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Signal boost [May. 19th, 2012|12:34 pm]

sartorias
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People in need--unfortunately, those seem to be on the increase. [info]green_knight wants work, as she's getting freelance biz off the ground. Here's the post. I personally recommend her translation skills from English into German. She also scanned three of my novels and converted them to text files for me to work with.
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(no subject) [May. 19th, 2012|03:33 pm]

buymeaclue
I would totally watch an Avengers sequel consisting of 100% Iron Man and Bruce Banner sciencewank.
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Minn-StF Meeting, 19 May [May. 19th, 2012|02:30 pm]

sraun
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is at my house, 3928 11th Avenue South, Minneapolis. FFI: 612-822-0451

We will be serving:

  • Vegan Barbecued Beans

  • Sweet & Sour Meatballs

  • Vegan Chinese 5-Spice Cake

  • Mini Lemon Bites

  • Assorted Chips & Dips

  • Assorted Regular & Diet Pop - including Sodastream if you're interested

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“Space Doggity” and “The Future Soon” Q&A at Tor.com [May. 19th, 2012|01:20 pm]
scalzifeed

http://whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/19/space-doggity-and-the-future-soon-qa-at-tor-com/

http://whatever.scalzi.com/?p=18624

I’m off today being presidential (which includes chairing the SFWA business meeting, having a couple of other meetings, and then being part of the Nebula Awards Ceremony), so I won’t be around here much today. While I am out and about, why not check out the “Journey to Planet JoCo” interviews on Tor.com, in which I interview musician Jonathan Coulton about his science fiction-related music? Today’s track is “Space Doggity,” and yesterday’s track, if you missed it, is “The Future Soon.” There’s good stuff at both of those links.

Have fun with your Saturday. I’ll check in with you tomorrow.


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The American way of food [May. 19th, 2012|09:47 am]

desperance
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Really I'm only writing this up so that I can do it again on demand, if demanded.

I made blueberry buttermilk scones for breakfast. How American is that?

British people, look away now; I have no equivalents for you. Ceci n'est pas un recipe.

Put two cups of all-purpose flour in a bowl, and add three tablespoons of granulated sugar; also two heaped teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Grate in almost a full stick of salted frozen butter, sparing only that little bit that otherwise you'd grate your fingers. Mix it up. Add a thing of fresh blueberries.

Beat an egg with half a cup of buttermilk and a dash of vanilla extract. Working quickly and casually, mix that into the dry stuff, then tip it all out and knead it briefly into a rough dough. As soon as it holds together, shape it into a round and cut into wedgie scone-shapes.

Lay them on parchment paper or a Silpat silicon sheet on a baking tray, brush with buttermilk and scatter with sugar.

Bake at 375 degrees for twenty-five minutes or so, until golden brown and yummy.

Let cool a little if you can, before eating.
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Each side's major sticking points in the upcoming CBA negotiations [May. 19th, 2012|12:05 pm]
downgoesbrownfd

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/DownGoesBrown/~3/fjO4ywJBWxc/each-sides-major-sticking-points-in.html

In anticipation of the next round of CBA negotiations, Gary
Bettman began a schedule of daily evil laugh practices.
The first shot in what could be a long and ugly labor battle was fired this week when the NHL gave notice to the NHLPA that it wants to modify or terminate the existing collective bargaining agreement in September. The decision was bad news for fans who were hoping to avoid another extended work stoppage.

Or maybe not. After all, everyone already knew that a renegotiation of the existing deal was coming, so the league's move amounted to a mere legal formality. The real action won't come until the two sides sit down to bargain later in the summer.

How will those negotiations go? Nobody knows yet, but sources tell me that the two sides are already hard at work compiling their lists of demands. According to insiders, here are some of the key issues that the NHL and NHLPA will be taking to the bargaining table over the next few months.

NHLPA - While we always realized that the odds of the Raffi Torres suspension being reduced on appeal were low, it still would have been nice for Gary Bettman to let Torres complete at least one sentence without immediately banging a giant gong.

NHL -We all agree that we absolutely must do something to discourage teams from signing players to extremely long-term contracts, so could you guys ask Ilya Bryzgalov to send us a nice photo we could make into a poster to hang in every owner's office?

NHLPA - Several of our members insist that we revamp the draft lottery system so that the Edmonton Oilers don't win every year, although come to think of it everyone who told us that looked an awful lot like a 17-year-old prospect wearing a fake mustache and beard.

NHL - Yes, having large markets play deep into the playoffs increase television ratings and yes, it's important for overall league revenue that the sport do well in the southern US, but we still can't shake the nagging feeling that at some point someone will notice that the LA Kings' net has been two feet smaller than everyone else's for the last month.

NHLPA - Mike Komisarek says it would be super-awesome if we could have just one conversation about an amnesty buyout period without everyone in the hockey world awkwardly turning and staring at him.

NHL - Everyone is clearly fed up with the current discipline system where some suspensions are too long and others are too short and there's never any consistency, so let's just go back to having every suspension consistently being too short like it was a few years ago.

