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odd...
Had someone call from Steve Francis's (Louisville SF fan) house to my cell phone at 2 am; I can't remember the last time I spoke to either him ( or his wife), and I'm surprised as hell that he'd have the number, let alone call me. Anyone have any idea as to this WTF moment? -
The Annual Sidewise pile at Jim's bedside falls and kills three; details at the 10 o'clock news:
The end of May is traditionally the time when we Sidewise Judges have to go through and release our nominations cut of short stories and novels for the award - which means that dreadful dozen stories that you haven't gotten to that look like prime stinkers are mandatory reads - along with the other stuff that 'life its ownself' have caused to be ( Read more... ) -
On Vaxen! On Vixen! On Osborne and Zenith!
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/2499b/if_it_aint_broke_dont_fix_it_ancient_computers_in_use_today.html
Garry Ward, an old pal, used to make a living at keeping antique mainframe-ish things going; I gasped that they’d *do* that and not get something newer and better, but…he was also the guy who ( Read more... ) -
Hoof it, Maw!
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http://digital.udayton.edu/cdm/compoundobject/collection/yrbooks/id/1370/show/1289/rec/12
Every so great often, I do a search for people that I’m curious about, 99.99% of them being people from my past. This includes my mom, whose name (Dr. Jacquelinn A Randolph VMD) shows up in this and that ( Read more... ) -
Absolutely thunderstruck:
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Meredith showed me a neat trick for my iPhone and iPad, which shows all of the programs that remain loaded and sucking up battery juice on my devices. HUGE list. It also allows you to shut the things off - which I promptly did on both.
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**blink**
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From TV Line:
**Stephen Fry will play sidekick to fellow Brit Rupert Grint in Super Clyde, CBS’ single-camera comedy about a fast food worker who decides to become a super hero. Specifically, Fry will play a butler who is “the Alfred to Clyde’s Bruce Wayne.”**
This will either be fantastically ( Read more... ) -
Read all about yer latest Gandhi!
This is about what I had figured.
Interesting article in The Diplomat about the inability of the Congress Party of India to give up the idea of (wait-for-it) a decendant of Jawaharlal Nehru / Indira Gandhi to come along and be the Chosen-One Golden-Child to lead them.
Never mind that they don’t seem to avoid sudden violent death at an early age, ( Read more... ) -
Not dead yet:
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Actually, doing relatively well, all things considered. The Hyperbaric Oxygen treatments I’ve been taking since right after Thanksgiving ended three weeks ago, and it’s marvelous to not have to trot over there every weekday and kill 3-4 hours of my day with that. The result is a tiny slit ( Read more... ) -
Rye of one and Whiskey of another:
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I wouldn’t kick Sazerac 6 or Rittenhouse out of bed for eating crackers, though.
-Rachel Maddow in her Reddit Ask-Me-Anything session this week
Why, thank you, Rachel!
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OK, didn't see that coming:
Liberal-Progressive leaving cable channel Current TV, which has been plagued with problems that the whole fuss with Olbermann's leaving the network brought to light (basicially, they were operating it on less than a shoestring, and oversold to Olbermann about how professional of a setup he'd be coming into, and refused to ante up to do better - ( Read more... )