[links] Link salad flies into another Monday
Alien Languages: Not Human — A nice squib from Science in My Fiction. I don’t quite agree with all of it, but a good read. As Wittgenstein said, “If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.”
Electro-magnetic brakes stop aeroplaes — Ah, days of future past.
Weird clock in Shibuya, Tokyo — It’s like a music box from The Matrix or something. (Thanks to .)
Republicans See Big Chance, but Are Worried, Too — GOP discovers “Party of No” is not a good electoral agenda. Also, this just in: sun sets in west.
Scandals in the House Republican Class of 1994 — But the House Republicans of ’94 stand out: No fewer than 15 of the 73 elected in the landslide that year have entertained the nation with flaps that include messy divorces and a suspicious car accident. This is why people vote Republican. Because of their high moral stance and principled family values.
?otD: How wide are your wings?
5/24/2010
Writing time yesterday: none (chemo exhaustion)
Body movement: Stationary bike later
Hours slept: 9.5 (reasonable) plus extensive napping
This morning’s weigh-in: 231.4
Yesterday’s chemo stress index: 9/10 (fatigue)
Currently (re)reading:
Mirror Dance by Lois McMaster Bujold
Tags: clockpunk, Links, Personal, Politics, Process, Science, Tech, Videos
Posted: 5:27 am Mon May 24 2010 | Comments(0) |
[photos] Your Sunday moment of zen
Your Sunday moment of zen.
Port of Tillamook Bay rolling stock, coastal Oregon (at Burns). 2006, 2010, Joseph E. Lake, Jr.
This work by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Tags: Oregon, Photos, trains, zen
Posted: 7:10 am Sun May 23 2010 | Comments(1) |
[links] Link salad goes for a sky ride
The tumultuous saga of fun — A Japanese review of Mainspring, run through the Google translator.
Authorship — Similarities (and differences) between board game design and novel writing. (Via .)
16 Items They Only Sell At Chinese Walmarts — Not for the faint of heart. (Via various sources, including .)
Wall Street’s dirty, rotten scoundrels — Roger Ebert on the film Inside Job and the regulation of Wall Street. All about how market self-regulation, that mainstay of conservative thought, has failed spectacularly. To the surprise of no one who isn’t a conservative, since anyone with sense knows self-interest trumps self-regulation damned near every time, especially when big money is involved.
We can’t cure the disease by praising the symptoms — More on the intellectual fraud that is Intelligent Design. A fatuous, offensive religious stalking horse that uses the pretense of the language of science to advance a Creationist agenda.
Two more police officers killed, two wounded in shootouts with apparent white supremacists — Remember kids, it’s not terrorism when conservative white people do it. It’s patriotism. (Via .)
Draw Muhammad Day: A Compilation — I think this one speaks for itself. Your religious prohibitions don’t apply to me or anyone else who’s not a co-religionist. Whether you’re Christian, Muslim or an FSM adherent. That’s why we have a First Amendment, to guarantee freedom from religion. (Via .)
?otD: Funicular or cable car?
5/23/2010
Writing time yesterday: none (chemo exhaustion)
Body movement: brief suburban walk later
Hours slept: 9.5 (reasonable)
This morning’s weigh-in: 234.4
Yesterday’s chemo stress index: 8/10 (fatigue)
Currently (re)reading:
Brothers in Arms by Lois McMaster Bujold
Tags: Books, Culture, Links, Mainspring, Personal, Politics, Process, Religion, reviews
Posted: 7:04 am Sun May 23 2010 | Comments(0) |
[cancer] Chemotherapy, day one of session ten
Meh. Made it through okay, had a terrible emotional crash afterwards. The rest of the day was exhaustion, and early sleep.
Tags: Cancer, health, Personal
Posted: 8:04 am Sat May 22 2010 | Comments(3) |
[photos] Your Saturday moment of zen
Your Saturday moment of zen.
Port of Tillamook Bay rolling stock, coastal Oregon (at Burns). 2006, 2010, Joseph E. Lake, Jr.
This work by Joseph E. Lake, Jr. is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
Tags: Oregon, Photos, trains, zen
Posted: 8:02 am Sat May 22 2010 | Comments(0) |
[links] Link salad floats on a bed of cytotoxic drugs so you don’t have to
The state of Jay’s freezer — In which I am mocked. Go head, cut loose.
Scanning the public domain — An interesting piece on the problems of copyrighting copies of public domain images and text. (Snurched from Scrivener’s Error.)
Dark Filament of the Sun — This APOD photo looks like something out of a Roland Emmerich movie. Also, that caption would make a nice short story title.
Burying the Digitial Genome — Centauri Dreams on long term survival of digital formats.
Pakistan’s Social Media Ban Endangers Economic Growth — …raising the question of whether highly religious societies are capable of economic development. Viz the American Right’s obsession with crippling education and research in the name of a narrow set of religious views.
NRSC Calls Dem Condemnation Of Paul Civil Rights Act Statements ‘Ironic’ — The party of Helms and Thurmond has no business baiting over racism.
More boot heel, please. — Ah, the joys of what passes for thought on the American Right, courtesy of that leading intellectual light of the Republican party, Rand Paul. And let’s not even get in Limbaugh’s idiotic comments on the BP oil spill.
Rand Paul Loves Socialized Medicine — Look! More principled consistency from Your Republican Party.
?otD: Monorail or maglev?
5/22/2010
Writing time yesterday: none (chemo exhaustion)
Body movement: brief suburban walk later
Hours slept: 8.5 (reasonable)
This morning’s weigh-in: 234.4
Yesterday’s chemo stress index: 8/10 (fatigue)
Currently (re)reading:
Brothers in Arms by Lois McMaster Bujold
Tags: Food, Funny, Links, Personal, Photos, Politics, Publishing, Science
Posted: 8:00 am Sat May 22 2010 | Comments(0) |
[cancer] Chemo session ten is on the pad
arrived overnight. is already ensconced here. And we are off to the infusion center in less than two hours.
Cancer sucks.
Tags: Calendula, Cancer, health, Personal, shellyrae
Posted: 6:49 am Fri May 21 2010 | Comments(1) |
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