Thanks for adding that detail. I'm now that much more eager to see it. Stephenson's books are long, but they have the numbers of characters, subplots and details to match. To my mind, they are free of fluff, crap or padding. In particular, the multiple narratives of of "The Baroque Cycle" really demand super-sizing.
I can't argue with the point about the endings. Maybe if he wrote 1200 instead of 900 pages the end would be more satisfying. But the unsatisfying endings are not what I remember about his books. They provide a sense of transport that is unequaled in anything else I've read in the last 20 years. And it lasts longer!
I've also gotten better reliability from the new crop of CF bulbs. The two lamps on either side of my front door get a big vibration shock every time someone slams the door, so they don't last long. I've used drop-light bulbs in them before which last a couple of years maybe. Last winter when I was on my CF replacement kick I tried them in these outdoor fixtures too and they've been fine so far, including surviving sub-zero startups.
And regarding the slow startup? I have the same brand of bulb in base-up, base-down and sideways orientations, and for some reason they start up quicker when they're base-up. Got me.
Wally-world has packs of four store-brand 23W CF (and smaller) for ~US$10. That sounded like a magic number to me, so I replaced every bulb in my (modest) house except for some pesky candelabra-base bulbs here and there.
Or, if the arresting office feels like it, you are subject to extra-judicial punishment at whim, whether you resist or not. You should know there is never any possibility of suing the police. That comment makes it seem like you're really pretty out of touch with every day reality.
But that's right, you're not an American.
Here, the cop will split your skull with his mag-light, stuff your head through a plaster wall so there's something to explain the wound, and then testify that he never removed the flashlight from the car. Anyone who testifies against the cop's word is "not credible", regardless of who they are. Keep pressing and you'll find your house broken into, drugs planted in your car, etc. etc.
He was calling out loudly "Please, Please, ok, I'll leave quietly". They would not permit it.
What did you want him to do, commit sepuku right there to prove his allegiance to the police state?
There were enough cops there to grab the guy by the scruff of the neck and give him the fucking bum's rush out the back door, pronto. That response would pass the "reasonable man" test every time.
You would choose to inflict pain, either by taser or by "pressure-point manipulation". You sound like a sadist. I hope you have a dangerous job, you're sure prepared for it.
Secret code ? Hmm. Was he convicted? Was he charged? I don't know off hand.
I have no doubt whatsoever that the taser is a valuable option to have for an honest peace officer.
However, as I'm sure you know, no non-lethal weapon exists that has not been used to torture someone. If you weren't honest, you could go over someone with your night stick after they were already subdued. This is not torture in the sense that you are trying to extract a confession. It's extra-judicial punishment, and it's common. Tasing that poor stupid bastard at the John Kerry speech was extra-judicial punishment. You *know* he posed no threat to the half-dozen officers who were sitting on him, and you *know* he would have run like a bastard to get the hell out of there. The officers on the scene tased him because it is painful. They accused him, judged him and punished him on the scene because they thought that he deserved it. They knew he probably wouldn't have been convicted of a crime if he were arrested. Of course that is wrong and according to statute they are all felons and should serve long prison terms. But I don't see that happening.
Did anyone else learn BASIC on mark-sense cards ? I "discovered" computers when I was in 7th grade in 1973 in West Vancouver, BC. The compile-edit cycle was one week long. On Friday afternoons we'd take our decks up to the High School and feed them into an HP of unknown model. We'd be rewarded with a length of yellow teletype paper, and if there was a syntax error, or an incorrectly filled in bubble, you had to wait a week to run your program again.
There was an optional gasoline-powered heater for cold climates in the Beetle. It was just behind the glove box and protruded into the luggage compartment in the front. I saw one work once, and well let's just say it worked a little too well. When the dashboard started to melt/catch fire my Dad turned it off and disabled it. From then on we froze.
Last year I had to pay $45 for a 20 page 8.5x5.5 perfect-bound custom-published book for a World Civilizations I course. Everything in it was public domain except the notes and review questions. I was pretty pissed, since it was such obvious gouging. This year for World Civ II I had a $165 text, which is a great text, but it came shrink-wrapped with a useless study guide that corresponded to a 2-editions-ago version of the text, so not even the topics and chapter numbers matched up.
I have a Microsoft Natural Keyboard 4000, one of the few Microsoft products I can unreservedly endorse, and in the Intellitype sw that comes with it you can disable the caps-lock key entirely. Ahhh.. I've never missed it.
