December 2011
7 posts
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a follow-up to yesterday
In case anyone read yesterday’s post and was interested in reading Jason Aaron and R.M. Guera’s Scalped, Thwipster has them for 50% off for the next 2 days or so. Mighty fine deal.
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It's today's mail - it's been opened.
No, no. It’s not from Venice, Italy. Today’s mail was from Coy’s Comics in Saginaw. Not knowing where my next books would be coming from after moving to Phoenix, I made arrangements to have my regularly pulled titles set aside and systematically mailed to me. We reckoned this interval to be approximately four to five weeks. I have made a habit of calling the store with my credit...
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line of the night
Garth Ennis PUNISHER MAX issue 18:
What the fuck is wrong with you, Fury? What kind of demented asshole puts the Punisher in a missile silo?!
October 2011
2 posts
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"The US Problem Explained" explained
Everyone on Facebook has been reposting this thing all day:
These numbers show the insignificant effort that Important Government People have made to reduce the amount of the deficit by redisplaying them as if it were a single family’s annual expenses. Great.
This is not the reason why the S&P downgraded the US credit rating, and, if you think that it is, you are part of the...
I love the term 'we're expecting' when talking...
between-rage-and-serenity:
because it makes it sound like there’s more than one outcome.
Yeah, we’re expecting a baby
but it could be a velociraptor.
September 2011
3 posts
THE KNOWS NOSE
While writing just now I sneezed all over my phone, but I didn’t want to pause to wipe the screen off for fear that Tumblr would delete my post again. Srsly, can’t stand it.
This just in: episode 1 plot full of holes
Last night on the tweeters (chigmata) I made reference to watching episode 1 as part of Spike’s STAR WARS marathon. I suggested that Qui Gon’s time and energy might have been better spent finding someone not resistant to Jedi mind tricks to change his 20,000 republic credits into a more easily exchanged local currency.
Concern #2
It occurred to me this morning that if Watto is...
Will Oil Drown the Arab Spring?
Apart from an uncreative title, there was several important questions which arose as I began reading the current issue of FOREIGN AFFAIRS. Michael Ross, the author, is a professor of political science at UCLA and has just written a book called “The Oil Curse: How Petroleum Wealth Shapes the Development of Nations.” The main thrust of the article is that countries producing large...
August 2011
5 posts
Archives of PUNCH magazine →
Was tweetering just now. Cory Doctorow mentioned that he found great delight reading an old issue of PUNCH, the old tyme satirical mag from 1840s-1900sish. Remembered that it was one of the predominant publications while you-know-who was president. Was going to ask if libraried copies are common. Searched for online archives instead. Posted this link. Wrote this description. As you were.
bahhhhhh and of course it’s right-side up now that I’ve gone on about it at length. You know, the tumblr app used to save your unposted posts for as long as you needed them. I’m seriously considering going back to Wordpress. I’ve been paying for my domain this whole time. The only reason I switched to Tumblr was because mobile posting was so fracking easy. If the app is...
I had another picture of the disc golf course from yesterday that I wanted to post. I thought that it gave a nice panoramic shot of the type of terrain that we were dealing with as well as the general lighting. It was a very pretty morning. Everything associated with the posting of this image seems to dictate that I should not post it.
I tried several times yesterday to upload it - each time...
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Ensign's Log →
This links the blog of a U.S. Navy officer who has apparently chosen not to identify his or herself, so I won’t say how I know this person. They (are also an English major and would have found a way to start this sentence without using the third person pronoun, although I might reference this) began said chronicle in conjunction with pursuing a commission in the Navy. Why yes, it does go...
June 2011
1 post
Egypt's Next Crisis →
This article does a pretty fair jorb of framing the difficulties faced by Egyptians concerning a safe transition to representative democracy.
May 2011
5 posts
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On fruits and their inhabitants
Recently I wrote on my Facebook wall:
Nothing beats adding fresh fruit to yogurt until you find a worm in your blueberries.
This prompted the expected chorus of yucks and grosses that you might expect from such a statement. There was also an amount of “gotcha” emphasis on the use of the word “nothing;” the implication was that my worldview is so narrow that I did not...
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Twitter just sent me an email wherein they noted that I had once upon a time had SMS notifications of tweets sent to my mobile device and would I like to receive this service again? Yes please, it is 2006 after all. I hadn’t noticed that my phone devolved as I moved backwards through the time zones. Get it? I’m in Chicago for a Rammstein concert. These two things are actually quite...
GALACTIC following a pretty significant breakdown
Parade
Morning trafficbirdssirens
April 2011
11 posts
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I was listening to NPR on my way to work this afternoon because it’s Science Friday. Ira was talking to Bernie Krause, a bio-acoustician, and Bryan Pijanowski, a Forestry professor at Purdue. They were discussing soundscapes - a subject of acoustic ecology. They played samples of recordings made in a rainforest, a savannah, and a coral reef and them explained what you could learn by...
What bothers me about McCain’s visit to Libya is less that he is vague on the details of with whom he is meeting and more that he appears to be treating this as a gritty fact-finding mission done well after the cards have been played. It’s somewhat alarming that he’s the first major figure to think that this kind of visit might be necessary in order to better decide how to commit...
Fear and Loathing in Benghazi
John McCain made a surprise visit to Libya today in order to get what he calls an “on the ground assessment of the situation.” McCain is the ranking Republican on the Senate Armed Forces committee and has been up in arms, figuratively speaking, over pursuing Qaddafi and his supporters.
Why now, John? The rebellion has been underway for two months. You’ve advocated for an...
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Noticed I haven’t been posting much in the last few days? That’s because I’m doing my talking on the twitters
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http://www.ctc.usma.edu/sentinel/ →
The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point operates a scholarly publication called THE SENTINEL which appears to be a monthly newsletter of scholarly materials related to the ongoing efforts to counter and discourage the efforts of terrorist elements within the U.S. military’s areas of operation. It was cited by Felter and Fishman in an article on foreignpolicy.com which sought to address...
Aristocrats
March 2011
49 posts
Comic book script archive →
Gee, will this be useful for anything?
Master of Arts Communication & Digital Media →
SVSU offers a Master’s in twitter? All right, all right, I’ll get one.
That moment when you're reading a book and you...
Totally just happened while reading Mornings on Horseback
My apologies to anyone who bothered to listen to the audio I posted from last night’s show. Turns out, the iPhone’s microphone is just as bad as I thought. I’ll post a twitter recap and some more pics once I’m out where the interblags breathe stronger.
These probably sound like shit - Disturbed Inside...
Untouchables track 6
I should also point out that I’m at a concert, check http://twitter.com/chigmata for details. In This Moment, Sevendust, Korn, Disturbed
Shit they’re playing pantera, sound quality?
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I have just spent
the last half hour scouring the internet trying to see if there is a way to get a copy of
Dotson, David Wendell. “Henry Cabot Lodge: A Political Biography, 1887-1901.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Oklahoma, 1980.
but have thus far been thwarted. There are a few paper and microform copies in universities in Massachusetts, South Africa, but only the University of Oklahoma has an electronic...
ladyhistory:
hipposwearingjackets replied to your post: I think I’m gonna photoshop history men’s heads on random things.
Find Teddy on a horse, then shop him on the back of a T Rex. Seriously. SRSLY
YOU MEAN LIKE THIS ONE I DID LAST YEAR? ;)
