Tuesday, February 10, 2015
You're Wrong
The UVA Rolling Stone scandal appears to be at an end. We should probably take a moment to think about some of the actual victims.
Mark Wahlberg is seeking a pardon for a crime that he committed many years ago and whose sentence he has already served. I'm not sure I get why this is so important to him, but I understand even less why this is so important to the victims. I thought the quote, "If you're a racist, you're always going to be a racist," from the victim was pretty troubling.
Rich Lowry discusses a worsening trend in discussing attacks by radical Islamic terrorists.
It's the end of an era.
Crock-Pots are pretty popular right now, but not without controversy.
I always liked Shirley Manson.
Cholesterol is getting its reputation back.
Responses:
1. I think I'm taking a break from the self-help genre. Even though those books appear to have meatier ideas than what you find in the grocery store checkout line, I think my issues come down to execution rather than mindset.
2. That seems like a reasonable diet plan. It's not flashy, and it's doable. That said, some of the meals were a little meh, but that's true with fancier diet plans too.
3. Those are some great articles. I liked the cookie breakdown - it reminded me of the Good Eats episode about cookies.
4. The last three paragraphs kinda undermine the entire article...
5. That's a little scary, but less so if you think that this is often how love works generally. You get to know someone, and no terrible things happen in the interim, and the initial attraction plus knowledge and trust (which comes from revealing personal details about yourself) gets you there. It also makes the fact of arranged marriages or marriages of economic convenience from earlier in our history a bit more palatable.
6. We've already discussed this.
R2R:
1. In Team America, Kim Jong-Il is portrayed as being killed in rather hilarious fashion. The funny thing is that many theaters that wanted to show The Interview said that they would show Team America instead after The Interview was pulled, but they were told that they couldn't.
4. Cable companies could lower their prices and put a stop to all (or perhaps most) of this - after all, bundling plus lower prices means savings and ease for consumers. But it's not all the fault of cable companies. Take Disney, for example. They own ESPN (which includes ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNNEWS, and others), Disney Channel, ABC, ABC Family, A&E, and others. The reason the cable company includes all of these channels is less because they want to make us buy them and charge for it and more because Disney wants to make the cable company buy all those channels and turn around and sell them to us for more money. This particular innovation (along with HBO's decision to sell HBO GO separately) means that the various TV producers can individually decide what to overcharge me for, thus allowing me to avoid the monopoly rents of the cable companies and just pay fees to the companies whose services I want. Maybe I still end up with a channel or two I could do without (I've watched ESPN Classic maybe twice), but I'd rather pay $40/month for the ESPN Suite than $100 for 5 million channels, most of which are either dumb, made redundant by Hulu, Netflix, or Amazon Prime, or feature just one show that I can buy on iTunes for $25.
My ideal scenario is to have ESPN (not yet available separately), Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime, some mechanism to get network channels for sports, and iTunes for any shows I'm forgetting about.
5. PETA is the worst.
R2R2R2R2R:
2. I'd save my external hard drive (with my computer backups), my wallet and passport, my phone, and not much of anything else. There are other things I'd like to save, but I wouldn't want to be deliberating as the fire took hold of my possessions and then possibly me.
B
Mark Wahlberg is seeking a pardon for a crime that he committed many years ago and whose sentence he has already served. I'm not sure I get why this is so important to him, but I understand even less why this is so important to the victims. I thought the quote, "If you're a racist, you're always going to be a racist," from the victim was pretty troubling.
Rich Lowry discusses a worsening trend in discussing attacks by radical Islamic terrorists.
It's the end of an era.
Crock-Pots are pretty popular right now, but not without controversy.
I always liked Shirley Manson.
Cholesterol is getting its reputation back.
Responses:
1. I think I'm taking a break from the self-help genre. Even though those books appear to have meatier ideas than what you find in the grocery store checkout line, I think my issues come down to execution rather than mindset.
2. That seems like a reasonable diet plan. It's not flashy, and it's doable. That said, some of the meals were a little meh, but that's true with fancier diet plans too.
3. Those are some great articles. I liked the cookie breakdown - it reminded me of the Good Eats episode about cookies.
4. The last three paragraphs kinda undermine the entire article...
5. That's a little scary, but less so if you think that this is often how love works generally. You get to know someone, and no terrible things happen in the interim, and the initial attraction plus knowledge and trust (which comes from revealing personal details about yourself) gets you there. It also makes the fact of arranged marriages or marriages of economic convenience from earlier in our history a bit more palatable.