There are places around here (MA, USA) where a flashing green means you're passing a firehouse where the lights only turn when the fire trucks are about to enter the road.
Different bird. The turkeys we buy to eat are of Mexican descent, I think, and are white-feathered. I know people who eat wild turkey other wild fowl of the northeast, and it's not the same experience at all, they say.
I brined my turkey 3 or 4 years ago and I'll never cook a turkey otherwise again. It makes a huge difference.
Put enough salt in water to make an egg float, and add your favorite flavorings. Immerse bird for one hour per pound, approximately. Then roast as usual (un-stuffed, of course). Oddly the bird doesn't get salty, but the drippings are salty, so the gravy might be a little salty for your taste. You won't need to add any salt anyway.
With four people sitting down, we only ate one breast of our 15lb turkey (a freebee from my employer). But a half hour after eating when I found a little energy, five minutes of diligent work turned turned the remainder into three gallon-size zipper bags of white and dark meat and roasted bones. Took about five minutes, and now I have enough meat for another dozen servings of hot and cold turkey sandwiches, turkey salad and enough bones to make a gallon of good stock. So if you're handy with a knife and a little brute force to tear the carcass into pieces it can be a good buy.
My bird came out great this year after 16 hours in a ginger & garlic brine.
As I understand, it doesn't so much kill the bacteria as bind to all the hemoglobin and fix it in the red state. Sort of the way CO poisoning victims look very ruddy. Bad juju, though, just the same.
But some people tune in other keys for different reasons. SRV had his whole band tuned to Eb so he could use 52-12 strings (or something like that) on his old strat and still be able to bend them.
My son's band plays almost everything in "dropped D" or lower. Listen to that for a while and then it sounds odd when you hear a guitar tuned to E again.
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Thanks for adding that detail. I'm now that much more eager to see it. Stephenson's books are long, but they have the numbers of characters, subplots and details to match. To my mind, they are free of fluff, crap or padding. In particular, the multiple narratives of of "The Baroque Cycle" really demand super-sizing.
I can't argue with the point about the endings. Maybe if he wrote 1200 instead of 900 pages the end would be more satisfying. But the unsatisfying endings are not what I remember about his books. They provide a sense of transport that is unequaled in anything else I've read in the last 20 years. And it lasts longer!
Did I mention I haven't gotten used to the new editor yet ? Duh. I meant to check "these guys" at gnswireless.com out.
Check out.
Will they blend?
I've also gotten better reliability from the new crop of CF bulbs. The two lamps on either side of my front door get a big vibration shock every time someone slams the door, so they don't last long. I've used drop-light bulbs in them before which last a couple of years maybe. Last winter when I was on my CF replacement kick I tried them in these outdoor fixtures too and they've been fine so far, including surviving sub-zero startups.
And regarding the slow startup? I have the same brand of bulb in base-up, base-down and sideways orientations, and for some reason they start up quicker when they're base-up. Got me.
Wally-world has packs of four store-brand 23W CF (and smaller) for ~US$10. That sounded like a magic number to me, so I replaced every bulb in my (modest) house except for some pesky candelabra-base bulbs here and there.
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Or, if the arresting office feels like it, you are subject to extra-judicial punishment at whim, whether you resist or not. You should know there is never any possibility of suing the police. That comment makes it seem like you're really pretty out of touch with every day reality.
But that's right, you're not an American.
Here, the cop will split your skull with his mag-light, stuff your head through a plaster wall so there's something to explain the wound, and then testify that he never removed the flashlight from the car. Anyone who testifies against the cop's word is "not credible", regardless of who they are. Keep pressing and you'll find your house broken into, drugs planted in your car, etc. etc.
You probably haven't seen the video, I'd say.
He was calling out loudly "Please, Please, ok, I'll leave quietly". They would not permit it.
What did you want him to do, commit sepuku right there to prove his allegiance to the police state?
There were enough cops there to grab the guy by the scruff of the neck and give him the fucking bum's rush out the back door, pronto. That response would pass the "reasonable man" test every time.
You would choose to inflict pain, either by taser or by "pressure-point manipulation". You sound like a sadist. I hope you have a dangerous job, you're sure prepared for it.
Secret code ? Hmm. Was he convicted? Was he charged? I don't know off hand.
