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    Sunday, October 11th, 2009
    9:08 pm
    Too much simchat torah?
    After loading the meat dishwasher after Yom Tov, before starting to load the dairy one I found myself singing :Ad Kan, DIshwasher Alef, Alef, ad kan, dishwasher Aaaaleph."
    Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
    1:48 pm
    I really think this way
    Last night I went to sleep promising myself that when I woke up I'd try to catch an earlier train rather than surfing the internet. This morning the following dialog occurred between myself and my conscience:

    C: You woke up and started surfing, and now you're not only not early, you're in danger of being late! Sometimes I think you don't know the meaning of self-discipline.

    M: That gives me an image of wearing leather and a whip. Yuck.

    C: [appalled] You really don't know what self-discipline is!

    P.S. I did make my usual train, so it wasn't that bad.
    Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
    10:16 am
    Masterpiece comics
    Hattip: joshreadscomics
    Masterpiece Comics featuring Batman in Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment and Mary Worth as Lady MacBeth.
    Monday, July 20th, 2009
    10:25 am
    40 years ago today
    New York and the whole world was filled with rejoicing 40 years ago today. I am referring, of course, to "Broadway Joe" Namath's announcement that he was returning to play professional football for the New York Jets, a couple of months after his retirement under a cloud of suspicion for hanging out with professional gamblers.

    What's that? Something else happened that day?
    Friday, July 17th, 2009
    11:30 am
    Happy Birthday Chaya!
    Many happy returns. Ad Meah V'Esrim.
    Monday, July 13th, 2009
    12:47 pm
    Things I did not know
    Last Thursday my Muslim co-worker and project lead was willing to allow me to work from home because I didn't want to deal with commuting while fasting. (I wound up not doing so.) Today I discovered he holds by a Muslim custom which has him do a dawn to dusk fast every single Monday and Thursday.
    Sunday, July 5th, 2009
    6:15 pm
    Getting what I want the hard way.
    For my birthday present to myself, I purchased the Ipod Touch 2.2OS upgrade. Naturally about a month later Apple came out with 3.0, and I've been whining about it ever since. The ipod developed problems recently. Today I took it to the local Apple store, where they gave me a free replacement, thanks to the Applecare warranty extension that [info]chaiya and [info]hakamadare gave me.

    The new replacement had the 1.5 version of the OS on it. I spent a couple of hours trying to figure out how to get the 2.x version of the OS back, before finally stumbling across a chat link in the Apple store. After discovering the chat doesn't work in Firefox (but does in Safari) I talked to an Apple tech. He told me that in this sort of situation he normally puts the OS back in the purchase queue to let me download it, but that he couldn't do that in this case. So he is refunding me the money for the purchase, which co-incidentally happens to be the same amount as the upgrade from 1.5 to 3.0 will cost me. So I get my free upgrade to 3.0 after all. Yay!

    Current Mood: chipper
    Friday, June 12th, 2009
    9:56 am
    They could have just asked a BT
    When should you salt your meat

    A food critic tries salting meat a day before cooking and just before cooking and comes to the conclusion that poultry is better salted earlier and beef is best salted just before.

    Hat Tip [info]food_porn
    Thursday, May 28th, 2009
    12:30 pm
    Wonderful ST movie Parody
    My God! Its full of spoilers.
    Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
    10:38 am
    Friday, May 22nd, 2009
    2:52 pm
    My way or the highway?
    What a great hack the state of Missouri just did!


    However, the legislators did pass a bill meant to tweak the Springfield chapter of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement. According to a report in Sunday's Springfield News-Leader, Rep. Sara Lampe (D-Springfield) got an amendment added to a transportation bill designating a portion of West Bypass from Farm Road 142 to West Sunshine as the "Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel Memorial Highway."