6. We've already discussed this.
R2R:
1. In Team America, Kim Jong-Il is portrayed as being killed in rather hilarious fashion. The funny thing is that many theaters that wanted to show The Interview said that they would show Team America instead after The Interview was pulled, but they were told that they couldn't.
4. Cable companies could lower their prices and put a stop to all (or perhaps most) of this - after all, bundling plus lower prices means savings and ease for consumers. But it's not all the fault of cable companies. Take Disney, for example. They own ESPN (which includes ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNNEWS, and others), Disney Channel, ABC, ABC Family, A&E, and others. The reason the cable company includes all of these channels is less because they want to make us buy them and charge for it and more because Disney wants to make the cable company buy all those channels and turn around and sell them to us for more money. This particular innovation (along with HBO's decision to sell HBO GO separately) means that the various TV producers can individually decide what to overcharge me for, thus allowing me to avoid the monopoly rents of the cable companies and just pay fees to the companies whose services I want. Maybe I still end up with a channel or two I could do without (I've watched ESPN Classic maybe twice), but I'd rather pay $40/month for the ESPN Suite than $100 for 5 million channels, most of which are either dumb, made redundant by Hulu, Netflix, or Amazon Prime, or feature just one show that I can buy on iTunes for $25.
My ideal scenario is to have ESPN (not yet available separately), Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime, some mechanism to get network channels for sports, and iTunes for any shows I'm forgetting about.
5. PETA is the worst.
R2R2R2R2R:
2. I'd save my external hard drive (with my computer backups), my wallet and passport, my phone, and not much of anything else. There are other things I'd like to save, but I wouldn't want to be deliberating as the fire took hold of my possessions and then possibly me.
B
Tuesday, January 27, 2015
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Bear and Penguin's HandMade Super Duper Parachutes
how about this book list?
while this diet is less super delicious looking than maybe whole living or goop, i appreciate that they thought out the whole thing so you wouldn't have to spend a lot of time prepping or have a lot of wasted ingredients.
nerd chef bear would like this list
i thought it was because ants can't tell time
how to fall in love with anyone
obama's less-talked about tax hike- although i'm not sure how this hike benefits anyone
responses
1. while i understand we have to stand up for our freedom of speech, Sony doesn't have an army and would likely be blamed if there was a terror attack because of not pulling the movie. I understand what it was thinking. Of course, we don't believe that N. Korea could mount a successful attack on us but then again after Charlie Hebdo, all you need is a few sympathizers. Who gets blown up in Team America?
2. Oh Virginia! That kind of thing should only pass in The Good Wife and D.C.
3. I think the demise of Chipotle is greatly overexaggerated. The chicken is probably fine.
4. I understand why cable is the way it is - because who's going to buy that hallmark channel otherwise? but why can't cable just lower their prices to combat this?
5. The most interesting part is the restaurant owner's reporting of death threats to the FBI's "animal terrorist division." Are there animals that are terrorists? (moose perhaps?) or is there a whole category of PETA people who kill humans in the name of animals? so many so that the FBI has created its own division for them.. Also, did you see the update from PETA re death threats?: "PETA is skeptical of the claim that threats are being made. Anyone who's desperate enough to want to serve up the diseased, fatty livers of tortured birds is certainly not above making up a fat lie. This big macho chef needs to 'man up' and recognize that part of being a man means having a heart."
PETA- YOU ARE THE WORST!
R2R
1. not everywhere can be paris (although frankly, "we're not shooting tourists on site anymore" might be better than going to Paris in light of Charlie Hebdo).
4. It's probably chicken and egg. Neurotic people probably read more Facebook than non-neurotic people and they probably get more neurotic from reading the posts of their neurotic friends.
5. haggling would probably only make sense on big ticket items and i dont' forsee buying any big ticket items on amazon anytime soon.
7. yeah, maybe all 4-year olds should be able to do that? we should train constantine immediately!
9. those were really funny. i like his "lawyer" voice. zippity doo dah!
10. so i guess atkins works because that diet is at least 10 years old.
r2r2r
2. Well yes, i figured it wouldn't apply to you because your interest rate is so high. or at least it used to be.
r2r2r2r
2. but you never answered the original question about what you would take out of the apartment in case of a fire! you just criticize me for how i would SAVE penguin and bear! I will have parachutes ready though...
