A cricket bat!
Twelve years, and four psychiatrists!
Four?
I kept biting them!
Why?
They said you weren't real.
Wednesday, May 21
Shoulda Known
That was the season finale of
House. (Part 1 last week, part 2 today.)
But while the second half of the finale of
House had some problems, it was better than
Bones, which just spontaneously retroactively self-destructed through force of sheer boneheaded idiocy.
Bones doesn't so much jump the shark as skin the shark alive, boil the flesh from its cartilage, grind the cartilage into powder, make soup from the powder, feed the soup to hungry beetles, blend the beetles into porridge, and shoot the porridge into the Sun.
Can we have the writers' strike back, please?
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I thought House was good... very evocative, anyway. But Bones... egads, what did we do to be treated like that?
Posted by: pam at Wednesday, May 21 2008 01:08 AM (l6NIn)
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The first half of the finale of
House was superb; the second half wasn't bad, but wasn't up to the standards of the first half.
But
Bones, well, ugh.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, May 21 2008 01:22 AM (PiXy!)
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Yes but even a weak episode of House is generally better than 99% of what is on television.
Posted by: Stephen Macklin at Wednesday, May 21 2008 12:07 PM (R7LgM)
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I watched a few episodes of the first season of Bones. It wasn't bad.
David Boreanaz is always good. Just found it very uneven so I didn't go back.
House which I don't watch a lot of either. At least has an interesting mix of characters. If the story itself isn't great, the character interactions usually are.
Posted by: Andrew at Wednesday, May 21 2008 02:13 PM (/5NwX)
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I keep trying to watch Bones, because of Angel (David B.). But I rarely do.
House, on the other hand, we almost never miss. Although where in the hell did "medical hypnosis" come from?!?
Posted by: Yahzi at Wednesday, May 21 2008 02:58 PM (yn9dj)
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Pix, you ever watch Dexter? You should see if you can get the season one DVDs...or torrent them, whatever.
Posted by: doubleplusundead at Saturday, May 24 2008 01:40 PM (ZuzXA)
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Tuesday, May 20
Firefox 3
I thought they'd almost fixed the awful bar in beta 5; with RC1, it's back in all its craptastic glory. It's the most completely worthless "enhancement" I've seen since Vista's "A program wants to do something!!!" nag screens.
In Firefox 2, if I want to go to Chizumatic, I type a c in the url bar. That brings up Chizumatic (http://chizumatic.mee.nu), Cute Overload (http://cuteoverload.com) and other sites whose urls start with c. I hit down arrow once or twice, and enter, and there I am.
In Firefox 3, the way it works is, well, it wipes all your history and doesn't do anything at all. But after that, the way it works is, it brings up sites at random where the url or the title of the page or the name of the sites in your history or bookmarks or elsewhere in its tiny, confused mind, has a c in it somewhere. Anywhere at all. And displays two lines of text per site, so it wastes space and is much harder to read.
It's a complete pile of crap, and you
can't set it back to the old way that actually worked.
Zero out of ten for style, and minus several million for good thinking. Wonder if Innova Editor works in Opera yet...
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I consider the new history implementation a great enhancement in FF3. Type "chi" instead of just "c".
Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at Wednesday, May 21 2008 05:19 AM (qNSKg)
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If that worked, it would merely be a nuisance rather than an abomination. It doesn't work.
Presumably it's supposed to work after you train it for some unspecified period, but that's no excuse for it shipping brain-damaged when the previous algorithm was better than the expected trained result anyway.
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Thursday, May 15
Aigh! Bastiges!
Really good episode of House this week. Right up until it stops.
Darn two-parters.
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Commercial television.
Pixy. Your watching free to air ?
Posted by: Andrew at Thursday, May 15 2008 01:03 PM (Q+Mwr)
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Don't be silly! I torrented it.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, May 15 2008 02:20 PM (PiXy!)
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I doubt it's being broadcast in Australia.
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Thursday, May 15 2008 03:19 PM (+rSRq)
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It is actually, but they're two weeks behind. (Andrew is a friend of mine here in Sydney.)
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, May 15 2008 08:51 PM (PiXy!)
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And House is one of the few HD free to air broadcasts as well. Altho I could be wrong.
Hmm. For once being behind is an advantage. Recorder where are you ?
Posted by: Andrew at Monday, May 19 2008 03:03 PM (UahfT)
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Tuesday, May 13
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It's a conspiracy to drive me insane.
And it's working.
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Actually....its a conspiracy to turn you into a hikikomori.
The insanity is incidental.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Wednesday, May 14 2008 12:32 AM (RomKM)
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That doesn't sound good! Whahoppon?
