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More trouble with names and fancy language.
Owing to priority rules in paleontological nomenclature, Tyrannosaurus rex is in danger of losing its name. Say it ain’t so, Manospondylus! (via Ancient World Web)
Yes, the site was down for some time yesterday afternoon/evening. I'm not sure of the exact length of the outage. When I got home from a late dinner everything was back up. I know some of you are getting really slow connection speeds (although for others it seems O.K.) I'm trying to understand this problem, and while I'm not near any sort of solution, I have learned a bit more about internet topology. Hopefully we'll be able to get everyone up to speed soon.
im not sure. does this belong in sustenance? i guess that depends on who you are asking.
I put some navigation links on the discussion pages. Is that what was wanted? Also, I don't think anyone we don't know is reading the site, but if this isn't true it must have been a pretty frustrating read. I just saw this morning that if you weren't signed in, the system would print out all comments in a section all the way back to the beginning. This made the group page many hundreds of K, and basically unusable. Fixed that, so while everything is still slow, it is much more reasonable now. I must remember to keep testing things without being signed in.
what happened to my d-day comment? can anyone see it?
if you have some time to kill, barbelith has a fun little riddle to solve.
Today I am taking off from work to offer myself to the crowd scene that will be the festivities surrounding the opening of the new D-Day museum here in New Orleans, Louisiana. The rain that has been lacking down here for over a year has arrived so it is not ideal parade weather, and on top of that I am not a huge fan of parades, but today I will buy an umbrella and pay my respects to the men and women of the last great fight. I am feeling inexplicably patriotic today, yearning for something that may only be a myth, but what a myth it is.
my neighbors are having a party on the roof outside my window. the noise wasnt bad but ive had to endure the b52s rock lobster twice. i might have to consider arming myself to liberate my senses. make that three times. good thing i didnt sign any antiballistic missile treaty.
Made a change to the format on the (nested) comment pages. Does it look any better in Windows?
my friend bowman just got back from a trip to spain and he was raving about this restaurant which was recommended to him by our (me and jim) old friend christopher(the actor turned chef).
jim is it me or is it it--when i open page etc it takes a while to pop up?? aapl??
NCC3 has been cancelled (as some might have thought:>(
we can have dinner and hang sunday a bit maybe on 6/10-6/11 this is beging confirmed--dougs great aunt has her 100th birthday party on 6/24 (which beets a NCC anyday)--we may have to try to plan a fall gathering eleswhere--maybe we should all buy a house somewhere together--4 bedrooms!!!
O.K. I think we are ready to test out the new format. I've tried to simplify a lot of things. The new post information is now greatly reduced (but hopefully just as useful.) The main page is now here. If you get an error (maybe something about a problem accessing the preferences) you need a new cookie - get it here (if the first link works, then don't worry about it.) And, just to be clear, this is not a big deal like the last switch, so there shouldn't be any bumps, but as usual, let me know if anything doesn't seem right.
In reference to mr. dratfink's Nike comments..."specious at best...," yeah you right. Nike has few equals in representing the worst of what this country is becoming in the sense of irrelevant consumerism, mismanaged energy, and hypocrisy. I haven't seen the ad but the mere description was enough to curdle the juices in my stomach.
And if I may combine two arguments here, let's not just throw away all our guns, let's throw them at our tv screens. Elvis lives.
I remember Dave linked to a story a long time ago about "number stations." These are shortwave broadcasts that have been on the air for decades. They feature only a single voice reading lists of seemingly random numbers. These number stations are widely believed to be a method for spy agencies to communicate with their agents in the field. NPR did a story on them recently. Slashdot had a story today about The Conent Project which is releasing a 4 CD set of these recordings, and sponsering a cryptograpic challenge to crack the code behind these numbers. Assuming they are not using a one time pad, which would be unbreakable, I can't wait to see what these numbers mean.
I'm still waiting for the first flash site to totally blow me away (like when I first saw Zaxxon and it's pseudo 3/4 view 3d effects,) but in the mean time there are lots of cool little flash gizmos out there to whet your appetite. Here's some. (Flash 4 required, 56k friendly.) [update: O.K., now I have almost seen everything. Can someone explain this site to me?]
I watched a little of the Hillary town hall meeting on PBS last night. Dave has the detailed report. I was impressed by her ability to field questions and speak off the top of her head. She did much better than I would have thought. I'm not suggesting she converted me, but I was impressed by her abilities. How far could she go? 2004? Say it ain't so.
This sounds interesting. A WABC nostalgiathon, with full length segments, not just the usual snippets. The Post article is more informative than the station's site. This is said to be the epitome of top 40 radio. Growing up in Detroit, we had top 30 radio from CKLW in Wisdsor, Ontario. They were big until Canada passed national content laws. After that, they played a lot of Anne Murray, and a little Neil Young.
I think the best discussions are the ones where both sides sound like reactionary idiots and with that in mind I must say that even from 1500 miles away, and that being in a city where murder is common as dirt, I am still deeply moved, and saddened, by the news of the Queens murders yesterday morning. Relating to a freedom discussion on another page it is my primary nature to agree with jimb about there being something amiss with the nature of internal freedom in the US but at the same time I want to start seeing a lot less than 30,000 gun related deaths each year (and of course I don't mean to suggest that jimb wishes that number to stay the same, or grow). While clearly not the overall solution to the problem I want to see more restrictions on guns, more buy back programs, more effort goddammit. And I want back that 40 million or more spent on the Clinton investigations and I want it spent on something useful. I want more restrictions in my world. I want my US government to quit whoring itself to the NRA and other lobbying groups that promote ill health, and death. I'm late for work. f Ted Nugent.
Today is for me like the last day of summer vacation and tomorrow is the first day of school, and I'm dreadfully excited. My temporary electric pole was installed last Thursday and tomorrow Entergy is promising to run the juice to it. Now there will be no excuses for short days at the renovation project on Rocheblave, although I would like to say that temps in the mid nineties is too hot to be doing all this work. No excuses though, you damn sissy, its time to get on with getting on. The building supply stores known as Home Depot are open 24 hours a day in this area. I can buy framing timber at 3 in the morning and I can run lights at the jobsite. I can swat mosquitoes under the glow of a halogen, or a florescent, or that ever popular incandescent. Tonite I'm drinking ice cold budweiser (watch the typos grow), and might paint the pages red. Look at that boy go.
Cam is organizing a blogbowl night of bowling for bloggers in NYC. The place: Bowlmor lanes (of course.) The date: Tomorrow (5/25) 9:00 - midnight. Here's the sign-up sheet (they have to make a reservation.)
My humble apologies. This page disappeared for a day or two while I was away. Actually, it was still here if you had it bookmarked, or knew the address, but the home (top 0:1:) page was not listing it. I had not set the time range (I guess you could call it 'decay') correctly for that page, and the group page and system news drifted out of range, so they were no longer shown. Whoops. Easy fix. Everything should be back working now.