I just watched a couple episodes of Our America with Lisa Ling, and was pleasantly surprised with the quality of the work. I was also very disturbed by her episode on the teenage prostitution going on right here in America. Just appalling. The stories that were the worst were the relatives sending kids into prostitution. Sickening.
Also, too, aside from being gorgeous, she has an absolutely perfect and soothing voice. I could listen to her all day long.
David Koch
Breaking News:
Turns out Mel Gibson really, really, really, really hates the Jews.
http://www.thewrap.com/movies/article/joe-eszterhas-letter-mel-gibson-36949
Hoooooooooconode!
David Koch
This just in: Her Baroness, Lady Ann Romney de Davies still has not worked a single day in her 63 year old life.
gex
I wonder how many are gay teens rejected by their parents.
SiubhanDuinne
Ling schming. Gibson schmibson. Romney schmomney.
HOW IS TUNCH??
David Koch
North Korean missile launch fails.
Grapevine says Obama successfully ordered covert action to sabotage Little Kim’s rockettes.
Cacti
We’re doomed!
Fox News has Romney up in its latest presidential poll.
Stop laughing!
I’m surprised they beat Rasmussen to it. lol
Bnut
I always thought Connie Chung was hot, though seemed to go too heavy on the makeup at times. They live near my aunt and uncle in NY and I’ve met her and Maury several times. Both amazingly warm people. Maury has a very good sense of humor.
Hill Dweller
So, the media spent the day breathlessly covering something a CNN analyst said, but complete ignored a GOP sugar daddy and future big Romney donor(Foster Friess) saying the President should have a bullet-proof teleprompter.
Cue Lee Greenwood…
Amir Khalid
@David Koch:
More likely the North Koreans fucked this one up all by themselves. Theirs is not a country known for having its shit together.
PeakVT
North Korean rocket launch failed.
Valdivia
@Hill Dweller:
Becuase the Village is always listening to the outrage machine. I actually kind of like that Obama and his team are never really into high dungeon about the silly season stuff. Having said that: I read the bullet comment and was disgusted by Foster Friess, hope the secret service pays him a visit.
Kinky Beats
1 stupid non-story down.
999,999 more to go.
2012 General Election. Hooray!
Burnspbesq
@gex:
“I wonder how many are gay teens rejected by their parents.”
Probably fewer than you think, but one would be too many.
suzanne
I am so fucking sick of the “mommy wars” and the fact that this shit got dredged up AGAIN. And it gets away from the real crux of the matter. Whether or not one considers childrearing to be “work”, and I totally and completely agree that parenting can be difficult and tiresome and boring, just like any job for pay, the fact remains that Ann Romney had the choice to pursue that life path because someone else was footing her bills. And most of us don’t, no matter how much they want to call us socialists. Having that choice, that freedom, Is something to celebrate, even if I personally feel that the choice she made has negative consequences for other women. I’m so goddamn tired of this issue. So. Goddamn. Tired.
David Koch
one of the effects of global warming.
patrick II
Lisa is also incredibly brave. I remember her going into Afghanistan to report on women’s treatment by the Taliban. She wore a burqa to remain anonymous and if caught would have probably been killed. Her sweet looks disguise nerves of steel.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
Colbert is ripping Allen West a brand spanking new Allen West.
Odie Hugh Manatee
Lisa Ling is teh hawt. End of story.
Any legal beagles want to weigh in on this Federal Appeals Court ruling? I think it’s interesting that the ruling stated “Because [the high-frequency trading system] was not designed to enter or pass in commerce, or to make something that does, Aleynikov’s theft of source code relating to that system was not an offense under the EEA.”
Opinions?
Burnspbesq
Teenagers who are on their own (whether runaways or tossed out) and have only one marketable skill will do what they have to in order to survive. Sucks, but it’s hardly surprising. Maybe there’s an argument for legalization lurking in there somewhere. Being exploited may be less bad than being exploited and brutalized, albeit not by much.
JGabriel
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This, of course, was followed by Kim Jung-un jumping up and down yelling “Dumbkopf!” at his generals and banging their helmets with a rubber mallet.
They’re like the Keystone Cops, with warheads.
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RossInDetroit
I’m ignoring politics today “lalalalalaican’thearyou!”
