I've heard a lot of disgusted (perhaps accurate, perhaps not) complaints about how politicians (usually this complaint is aimed at Republicans, as in the book title "The Republican War on Science") have "cut money for basic, fundamental research -- the kind that benefits all of us." It's a slight paraphrase, and you might consider it a straw man, but I don't think these gripes are hard to find.
Meta studies like this are worth thinking about when someone says we need more "basic research" in any given area: it might be sincere, well-intentioned (or who knows, even perfectly accurate, in some platonic universe where "needs" could be accurately, objectively assessed and compared), but it might also mean that well-intentioned money would be spent on stuff that is very sciency, but not very helpful.
I've seen (surprising to me!) good connection in PA, NY, WA, and MD, including on Maryland's Eastern Shore, and while in a moving train in PA.
Cheers,
Tim
* I might be wrong to call it "Sprint's" network; this comparison has rough edges, because Virgin might for some reason not have the same footprint, even though they're *using* "the Sprint network."
Yep -- PA right now (in Dauphin County at the moment) has been having a week of insane beauty -- this is what early fall would be in an ideal world. And I have enough friends and family here for it to be a nice temporary home at least. I also savor the thought that it was here, in Philly in particular, that great and momentous (if imperfect) things were set in motion, and that the U.S. emerged as a result.
Philly: Business / occupational tax (incl. the recently publicized semi-scandal of going after bloggers with miniscule incomes therefrom) is ridiculous. Yep, underfunding on some things, but plenty of money for certain boondoggles. I love certain things about Philly, but the sore points are worth amputating. It's also the only city I've ever been explicitly asked if I might want to purchase some crack.
I have some friends who specifically moved out of state because the taxes are so high and so various. PA likes to grab taxes and fees at various levels, too; never lived any other state with such a web of municipal, county, township, fire district, school district, water district, boll-weevil district picayune little fiefdoms. (Whether it's a good idea or not, I can sympathize with the argument that 400+ school districts is worth at least reconsidering.)
I share the thought that the Federal regs are where most of the problems lie; correct, the states don't get as much choice as they of right should have when it comes to being laboratories of liberty. Things as trivial as reducing the intensity of the insane war on some drugs as used by some people draw serious Federal recrimination. On the other hand, if PA reformed (I know this is a pipe dream from a well-stocked pipe) its tax system to be more like that of TN, TX, or WA, it would leap onto my short list of places to settle and live. (Which I say about a lot of places, it's true, but I have some, and growing, sentimental attachment to PA.)
And on the state liquor store front, there are actually several places with state liquor stores, incl. Virginia, and (surprisingly) "Live Free or DIE!" New Hampshire and (also no-sales tax, slightly libertarian-bent) Washington. Maryland, more of a nanny state in many ways than PA, does not. The rules vary about what can be bought where, though: In WA, at least, the *hard stuff* is restricted to the state stores, but wine and beer are in groceries.
Curious -- what's the ranking system, and which are the four "winners" on that scale? I don't know enough to say that PA's #45 on my list of states in which to live (been there, done that, visiting's fine, thanks), but it's sure not in the top 10 right now:)
(Are you familiar with Harrisburg's incinerator debt? It's pretty astounding, when you divide by taxpayers... )
A threat of unwarranted prosecution for child-porn could certainly be used as a threat by the government to keep someone quiet (as with someone in a position to embarrass the government).
That's even more pernicious than the threat "you might get raped if you want to spend tonight in the lockup" is used to extract easier confessions.
timothy
Julian Assange, and others similarly situated
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Child Porn As a Weapon
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· Score: 0, Redundant
Julian Assange might be a bad example, precisely because such a dirty trick would I think look just one shade too obvious.
But... Character assassination, or coercion with that as a threat, is all too big a threat, either as a means to smear a person generally, or to coerce a confession (regardless of its truth).
I suspect there are a lot of things I would / one would / you might confess to, if the alternative was unshakable opinion by everyone you meet that you *actually* raped a 4-year-old last year, and that your computer is loaded with pictures of that, and that the FBI can prove it, because, after all, they're the good guys with smart forensics teams. Arson? Yeah, sure, I did that, if you say so -- that's probably one you can eventually get past. Embezzlement? I needed the money! But having child porn? No way -- not me.