Posted by: Steven Den Beste at Wednesday, May 14 2008 01:27 AM (+rSRq)
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It's a laundry list of annoyances that have chosen to land on me all at once. Individually minor, but they are of a nature such that they multiply rather than just adding. So my life for the past few days has been craptastic, and it's only going to get worse tomorrow.
I'll survive. Probably.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Wednesday, May 14 2008 01:50 AM (PiXy!)
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Friday, May 02
Over The Edge
Ben Stein has
lost the plot:
Stein: Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place, and science leads you to killing people.
I thought he was just a lying weasel. In fact, he's stark raving mad.
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Here is Stein's "message" in one line.
Science is Bad...reallyreally Bad, unless there is Religion to guide it...and btw, we are JUST AS SMART as you snotty scientists that wont teach IDT in their classrooms...and anyways.....YOU'RE ALL NAZIS!"
Posted by: matoko_chan at Friday, May 02 2008 01:19 AM (bqE4v)
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Yep. Or to put it another way:
Love of God and compassion and empathy leads you to a very glorious place, and science leads you to killing people.
Mad. Totally bananas.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, May 02 2008 01:46 AM (PiXy!)
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Does this mean I can't enjoy "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" any more?
Posted by: Ryan at Friday, May 02 2008 03:46 AM (b4JBG)
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Well, you can always fast forward past the classroom scene and go straight on to
Twist and Shout.
That's what I do.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, May 02 2008 03:50 AM (PiXy!)
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i got banned at chicago boyz today.
do you now what i said?
some guy was using Liberal Fascism to defend Stein...
and
it
occurred
to
me (wait for it)
Expelled is just the cartoon version of Goldbergs Liberal Fascism.
and they banned me!
those fascists.
hehe
Posted by: matoko_chan at Friday, May 02 2008 01:08 PM (bqE4v)
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btw pixy, i sure hope you are girding your loins.
im layin in full hammerhoff and tegmark armament.
Posted by: matoko_chan at Friday, May 02 2008 01:12 PM (bqE4v)
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an ima bring my homies with me.
who's your second?
SDB?
this gonna be a theory of consciousness rumble.
there will be blood.
Posted by: matoko_chan at Friday, May 02 2008 01:20 PM (bqE4v)
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Just bring your evidence.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, May 02 2008 02:37 PM (PiXy!)
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...also punctuation, capital letters, and a hint of grammar.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Friday, May 02 2008 11:34 PM (2XtN5)
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/puts out tongue at J. Greely
is sunday ok?
im scribing for dressage at the Colorado Horse Park tommorrow.
Posted by: matoko_chan at Saturday, May 03 2008 10:22 AM (bqE4v)
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Is fine. Have fun with the horsies!
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, May 03 2008 06:39 PM (PiXy!)
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Thursday, May 01
Return Of The Stupid
There's a pre-update update available from the Intention Experiment loons. Under the headline
Are we all Qigong masters? First feedback about our Water Structure Intention Experiment, Lynn McTaggart writes:
Although the scientists are not finished examining their data, they
have told me one thing: they’ve seen results they’ve never seen before
with their equipment.
One reason it is taking so long is that our water had a great deal of
variation an hour before the experiment was run. This could mean that
our anticipation of the event began to affect the water. Or it could
mean that our hypothesis is wrong.
Or it could mean that with intention, we are emanating an energy like a
Qigong master, which is being picked up by the spectroscopy before the
event.
Or it could be that your scientists are incompetent clowns who bollixed up a simple procedure.
The scientists chose to use Raman spectroscopy because they discovered
one published study showing that Qigong Grandmaster called Dr. Yan Xin
significantly altered the structure of a water sample, as measured by a
Raman spectrometer, when he sent his Qi from a place seven kilometers
away from the water sample.
So, not because Raman spectroscopy is actually suited to the task, or they are particularly familiar with the procedure, but because someone else found a unicorn with it.
Some of the comments following the post are so stupid that I am tempted to believe that they are satirical, but my hopes have been dashed too many times for that.
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Pixy, I tire of your denialist rejections of the truth.
If you add Ramen to your water sample you will alter the properties of that sample.
If you add the accompanying flavor packet to the sample, you will alter it even more, if the water to ramen proportionality is correct you will utterly change the physical charachteristics of the sample and that will will only be augmented with the addition of an egg, scallions and possibly some sort of meat.
This is no doubt well within the capability of a Quigon Master irregardless of weather or not you for some inexplicable (but probably bureaucratic) reason choose to conduct spectroscopy on the bowl.
I hope this clarifies things.....misterwebmaster.
feh...
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Friday, May 02 2008 11:51 AM (V5zw/)
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That's the most sensible explanation for this mess that I've seen so far.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, May 02 2008 01:02 PM (PiXy!)
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