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Volley and return!
Okay, mosinging1986 blamed me for dragging her back to the Les Miserables side of teh intertubes... Dangit, I'm blamin' her for kicking off a musical binge! Currently listening to the soundtrack to Phantom of the Opera, with Cats likely to be the followup. After that, I don't know. Maybe one or the other of the Amici albums, or maybe E Nomine's Das Testement. ( Read more... ) -
Raising a toast to the fallen
Wow. Just got the news - David Bowie passed away, after a long battle with cancer.
So long, Ziggy Stardust. You'll be missed. -
Because I realize I'm not the only one fascinated by this sort of thing...
Fascinating - particularly when you realize that this tech is about a century and a half old. Really, improvements in the cost of precision are about the only change in that time - it's much faster and cheaper for a craftsman to the small-detail work which allows a box of this complexity to be made. Could have been done a century ago, but it ( Read more... ) -
More Media Stupidity - "Doctors Fight to Ban Fast Food From Hospitals - and for Good Reason"
https://www.yahoo.com/food/doctors-fight-to-ban-fast-food-from-hospitals-114405208831.html
The prize line? “Just as cigarettes are banned from hospitals, why not do the same for meat, cheese, and other junk foods?” Meat and cheese are junk foods? What does that idiot live on? Moonbeams and happy thoughts? (Now, there's an idea. Three months of ( Read more... )
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