Watching Stephen Hawking’s Brave New World, and it is a fascinating series.
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Watching Stephen Hawking’s Brave New World, and it is a fascinating series.
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Cris (without an H)
Packing, heading to Seattle for Folklife Festival.
Suffern ACE
I’m dealing with one despondent Jessica Sanchez supporter.
Clark Stooksbury
Paul Fussell, RIP.
NotMax
U.S.S. Harvey Milk?
Ouija board?
This little story has multiple layers of weird.
Stuck in the Funhouse
Reds beat the Braves again. With a walkoff homer in 9nth
In other news, summer is here, and the heat. It’s a trick to stay cool without air conditioning. But I been doing it for a decade in the desert. And my bones don’t ache as much, so I ain’t complaining.
amk
mittbot: “I know how to read a balance sheet.”
Martin Bashir: “So does Bernie Madoff, but that doesn’t qualify him to be president”.
Slam.
Comrade Scrutinizer
@Clark Stooksbury: Aw. Loved Fussell’s work.
Cris (without an H)
Shouldn’t mclaren come tell us what a fraud Stephen Hawking is?
Comrade Scrutinizer
@Suffern ACE: Heh. I’m mocking the pro-Sanchez forces over at MJs, just to hear them squeal.
scav
@Clark Stooksbury: Ahh, sad. Despite calling him Paul Fussy, I’ve several of his on the shelves. Off to go condole the real lover of his work.
Suffern ACE
@Comrade Scrutinizer: We’ve moved into the stage of grief where I am to blame.
Alison
Watching soccer, like a good America-hater.
But it’s MLS! But it’s still soccer, aka CommieBall or whatever the wingers think of it.
I would love it even if they didn’t hate it, but the fact that so many of them do is a bonus, for sure.
amk
@efgoldman: Snippet from LOD where bashir is standing in and the mark halperin, the tool’s mehmney’s asskissing interview
Joseph Nobles
My current Netflix find is In Search Of Shakespeare: not a Leonard Nimoy thing, but a 2004 BBC 4-episode series that follows in Shakespeare’s footsteps throughout his life. It’s just lovely.
Also catching Season 2 of Sherlock at the PBS website. It’s available for a couple of more weeks for streaming there.
And then I just found this:
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/story/2012-05-22/free-pizza-order-in-spanish/55143404/1
If you are upset about a pizza chain promo giving away free pizza to people who speak Spanish, it is time to check with your doctor about Xanax.
SiubhanDuinne
@Stuck in the Funhouse: I’m not sure where you are in the desert (if I ever even knew) but I’ve spent the past week in AZ and as of today NM. It has been HOT HOT HOT, and today was very windy (60 mph) with dustouts. However did people travel before air-conditioned cars?
Spending the night in Albuquerque, might try to get to OKC by tomorrow. I need to go up to Tulsa for a quick trip to the Gilcrease Museum, to see a painting that’s haunted my memory for the past 17 years. Back home in Atlanta by Sunday, I think, although I’m technically on vacation until June 1st.
Joseph Nobles
Oh, crap, my edit to my comment had the X word. Could I get it out of moderation, por favor?
SiubhanDuinne
@Stuck in the Funhouse:
Crap.
Stuck in the Funhouse
@SiubhanDuinne:
I’m in the southwest corner of New Mexico, where at 6000 feet elevation, we are a few degrees cooler than the less elevated AZ desert. Still hot though, and windy today as you say. From now till the first week of July, when the monsoon rainy season kicks in, is our hottest time of year. And every so often in some years similar heat to AZ. One thing I’m doing this summer, is pretty much block the sun completely from all windows and the passive solar heating that makes it even hotter. I like a lot of sunshine coming into the abode, but anything I can do to cool off, is top priority. Especially since I ain’t getting any younger. :)
patroclus
I’ve been trying to read “History of the Great Sieges of Westeros” by Arch Maester Ch’vylathan, but it’s really poorly written and tough to get through…
Carnacki
Is this for real?
Suffern ACE
No matter how hard they try, the talking heads are not going to be able to turn Biden into Obama’s Palin.
Corner Stone
Hawking? You do know there’s a Ron White standup repeat on, right?
Judas Escargot
Pants.
Stephen Hawking wears them.
Soonergrunt
@Cris (without an H): Just let it out that Hawking is against some imaginary reading of the law that mclaren holds, and he’ll come running with a nine paragraph screed on what a blood thirsty bastard Hawking is.
Corner Stone
@Suffern ACE: Joe Biden is awesome. I love it when he washes his Firebird on the WH lawn.
Soonergrunt
Just a thought,
The only lasting effect of Hustler magazine doing a piece on S.E. Cupp is that the number of people who have heard of S.E. Cupp is now up in the tens of thousands.
Also, George Tierny, Jr. of Greenville, South Carolina seems to have taken his twitter account down again. George, we hardly knew ye. Again.
Soonergrunt
@Carnacki: Yes. This is a real person. And s/he appears to be having some fun.
Corner Stone
@Soonergrunt:
Honestly, I never expected it to happen to me, but…
Soonergrunt
@Corner Stone: “Honestly, I never expected it to happen to me, but…” HA!
joes527
Just a thought, The only lasting effect of Rush Limbaugbh doing a piece on Sandra Fluke is that the number of people who have heard of Sandra Fluke is now up in the millions.