Got a request from a publisher to invent something I really wanted to invent and in fact 80% invented already. Right now it’s blasting my ears with The Smiths. because the only other option is thinking about pol***cs and that would make me even sadder than Morrissey does.
RinD+1
satanicpanic
Lisa Ling is the least annoying lady to ever be a host of The View, IMHO
BGinCHI
Warning, HuffPo link, but anyone see this?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/12/cory-booker-newark-mayor-_n_1422552.html
Cory Booker runs into a burning house to save a woman, gets smoke inhalation, goes to hospital.
Good dude.
Imagine Chris Christie doing that. Not only would he not want to save her, he wouldn’t be able to.
NY Post headline:
Black Man Invades Newark Home, Accosts Woman
David Koch
Colbert >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Stewart
BGinCHI
I’m in moderation. Someone please get my comment the fuck out of there.
FYWP.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@suzanne:
A choice her husband wants to rake away from everyone else.
Burnspbesq
@Odie Hugh Manatee:
Seems plausible. Not every crime is a Federal crime, and it’s appropriate to narrowly construe the language of criminal statutes so that people know what they can and can’t do.
If the US Attorney’s office whiffs, the local DA gets to bat next, and that’s not double jeopardy because the federal and state crimes generally aren’t “the same offense.”
BGinCHI
@RossInDetroit: Is it a jetpack, because I’m getting really tired of waiting for that invention.
Please hurry. I want to fly.
BethanyAnne
@gex: From what I’ve seen, it actually is getting better. I’m in my forties, and lots of us formed intentional families 20 years ago. There were enough cast-off folk that needed families, that it sorta happened. I don’t see that happening so much anymore. I wouldn’t trade my people for anything, but it’s good that the kids aren’t in the same boat. I should say that the only member of my family I lost by coming out was my brother, but I was surrounded by folk that had lost everyone. And it still fucking outrages me, 20 years on.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@JGabriel: Have you seen the Twitter account Kim Jong Number Un?
Bnut
@The prophet Nostradumbass: Having Creed as the background is amazing.
David Koch
@The prophet Nostradumbass: real kim jong un account better: http://twitter.com/#!/realkimjongun
elmo
So I’m back in my beloved Eastern Sierra, doing some work in Reno before sneaking home to Mammoth for a day (yes, I only lived there for eight years, and left eight years ago, but it’s still home). So what do my mountains do? Welcome me home with 35+mph winds and snow blowing sideways.
I do NOT miss April snowstorms. They always blow like crazy, never amount to anything, don’t make pretty, and just make everything grim and miserable.
The year we moved away, everyone in town was calling May “Mayuary,” because it fucking snowed every other day. We took to telling each other that it was the mountains’ way of telling us we made the right decision to leave. But I’ve regretted leaving ever since. Are my mountains trying to tell me something now?
+3, in case anyone’s curious.
handy
@Odie Hugh Manatee:
@Burnspbesq:
What do you think the IP implications are from this ruling, assuming it stands? It seems to open some “interesting” doors.
elmo
@BethanyAnne:
Beth, that’s terrible. I’m in my forties as well, and even my Goldwater-loving, ni-CLANG hating father has never so much as hinted disappointment with me or my partner. He goes out of his way to tell me he’s proud of me.
Suffern ACE
@David Koch: I wouldn’t be surprised. I mean, it is rocket science, and those north Korean missiles have gone astray before, but it had to be tempting to mess with it. They put up pictures of it.. Made a big show of putting it up and loading it with fuel. Next time they should shut up about it or point the damn thing at China or some other country that’s not likely to misinterpret a missile launch as something hostile.
BethanyAnne
@elmo: Yeah, it was fucked up. And still is that way for some – especially trans folk. But it is slowly getting better. I’m just hoping enough GLBT folk stick together for long enough to make more progress.
The prophet Nostradumbass
Alan Dershowitz saysthe charges against Zimmerman were “irresponsible and unethical”, and, water is wet, the sun rises in the east.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@Burnspbesq:
Thanks. It will be interesting to see how the rest of this unfolds. Definitely an interesting ruling.
@handy:
That’s the same thing I was thinking though from what I understand the ruling wasn’t so much that this wasn’t against the law but that the wrong laws were applied in pursuing this.
