Caroline

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• Commented on Murdoch-Microsoft deal in the works
  Google's "electronic freeloading"? Are you serious? It's up on the internet already; Google just lets you find it. And really, let's think for a moment here. Murdoch is acting as if being able to search for Fox News on Google...
• Commented on Tom Waits live: Glitter and Doom - a darkly inspiring CD
  I was lucky enough to attend the Atlanta show (the one streaming from NPR). It was amazing. We were three rows from the very back, but it didn't matter. (Got tickets through, of all things, a Facebook ad.) I never...
• Commented on Getting meaningful things done using "fixed-schedule productivity"
  Great, now I can feel even more guilty about not being more accomplished as an engineering grad student!...
• Commented on Video: Lady Gaga before she became famous
  I kind of love Lady Gaga, actually. She's completely over the top, in a very self-aware way, and there's something I find really fun about that. jmnugent, "simplistic honesty" isn't what she does. She does showmanship. Putting on a really...
• Commented on Library workers fired for colluding to keep graphic novel from being checked out by 11-year old girl
  Yes, it would be unreasonable. Unless you want to get into the business of putting "ratings" on every book ever written. Books are already shelved in children's, YA, and adult sections, and labeled accordingly. I mean, I read Lord of...
• Commented on New Catholic video game promises to brings family closer to heaven
  Huh? I was raised Catholic, and we cross ourselves forehead, chest, left shoulder, right shoulder. Which is what they're doing in the video. Still, I suspect bogosity. The transubstantion part is a huge tipoff; despite the fact that Catholic kids...
• Commented on SFPD cops from imaginary anti-dance-party squad steal laptops
  You can have redundant backups on external hard drives in various locations, but it still doesn't mean you can afford to go out and replace your laptop. And you can't actually play any music without one, even if you have...
• Commented on Library workers fired for colluding to keep graphic novel from being checked out by 11-year old girl
  Sounds more like they were conspiring to keep it from being checked out by anyone (and creepily obsessing over the dirty bits)....
• Commented on Leopard seal teaches photographer how to catch penguins
  That is great. It also reminds me of cats who try to teach their owners' babies and toddlers how to use a litter box, and then wonder why this funny-looking kitten can't seem to get the hang of such a...
• Commented on Stacking 117 objects on a Lego block, then knocking it over.
  That's awesome. Just fantastic. Reminds me of being little, building crazy elaborate things with blocks -- and then getting to knock them all over at the end. Liking to knock them all over at the end. There's a freedom in...
• Commented on TSA bans snowglobes. TSA, meet Archimedes.
  I agree scientifically, but TSA is happy to apply the "3 fl oz" limit to milk, mouthwash, hand lotion, toothpaste, lip gloss, and perfume, as well as every other identifiable and unidentifiable liquid, so it makes no sense to start...
• Commented on Apple patents anti-user attention-complianceware
  Yeah, I am an Apple user, but that's crap. I will never use anything that makes me do that no matter how shiny it is. Apple, however, patents a million things they never take to market. I'm inclined to believe...
• Commented on Coffee flavor Yoplait
  Well, I like coffee ice cream; I would probably have tried this hoping it was a sort of coffee-ice-cream flavor. Sweet + creamy + coffee isn't necessarily bad at all. On fat free yogurt, strained Greek-style fat-free yogurt (Fage 0%...
• Commented on Pratchett's "Unseen Academicals" - a gift to Discworld lovers and an argument for the importance of sport
  Nona, I don't get the "Monstrous Regiment" hate either. I love that book for all kinds of reasons -- what it says about war, what it says about soldiering, what it says about being a woman in a male profession....
• Commented on Do you understand my first-grade child's homework?
  Leila, I'm pretty sure 9+3=12, not 11. beameup, I agree that it can be a good mental math strategy. But it sounds like this homework was given totally out of context. That, or Mark's daughter was paying absolutely no attention...
• Commented on Do you understand my first-grade child's homework?
  The layout of the counters tipped me off. They're in groups of ten. She's supposed to draw the appropriate number of counters, count up the total -- and then figure out how many counters plus ten give the same total....
• Commented on DC sniper to die today
  I am against the death penalty on principle. Not because I have warm, fuzzy feelings for murderers. I think some people do deserve death. But that's an instinct for revenge. And revenge is not a good basis for a justice...
• Commented on Hitler: football coach?
  What Chevan says. Teenagers love messing with authority of any kind, polls included....
• Commented on Praying mantis in my backyard
  Look out for the kitty in the background, mantis! (Great shot.)...
• Commented on Congressional record exposes military officers to identity theft, covers up
  phisrow and knodi nail it....
• Commented on My son, the nude model
  Lizardman, they were offering $10 in 2001-2002 at my college. Real wages going down everywhere....
• Commented on My son, the nude model
  Yeah, modeling for life drawing is HARD. Just try to stay completely still for ten minutes straight (or half an hour). No fidgeting, no scratching, no twitching or changing position. Now do that while standing or sitting in an interesting...
• Commented on Damning interview with Baby Einstein founder
  Aw, thanks Mark. I don't have kids, but when I do I certainly hope to be worthy of the good mom title. (My own mom set a great example. She started reading, talking, and singing to her kids when they...
• Commented on Goat rentals for clearing brush
  You mean W. doesn't need to personally clear all the brush in Texas?...
• Commented on Damning interview with Baby Einstein founder
  Really? Passively staring at the TV doesn't build infants' intellect? You have to actually hold them, play with them, talk to them, sing to them, read to them, respond to their cries, noises, laughter, attempts at verbalization and facial expressions?...
• Commented on Couple survives car crash in their house
  Well, I suppose it's technically possible that the car just totally malfunctioned and crashed into the bedroom all by itself with no input from the driver. Or that the drunk guy wasn't actually the driver. Not bloody likely, but technically...
• Commented on Documentary about crazy cat ladies
  This will be a fascinating documentary. I think a lot of animal hoarders do have an overdeveloped sense of empathy, responsibility and guilt. If a cat is homeless, they feel personally responsible for its real or imagined suffering, anything that...
• Commented on Science Question from a Toddler: All Eyes on the Turtle
  Yeah, my cats show theirs when they're half-asleep. It seems like the membrane closes as the cat closes its eyes, but a little bit faster, so it's possible for the membrane to be closed but the eyelids not-quite closed. They...
• Commented on Taste test: Togarashi
  Sounds fantastic. I will have to give it a try. I adore things that have complex flavors plus heat. Somehow the heat seems to round out the experience, even though it's not exactly a flavor in itself. Another good thing...
• Commented on Improvising a car fuse
  Halloween Jack -- well…that contributor's name is Wankel....