Last Train
Last Train Arlo Guthrie-Last Train: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0jm8s2VI1-Y
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Fighting Over The Remote Control
Fighting Over The Remote Control Originally shared by Eric Hansen This is going to be a very tricky court case. What happened is two nerds were fighting over a video game online. One threatened 'swatting' to the other, and the other provided a fake address. Cops show up at the address and shoot dead the first person they see, because that's what cops do. So, the caller should be prosecuted for murder, right? But you've got to prove calling the cops usually results in a death, and cop unions are going to fight that characterization. BUT, at the same time, the cops are definitely going to want to prosecute this dude vigorously. https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/police-arrest-man-suspected-swatting-preceded-deadly-police-shooting-n833576
WaPo Don't Know Bo
WaPo Don't Know Bo However, Thom, Bojangles needs defending even less than Christmas does... https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/trivia-about-bojangles-famous-chicken-n-biscuits-chain https://www.wral.com/nc-sen-thom-tillis-takes-on-washington-post-over-bojangles-biscuits/17215759/
Tengwar Typewriter
Tengwar Typewriter No word on whether the kerning is supposed to be different in High Elvish and Low Elvish. Originally shared by Andres Soolo For when you need to edit your Elvish articles so much that a Tengwar typewriter just won't do. As from version 3.2, OpenOffice.org (OOo) has native support for Graphite fonts on the Windows and Linux platforms. In other words, Tengwar Telcontar will now be usable out of the box, without the need for any arcane software or plug-ins. There are even options for fine-tuning the placement of niqud , which can get a bit tricky because like Ulfila's Gothic and unlike Coptic, a few Tengwar have ascenders raising significantly beyond the ordinary boundaries of a line of text: When silme or esse carries a tehta, it can be placed either to the right or to the left of the ascender. This feature lets you select what behaviour you prefer. I have not examined Tolkien’s usage carefully, but on a cursory inspection it seems that his placement is influen...
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Won't You Be My Neighbor? Originally shared by Ralf Haring "I went with Jackson to see the trailers at the Missouri River Correctional Center, a minimum-security facility nicknamed “the Farm.” Located on the rural outskirts of Bismarck, it is surrounded by cottonwood trees and backs onto the river for which it is named. There are no fences. The day I visited, the grounds were swaddled in a sparkling blanket of snow; prisoners strolled along walking paths in puffy orange jackets, their breath steamy in the cold. Some of the men were placed here for lesser crimes; others are approaching the end of lengthy sentences that began in the maximum-security state prison." "Warden James Sayler and Joey Joyce, his deputy, were quick to embrace the Norway philosophy. They immediately began devising ways for inmates to earn more freedom—shopping excursions, day passes home, and even the right to wear civilian clothes on-site. They also scaled up an existing work-release program so...
Getting Carded
Getting Carded FYI, the best local BBQ joint in town is Cash Only. It's worth noting that the failure of micropayments means that the background transactional systems (and their tariffs) are not as efficient and cost effective as they could be. Not to mention the squeeze this will put on folks lower down the food chain, who can least afford it. Originally shared by Michael Pinto Many folks critique #bitcoin as not being a valid currency, yet the reality on the ground is that paper money itself is starting to disappear as a transactional medium #tech #fintech #uxdesign https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/25/nyregion/no-cash-money-cashless-credit-debit-card.html
May You Be Safe And Loved
May You Be Safe And Loved And may someone give you a biscuit when you're hungry. http://sharonrandall.com/2017/12/1097/
The Year Kenny Loggins Ruined Christmas
The Year Kenny Loggins Ruined Christmas AKA The Dangerous Lure of High Production Values http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2010/12/year-kenny-loggins-ruined-christmas.html
Seasons Greetings
Seasons Greetings From Admiral Goober, General Biscuits, and General Jar Jar Butts, Jr.
Russell Hobbsian Choice
Russell Hobbsian Choice I like Big Mugs and I cannot lie. A mass of contradictions, I favor Irish Breakfast Tea, but don't take it White. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tM9WjD9Xygo
Go Where I Send Thee
Go Where I Send Thee I'm hoping I'm mostly done with traveling this year. Except to the grocery store. We got to see the Fairfield Four in person earlier this year. They are the real deal, and make it look easy. Can I get an Amen? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=040tPQc8zsg
How Do It Know?