4. we do take pictures more readily now and it's probably hurting our memories.
r2r2r2r2r2r2r
agreed. i see stuff about rape culture and i guess to feminists, it means that sometimes rape victims are not treated as they should be. so i guess by "culture" they mean, "some things that some people have done before." like there could be a racist culture because a racist person exists.
while this diet is less super delicious looking than maybe whole living or goop, i appreciate that they thought out the whole thing so you wouldn't have to spend a lot of time prepping or have a lot of wasted ingredients.
nerd chef bear would like this list
i thought it was because ants can't tell time
how to fall in love with anyone
obama's less-talked about tax hike- although i'm not sure how this hike benefits anyone
responses
1. while i understand we have to stand up for our freedom of speech, Sony doesn't have an army and would likely be blamed if there was a terror attack because of not pulling the movie. I understand what it was thinking. Of course, we don't believe that N. Korea could mount a successful attack on us but then again after Charlie Hebdo, all you need is a few sympathizers. Who gets blown up in Team America?
2. Oh Virginia! That kind of thing should only pass in The Good Wife and D.C.
3. I think the demise of Chipotle is greatly overexaggerated. The chicken is probably fine.
4. I understand why cable is the way it is - because who's going to buy that hallmark channel otherwise? but why can't cable just lower their prices to combat this?
5. The most interesting part is the restaurant owner's reporting of death threats to the FBI's "animal terrorist division." Are there animals that are terrorists? (moose perhaps?) or is there a whole category of PETA people who kill humans in the name of animals? so many so that the FBI has created its own division for them.. Also, did you see the update from PETA re death threats?: "PETA is skeptical of the claim that threats are being made. Anyone who's desperate enough to want to serve up the diseased, fatty livers of tortured birds is certainly not above making up a fat lie. This big macho chef needs to 'man up' and recognize that part of being a man means having a heart."
PETA- YOU ARE THE WORST!
R2R
1. not everywhere can be paris (although frankly, "we're not shooting tourists on site anymore" might be better than going to Paris in light of Charlie Hebdo).
4. It's probably chicken and egg. Neurotic people probably read more Facebook than non-neurotic people and they probably get more neurotic from reading the posts of their neurotic friends.
5. haggling would probably only make sense on big ticket items and i dont' forsee buying any big ticket items on amazon anytime soon.
7. yeah, maybe all 4-year olds should be able to do that? we should train constantine immediately!
9. those were really funny. i like his "lawyer" voice. zippity doo dah!
10. so i guess atkins works because that diet is at least 10 years old.
r2r2r
2. Well yes, i figured it wouldn't apply to you because your interest rate is so high. or at least it used to be.
r2r2r2r
2. but you never answered the original question about what you would take out of the apartment in case of a fire! you just criticize me for how i would SAVE penguin and bear! I will have parachutes ready though...
4. we do take pictures more readily now and it's probably hurting our memories.
r2r2r2r2r2r2r
agreed. i see stuff about rape culture and i guess to feminists, it means that sometimes rape victims are not treated as they should be. so i guess by "culture" they mean, "some things that some people have done before." like there could be a racist culture because a racist person exists.
Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Back on the Board!
It's embarrassing that Sony caved so quickly, especially since Team America already exists. It obviously would have been terrible if the people threatening violence successfully followed through on their threats, but whatever happened to standing up in the face of terrorism? Also, it's North Korea - are we really afraid of them?
Virginia is for lawbreakers.
Get your carnitas while you can.
The cable cartel is slowly but surely falling apart.
Finally, Californians don't have to live like peasants anymore. Of course, PETA isn't taking the new developments very well...
Responses:
1. Some of the reasons they used seem pretty suspect to me. It's unclear to me why I'd want to visit Canberra when the appeal is "there's far less to do here than everywhere else in Australia!" Or Myanmar because "we're not shooting tourists on site anymore!"