(Deny it? Of course you do, you sicko. People like you make me sick to my bones. You ought to be castrated, and put in jail, where they'll treat you like you deserve, you evil freak.)
Had I actually gone, I would have graduated more than 15 years ago; I had the paperwork, started the essays, but was talked out of it by the anticipated cost. A cousin of mine went, though (even longer ago), was very happy with the place.
I think that's a good idea (the "bookmarked UI" for GIMP); GIMP in particular has an easy way to suggest such things, and I suggest submitting that to the visual brainstorm page here:
I wish all free software projects (or heck, all software in general) had such a page -- it's a really good way for people as non-technical as I am to suggest changes in a way that's easier to grasp than a detailed text description.
One thing that has long puzzled me is the simplified, but not skill-transferrable interfaces for Guitar Hero and similar games. Maybe I too could learn an instrument with enough hundreds of hours playing such games... but I don't have any desire to become a concert-level wielder of... a "Guitar Hero" controller.
(Far more understandable that in games with swords, the sword's controller is purely symbolic, and that racing games mostly involve automatic transmissions. But musical instruments really are hand-held or at least person-centric, don't smash or cut people* by intent, don't need a track or cleared airspace** -- so, as a non-musical idiot, I would like it if such games all had some didactic effect, even if they're not Mavis-Beacon style.
timothy
* I realize there are exceptions, but bear with me;))
** OK, OK -- tuba, and probably others, need a bit of airspace...
I just filed a bug report about this, including your screenshot. (Thanks.)
I've seen some ad weirdness of late on the admin side, too (may have been with that very same ad in one case); the ways of internet advertising are sometimes mysterious, and (sorry) I have nothing to do with the advertising aspect.
Actually, I think a restaurant would be a quite acceptable end (or middle) for a retired Space Shuttle. Not-quite-parallel: a restaurant I had the chance to eat at just a few times in my life (too bad) is Haussner's, which dissolved as a business more than a decade ago when the next generation didn't want to run it, and squabbled.
(The 2nd link also has an amusing list of Bawlmorese words.)
The point is, Haussner's was essentially an art gallery as much as a restaurant; not necessarily all to my taste, but a sort of happy shrine to the art. (And delicious spaetzle, too, and raw cherrystone clams, and and and.)
Also like the Space Needle in Seattle, or the (also now departed) cafeteria deep underground in Carlsbad Caverns; eating is an important thing in our lives, and IMO eating in interesting places helps amplify and deepen the experience. I would really enjoy eating in a space shuttle, with the chance to examine its living spaces and architecture. (At least, far more than eating in the baroque (rococo? - can't keep straight, and might be wrong anyhow) fancy-plasterwork-and-punchwork-ceilinged restaurants that are often held out as beautiful but to me seem like bad dreams, wrt decoration.)
Closer parallel: the 747-as-house http://slashdot.org/articles/99/11/02/1057201.shtml -- the engineering is solid, why shouldn't it continue in a new and useful life, rather than only get pickled? (If there were only one, I might favor the pickling approach, it's true.)
Also, I would probably be happy to pay a premium to eat in a Space Shuttle, if I knew that part of the money thus raised was going to various Worthy Causes (in my estimation) related to space exploration, etc. For instance, I'd like to see John Carmack's private space ventures partly underwritten by a revenue stream based on the already-sunk tax-dollar-based engineering effort of the shuttle program;) Such a restaurant could also go a great business in patches, commemorative pictures, etc.
(also in response to the other reply raising similar point)
Right, I'm only talking about as the maker of hardware. Android seems to be the software of choice, and it seems to be pretty good, esp. in the more recent iterations. There are some cheesy devices running it, and tantalizing demos, but that doesn't mean better ones aren't actually (hopefully) bare months from available.
Admission: I've seen Android in action only on a few phones (but not one I own) and -- now "ancient" versions -- at on tablets at CES earlier this year. But that's why I'm glad that YouTube means we get to see demos so quickly;)
Amusing, but not crazy, as far as I can see. There are only so many large-scale makers of this kind of electronics -- and it's no weirder than different parts of Apple, or HP, or Microsoft (or GM, for that matter) trying to put the other parts out of business. Foxconn seems like one of the very most likely sources for an "iPod Killer" device, because they have in-house expertise. (Of course, maybe they have agreements with Apple that rule out certain routes to producing an iPod killer;))
I am sympathetic to the idea of mandated hardware buttons and placement, buuuuuut... I'd rather have tiered recommendations / human interface guidelines, because there might be a lot of cool applications for Android where a mandated layout wouldn't work, but a secondary recommended layout / alternative would. I'm spur-of-the-moment imagining an embedded display in a convertable's dashboard that's intended to have little chance for dust to get in. I don't have a convertable, and maybe that's a silly example, but Hey. I know that on many of my electronic gizmos, the actual electronic bits and display have outlived the life of the buttons.*
Want to be real awesome? Have touch-sensitive dedicated scroll areas off the display surface.