How Do It Know? Pay no attention to the Algorithm behind the curtain. Originally shared by Timothy Street “Think of this bill as an experiment in the world of algorithmic accountability, sent out much like Captain Picard, from ‘Star Trek,’ would send out a probe to explore a wormhole . . . .” Applied algorithms of software are the product of multiple people times company policies plus user directions. Therefore, flaws, constraints, and desires are constant sources of errors. This is not mathematics; it is social engineering - the danger should be realized and confronted. https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/new-york-citys-bold-flawed-attempt-to-make-algorithms-accountable?google_editors_picks=true https://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/new-york-citys-bold-flawed-attempt-to-make-algorithms-accountable?google_editors_picks=true
Flotsam, Jetsam, Lagan, and Derelict
Flotsam, Jetsam, Lagan, and Derelict "I will have none on't, We shall lose our time, And all be turn'd to barnacles... Caliban Originally shared by Damn interesting http://hudsonreview.com/2017/10/shipwreck-is-everywhere/
The Map Is Not The Territory
The Map Is Not The Territory Google Maps obviously has huge advantages in data collection and correlation over Apple Maps. One might ought to add, at the expense of privacy. Still, the operating premise of both systems is to Trust The Algorithm. Which works well, except when it doesn't. Labeling choices in both systems make it difficult, verging on impossible, to navigate to places the Algorithm is ignorant of. I'm always impressed when the system accurately represents reality. However, that happens less often than you might think. Originally shared by Kevin Clarke (ksclarke) https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat
Di-Dah-Di-Dah-Di-Dah
Di-Dah-Di-Dah-Di-Dah Originally shared by Kam-Yung Soh I recall sending a few telegrams long ago. "Belgium's telegram service is about to stop. Stop. One hundred and seventy-one years after the first electrical message was transmitted down a line running alongside the railway between Brussels and Antwerp the final dispatch will be sent and received on 29 December. The fact that this 19th-Century technology is still up and running in the age of Instagram and Snapchat may seem rather odd - especially when you consider that the UK, which invented the telegram in the 1830s, abandoned it as long ago as 1982. The United States followed suit in 2006 and even India, which had been by far the world's biggest market for the telegram, finally closed its system down in 2013. Just 10 businesses and a handful of individual customers have kept the Belgian system going until now. It has been chiefly used by bailiffs, who had need of a system which provided legal guarantees of dispatch an...
Just A Couple Of Hours
Just A Couple Of Hours https://pvcycling.wordpress.com/2017/12/19/just-a-couple-of-hours/
The Big Tall Wish
The Big Tall Wish You've got to beleeeeeeve, Bolie! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOPg6Aq3Etc via Tim O'Brien Original from David Schneider on Twitter: https://twitter.com/davidschneider/status/943048171990716416 Originally shared by Mudhooks
Thou Shalt Knot
Thou Shalt Knot The ties that bind. https://hyperallergic.com/412646/thou-shalt-knot-new-bedford-whaling-museum/
The Six Stages Of Recovery
The Six Stages Of Recovery Going after the ones left behind is always hard. Originally shared by Damn interesting https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/12/18/sports/everest-deaths.html
Ersatz Good
Ersatz Good Home Of The Boysenberry, which is a Genuwine Good. As a young 'un, I was shocked and dismayed to discover that not all IHOPs had Boysenberry Syrup. Originally shared by The past is a foreign country Hanging fake icicles at Knott's Berry Farm 1968 Source: Orange County Archives
After The Fall
After The Fall From Wikipedia: "Although After the Fall remains very unpopular with critics, it is revered in the academic arena as a deep and intellectual play, albeit difficult to follow since it does not follow the conventional sequence of events found in typical works. The play remains one of Miller's less popular works, attributed in part to the non-linear, often surrealistic nature of the plot and setting; all but the initial and final seconds of the play take place in the protagonist's brain, which is reflected by a set comprising a single chair before a concentration camp guard tower, which is itself surrounded by a giant, winding ramp made up of crevices, pits, and abutments. The plot unfolds over a period of time, and due to the non-linear nature of the story, characters and occurrences appear as the protagonist remembers them. Reflecting the nature of the mind, they often disappear and their stories remain unresolved until later in the play, when they spontaneou...