That’s why I wanted to hear what some legal types might think about it. In other legal news…
Hacker nailed by EXIF data…lol! Some ‘hacker’.
BGinCHI
@elmo: You could head south and fish for trout in the Owens. I did really well there last time I was there. It was October though.
RossInDetroit
@BGinCHI:
At Maker Faire a couple of years ago I saw a DIY jet powered merry-go-round. That was pretty awesome/terrifying/loud. Probably as close as you’re likely to get to a jet pack.
No, I’m designing a hi-fi amp/speaker rig for portable headphone music players (why don’t we have a better name for that?).
Mike in NC
@Amir Khalid:
Yet by the creed of the wingnuts we have to quiver in fear since these NK idiots have spent 50+ years trying to prove how fucking tough they are. Where are McCain and Lieberman tonight?
Burnspbesq
@handy:
Unclear, but at the risk of trotting out a bad cliche, there’s never been an IP law problem that Congress couldn’t make worse by trying to fix it.
BGinCHI
@RossInDetroit: Holy shit, I want a merry go round. Not sure where it will fit in the condo, but the X man will love it. Right before he pukes.
You should demo that rig with BJers. I’ll help test it.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Mike in NC:
Jerking each other off in Syria?
BGinCHI
@Mike in NC:
Cheek to cheek?
JGabriel
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The prophet Nostradumbass:
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I hadn’t, but now that you point it out, this Kim Jong Number Un tweet is pretty great:
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Burnspbesq
@RossInDetroit:
Like this?
http://www.soundmatters.com/foxl/index.html
eemom
couple of. Couple of. Couple fucking OF.
Shit, Cole, I thought we finally agreed on that much at least. You suck. : (
elmo
@BGinCHI:
When I lived in Mammoth, I used to fish in the Owens and PVR during the winter, and then the lakes and Hot Creek in the summer. Fishing was my real passion – I’m a lousy skier.
Burnspbesq
@JGabriel:
C’mere, baby, let me deploy my ballistic missile in your silo.
BGinCHI
@JGabriel: Usually rocket launch take longer to explode.
BGinCHI
@elmo: We pulled trout out of there like crazy a couple of days. I love that part of the Sierras. Itching to get back for hiking and fishing.
Bullet train from Chicago to Denver, then from Denver to Reno. Come on Obama.
Martin
@David Koch: Yeah, lots of people know. The paparazzi sees this shit all the time. They cover up the crazy stuff, the drug use, etc and at most will print the scandalous stuff when they’re reasonably sure it won’t end the gravy train. Celebs are fucked up because the press enables them to be. It’s their own little world out there.
Suffern ACE
@Mike in NC: They could care less about north Korea as the bomb is most likely to hit South Korea. It’s on the wrong side of the Eurasian land mass.
RossInDetroit
@Burnspbesq:
Same idea, but uglier. Or rather, with more character. The prototype’s going in a lacquered cigar box unless they veto that. The last time, I had a perfectly good plastic project box design and they made me engineer this complicated rig out of aluminum angle and plexiglas. Cabinetry takes more time and effort than electronics so I’m going to be stubborn about the cigar box thing. Because laziness, that’s why.
satanicpanic
@elmo: I love it there. That might be my favorite part of CA that’s not desert
BethanyAnne
@eemom: a couple three episodes?
BigSouthern
Yeah, I’ve seen various sources, and almost all put the average age of entry into prostitution between the ages of 13 and 15. And then something like 66 percent were sexually abused or molested as children.
It’s shit like that that makes me twitch ever time I hear someone call it a “victimless crime.”
BGinCHI
@RossInDetroit: I don’t see how the amp is going to sound good with all those cigars in there. But you’re the engineer.
eemom
@BGinCHI:
how is the little BG?
Nutella
@Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant):
Did she? As a Mormon wife, was she required to take the approved non-working housewife route?
I’m not calling her a stay-at-home mom because all her children are over 30 so she hasn’t been a SAHM for a long time.
RossInDetroit
@BGinCHI:
It’s based on an integrated circuit. My first build idea was for a Pringles can as an enclosure. Not everyone liked the ‘chip amp’ pun. In fact, nobody but me.