As long as we're thinking of the same sort of thing, that's one thing I look forward to in the (of-course-it's-delayed) Notion Ink Adam tablet. (Though I also worry that it will be distractingly bad, as when a touchpad on a notebook is oversensitive and leads to all kinds of curse-inducing pointer misplacement.)
timothy
* Another reason I hate trackpads:) When their "mouse buttons" fail or start to go wonky, the simple, elemental-to-human-life matter of click, Yea, whether left or right, can bring great wailing and gnashing of teeth and bashing of buttons.
"It's interesting that nobody has mentioned this snippet from TFA yet:
Privacy advocates worry that prepaid cellphone registration might be a step toward something even more worrisome in their view: identity registration to access the Internet.
How long until the security establishment starts pushing for that?"
In some places, they have!:)
Some people like to think of Government as a permanent theme park inside of which we live, and must be this tall to ride, and all the snacks are free of triglycerides; They have trouble understanding why anyone would object to this penumbra of beneficence and orderly, pre-made rules and outcomes...
I think that it is a little too big brother to require registering a cell phone to a person, but for a weapon, whose primary purpose is to injure... I think you need a reality check."
According to Schumer, et al, they want to track phones because they could be used (as well as by nefarious people doing *other* nefarious things)... as part of weapons.
And while you could argue the semantics (purpose vs. use), I don't agree that the primary purpose of a weapon is *to* injure; it's to prevent injury from occurring.
- a lot easier to add a keyboard (wireless via bluetooth, either with a dongle or internal; wireless w/ IR, if IR is available; wired via USB) than to turn a laptop into a tablet.
- Even w/ the OLPC XO's sealed keyboard, it's one point of failure avoided in a tablet-style computer.
- Tablet shape is more versatile in using a computer for (who knows?) virtual music stand, or impromptu video camera (note: offer void in Pennsylvania), or drawing device.
- Better shape, IMO, as a reading device, too. Reading on a laptop is pretty awkward, IMO, and I do it more than I should.
9" transflective ARM tablet? I want one. Price $75? Well... that price might have *some* basis, but I suspect that's not the out-the-door price.
The $100 laptop (and note, I'm not complaining, and I realize that the $100 figure was not promised to Moses on Mt. Sinai) turned out to be, realistically for me and many others, $400, through the Give One Get One program. (And I think $400 well spent; I like the idea, and the hardware is really cool, despite its limitations.)
Does that mean a 9" ARM tablet would be $300?:) Hey, $150 would be even better, and $75 would mean I could buy one apiece for several young relatives. (And I'd rather get them that way than, say, a big misguided, mismanaged government school Program.)
Have never been there, but this is one reason I want to. My sister-in-law is from not too far, and talked about these things. Looks like a fantastic snack:) Enough food to get through a movie or book, even...
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I've heard a lot of disgusted (perhaps accurate, perhaps not) complaints about how politicians (usually this complaint is aimed at Republicans, as in the book title "The Republican War on Science") have "cut money for basic, fundamental research -- the kind that benefits all of us." It's a slight paraphrase, and you might consider it a straw man, but I don't think these gripes are hard to find.
Meta studies like this are worth thinking about when someone says we need more "basic research" in any given area: it might be sincere, well-intentioned (or who knows, even perfectly accurate, in some platonic universe where "needs" could be accurately, objectively assessed and compared), but it might also mean that well-intentioned money would be spent on stuff that is very sciency, but not very helpful.
timothy
Well, Sprint says "Nationwide" (Yes, it's coast-to-coast), but their* 3G map looks smaller than Verizon's, based on this map:
http://www.virginmobileusa.com/check-cell-phone-coverage
compared to this one for Verizon's claimed broadband coverage area (you might need to click the radio button / refresh: http://www.verizonwireless.com/wireless-coverage-area-map.shtml)
On the other hand, maybe you're right: This article has high praise for Sprint's network; the Kindle connection really is pretty convincing -- http://www.mobile-broadband-reviews.com/sprint-coverage.html
I've seen (surprising to me!) good connection in PA, NY, WA, and MD, including on Maryland's Eastern Shore, and while in a moving train in PA.
