird schemes
Re: do I get a free pen if I tell you all my secrets? I like pens
Date: 2007-11-21 07:40 am (UTC)