The cigar box will have pillow stuffing and no tobacco inside.
Redshift
I spent the evening at Yuri’s Night DC, one of the worldwide gatherings of space fans on the anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s flight (and the first space shuttle launch.) Definitely a good time with good people.
Now I’m spending the night at my wife’s parents because of an ongoing medical situation. Not such a good time, but necessary.
Redshift +1
muddy
I did cabinetry yesterday and today. I made bookcases that are short enough to fit under the eaves upstairs. Different widths and shelf spacing for different groups of books. I found a really nice trim that has vines/leaves burned into it, I plan to pick out the pattern in gilding after the paint dries. They came out really well, I was pleased. Love the laser line on the circular saw, although I had to take off my glasses, the bifocals made the line look wonky when I was looking from the side.
Also I found a nice innovation, wood filler in a square container instead of round. Now they need to make a joint compound in that style.
Martin
@RossInDetroit: I’d be happy to make you some nice lacquered wooden knobs. Only $485.
BGinCHI
@eemom: He’s great. 95th percentile in weight (it’s the breast feeding, doc says), all other systems go. Sleeping great at night but daytime naps are suddenly not going well. He’s tired but fights sleep. I think he’s got a stubborn streak. I blame his mother.
Seriously: cute, laughs a lot, and just an sweet overall kid. Pretty sure we’ll keep him.
Thanks for asking.
RossInDetroit
@Martin:
Don’t start. This is cheapo best bang for buck DIY engineering. The audiophiles are over there with their heads hidden in the clouds. We’re the ones with metal chips in our hair and paint under the fingernails.
muddy
@BethanyAnne: I use “couple-few” a lot.
Once on a road trip, my kid and his cousin (then age 10) argued for nearly 100 miles whether “few” meant 3 or 4. aieee
BGinCHI
@RossInDetroit: I want a wine bottle sub-woofer.
Build that while you’re thinking about my jetpack.
/tapping his foot and looking at his watch
BethanyAnne
@Redshift: I hope it ongoes away soon :)
BGinCHI
@Redshift: You’ve earned your drink. Probably 2 more, unless you have to get up early. Best of luck.
BethanyAnne
@muddy: lol, it’s 3 of course. 4 is “almost many”
Martin
@muddy: My chop saw uses a shadow line off of the blade. I like it much better. No calibrating, and it’s accurate enough to distinguish the individual teeth. Might look into it.
BGinCHI
@Martin: Lacquering another guy’s knobs is pretty risky. Sounds like a low ball offer.
BGinCHI
Who wants to set the over/under at what Cole’s pets are doing right now that will cause them to puke/shit/bark/chase/burn him out of bed at 3 AM?
RossInDetroit
@BGinCHI:
For grins, here’s a DIY record turntable that a neighbor just finished. He’s a machinist. Tightest tolerances you’ll find anywhere. And yes, he’s a little obsessive.
Polish the Guillotines
Sharks steal game 1 from St. Louis in double-OT. Awesome!
BGinCHI
@RossInDetroit: Holy christ!
Gas powered??
kth
@satanicpanic: Ling was always way too smart and mild-mannered for the show. Elizabeth Hasselbeck, who replaced her, is in every way a “better” fit.
RossInDetroit
@BGinCHI:
AC synchronous motor mounted in a collet holder. It’s powered by a small 10W class D switching power amplifier. The amplifier receives a 60 hz input signal from, of all things, an iPod. It’s very accurate, and the speed can be varied by feeding the amp different frequencies of .MP3 files.
ETA: the ‘base’ for the platter is made up from the end bells off of a 75HP electric motor. The whole rig weighs 120 lbs and breaks down for transport.
Suffern ACE
@The prophet Nostradumbass: Klaus von Bulow said his wife was attacking him, too. Since the lawyers were going all PTSD yesterday, it doesn’t seem they are putting a lot of faith in the “stand your ground” hearing.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Polish the Guillotines: That was awesome. And, the Pacific Division is 3-0 in the playoffs so far, after the Coyotes beat the Hawks in OT, as well.
RossInDetroit
1:00 am. Sleep. later…
BGinCHI
@RossInDetroit: Genius.
