Actually (off-topic) Bald Eagles usually soar when they spot some road kill or other carrion they can scavenge, or another smaller predator whose kill they can steal.
The Bald Eagle is more colorful than the Buzzard, but is in other ways very similar.
Makes me laugh whenever I see a team, a country, or a military body with a big eagle in their logo. I then wonder wether it's a truck-flattened racoon that their mascot is swooping down onto.
On a Windows machine [alt][shift][printscreen]. Or on a *nix desktop, xwd > gotcha.xwd in an xterm. No way it's gonna seek out and destroy bits out of my bitmaps.
Example: Jesse Ventura. That wacky governor of Minnesota has gotten into way too much trouble trying to be funny. Remember how he said he wanted to be reincarnated as a 36DD Bra? How he thinks religion is for weak minded people? He's had to backtrack for the entire time he's in office over some of the stuff he's said.
Being as I am here in Minnesota, I can reflect on Mr. Ventura a bit.
It was frightening to me that as the election returns were being announced, the person Jesse spoke of being his greatest inspiration was "Rocky." Rocky! Someone who isn't even a real person, just a film creation.
Jesse is a flake. The kind of antics he practices in the media would set off "flamebait" and "troll" alarms all over the 'net if he dared express them there.
Last night, I found out my brother-in-law, an all-out Jesse supporter during the election (who worked in Ventura's organization) has pulled the bumper stickers off his truck.
I first met Mr. Ventura at a "Twin Cities Stop-The-Draft Committee" meeting in about 1979. He showed up out-of-the-blue to express his support for the "Don't Register" campaign we were organizing. He's a former Navy Seal. That move made me respect him, but everything he's done since then has been downhill in my opinion. As a Minnesotan (Minneostans are still the only people he represents, but watch out...)
Well, there are always better things one can do with one's time.
I feel the same way (I imagine a LOT of you out there agree) about the poor kids who've been convinced it's important for them to be bidding their allowance on Pokemon cards.
The Big U is a fun book. For less techie readers, it might even be viewed as his most accessable book. I personally would rank it's readability well above the last two books (Diamond Age, and Cryptonomicon). But I think Stephenson is getting more didactic as he "matures" into someone who writes for a narrowing audience of readers.
Big bucks for "The Big U" ??
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Copies are selling online for $200-500?
Yikes! My original paperback copy just became available for sale, I guess! (send email with your offers) I think I paid a dollar or two for it (back before most people knew enough to be watching out for it on the used bookshelves).
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The internet?
Which part of the Internet?
There are a number of places that look very similar to the New York Times. This place for instance.
Actually (off-topic) Bald Eagles usually soar when they spot some road kill or other carrion they can scavenge, or another smaller predator whose kill they can steal.
The Bald Eagle is more colorful than the Buzzard, but is in other ways very similar.
Makes me laugh whenever I see a team, a country, or a military body with a big eagle in their logo. I then wonder wether it's a truck-flattened racoon that their mascot is swooping down onto.
On a Windows machine [alt][shift][printscreen]. Or on a *nix desktop, xwd > gotcha.xwd in an xterm. No way it's gonna seek out and destroy bits out of my bitmaps.
Example: Jesse Ventura. That wacky governor of Minnesota has gotten into way too much trouble trying to be funny. Remember how he said he wanted to be reincarnated as a 36DD Bra? How he thinks religion is for weak minded people? He's had to backtrack for the entire time he's in office over some of the stuff he's said.
Being as I am here in Minnesota, I can reflect on Mr. Ventura a bit.
It was frightening to me that as the election returns were being announced, the person Jesse spoke of being his greatest inspiration was "Rocky." Rocky! Someone who isn't even a real person, just a film creation.
Jesse is a flake. The kind of antics he practices in the media would set off "flamebait" and "troll" alarms all over the 'net if he dared express them there.
Last night, I found out my brother-in-law, an all-out Jesse supporter during the election (who worked in Ventura's organization) has pulled the bumper stickers off his truck.
I first met Mr. Ventura at a "Twin Cities Stop-The-Draft Committee" meeting in about 1979. He showed up out-of-the-blue to express his support for the "Don't Register" campaign we were organizing. He's a former Navy Seal. That move made me respect him, but everything he's done since then has been downhill in my opinion. As a Minnesotan (Minneostans are still the only people he represents, but watch out...)
Well, there are always better things one can do with one's time.
I feel the same way (I imagine a LOT of you out there agree) about the poor kids who've been convinced it's important for them to be bidding their allowance on Pokemon cards.
The Big U is a fun book. For less techie readers, it might even be viewed as his most accessable book. I personally would rank it's readability well above the last two books (Diamond Age, and Cryptonomicon). But I think Stephenson is getting more didactic as he "matures" into someone who writes for a narrowing audience of readers.
Copies are selling online for $200-500?
Yikes! My original paperback copy just became available for sale, I guess! (send email with your offers) I think I paid a dollar or two for it (back before most people knew enough to be watching out for it on the used bookshelves).
I think it's one of his most entertaining books.