Cheers,
Tim
* I might be wrong to call it "Sprint's" network; this comparison has rough edges, because Virgin might for some reason not have the same footprint, even though they're *using* "the Sprint network."
I'd like to read that story -- any idea of the title?
Lots of my favorite literature is in the form of short-stories which I then spend years trying to re-locate ...
Tim
Yep -- PA right now (in Dauphin County at the moment) has been having a week of insane beauty -- this is what early fall would be in an ideal world. And I have enough friends and family here for it to be a nice temporary home at least. I also savor the thought that it was here, in Philly in particular, that great and momentous (if imperfect) things were set in motion, and that the U.S. emerged as a result.
Philly: Business / occupational tax (incl. the recently publicized semi-scandal of going after bloggers with miniscule incomes therefrom) is ridiculous. Yep, underfunding on some things, but plenty of money for certain boondoggles. I love certain things about Philly, but the sore points are worth amputating. It's also the only city I've ever been explicitly asked if I might want to purchase some crack.
I have some friends who specifically moved out of state because the taxes are so high and so various. PA likes to grab taxes and fees at various levels, too; never lived any other state with such a web of municipal, county, township, fire district, school district, water district, boll-weevil district picayune little fiefdoms. (Whether it's a good idea or not, I can sympathize with the argument that 400+ school districts is worth at least reconsidering.)
I share the thought that the Federal regs are where most of the problems lie; correct, the states don't get as much choice as they of right should have when it comes to being laboratories of liberty. Things as trivial as reducing the intensity of the insane war on some drugs as used by some people draw serious Federal recrimination. On the other hand, if PA reformed (I know this is a pipe dream from a well-stocked pipe) its tax system to be more like that of TN, TX, or WA, it would leap onto my short list of places to settle and live. (Which I say about a lot of places, it's true, but I have some, and growing, sentimental attachment to PA.)
And on the state liquor store front, there are actually several places with state liquor stores, incl. Virginia, and (surprisingly) "Live Free or DIE!" New Hampshire and (also no-sales tax, slightly libertarian-bent) Washington. Maryland, more of a nanny state in many ways than PA, does not. The rules vary about what can be bought where, though: In WA, at least, the *hard stuff* is restricted to the state stores, but wine and beer are in groceries.
Cheers,
Tim
Curious -- what's the ranking system, and which are the four "winners" on that scale? I don't know enough to say that PA's #45 on my list of states in which to live (been there, done that, visiting's fine, thanks), but it's sure not in the top 10 right now :)
(Are you familiar with Harrisburg's incinerator debt? It's pretty astounding, when you divide by taxpayers ... )
timothy
Hi! No, you've misinterpreted.
A threat of unwarranted prosecution for child-porn could certainly be used as a threat by the government to keep someone quiet (as with someone in a position to embarrass the government).
That's even more pernicious than the threat "you might get raped if you want to spend tonight in the lockup" is used to extract easier confessions.
timothy
Julian Assange might be a bad example, precisely because such a dirty trick would I think look just one shade too obvious.
But ... Character assassination, or coercion with that as a threat, is all too big a threat, either as a means to smear a person generally, or to coerce a confession (regardless of its truth).
I suspect there are a lot of things I would / one would / you might confess to, if the alternative was unshakable opinion by everyone you meet that you *actually* raped a 4-year-old last year, and that your computer is loaded with pictures of that, and that the FBI can prove it, because, after all, they're the good guys with smart forensics teams. Arson? Yeah, sure, I did that, if you say so -- that's probably one you can eventually get past. Embezzlement? I needed the money! But having child porn? No way -- not me.
(Deny it? Of course you do, you sicko. People like you make me sick to my bones. You ought to be castrated, and put in jail, where they'll treat you like you deserve, you evil freak.)
Ahem.
timothy
Had I actually gone, I would have graduated more than 15 years ago; I had the paperwork, started the essays, but was talked out of it by the anticipated cost. A cousin of mine went, though (even longer ago), was very happy with the place.
timothy
Thanks for the correction; I've updated the story.