I will wait patiently for the electronics to appear in the BJ store. I have plenty of Tunch coffee mugs.
Night all. Happy Friday.
amk
so has rushbo made any racist chinese ‘jokes’ yet ?
muddy
@BethanyAnne: Now I’m going to have to pull the car over again!
Polish the Guillotines
@The prophet Nostradumbass: That Hawks regulation goal with 14 seconds left was pretty badass. Playoff hockey is the best.
Yutsano
Life is torturing me. I can’t have chocolate for another 12 hours but there’s a Dove ad right on my Book of Faces.
muddy
@Martin: Chop saw = compound miter saw? I have one but it was downstairs in the workshop, and I was working on the porch. I have a real weakness for tools. At my local hardware store the owner never asks me what I am looking for, he says I find more and better on my own.
Ash Can
@BGinCHI: Was going to post a link to that myself. Cory B. 2016 — just sayin’.
Martin
@Yutsano: Look on the bright side – at least you can’t smell these chocolate chip cookies my daughter just baked for me.
Hmm. That probably doesn’t help.
Martin
@muddy: Yeah, dual compound miter. Not sliding – that just wrecks the accuracy of the saw.
I’m not really a tool accumulator. I get one tool for each major project. Took 15 years to get around to something that absolutely required a jigsaw.
Steve in DC
@Ash
I’d wager Cuomo. Solid corporate Democrat (which is a must to actually get nominate) and very strong on social issues (the only progressive issues most of our party actually cares about now). Unless we have a massive change in leadership to place economic values first, and everything else second, you won’t see Cory at all. Or Warren for that matter.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Yutsano: Just was chomping on some chocolate covered almonds.
Martin’s right that doesn’t help either.
Arm The Homeless
@RossInDetroit: I own three vinyl albums, one of which is a 7″ from Less Than Jake. But I wouldn’t kick that outta bed.
Have you ever thought about custom computer cases? Maybe custom console cases? It’s a big market out there for folks to get something special. Although who wants to make 50 copies of a Laura Croft beach volley-ball scene?
amk
@RossInDetroit: Tell your neighbor, Nice job. I figured out the motor end bells.
Steve in DC
One of my friends builds custom computer cases for high end computers. Overclockers and liquid coolers (usually the same group) will toss 600-1000 on just the case if it’s good enough.
http://www.performance-pcs.com/catalog/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=103_1000&products_id=31499
http://www.mountainmods.com/computer-cases-ascension-duality-c-21_86.html
Those are pretty good ones, and those prices are the bare price. Toss in powder coating and the fittings and it spikes massively.
Last case I got ran over 800 once all was said and done, then a little over 1500 for all the water cooling gear, and that’s before any actual parts went in.
xtremesystems and hardocp are some of the crazier computer sites for hardcore tech people, I’ve seen builds well over 20grand pop up. there is a market for it, you just really have to know what people want.
PeakVT
Here’s some details on the path of the NK rocket launch.
eemom
@BGinCHI:
Splendiforous! I loves me some babies.
Enjoy — ‘fore ya know it he’ll be a mean-ass teenager like my kids. : (
Burnspbesq
@RossInDetroit: @Steve in DC:
I have my fair share of expensive toys, but 20k for a PC, no matter how tricked out, is hard for me to fathom.
Chacon a son gout, I guess.
muddy
@Martin: I inherited my love of hardware stores from my dad. When he died, I got his to add to my own. Actually once he got cancer he said I should take his stuff home, as I was the one doing his stuff for him. I said I thought he ought to keep them. Even if he couldn’t use them then I know he still liked to go in the workshop and fondle his favorites. We used to give each other tools as presents. So now I still get him something for his birthday and father’s day.
But I had to get rid of his collections of rusty bolts and screws etc., there was about 100 pounds of this kind of thing. Depression mentality, I guess. I took them to the scrap metal.
I have some of my grandfather’s tools as well, they are pretty cool, like clamps with adjusting screws, which are made entirely of wood. Wood screws!
Steve in DC
NK rocket launches are a joke, I was in the area while in the Navy when they screwed one up. The fear mongering over them is nearly comical. Their nuclear bomb, eh, we have conventional bombs bigger than that blast, we use those nukes for mailbox pranks. Their missiles, don’t work at all.
