What happened?
Twelve years!
You hit me with a cricket bat!
Ha! Twelve years!

Lileks Is All

What the audience could not possibly know was that I was absolutely, completely, soaking wet.

Lileks, of course.

And it's Natalie. Doh!

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Four!

Five if you count Harvey.

And the BloggerPeople seem to have fixed the Mozilla problem. Either that, or it was an ephemeral phenomenon like rainbows and butterflies, only less pretty and more annoying. New Improved Blogger seems to be working well. Maybe it's time to monkey with my template so I can get the archives back up.

Of course, it will still eat your posts whenever it feels like it. Damn and blast!

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Migratory Irony

Well, I migrated to the New Improved Blogger without testing it first. It seems to work fine except that I can't log in using Mozilla anymore. Well, poot!

Anyway, coupla quick links:

Slutertarian or Slutpublican? You decide.

Dave Barry has an interesting article about Fire Ants and the Flies That Eat Them.

And Frank J. over at IMAO enlightens us as to the speed of gravity, in case any of you were wondering.

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Rationalisation Corner

So, who am I hurting when I download episodes of Futurama off the net?

Not the local broadcast networks, because they took it off the air after showing only four episodes (picked, as far as I can tell, at random).

Not the cable networks, because of the two available, one isn't in my street and the other won't connect me because I live in a townhouse. This despite the fact that it is already wired for their service and there are only two free-standing houses in the entire street. Bastards.

Not the DVD sales. I've already bought all the Futurama DVDs available locally. Maybe I could buy more from America, but wait! They're region coded so I can't play them!

Which leaves... Actually, it doesn't leave anybody. Except hypothetical future distributors. And I'll start caring about them when they finally get their butts into gear and become actual present distributors.

Mind you, the picture quality of the episodes I've downloaded so far has ranged from bad to terrible. (Anyone doing this stuff should take a look at some of the Anime available for download - the picture quality is far better.)

I would gladly pay to download these episodes from the source - though the quality would have to be better. Look! Money to be made! Over heeere!

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Three!

I got three visitors at the JREF Storm Shelter!

Three!

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JREF

When I'm not blogging, you can often find me at the JREF Forums. Not at the moment, though, because they seem to be fairly seriously broken.

I ran up a quick forum server thingy for people to visit until JREF is fixed: the JREF Storm Shelter. I wonder if I'll get any visitors...

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No Link

Glenn Reynolds of Instapundit, who doesn't need another link, looks like he writes a lot, but most of his blog is really made up of quotes. Well, I can do that too:

Our revels now are ended. These our actors,
As I foretold you, were all spirits and
Are melted into air, into thin air:
And, like the baseless fabric of this vision,
The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces,
The solemn temples, the great globe itself,
Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve
And, like this insubstantial pageant faded,
Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.

There. That's always been a favourite of mine.

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Pibgorn

Which reminds me: Pibgorn by Brooke McEldowney. Read it. It's good. Though sometimes slow-moving. Right now it's in the middle of a long and complicated sub-story, so it may not immediately make sense. Stick with it.

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Blogger New

Tastes great, less screwed-up archives. Or so they say. I'll give it a whirl with a test blog before the wholesale migration.

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Still Raining

At this rate we might as well unevolve back into fish. Or maybe just amphibians.

But there are many parts of Australia that are still in drought. Sydney is where it is, after all, because it does rain a lot here - relative to the rest of the country.

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