2. Good for potatoes. Bad for still having few answers in the face of an obesity crisis.
3. When I read about the circumstances of the torture memo, I more or less disregarded it as political posturing.
4. I wonder if Facebook breeds neuroticism... Also, resistance syndrome is interesting. What do you do about it?
5. This seems like a lot of work. But congratulations on your forthcoming savings!
6. The bull is so iconic - I thought it had been around for far longer.
7. It's a nice story, but I need more information. How many 4-year-olds know 1) how to operate a telephone and 2) that 911 calls for help? That number is probably higher than we're led to believe by this story. It's nice that the kid did it, but if he just sat there and cried the whole time while his grandmother died, I feel like we'd be wondering what was wrong with him.
8. I'll be making that really soon.
9. You should send this link to Dave Chappelle. (See also here.)
10. My new rule is that at least 10 years should elapse between the debut of a new diet fad and a completed evaluation of its worth. In other words, ask me again in 2025.
R2R:
2. It's somewhat applicable to me (though my debt amount is higher). And yes, the stock market could turn, but the variable rates on my loans could also skyrocket. You make investment decisions based on the information you know now. That said, given that I owe so much, I'm probably just going to keep paying them down - having a monthly minimum payment of $1,757 limits one's options.
R2R2R:
2. I'm just going to leave this here. But I'm also going to update bear's insurance policy in case he has to go here...
4. What I mean is that people take pictures and record events more readily now compared to previous generations, so we are already moving in that direction. Even I (a social media grouch and memory snob) have a better hard record of my life now than, say, my mom when she was my age.
R2R2R2R2R2R2R2R:
Agreed. But even if we were to stipulate a such thing as a rape culture and its existence at UVA (or any other school), it's unclear to me how the proposed solutions help to diminish the culture. It is clear to me, however, how the promulgation of a belief in a rape culture, along with the insistence that we believe people like Jackie regardless of actual facts (or people like Liz Seccurro regardless of the irrelevance of our belief), says more about these feminists than it does about culture.
B
Virginia is for lawbreakers.
Get your carnitas while you can.
The cable cartel is slowly but surely falling apart.
Finally, Californians don't have to live like peasants anymore. Of course, PETA isn't taking the new developments very well...
Responses:
1. Some of the reasons they used seem pretty suspect to me. It's unclear to me why I'd want to visit Canberra when the appeal is "there's far less to do here than everywhere else in Australia!" Or Myanmar because "we're not shooting tourists on site anymore!"
2. Good for potatoes. Bad for still having few answers in the face of an obesity crisis.
3. When I read about the circumstances of the torture memo, I more or less disregarded it as political posturing.
4. I wonder if Facebook breeds neuroticism... Also, resistance syndrome is interesting. What do you do about it?
5. This seems like a lot of work. But congratulations on your forthcoming savings!
6. The bull is so iconic - I thought it had been around for far longer.
7. It's a nice story, but I need more information. How many 4-year-olds know 1) how to operate a telephone and 2) that 911 calls for help? That number is probably higher than we're led to believe by this story. It's nice that the kid did it, but if he just sat there and cried the whole time while his grandmother died, I feel like we'd be wondering what was wrong with him.
8. I'll be making that really soon.
9. You should send this link to Dave Chappelle. (See also here.)
10. My new rule is that at least 10 years should elapse between the debut of a new diet fad and a completed evaluation of its worth. In other words, ask me again in 2025.
R2R:
2. It's somewhat applicable to me (though my debt amount is higher). And yes, the stock market could turn, but the variable rates on my loans could also skyrocket. You make investment decisions based on the information you know now. That said, given that I owe so much, I'm probably just going to keep paying them down - having a monthly minimum payment of $1,757 limits one's options.
R2R2R:
2. I'm just going to leave this here. But I'm also going to update bear's insurance policy in case he has to go here...
4. What I mean is that people take pictures and record events more readily now compared to previous generations, so we are already moving in that direction. Even I (a social media grouch and memory snob) have a better hard record of my life now than, say, my mom when she was my age.
R2R2R2R2R2R2R2R:
Agreed. But even if we were to stipulate a such thing as a rape culture and its existence at UVA (or any other school), it's unclear to me how the proposed solutions help to diminish the culture. It is clear to me, however, how the promulgation of a belief in a rape culture, along with the insistence that we believe people like Jackie regardless of actual facts (or people like Liz Seccurro regardless of the irrelevance of our belief), says more about these feminists than it does about culture.
B
Tuesday, January 6, 2015
Sunday, January 4, 2015
socks socks socks socks socks!
I've started this but it's kinda annoying. =P
green sock pack
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