Now granted, they have enough artillery and rockets to level parts of SK and a few million starving people that would swarm over the border to China, but that’s the only reason they haven’t been glassed, nobody wants to deal with that.
Arm The Homeless
@Steve in DC: Just found out how a brushless dc motor works. The future is kinda neat.
I want a truly field-grade set of google’s new heads-up glasses. I really can’t wait to see this how this tech flowers.
Burnspbesq
The problem with going to the gym at 9:30 is that it will be close to 1:00 before I unwind enough to sleep.
Burnspbesq
@eemom: @eemom:
It’s a good thing I didn’t have daughters. I’d make them get all their clothes at Talbot’s and they’d hate me for it. The way our culture sexualizes teenage girls is pretty creepy.
Steve in DC
@Burnspbesq
We’re talking dual to quad CPUs, each of them being 8-12 cores, massive amounts of RAM, custom liquid cooled, quad video cards, SSD’s, very high end stuff. Granted, it’s not shit apple or dell or any other “toy computer” maker builds, but it’s out there. A lot of these guys are sponsored by hardware companies. Hell my current workstation uses the latest xeons, two of them, at 3k a pop, that’s 6 grand just in CPUs. Granted work bought that, but it’s easy to get up there quick (hell my network card is a grand).
And even that’s low ball for quality work stations off the shell, but again, aint’ shit you get from Dell or apple, talking IBM AIX or HP UX boxes.
Highend computers cost more than cars.
I build liquid cooled computers and sell them as a side job.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?279308-Vega-s-*Heavyweight*-display-and-computer-edition-2012
That’s the type of shit people do. It’s caked in silicon because he’s sub zero cooling it, people pouring LN2 to cool stuff is also common, as are people digging wells for this.
Get out of the apple and dell world, there is so much more :)
Burnspbesq
@Steve in DC:
I don’t doubt it, but a MacBook Pro does everything I need it to do, and I’d rather spend on audio gear and college tuition.
Yutsano
@Martin: @BillinGlendaleCA: You both may feel free to DIAF. At least because of a bunch of medical tests I can overdose on caffeine tomorrow. Cause they’ll mess me up just enough that work ain’t gonna happen. At my boss’s insistence.
(Nothing hugely major. Just a funky heart rhythm that popped up. Tied with family history and the cardiologist about had a cow.)
Steeplejack
@Yutsano:
Best wishes for good test outcomes.
Steve in DC
@Burnspbesq
I love audio gear as well, all klipsh and HI-VI (swans) here. Would touch a mac though, if I want a wannabe unix OS I’ll use the real thing (solaris, aix, ux) and not some bastardized BSD (there is a reason apples server business got laughed to hell and back).
My gaming computer isn’t that crazy, probably only about 6k, which isn’t all that crazy for a higher end computer. I also ebay shit and upgrade like crazy which gets me out of paying huge lump sums and let’s me recoup most of the cash.
But yeah, for 99% of crap, my laptop gets me by.
My point was though, you can sell high end computer cases and people will pay for them. 600+ retail, well over a grand if it’s a custom order for what they want, and they won’t think twice about it.
My real hobby is arcade machines though, fun stuff.
Lojasmo
@Burnspbesq
Fxt
Yutsano
@Steeplejack: I have the 24 hour monitor on now, which will be more critical when I’m sleeping as the episodes happen most often then. It could just be pre-surgery stress honestly, I still have way too much shit to get together before it all happens. But when you lose three relatives to heart attacks on both sides of the genealogy that makes the cardio go a bit overboard.
Burnspbesq
@Lojasmo:
No, not fixed. You’re talking to the devoutly Catholic parent of an unconditionally loved gay kid, so with all due respect, shove it.
Jay S
@RossInDetroit: Cigar box? I guess Altoids tins are passe’?
Jeffraham Prestonian
Hello, Loony Baloonies! Long time, no type (well, a week or so, anyway).
BIG NEWS: I now have a job! Yes, after 45 months of “retirement,” I am now working for Severn Trent Environmental Services, which is a pretty awesome company. I start 4/23 or sooner, depending on paperwork. Not that this matters, as most of you know me not from Adam, but dammit, I’m happy as a pig in slop, so I’m sharin’. :)
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Steeplejack
@Yutsano:
Huh. Weird that it happens when you’re asleep. No connection to sleep apnea or something like that?