And how do you like Simon's Rock? :) (Beautiful place. I'll be up at a nearby YMCA camp several weeks from now.)
timothy
I think that's a good idea (the "bookmarked UI" for GIMP); GIMP in particular has an easy way to suggest such things, and I suggest submitting that to the visual brainstorm page here:
http://gimp-brainstorm.blogspot.com/
I wish all free software projects (or heck, all software in general) had such a page -- it's a really good way for people as non-technical as I am to suggest changes in a way that's easier to grasp than a detailed text description.
Cheers,
timothy
One thing that has long puzzled me is the simplified, but not skill-transferrable interfaces for Guitar Hero and similar games. Maybe I too could learn an instrument with enough hundreds of hours playing such games ... but I don't have any desire to become a concert-level wielder of ... a "Guitar Hero" controller.
(Far more understandable that in games with swords, the sword's controller is purely symbolic, and that racing games mostly involve automatic transmissions. But musical instruments really are hand-held or at least person-centric, don't smash or cut people* by intent, don't need a track or cleared airspace** -- so, as a non-musical idiot, I would like it if such games all had some didactic effect, even if they're not Mavis-Beacon style.
timothy
* I realize there are exceptions, but bear with me ;))
** OK, OK -- tuba, and probably others, need a bit of airspace ...
I just filed a bug report about this, including your screenshot. (Thanks.)
I've seen some ad weirdness of late on the admin side, too (may have been with that very same ad in one case); the ways of internet advertising are sometimes mysterious, and (sorry) I have nothing to do with the advertising aspect.
timothy
Actually, I think a restaurant would be a quite acceptable end (or middle) for a retired Space Shuttle. Not-quite-parallel: a restaurant I had the chance to eat at just a few times in my life (too bad) is Haussner's, which dissolved as a business more than a decade ago when the next generation didn't want to run it, and squabbled.
http://everything2.com/title/Haussner%2527s
Hassner's http://www.boomzer.com/dx/haus.html
(The 2nd link also has an amusing list of Bawlmorese words.)
The point is, Haussner's was essentially an art gallery as much as a restaurant; not necessarily all to my taste, but a sort of happy shrine to the art. (And delicious spaetzle, too, and raw cherrystone clams, and and and.)
Also like the Space Needle in Seattle, or the (also now departed) cafeteria deep underground in Carlsbad Caverns; eating is an important thing in our lives, and IMO eating in interesting places helps amplify and deepen the experience. I would really enjoy eating in a space shuttle, with the chance to examine its living spaces and architecture. (At least, far more than eating in the baroque (rococo? - can't keep straight, and might be wrong anyhow) fancy-plasterwork-and-punchwork-ceilinged restaurants that are often held out as beautiful but to me seem like bad dreams, wrt decoration.)
Closer parallel: the 747-as-house http://slashdot.org/articles/99/11/02/1057201.shtml -- the engineering is solid, why shouldn't it continue in a new and useful life, rather than only get pickled? (If there were only one, I might favor the pickling approach, it's true.)
Also, I would probably be happy to pay a premium to eat in a Space Shuttle, if I knew that part of the money thus raised was going to various Worthy Causes (in my estimation) related to space exploration, etc. For instance, I'd like to see John Carmack's private space ventures partly underwritten by a revenue stream based on the already-sunk tax-dollar-based engineering effort of the shuttle program ;) Such a restaurant could also go a great business in patches, commemorative pictures, etc.
Also also: http://www.amazon.com/How-Buildings-Learn-Happens-Theyre/dp/0140139966
Cheers,
timothy
(also in response to the other reply raising similar point)
Right, I'm only talking about as the maker of hardware. Android seems to be the software of choice, and it seems to be pretty good, esp. in the more recent iterations. There are some cheesy devices running it, and tantalizing demos, but that doesn't mean better ones aren't actually (hopefully) bare months from available.