Bnut
I just watched “Extreme Cave Diving” on NOVA. As someone who’s a certified divemaster, and done my share of tech diving, those people are INSANE. Check it out on Netflix.
Also, have an interview tomorrow with the Tennessee Democratic Party! Going dark grey suit, but can’t decide if a flat black tie is appropriate or not? Something with color? I’m not the most fashion conscious person around.
Soonergrunt
Fire aboard US nuclear attack submarine, USS MIAMI, drydocked in Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, near Bangor, Maine
USS Miami (SSN 755) is a late run of the Los Angeles class of attack submarines.
Suffern ACE
@Bnut: A blue tie? Maybe a flag lapel pin?
Soonergrunt
@Bnut: If you’re going for an accountant/researcher/IT job, go with flat black. If you’re going for a Public Affairs-type position, go with red or blue.
Comrade Mary
@Soonergrunt: There’s also the lasting effect of making women who are not S.E. Cupp, who have no respect for S.E. Cupp’s opinions, getting really, sincerely, goddamned angry at the misogynist shitmouths at Hustler.
Bnut
@Suffern ACE: @Soonergrunt: Solid? Pattern? Obviously nothing like paisley. Stripes are ok?
Soonergrunt
@Comrade Mary: I would have thought that was already the case.
@Bnut: Go solid tie if the shirt is piped or pin-striped, if the shirt is solid, go with a tie that either has very thin lines breaking up the dominant field color or go with a solid tie. Job interview not the place for a brightly patterned or garish tie. You want to look well put together and professional, not like circus clown.
Steeplejack
@Bnut:
Something with color.
Suffern ACE
@Bnut: Look at mark Zuckerbergs Wedding photos. And don’t do that. Actually having everything pressed is more important than the tie. But stripes or solid is fine. I was kidding about the flag pin.
Gin & Tonic
Drinking rye whiskey.
Steeplejack
@Suffern ACE:
Make sure it’s an American flag. Not socialist or mooslim or anything like that. Wait, he said Democrat Party? Scratch that.
Bnut
@Suffern ACE: I always wear my Marine Corps tie clip when I wear a suit. I know, I know….
Yutsano
@Bnut: Dark gray suits goes well with a primary colour tie like a sapphire blue or burgundy. Def something to make you stand out, but not too wild. Flat black on gray does NOT work.
/fashionista
MikeJ
@Suffern ACE:
It’s actually not a bad idea.
Yutsano
@MikeJ: @Bnut: Apparently that’s been covered. I’ve never been a fan of striped shirts with suits. Dark gray suit, white shirt, and red or blue tie. If you’re feeling adventurous you can go for a kelly green tie.
Bnut
@Yutsano: Def gonna be a white shirt. Leaning towards a dark grey slim tie with thin well spaced black and dark blue stripes. Mostly because I just moved and I can’t find my tie bag.
Soonergrunt
But definitely wear the USMC tie clip (if allowed to do so). It says “stable, handles stress well, hard worker, competent”.
All things you want to come across as.
The clothing is more about that first 15 seconds than anything else. You want to look like the guy that the interviewer wants to see his/her kid sister bring to Sunday dinner. The interview itself is about the particulars, but as I said earlier, you want to look serious, professional, and competent, not like a circus clown.
Yutsano
@Bnut: It’ll work. It’s hard for me to judge without seeing the actual tie, but the blue might just inject enough colour to show you have a personality. You’ll wow them. :)
Soonergrunt
Knock em dead!
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@SiubhanDuinne: How did we travel without air-conditioned cars? My family did the National Lampoon Vacation in the 60s. We drove through the desert at night.
I did a cross-country trip in the 70s in a Triumph TR-3. Screwed up, and went through the Mojave in mid-afternoon. Side curtains (windows) off, top up (so you don’t fry). Drank four quarts of water and didn’t pee once.
And another gallon for the radiator that boiled over every time I stopped. F**king British.
Steeplejack
@Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason:
And that was back when cars had those little triangular windows that actually opened. My brother used to joke about his car’s “6 by 60” air conditioner: six windows open and keep ’er at 60 mph.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@Soonergrunt: And if you want to be Fabulous, go with purple. It’s my marketing tie.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@Steeplejack: If your town has a favorite football or baseball team, stripes in those colors might work.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@Bnut: Haven’t worn a white shirt since Jefferson Airplane sang “White shirt and tie, white shirt and tie, white shirt and tie, wedding ring.”
Powder blue works just fine.
Steeplejack
@Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason:
Yer talking to the wrong guy. Last time I wore a suit was at my father’s funeral over a year ago.
sharl
@Clark Stooksbury, @Comrade Scrutinizer:
Yup, Paul Fussell has passed away:
Nellcote
@Bnut:
It might give you an edge, hiring vets is high on the Dem agenda.
redshirt
Apparently, commercial fusion power is just X years away!
Seriously, though, there’s no more important discovery we as a species could make then to learn how to harness fusion for energy production. It would change everything. We should be throwing everything we have it. Alas!