I'd like to think he got a suspended sentence in consideration of just how poetically awesome his actions were.

I remember when content is king.

But in a nihilist sort of way, no content is king of kings.

Make that 12.

Thaddeus, I found 11.

You know, I get emails just like that every day.

I don't think they represent a novel concept.

I'm just sayin'.

Remember to /msg ident nickserv (your password) if you've previously registered.

I have fond memories of my family and I going too far on the monorail and ending up at Polynesian Village, and wandering around it, going WTF is this?

OMG, I thought I recognized that name. I had him for Political Thinking at NU. He was this sort of judgmental third-rate Simon Cowell/Gordon Ramsey responsible for exposing us to a variety of ideologies while making little effort to hide his approval or disdain for any of them. He also told us that "teaching basically is a lazy profession".

Weird. I still have the book for that class, too.

I'll never understand why I hear about Roq La Rue ten times more often here than in the local trendy weekly.

It hardly matters what the ice cream truck plays, as long as it makes itself known.

In my old town there was a guy who sold slushes out of the back of an old delivery van. He didn't have a tune; just an electric bell that he'd fire off a couple rings of when he was pulling over. Kids flocked.

@8: The neocons miss the Cold War, so they need a new one. Plain and simple. We replaced evil Russkies with evil Towelheads. We replaced nuclear annihilation with sudden coordinated terrorism.

In fact, it's even better now, because they could warn people about nukes with the DEW system, and people believed they could go hide in a bomb shelter and ride it out. But you can't hide in a bomb shelter while you're on a plane or in the subway.

Robert Heinlein called these "the Crazy Years".

The use of torture is completely understandable when you view it from the angle that you want to maintain jihad against your country because you need a real basis for constant public fear in order to rail through military spending increases, reduction of public freedoms and massive citizen monitoring.

If you can find another explanation as to why our government goes literally out of its way to conduct torture in the face of all evidence, argument, and outrage against it, shout.

Pretty sure the Bible is the most stolen book, followed by Abbie Hoffman's Steal This Book.

I suppose there isn't a big *resale* market for those, though.

Isn't great how the cop and marines are smiley happy people, but the Arabs have angry, mean eyes, and the Germans are menacing and sadistic. Gee...

All this means to me is that the lines are only going to get longer as coffee preparation gets slower -- doing all the checking on each shot, dumping, careful foaming, etc. -- these things take extra time, and they're not probably going to install extra machines or cram extra people into those tiny spaces to make up for it.

Perhaps this will be the opening for Dunks' to return to the northwest.

Hope this site dies a horrible dotcom death. This site is an excuse for whiny piss-ant suburbanites to bitch like little children about everything that isn't perfect in their Donna Reed fucking little lives.

Here's the kind of comments that appear in my town:

"They don't cut their hedges and it blocks our wonderful view!"

"The kids play baseball and climb on things!"

"Their fence is falling apart and their yard looks ugly"

And people wonder what's wrong with America.

Um, do any modern phones actually store anything on the SIM card anymore?

Yes, ooooold phones stored SMSs on the SIM, but I doubt any phone does that anymore, considering the volume of modern SMS use.

Granted, I have a couple of must-have contact numbers on my SIM, but that was a specific and deliberate act.

Has the standard distributed SIM increased in capacity at all? I know it's feasible and may exist, but does any carrier actually issue them?

#3: The former building is still there and serves as Seattle's science museum. But the latter building... I can't find it. I wonder what happened to it.

#5: Having been to both Seattle's and Spokane's WF sites, Spokane's doesn't seem to have been all that bad, but it didn't quite meet the grandeur that people had come to expect after the ones in New York and even the one in Seattle. Plus, Spokane isn't exactly a major transportation hub.

The 1974 fair was probably sized proportional to the city it was held in, but it couldn't live up to the glamour of previous WF's. One or the other is the problem: the grandiose WFs favored large cities (with lots of spare land); or too many small cities wanted to be cool too and have fairs.

I don't expect we'll ever see a WF in America again. I expect future WFs (if any) will be in Southeast Asia. North America doesn't hardly have any industry or technology innovation left. Though maybe Paul Allen could hold one here focusing on our wonderful future in health-enhancing genotyping, cheap work-bearing/uber-nutritional chimeras, and designer bacteria.

Porn? Vodka? Naked saunas? Sounds like Sweden FTW. And you still get death metal. I can totally live with Abba in exchange for all that.

I'm not turtley enough for the turtle club. Turtle! Turtle!

It looks to me like he's using his stomach to reflect the recoil of the gun back forwards towards his finger. I thought people usually fired handguns held at arms length.

I've heard of shooting from the hip, but not shooting from the gut.

What's interesting too is that this is one of those things that people who have only lived in one region don't realize that there are any differences. A lifelong Northwesterner doesn't have any idea that Godfathers is any different than Uno's or Papa Gino's (etc.), if they even know those places exist in the first place.

The one thing you should be sure to do for a person visiting from out of state is to take them to a local pizza joint. (Also a local Chinese joint.)

is she independently wealthy? This must take all day, at least.

Srsly who has the time to make something like that?

Dammit, that's almost a reason to patronize Di$n€¥£and.

I'm sorry, exactly how small a space does one have to live in where they don't have room for one small modest vase? You could probably find one that fits easily on the same shelf inbetween the glasses.

And for even more frugality, you could skip this stupid thing and just use a glass.

Or if you're just interested about appearance, you could get fake flowers, which don't need a glass (or water) at all, nor do they wilt and need to be thrown away. Besides, at the distance which this vase would look remotely convincing or "nice", you couldn't possibly tell if the flower was real or not anyway.

Makes me think of Silent Running.

Please, American's can't even accept a $1 coin, never mind a $3.15 coin. And just think of how the gas stations will react to having to refit their pumps to accept these kooky commie coins. Give us greenbacks or give us death!

They really didn't think these things through, did they?

They also didn't have infirm or disabled people in their future. I guess it's fair to expect that those sorts of things would have been cured by then.

Apparently so would have people's tendency to do things, like, hang their arm or leg out too far and get it jammed or severed off between the chairs of the slow belt and the fast belt.

Good god, since day one Disney has been evil.

Can't use it on the bus? Can't use it at the coffee shop without leeching their AC? Meh, I'll hold out for the vaporware $200 Eee PC 2.

There is of course no reason why RSS feeds have to have any particular keywords in their URLs. Is the GFW smart enough to block a site based on whether it was previously seen in a <link rel=alternate> tag? Sounds like not.

The skip limit is (likely) a function of their webcasting license. Pandora has the exact same thing, attributing it to their license.

Ridiculous, yeah, but RIAA's fault, not Spin's.

PS Though I don't know why buying a premium Slacker account allows them to let you circumvent that limit.

How does this compare to SS-GB or Fatherland? Seems like if you want to write a book about post-Nazi England, detective story is the way to go.

I feel like arguing that a moment of noise would be more appropriate.

I've seen this done for Hyakugojyuuichi and Numa Numa. Doesn't this have a meme-name yet?

She ought to take any prize money and use it to form the Upton Geographic Foundation, providing free maps to children throughout the world, like South Africa and Iraq.

I would like to say THANK YOU for restoring comments. It has really bit not to be able to add $0.02 to all the good (or not so good) stuff that gets posted on BB. IMO a blog ain't a blog if it's one-way. I believe this is the third manifestation of comments I've seen; hope it will stay this time.