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Stulginess Abounds
Aug. 17th, 2006 03:40 amThe poisonous mud continues to erupt in Surabaya. I linked to another story about this on 14 July. What a bizarre calamity. It could probably have been capped if they'd acted immediately, but I'd imagine it's much too late to plug the hole now.
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Das Goof and I went to the Stoat Fair last Saturday. I can't see 'Bob the Builder' stuff now without imagining a big Lego swastika stuck on his helmet. Pictures and a report soon.
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I see where someone finally got arrested for the Ramsey murder. I'd been convinced all this time that her mother had killed her. Their lawyer was on the tube earlier having a good round of "I told you so", to which he's certainly entitled. He gloated less than I would have.
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I finally got my laser-etched Little Pony. They gave me one from the numbered lot, #37. It will be interesting to see if the plastic holds up over the years. I'm quite sure whoever formulated it didn't count on people burning patterns into the surface. There's probably been a certain amount of bromine and chlorine liberated in the vicinity of the laser marks, plus all the different short-chain organics.
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I used up my Mediaplay gift cards that I got so long ago at work to get the 1964 CBS "History of the First World War". Thirteen hours of original WWI footage with narration, from before the age when technology tempted documentary makers to its misuse by colourizing or adding CGI animations. It's hard to believe that a Big Three TV network used to actually produce content as good as this.
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1964 is almost as far in the past for me as WWI was for 1964. Computers and the internet are the major differences that strike me between then and now. The changes in people's daily lives between the beginning and middle of the last century seem more profound to me than those that took place between then and now. They had to adapt to automobiles, radio and television, air travel, and antibiotics. We tend to overlook what a world-shaker that last one was. My grandmother clearly recalled a time when if you got sick, you'd either be strong enough to fight it off, or else you'd die, and there wasn't a lot that could be done to influence the outcome.
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I forgot my Hershey bar in the car earlier. It completely liquified, of course. What's odd is that now that it's been indoors for some 12 hours, it's still liquid, even though it's at a temperature where chocolate should be solid. Experimentation seems called for.
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Das Goof and I went to the Stoat Fair last Saturday. I can't see 'Bob the Builder' stuff now without imagining a big Lego swastika stuck on his helmet. Pictures and a report soon.
*****
I see where someone finally got arrested for the Ramsey murder. I'd been convinced all this time that her mother had killed her. Their lawyer was on the tube earlier having a good round of "I told you so", to which he's certainly entitled. He gloated less than I would have.
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I finally got my laser-etched Little Pony. They gave me one from the numbered lot, #37. It will be interesting to see if the plastic holds up over the years. I'm quite sure whoever formulated it didn't count on people burning patterns into the surface. There's probably been a certain amount of bromine and chlorine liberated in the vicinity of the laser marks, plus all the different short-chain organics.
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I used up my Mediaplay gift cards that I got so long ago at work to get the 1964 CBS "History of the First World War". Thirteen hours of original WWI footage with narration, from before the age when technology tempted documentary makers to its misuse by colourizing or adding CGI animations. It's hard to believe that a Big Three TV network used to actually produce content as good as this.
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1964 is almost as far in the past for me as WWI was for 1964. Computers and the internet are the major differences that strike me between then and now. The changes in people's daily lives between the beginning and middle of the last century seem more profound to me than those that took place between then and now. They had to adapt to automobiles, radio and television, air travel, and antibiotics. We tend to overlook what a world-shaker that last one was. My grandmother clearly recalled a time when if you got sick, you'd either be strong enough to fight it off, or else you'd die, and there wasn't a lot that could be done to influence the outcome.
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I forgot my Hershey bar in the car earlier. It completely liquified, of course. What's odd is that now that it's been indoors for some 12 hours, it's still liquid, even though it's at a temperature where chocolate should be solid. Experimentation seems called for.