NHLPA - We've still been unable to get any feedback on CBA issues from any members of the New York Rangers, since whoever keeps answering the phone when we call their dressing room just grunts monosyllabic answers at us like a sullen teenager and hangs up.

NHL - Look, all those "lazy Russians don't want to win in the playoffs" narratives took a lot of work for the hockey world to build up over the years, so we'd really appreciate it if Ilya Kovalchuk could stop singlehandedly ruining them.

NHLPA - While we realize that it's become tradition for the Stanley Cup winning captain to pose for a photograph with the commissioner before being handed the trophy, it's still kind of creepy how Bettman always takes that moment to whisper "I've been sitting in this all day without pants".

NHL - Even though he did somehow obtain all of the proper licenses and permits first, it's still not cool how David Booth keeps leaping out of our grandkids' closets and gunning down all their teddy bears.

NHLPA -While we can appreciate that the league would like to increase offense by encouraging forwards and defensemen to refrain from blocking shots, there has to be a better way than just mailing us all a "What Would Marc-Andre Fleury Do?" bracelet.

NHL - Despite consistent profits since the last lockout and record revenues that have increased by almost one billion dollars, it's vitally important that we get further concessions from the players to ensure the ongoing health of the… oh man, we came so close to getting all the way through that with a straight face, let us try it just one more time.


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Contesting error: how far to go [May. 19th, 2012|03:53 pm]

oursin
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Given to think, by an exchange yesterday, of how far it's reasonable to go in combatting some prevalent error in understanding, in my particular instance, of certain facets of Victorian medical practice.

I can see writing an article or book which is on some topic one already perceives as worth writing about in which one engages with some other person's deluded somewhat mistaken take on it (and beats it to death with a rotten codfish). But not picking apart something that is, or ought to be, a non-topic to begin with.

The trouble with prevalent delusions is that they are usually, at bottom, nice and simple and soundbitey, whatever the structure of elaborating some particular bee in the bonnet thesis might be.

The basic tenet of all the 'Mr S of Stratford did not write Shakespeare' pretty much comes down to 'William S was a yob from the provinces without the benefits of education and moving in high society, with a record for poaching deer and a c.v. that included holding horses outside inns, working in the degraded profession of actor'. Once you have assumed that this person could not possibly have written the plays attributed to him, you are free to set up your own candidate and torture the evidence until it gives in.

Similarly, I don't think anyone is even going to get published writing a book on The Identity of Jack the Ripper: something we are never going to know, have you considered how many people there were living in London at that date, plus, major port city with teeming numbers of transients? rather than putting up their particular candidate and knocking down everyone else's.

Therefore, I am not really enthused by the thought of a project which would involve going through the footnotes in a work which I will not name, quoting what the texts in question actually say and how this does not actually support the arguments being made, and adducing contrary evidence.

It is, among other things, a wholly negative enterprise. I can't see any positive gains beyond the correcting error, and blowed if I can think of a sexy USP to put over the end product ('Victorians, sex, doctors, and the rise of electrical appliances: a much more complex story, with massive degrees of nuancing', is just not going to get the media coverage, even if it got published).

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Clammy hands of paternal love [May. 19th, 2012|12:25 pm]
joshreadscomics

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/joshreads/~3/227JaCl-6FU/

http://joshreads.com/?p=13630


Rex Morgan, M.D., 5/19/12

Uh-oh, in her sad and futile attempt to finally get ahead of Rex in their ongoing dickishness contest, June has gone a little off-script when it comes to her more immediate task, namely keeping Iris off the sauce. “Hey, Iris, you sure look pretty in that funeral dress! Good thing, too, since you need to wear it all the time, seeing as everyone you ever loved keeps dying. It doesn’t show off your rack to the same advantage that mine does, of course, but then what would, right?”

Spider-Man, 5/19/12

Thanks, Newspaper Spider-Man, for neatly encapsulating your narrative philosophy for new readers. “I don’t need any amazing, exciting powers beyond those of ordinary humans to dislike that creep! Sullen, baseless jealousy will be the engine of this plot, not a superheroic battle to save mankind!”

Pluggers, 5/19/12

An archaic, failing bureaucracy is pretty much the only thing tethering pluggers to the mainstream of human society, and once that tether snaps, things are gonna get real depressing real quick.

Mary Worth, 5/19/12

The sad thing about the awkward, violent gesture in panel one is that Wilbur thinks it’s a hug.

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Arrrggh! [May. 19th, 2012|05:53 am]

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Mirrored from Marsha Sisolak.

Woke up at 4A with another go-around of allergic conjunctivitis.

New to-do list for today:
-Urgent Care
-purchase eye drops
-cold compresses

I am not a happy camper–there’s no way of knowing which allergen is setting it off.

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Money stars [May. 19th, 2012|07:35 am]

supergee
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If we pretend to be vicariously rich in order to avoid the fact that so many of us are becoming unnecessarily poor, if the shift of the national wealth has within it elements that we're willing to root for as though they were the U.S. Olympic Plutocrats Team, we will get ourselves suckered again and again.
Charles P. Pierce refrains from cheering for the Facebook billionaires
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