Songs about Foxes
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rain_gryphonCongress gets off to an excellent start. It's a big damn shame that we live in times where the Democrats prove themselves more fiscally responsible than the Republicans. The world turned upside down.
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Micro-managers should be punished.
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Mid 60s today, albeit cloudy and wet. I went around in my tee shirt, and the groundsman at the Continent was wearing bermuda shorts. Had the sun been out, we'd have hit 70°, I'm sure. Right now it's 55°, on an early January morning.
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Small Fox!
Large Fox!
Atomic Fox of Doom!
Red Fox!
Blue Fox!
Fox that Ruined the Moon!
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Now the movie sellers are starting to push HD-DVD. I don't want a new format. I didn't even want to use DVD, really, but ended up having to buy one because you can't get new movies on VHS anymore. VHS does what I need it to, without extra bells and whistles. I put the tape in, and it plays, from start to finish, in a linear format, which is what a movie is supposed to do. DVD's sole virtue is that the media takes up less space than VHS.
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In an excess of exuberance, the stores here are selling alligator meat, for people to eat during the OSU/Florida game.
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Overheard comment: "If I owned a book store, I'd make the mystery section really hard to find."
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I've spent much of my night reading fanfiction, chiefly "Land Before Time". Most of it is awfully constructed and written, but it's also heartfelt. The latter quality overbalances the former, IMHO.
Then too, every so often, just a few times in your life, you find some bit of fan art or fiction of a quality comparable to John Nowak's Rescue Rangers story "Sovereign", and you wonder why you've never seen that name on the SF shelves. It's like poking through some cool-looking rocks, and realizing that one is a diamond.
One of the curious things as well is that "Rescue Rangers" fanfic is generally a cut above anything else - pithily written, and well characterized.
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Micro-managers should be punished.
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Mid 60s today, albeit cloudy and wet. I went around in my tee shirt, and the groundsman at the Continent was wearing bermuda shorts. Had the sun been out, we'd have hit 70°, I'm sure. Right now it's 55°, on an early January morning.
*****
Small Fox!
Large Fox!
Atomic Fox of Doom!
Red Fox!
Blue Fox!
Fox that Ruined the Moon!
*****
Now the movie sellers are starting to push HD-DVD. I don't want a new format. I didn't even want to use DVD, really, but ended up having to buy one because you can't get new movies on VHS anymore. VHS does what I need it to, without extra bells and whistles. I put the tape in, and it plays, from start to finish, in a linear format, which is what a movie is supposed to do. DVD's sole virtue is that the media takes up less space than VHS.
*****
In an excess of exuberance, the stores here are selling alligator meat, for people to eat during the OSU/Florida game.
*****
Overheard comment: "If I owned a book store, I'd make the mystery section really hard to find."
*****
I've spent much of my night reading fanfiction, chiefly "Land Before Time". Most of it is awfully constructed and written, but it's also heartfelt. The latter quality overbalances the former, IMHO.
Then too, every so often, just a few times in your life, you find some bit of fan art or fiction of a quality comparable to John Nowak's Rescue Rangers story "Sovereign", and you wonder why you've never seen that name on the SF shelves. It's like poking through some cool-looking rocks, and realizing that one is a diamond.
One of the curious things as well is that "Rescue Rangers" fanfic is generally a cut above anything else - pithily written, and well characterized.
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Date: 2007-01-07 05:15 am (UTC)re: micromanagers
1) I endured a micromanager at one job. He dictated what may be on my desk and in my office! What an ass.
2) Long ago, there were "Time and Motion analysis", then "efficiency experts". It seems the UK wants to return to the 1940s factory modelling of everyone's jobs :-(
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Date: 2007-01-10 09:02 am (UTC)I'll have to dredge up a copy. It doesn't seem to be anywhere on the net anymore.
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Date: 2007-01-11 04:22 am (UTC)Tonight, however, I've stayed up late again, this time reading the very impressive Of Mice and Mayhem (http://www.electricfishmusic.com/001.html). I think it'll be a while before I run out of reading material again.
I suddenly want to watch my DVDs again; I'm glad I didn't leave them at home last time I was back.
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Date: 2007-01-08 07:13 am (UTC)Not really.
It is because there has been a general drift of both parties in the US to the right, and because fiscal responsibility does not increase indefinitely the farther right you go. The Republicans have proven themselves to BE well beyond the fiscally most optimum point for some time now. Responsibility, like most desirable traits, is a moderate trait, not an extreme one.
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Date: 2007-01-08 08:34 pm (UTC)Oh you mean like Clinton's era of having a financial surplus?
I know, it's now hard to imagine a world where "No Child Left Behind" isn't making a total mockery of what's left of our educational system as well as draining it dry and forcing schoolteachers out of jobs.
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Date: 2007-01-09 05:03 am (UTC)More like beaten to death.