Admission: I've seen Android in action only on a few phones (but not one I own) and -- now "ancient" versions -- at on tablets at CES earlier this year. But that's why I'm glad that YouTube means we get to see demos so quickly ;)
timothy
Thanks for spotting; updated now.
timothy
Amusing, but not crazy, as far as I can see. There are only so many large-scale makers of this kind of electronics -- and it's no weirder than different parts of Apple, or HP, or Microsoft (or GM, for that matter) trying to put the other parts out of business. Foxconn seems like one of the very most likely sources for an "iPod Killer" device, because they have in-house expertise. (Of course, maybe they have agreements with Apple that rule out certain routes to producing an iPod killer ;))
timothy
I am sympathetic to the idea of mandated hardware buttons and placement, buuuuuut ... I'd rather have tiered recommendations / human interface guidelines, because there might be a lot of cool applications for Android where a mandated layout wouldn't work, but a secondary recommended layout / alternative would. I'm spur-of-the-moment imagining an embedded display in a convertable's dashboard that's intended to have little chance for dust to get in. I don't have a convertable, and maybe that's a silly example, but Hey. I know that on many of my electronic gizmos, the actual electronic bits and display have outlived the life of the buttons.*
Want to be real awesome? Have touch-sensitive dedicated scroll areas off the display surface.
As long as we're thinking of the same sort of thing, that's one thing I look forward to in the (of-course-it's-delayed) Notion Ink Adam tablet. (Though I also worry that it will be distractingly bad, as when a touchpad on a notebook is oversensitive and leads to all kinds of curse-inducing pointer misplacement.)
timothy
* Another reason I hate trackpads :) When their "mouse buttons" fail or start to go wonky, the simple, elemental-to-human-life matter of click, Yea, whether left or right, can bring great wailing and gnashing of teeth and bashing of buttons.
"It's interesting that nobody has mentioned this snippet from TFA yet:
Privacy advocates worry that prepaid cellphone registration might be a step toward something even more worrisome in their view: identity registration to access the Internet.
How long until the security establishment starts pushing for that?"
In some places, they have! :)
Some people like to think of Government as a permanent theme park inside of which we live, and must be this tall to ride, and all the snacks are free of triglycerides; They have trouble understanding why anyone would object to this penumbra of beneficence and orderly, pre-made rules and outcomes ...
timothy
I think that it is a little too big brother to require registering a cell phone to a person, but for a weapon, whose primary purpose is to injure... I think you need a reality check."
According to Schumer, et al, they want to track phones because they could be used (as well as by nefarious people doing *other* nefarious things) ... as part of weapons.
And while you could argue the semantics (purpose vs. use), I don't agree that the primary purpose of a weapon is *to* injure; it's to prevent injury from occurring.
timothy
I like keyboards, too, but ...
- a lot easier to add a keyboard (wireless via bluetooth, either with a dongle or internal; wireless w/ IR, if IR is available; wired via USB) than to turn a laptop into a tablet.
- Even w/ the OLPC XO's sealed keyboard, it's one point of failure avoided in a tablet-style computer.
- Tablet shape is more versatile in using a computer for (who knows?) virtual music stand, or impromptu video camera (note: offer void in Pennsylvania), or drawing device.
- Better shape, IMO, as a reading device, too. Reading on a laptop is pretty awkward, IMO, and I do it more than I should.
timothy
9" transflective ARM tablet? I want one. Price $75? Well ... that price might have *some* basis, but I suspect that's not the out-the-door price.
The $100 laptop (and note, I'm not complaining, and I realize that the $100 figure was not promised to Moses on Mt. Sinai) turned out to be, realistically for me and many others, $400, through the Give One Get One program. (And I think $400 well spent; I like the idea, and the hardware is really cool, despite its limitations.)
Does that mean a 9" ARM tablet would be $300? :) Hey, $150 would be even better, and $75 would mean I could buy one apiece for several young relatives. (And I'd rather get them that way than, say, a big misguided, mismanaged government school Program.)
Tim
... I'd go completely bonkers :)
http://slashdot.org/journal/250892/Dreams-a-lucid-one-of-20100523
http://slashdot.org/journal/249504/Dreams-Two-more-lucid-ones-from-20100426
http://slashdot.org/journal/249374/Dreams-Two-lucid-ones-of-20100423
(etc.)
timothy
The point of food is to provide nourishment. It could taste and look like shit, the point is to keep you alive
Is that what the mushrooms told you? Did it wear off eventually?
Have never been there, but this is one reason I want to. My sister-in-law is from not too far, and talked about these things. Looks like a fantastic snack :) Enough food to get through a movie or book, even ...
Tim
Just check the forwarding address for his paycheck :)
timothy