Dick Gregory For President
Dick Gregory For President 1984 SuperCar for 1968 SuperFuzz Mobile Fort Will Put Down Riots Paul McCartney & Wings-1985: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1c5pgo6zU10 "Oh, no one ever left alive, in nineteen hundred eighty five, will ever do..." Originally shared by Semicentenary Project
Tonmeister Tannenbaum
Tonmeister Tannenbaum Originally shared by Randy Culler Merry Christmas from your Sound Engineer
Your Check Is In The Mail
Your Check Is In The Mail And other Famous Lies... Mojo Nixon-I Hate Banks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMehSfTmnbY And USPS, UPS, and FedEx... And Comcast, Verizon, AT&T... And Google, FaceBook, Apple, Microsoft, and NetFlix. Yes, I'm grumpier than usual today. https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/12/14/570859366/an-846-000-inheritance-got-lost-in-transit-that-was-in-february
All In
All In It doesn't make the hard parts easier, but it's the best way to be. https://www.vogue.com/article/philip-seymour-hoffman-mimi-odonnell-vogue-january-2018-issue
Floridaze
Floridaze A nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there. Too many Damn Yankees, for one thing. Jimmy Buffett (back when he still had hair and a moustache)-Floridays: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_IplQxOScU via Cara Evangelista https://sachsmedia.com/news/top-florida-man-woman-stories-2017/
Out Of The Mists
Out Of The Mists Originally shared by Susan Jahn https://electricliterature.com/the-book-that-made-me-a-feminist-was-written-by-an-abuser-4c6891f548cf
No Static At All
No Static At All Originally shared by Randy Culler Norway on Wednesday completed its transition to digital radio, becoming the first country in the world to shut down national broadcasts of its FM radio network despite some grumblings. https://www.thelocal.no/20171213/norway-becomes-first-country-to-switch-off-fm-radio
Originally shared by Damn interesting
Originally shared by Damn interesting Image: 45 years ago today, humans last set foot on the moon
Some Folks Lose...
Some Folks Lose... I had no love and I complained Until I met a man who had no hope At the end of his rope... The Roches-No Shoes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lF0FqKTvR0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lF0FqKTvR0
Isn't It Ironic?
Isn't It Ironic? Never in my life did I think I would consider demonstrating on behalf of the Feebs. Originally shared by **** Sharing for a friend... https://act.moveon.org/event/mueller-firing-rapid-response-events/search/
Don't Knock Progress
Don't Knock Progress "...the product owed most of its success to crafty marketing, misleading research, and chronic government incompetence." Amurrica leads the way. Originally shared by Damn interesting On this day in 1921, chronically catastrophic chemist Thomas Midgley found a way to poison the world https://www.damninteresting.com/the-ethyl-poisoned-earth/
Snow
Snow Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Peggy Lee & Trudy Stevens-Snow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CH2KGboA35c
Dust Of Snow
Dust Of Snow Eliot Carter-Dust Of Snow: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1t5jOaVj_k Dust of Snow by Robert Frost The way a crow Shook down on me The dust of snow From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part Of a day I had rued.
Originally shared by Robert Rambusch
Originally shared by Robert Rambusch The Power of "And" Sure, the Reuben sandwich is a classic that can't be improved. That doesn't mean magic won't happen when it's reimagined as a hamburger. Here, we take a page from the Gospel of Slider and the Gospel of Smashed, to create a gooey, dripping, crusty, delicious Reuben burger. http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2014/07/smashed-reuben-burger-recipe.html
Neither Snow Nor Rain
Neither Snow Nor Rain ...nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. Rounds of what? Ale? Yes, please. https://lifehacker.com/why-you-have-a-delivery-confirmation-and-no-package-fro-1821090068
Ersatz Earl Grey?
Ersatz Earl Grey? Bogus Bergamot? Hot! Originally shared by Richard Stevens Tonight’s comic is about the scariest aspect of Star Trek http://www.dieselsweeties.com/ics/451/ http://www.dieselsweeties.com/ics/451/
OMW OMG
OMW OMG Originally shared by John Scalzi Look! Some news! https://deadline.com/2017/12/netflix-old-mans-war-john-scalzi-sci-fi-novel-jon-shestack-madhouse-entertainment-1202221957/ https://deadline.com/2017/12/netflix-old-mans-war-john-scalzi-sci-fi-novel-jon-shestack-madhouse-entertainment-1202221957/
ABC Warfare
ABC Warfare Originally shared by Timothy Street Barred from behind bars - Texas' goal to ban books in state gaols baffles bookworms and Florida authors. “I can’t imagine why the Texas Department of Criminal Justice would ban them, unless they’re worried that the inmates would overpower the guards using fart jokes,” Mr. Barry said in an email. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/07/us/banned-books-texas-prisons.html?partner=rss&emc=rss https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/07/us/banned-books-texas-prisons.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
Tangled Up In Blue
Tangled Up In Blue I don't know much, but I know this... Purple Is A Serious Color.
"Getting Rid Of The Element Of Human Free Will"
"Getting Rid Of The Element Of Human Free Will" ...and replacing it with predictability, adds a lot of value. Originally shared by Irina T. 12|05|2017 https://www.mining-technology.com/features/deep-impact-atlas-copco-takes-automated-drilling-next-level/
Net Neutrality
Net Neutrality https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/5/16738752/google-youtube-amazon-punishing-customers-feud
Go! Fight! Win!
Go! Fight! Win! Originally shared by Anne-Marie Clark Hahahahaha https://twitter.com/onebrightlight/status/938121451051270144
Ironic or Prophetic?
Ironic or Prophetic? https://redrosetea.com/figurines/american-heritage-series/ Hmmm. Notes of Manifest Destiny, Indigenous Oppression, finishing with Ruthless Industrial Capitalism.
