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Squiddles, I believe this is a must-read for you: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Saints_and_MadmenSquid's are prominent throughout the book. And Ambergris' ruler was a Cappan. Stick a mantis in there and I'd be in State College sweeping the remains of the Gate and the Jawbone for bugs. Zaph Mon, Sep. 14th, 2009, 02:02 pm
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From Greg Easterbrook here: It's tempting to confer the 2009 Gimmick Sked of the Year distinction on Oklahoma State. The Cowboys not only play eight games at home and four away -- they open with five of six at home! But the 2009 Tuesday Morning Quarterback Gimmick Sked of the Year winner is Penn State. Not only do the Nittany Lions play twice as many games at home as away; not only do they fearlessly face, at home, Akron, Syracuse (which enters this season on a 7-29 streak), Temple (which enters this season on a 10-25 streak) and Eastern Illinois; Penn State starts the season with four consecutive home games, the first three against Akron, Syracuse and Temple. Penn State may have the single phoniest schedule any football power has ever cooked up. This causes TMQ no small amount of consternation, as I have long rooted for Joe Paterno to best Bobby Bowden for most career coaching wins, and admired that Penn State football consistently posts better graduation rates than most big-time football schools, including Florida State. When the Seminoles became embroiled this spring in yet another cheating scandal, this seemed to cement TMQ's preference for Paterno over Bowden. But now I check the card and see the Nittany Lions playing a gimmicked cupcake sked, while Florida State has six games at home, six away, and only one dubious opponent: Jacksonville State. On the field this year, Florida State is for real while Penn State is pulling a cheap stunt. Penn State athletic department, how did you think your rigged sked -- perhaps planned to put Paterno over the top in his final campaign -- would go unnoticed? (Gimmick Sked is Gimmick Schedule, in case there was some confusion).
I dug it. Am I biased? Yes. I saw Pulp Fiction 3 times in 24 hours. Yeah, I like QT. But really, this was just a good movie. First, the IB frame the story, but the film is really about Shoshana. And yes, it was graphic, but it was not nearly the most graphic Tarantino flick. If critcs have problems with the bloodshed at the end, they need to look at movies like The Dirty Dozen and Raiders of the Lost Ark. This movie did not invent knocking off Nazis for thrills.
Screenplay Oscar for the bar scene alone.
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I've decided I don't believe in multiple universes. I'm not taking issue with whatever math Everett put together. I haven't studied it at all. All the QM equations seem to be working fine. But I staunchly disagree with the idea that every possible electon combo is actualized in a multiverse. Sci-fi writers did the general population of geeks a disservice here. Can I picture alternate worlds? Sure. But they're all legal worlds, following a timeline derived from reductionist principles. But you don't need MWI to think there are other earths out there in the universe playing alternate histories. When you introduce infinite multiple worlds, though, you step past that. All of a sudden, things don't need to be reductionist to classical physics, just QM. So there would be worlds where suddenly all the English speakers switched to speaking French, and vice versa for the French speakers. Or everyone woke up one day and fully adopted someone else's identity spontaneously. These all seem "weird", but in a infinite multiverse, weird is the new normal. Our normal would be such a special case, that it would be improbably small to occur, if such universe-branching were to occur. So, I reject that there are these countless multiverses multiplying instantaneously. Apparently most self-respecting physicists agree with me, or that's the impression I get from Victor Stenger, Roger Penrose, and others. Thu, Aug. 20th, 2009, 02:04 pm
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...about buying boardgames. Specifically, the re-re-re-re-re-implemented Cosmic Encounters, Domaine, and Race for the Galaxy. Anybody played them? Mon, Jun. 29th, 2009, 02:04 pm
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2nd Anniversary
It's hard to believe how time flies. I've been married for two years today. We'll be going to the Melting Pot tonight to celebrate. No matter how hectic my life gets, I'll always remember how happy I was that day. And everyday is wonderful with Wendy in my life. Wendy, I love you so much.
From Ta-Nehisi Coates' comments section: "I've got no experience with Chicago, but I know what folks mean by a different kind of cold. My wife and I were recently in Russia. We were in two different cities, Moscow and Samara. In both cities, the temperatures were in the 20s, F°. In Samara, the air was dry, and my winter gear from home kept me comfortable outside - warm, really. In Moscow, it was foggy and wet, and the cold penetrated everything you were wearing. It wasn't the cold, it was the damned humidity."
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