    That was the portion of roadway the NSM'ers "adopted" last fall by pledging to regularly pick up litter there. Signs marking such "adoptions" are then erected by the state Department of Transportation. The DOT didn't think it could turn down the NSM request without infringing on the group's First Amendment rights.
    Wednesday, May 20th, 2009
    9:08 am
    Dispensing largess [Dreamwidth]
    I have a dreamwidth code to give out if anyone would like it. If [info]malkaesther doesn't want the other I'll make it available as well.
    Sunday, May 17th, 2009
    10:35 pm
    Tiny sadnesses have a scale I can comprehend
    What kind of critical judgement renews Dollhouse while canceling Sarah Connor?
    Saturday, May 2nd, 2009
    10:28 pm
    Thursday, April 30th, 2009
    4:10 pm
    A phrase I never expected to see
    Even though the author was using it in jest: a brutal, unitarian gulag
    Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009
    12:57 pm
    Life and Death are in the power of the tongue
    The girl was not just standing there. Obviously she was considering whether or not to do it. She rose to her toes and then went flat footed again several times. Finally I couldn't take the suspense. "Jump!" I yelled, and she did. She rose a tiny distance, not even enough to begin a flying fantasy, and then the drop began. I don't have any guilty feelings - she had free will, she didn't have to do what I said. But really, should I have gotten involved at all?

    Context below )
    Thursday, March 26th, 2009
    2:01 pm
    Kings (spoilers)
    Saw the 2 hour movie last night, quite liked it. Here be spoilers )
    Wednesday, March 11th, 2009
    1:35 pm
    Someone is wrong on the internet!
    Lured by a metaquotes post, I was browsing through the [info]antitheism community. I found an example of bad reasoning (in support of a conclusion I agree with *sigh*). I went to post a reply when I discovered that the community only allows members to post. So I thought I would post it here instead:



    I saw this question posed in one of the threads from your group, and I'd be curious to know how you would answer it: "A final scenario: you're in a burning room. Equally distant from you are a young child and a freeze unit containing 500 fertilized embryos. You can only carry one out with you. Do you save the one real, existing child, or the 500 "potential" children who will spend the rest of their "lives" waiting in freezers to be incinerated anyway?"

    Well, if you're saving the child, you're basically admitting that you value the lives of people more than the lives of embryos. If ESC ends up helping us find a cure for cancer then wouldn't that be akin to saving the child? Not trying to research to our full extent is basically like saying "oh well we won't try to save the child if it means we have to destroy the 500 embryos."


    Um, no. What if the choice was between saving the child and saving a lottery ticket that if you won might enable you to set up a charity that saved hundreds of children's lives? The point is that the actual child, here and now, outweighs the chance that you might win the lottery and only then be able to save the children. Similarly, you can't weigh the value of a cure for cancer against the value of the children/stem cells - rather you have to weigh chance of finding a cure via ESC * the value of the cancer cure against the value of the children stem cells.


    I'm by no means convinced your friend has studied the issue enough to correctly assign a weight to that probability, but I think sound argumentation is valuable in its own right.
    Wednesday, March 4th, 2009
    9:40 am
    Purim Torah 3 - ConservativeStar Halachtica
    The Torah was created by Man (with Divine Inspiration).

    It was a tradition.

    It changed.

    There are 620 commandments.

    613 are biblical.

    7 are rabbinic,

    They are G-d's plan ...
    Wednesday, February 25th, 2009
    1:11 pm
    Triumph of General Zod - take 2
    Based on The Triumph of General Ludd

    No more chant your old rhymes about old Robin Hood
    His feats I do little evoke
    I'll sing the achievements of General Zod
    Now the hero of Krypton's Revolt.

    The son of Jor-El was sentenced to die
    By unanimous vote of the trade
    And Zod who cannot a position defy
    Was the grand executioner made

    Whether flying through space or under the sea
    Or in Arctic Solitude's room
    Zod makes him kneel down by night and by day
    And nothing can soften Kal's doom

    When the whole race of Krypton's no longer oppressed
    Then shall Zod sheath his conquering sword
    Be his grievance instantly met with redress
    Than peace shall be quickly restored

    Let the folk of New Krypton lend their aid and advice
    Never ere their assistance withdraw
    Till the son of Jor-El pays an old-fashioned price
    Well established by custom and law
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