Pistol Packing Preacher
Pistol Packing Preacher Shooting at fleeing suspects is not the proper way to bring folks to Jesus. http://www.wral.com/-i-never-once-wanted-to-hit-him-said-pistol-packing-pastor-who-shot-out-tire-on-fleeing-suspect-s-car/17159235/
Intentions
Intentions In Times Of Dread... Artists Must Never Choose To Remain Silent... Originally shared by George Station More courage like this, please #BlackLivesMatter #poetry #TEDtalks #privilege https://medium.com/@mwendekatwiwa/i-was-invited-to-give-a-ted-talk-then-asked-to-cut-black-lives-matter-from-it-c37b73633a9d
First Light
First Light Richard & Linda Thompson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3B68vtjs0rY I came to you for refuge Don't leave me to the thieves Don't leave me to my own Cure my disease Take me through the mountains Lead me from confusion Take me by the hand Through real and through illusion Give me what I ask for Give me what I long for Give me what I ask for Give me what I long for
The Candle And The Cape
The Candle And The Cape David Mallett-The Candle And The Cape: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mxpW3SYfP7Q
Roué Role
Roué Role "At some point, when you create yourself to make it, you’re going to have to either let that creation go, and take a chance on being loved or hated for who you really are, or you’re gonna have to kill who you really are…” [a pause as he looks straight into camera] “…and fall into your grave grasping onto a character that you never were.” via Kevin Clarke Originally shared by Kevin Clarke (ksclarke) https://medium.com/@ernio/hows-jim-carrey-going-to-end-91a0020c9faf
Patron Saint
Patron Saint http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-42182123 Like a lot of Scots stories, the one about St. Andrew and the Saltire features bones and gore. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/st-andrews-day-scotland-national-holiday-patron-saint-apostle-relics-bones-saltire-google-doodle-a8084091.html You can download a black and white version of Johanna Basford's Google Doodle for your coloring pleasure here: https://4bj4sz3mczsk36cjjn44y326-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/JBGoogleDoodle.jpg Theme music for the weekend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_nFwwjBlEc Big Sam Clayton: "...as your credit creeps to an All Time Low..." http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-42182123
Drunk As A Skunk
Drunk As A Skunk I've never heard of a twenty one year old possum, so I reckon they were talking about the bourbon. No hangover, though. Must have been pretty smooth stuff. http://www.newsherald.com/news/20171201/possum-breaks-into-okaloosa-liquor-store-gets-drunk
iPhone Bootloops
iPhone Bootloops https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/7gzntq/psa_iphone_rebootrespring_issues_megathread/
Your Gummint At Work
Your Gummint At Work Originally shared by **** https://twitter.com/SenatorTester/status/936748480000921600 Via John Verdon
Spear Carrier
Spear Carrier Also, Man In Black. Mostly trying to avoid being a Red Shirt. Good advice from Tom Robbins.
Bardic Battle
Bardic Battle Although, to be fair, there were instances where bards begged off the fighting, reasoning that if they were to be killed or wounded, there would be no one to tell of their sides heroic deeds... Originally shared by Andres Soolo There's a reason why the old Irish laws deemed a bard making fun of a king a particularly felonious crime. “So if you are challenging me to a fight, here’s what we’ll do. Let’s find a place to do it. I’ll wear a Girl Scout uniform so you can have something to get excited about. And the winner, whoever wins the fight, will give all the money we charge for the tickets to charity. My charity will be the women who came forward to say you molested them, okay? Alright, tough guy, with your little pistol?” – Jimmy Kimmel, on last night’s show. Even the best of politicians — not that it's nearly the case here — would have found matching wits with any reasonably experienced bard a challenging exercise. And what's being a king worth if not gett...
Hay-on-Wye
Hay-on-Wye "...was a sleepy market town that once boasted 34 public houses." Coincidence? Perhaps not... http://www.chicagotribune.com/lifestyles/books/ct-prj-hay-on-wye-book-town-20151008-story.html Originally shared by The New York Public Library Would you like to travel to a book town? These towns scattered around the world fill empty storefronts with used and antiquarian bookshops, and host literary festivals: http://on.nypl.org/2kaxgbv http://on.nypl.org/2kaxgbv
Consolation
Consolation The happy ending still beckons, and it is in hope of grasping it that we go on. The poet Wisława Szymborska caught the writer’s dilemma of choosing between hard realities and the longing for the happy ending. She called it “consolation.” Darwin. They say he read novels to relax, but only certain kinds: nothing that ended unhappily. If he happened on something like that, enraged, he flung the book into the fire. True or not, I’m ready to believe it. http://www.vulture.com/2017/11/annie-proulx-national-book-award-speech.html