2014 archive
Droning On 0
I have never been able to distinguish among TGIF, Ruby Tuesday’s, and–what’s that other cookie cutter bar/restaurant chain I forget Hooligan’s?–Houlihans! They are all the same place with different pictures on the walls.
Via Raw Story.
QOTD 0
Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette:
It is prudent to pour the oil of delicate politeness upon the machinery of friendship.
Make TWUUG Your LUG 0
Learn about the wonderful world of free and open source. Learn how to use computers to do what you want, not what someone else wants you to do.
It’s not hard; it’s just different.
What: Monthly TWUUG Meeting.
Who: Everyone in TideWater/Hampton Roads with interest in any/all flavors of Unix/Linux. There are no dues or signup requirements. All are welcome.
Where: Lake Taylor Transitional Care Hospital in Norfolk Training Room. See directions below. (Wireless and wired internet connection available.) Turn right upon entering, then left at the last corridor and look for the open meeting room.
When: 7:30 PM till whenever (usually 9:30ish) on Thursday, December 4.
Directions:
Lake Taylor Hospital
1309 Kempsville Road
Norfolk, Va. 23502 (Map)
Pre-Meeting Dinner at 6:00 PM (separate checks)
Uno Chicago Grill
Virginia Beach Blvd. & Military Highway (Janaf Shopping Center). (Map)
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
There’s no politeness like highly trained politeness.
McMahan was accompanied by another officer, and the pair were getting ready to work an extra job at a construction site, DeBusk said. The second officer radioed for help and provided immediate medical care to McMahan, DeBusk said.
I Feel Young Again 0
All I’m hearing about on my telly vision is “isolated incidents” and “outside agitators.”
Medicine Show 0
Wendell Potter explains the scam. A nugget:
The purpose of that campaign — a campaign that’s ongoing, by the way — is to protect the profitable status quo by obscuring an empirical truth: that when it comes to access to affordable health care, millions of Americans might as well be living in a third world country. And that’s still true today, more than four years after Obamacare became law.
Dear Mozilla and Google 0
An email exchange is not a conversation.
That is all.
Race Is What Racists Think 0
It’s all in their heads, and nowhere else. Let Notre Dame professor Augustin Fuentes explain. A snippet:
Race is a dynamic social category that has changed over time in the USA. For example, in the late 1800s, many groups currently placed in the category “White” (like the Irish or Italian) were not in that category the way they are today. . . . .
CSI Science Fiction 0
Don’t believe what television tells you about intrepid scientists with unlimited time and resources bored overworked underpaid lab techs examining infinitesimal bits of evidence in pursuit of justice.
It ain’t necessarily so.
The department said the move, which will affect some examinations of gunshot residue, hair, fiber and other evidence, is the result of required budget cuts.
More what policing is like in real life at the link.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Politeness promotes relationships.
Investigators believe the man killed his girlfriend before killing himself at his Hutchinson Street home, about half a mile away.
This relationship, for example, can now never be severed.
QOTD 0
George Bernard Shaw:
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
In related news, Van is back and QOTD.org is up and running.