I have no doubt whatsoever that the taser is a valuable option to have for an honest peace officer.
However, as I'm sure you know, no non-lethal weapon exists that has not been used to torture someone. If you weren't honest, you could go over someone with your night stick after they were already subdued. This is not torture in the sense that you are trying to extract a confession. It's extra-judicial punishment, and it's common. Tasing that poor stupid bastard at the John Kerry speech was extra-judicial punishment. You *know* he posed no threat to the half-dozen officers who were sitting on him, and you *know* he would have run like a bastard to get the hell out of there. The officers on the scene tased him because it is painful. They accused him, judged him and punished him on the scene because they thought that he deserved it. They knew he probably wouldn't have been convicted of a crime if he were arrested. Of course that is wrong and according to statute they are all felons and should serve long prison terms. But I don't see that happening.
Did anyone else learn BASIC on mark-sense cards ? I "discovered" computers when I was in 7th grade in 1973 in West Vancouver, BC. The compile-edit cycle was one week long. On Friday afternoons we'd take our decks up to the High School and feed them into an HP of unknown model. We'd be rewarded with a length of yellow teletype paper, and if there was a syntax error, or an incorrectly filled in bubble, you had to wait a week to run your program again.
SP3 is supposed to be due in the 2nd half of April '08, according to Wikipedia.
There was an optional gasoline-powered heater for cold climates in the Beetle. It was just behind the glove box and protruded into the luggage compartment in the front. I saw one work once, and well let's just say it worked a little too well. When the dashboard started to melt/catch fire my Dad turned it off and disabled it. From then on we froze.
Last year I had to pay $45 for a 20 page 8.5x5.5 perfect-bound custom-published book for a World Civilizations I course. Everything in it was public domain except the notes and review questions. I was pretty pissed, since it was such obvious gouging. This year for World Civ II I had a $165 text, which is a great text, but it came shrink-wrapped with a useless study guide that corresponded to a 2-editions-ago version of the text, so not even the topics and chapter numbers matched up.
My first thought was that that they chose now to do this because with the current recession fears regulators would be less likely to raise objections.
I have a Microsoft Natural Keyboard 4000, one of the few Microsoft products I can unreservedly endorse, and in the Intellitype sw that comes with it you can disable the caps-lock key entirely. Ahhh.. I've never missed it.
There are places around here (MA, USA) where a flashing green means you're passing a firehouse where the lights only turn when the fire trucks are about to enter the road.
Different bird. The turkeys we buy to eat are of Mexican descent, I think, and are white-feathered. I know people who eat wild turkey other wild fowl of the northeast, and it's not the same experience at all, they say.
I brined my turkey 3 or 4 years ago and I'll never cook a turkey otherwise again. It makes a huge difference.
Put enough salt in water to make an egg float, and add your favorite flavorings. Immerse bird for one hour per pound, approximately. Then roast as usual (un-stuffed, of course). Oddly the bird doesn't get salty, but the drippings are salty, so the gravy might be a little salty for your taste. You won't need to add any salt anyway.
With four people sitting down, we only ate one breast of our 15lb turkey (a freebee from my employer). But a half hour after eating when I found a little energy, five minutes of diligent work turned turned the remainder into three gallon-size zipper bags of white and dark meat and roasted bones. Took about five minutes, and now I have enough meat for another dozen servings of hot and cold turkey sandwiches, turkey salad and enough bones to make a gallon of good stock. So if you're handy with a knife and a little brute force to tear the carcass into pieces it can be a good buy.
My bird came out great this year after 16 hours in a ginger & garlic brine.
One might reply "Ok, but only if you agree to pay me forever, regardless of whether I actually continue to work."
As I understand, it doesn't so much kill the bacteria as bind to all the hemoglobin and fix it in the red state. Sort of the way CO poisoning victims look very ruddy. Bad juju, though, just the same.
Unfortunately, even 70 miles west of MIT $15/hour would have me out on the street, never mind taking care of my kids. And I have zero consumer debt.
Thanks for the link. The "two types of consonance" thing is interesting.
I wasn't aware of old rockers playing detuned.
But some people tune in other keys for different reasons. SRV had his whole band tuned to Eb so he could use 52-12 strings (or something like that) on his old strat and still be able to bend them.
My son's band plays almost everything in "dropped D" or lower. Listen to that for a while and then it sounds odd when you hear a guitar tuned to E again.