Steeplejack
@Jeffraham Prestonian:
Congratulations on the new job. I hope that, after four years out, you remember your office etiquette and protocols, e.g., no sitting at the computer in just your boxers.
PeakVT
@Jeffraham Prestonian: Since you’re not a Republican politician, congrats on the new job.
Jeffraham Prestonian
@Bnut: Y’ever see the swan song clip of her short-lived late night show, where she’s drunk and rolling around on top of a grand piano, singing a bastardized version of “Thanks For The Memories”? OMFG. PRICELESS.
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Steeplejack
@Jeffraham Prestonian:
¡Ay, caramba!
ETA: Is that guy even playing the piano? If so, worst sound mix ever.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Yutsano: Good luck with the tests, and it’s better safe than sorry when it comes to the ticker. Especially with a family history. I think I’d better moderate the chocolate almonds and the baked snappeas, my blood pressure was up. But the snappeas are so good with some hot sauce.
Jeffraham Prestonian
@Steeplejack: This one’s better, but also suffered from the mix of the missing piano, it would seem. I had a link to it with the piano, which really only served to show how poor a singer, pitch-wise, she was.
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ruemara
Lisa Ling is incredible, one of the last journalists out there. Makes me wish could watch more of her stuff. Balls as big as monoliths, I say.
kdaug
@BGinCHI:
Yes. It’s a jetpack that plays The Smiths.
kdaug
@Amir Khalid:
No shit. Did you see that rocket? It was filthy.
Seriously, don’t you have a million or so non-starving people who could give that thing a paint job?
I’m thinking the dirt/grime brought the fucker down.
Jesus, NK, get your shit together.
Valdivia
@Yutsano:
Don’t know if you will see this but hoping you get only good news from the doc.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@Steve in DC:
Ahem… SILICONE. Now it may get hot enough to pour sand in and fuse it into a solid chunk of “silicon”, but…
:p
I’m [H]ard too. ;)
Linda
@suzanne:
Everybody is sick of them. In marketing terms, it’s good for generating website clicks, but not even book sales. At this stage, it’s good for flinging poo and obscuring real outrages, like new abortion laws and attempts at curtailing contraception. When everybody has matching outrages, even if half of them are fake, everybody turns away in digust, and the Republicans win that round.
Re: teenage prostitution. Human trafficking is a real issue here in the Toledo area, and a lot of activity has taken place here, simply because it’s the crossroads to everyplace. There are some sad and hair-raising stories that have appeared in the Blade in the last several years, and a local professor, Celia Williamson, who has done a lot of work researching that issue.
Starfish
@suzanne: What is going on with Ann Romney is far removed from the mommy wars no matter what people would like to pretend. NO ONE has asked if she had an army of nannies doing the actual work part of being a stay at home mom. Really wealthy women often have this option.
Starfish
@suzanne: What is going on with Ann Romney is far removed from the mommy wars no matter what people would like to pretend. NO ONE has asked if she had an army of nannies doing the actual work part of being a stay at home mom. Really wealthy women often have this option.
Omnes Omnibus
@kdaug: Don’t mock. There is a market for it.
William K. Wolfrum
I’ve seen a couple a couple of Our America shows and have to agree with John – Lisa Ling is quite good at what she does.
gogol's wife
@eemom:
I WAS a big fan of Richard Russo, until I read his latest novel, which was chock-full of the expression “a couple X” instead of “a couple of X.” It hit me that his smooth style may have been the product of a good editor, and now that publishing houses don’t seem to feel the need to pay professional editors any more, he’s on his own, and he can’t write!
Interrobang
Congratulations Jeffraham! Yaaay!
KXB
What is interesting about Lisa Ling is that her career started out as just another talking head on The View – she seemed to be heading towards the pop culture, anyone with an opinion route. Instead, she left The View, dropped off the red carpet scene, and threw herself into serious journalism. Impressive.
LanceThruster
Me love her long time too.
Ab_Normal
@Redshift: Rocked my Yuri’s Night t-shirt yesterday… completely by accident. Or the programming’s just gone in really deep.