Thursday, December 05, 2002

This is why I love having this blog out there, why I love being the 220th Andrew on Google - friends find you. In this specific case, a bald-headed motherfucker from my past has risen up, and I'm quite pleased about it. Yo, Mike!
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All about toad licking. Toad licking - Ever been tempted? DON'T: read this magisterial blog piece on the dangers of Toadlicking first!. But for a really fun time, look for this hilarious documentary at your local independant video store: "Cane Toads: An Unnatural History": "When the Australian sugarcane crop was attacked by beetles, someone decided to import cane toads to combat the pests. But somebody didn't do their homework: beetles can fly, but cane toads can't. What can cane toads do? Reproduce, big time..." [I'll graciously leave the post on Australian plagues - of rabbits, toads, and so on - for somebody else. Then, of course, there's Kudzu and Killer Bees...] [MetaFilter] "I'm not NOT licking toads!" - Homer Simpson

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Got my new laptop at work today - IBM T30, P4 mobile 1.8ghz, 40gb drive, 512mb ram, DVD drive, ATI Mobility Radeon 7500, and general niftiness. I can't take it online from home yet - I've only got one IP address allotted to me through the cable modem. BUT! I can still transfer files back and forth...both of the laptops (my old IBM T20 and the new one) have infrared link capabilities. Conveniently, the thingie is on the left side of one laptop and the right side of the other, so I don't even have to have them at weird angles or anything, just one next to another on the couch as I transfer a gig or two of files. It takes some time, obviously, but it seems to be htiting around 50 meg a minute, which is, well, pretty good. I'm trying to decide what to do about the rollover - I've got the old laptop for another two months or so, so I don't have to cut off completely. I think what I'll do is transfer everything over to the new one, switch the active MAC address to the new one, and keep the old one at work if I need it. Oh crap - and I need some AT&T software installer thingie. I think I lost the disc...damn, this is way too complicated.

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Annoying Audiences. That Show-Stopper: The Bloody Audience! Interrupting a performance of Hamlet, John Barrymore once threw a large fish at a group of coughing members of the audience, shouting: "Busy yourselves with that, you damned walruses!" Stephen Pollard, in The Independent, suggests people now behave in public as they do at home, oblivious of their fellow concert or theatre-goers. Art-house audiences are equally annoying. Perhaps show rage will become the road rage of the 21st Century? [The main link, addressing rock audiences, comes in very small type but is worth reading all the same. The third link is an amusing mini-play about audience harrassment.] [MetaFilter] I keep telling people - fish are the way to fight back. I've long wanted to carry around a fish and beat people with it. Lessons from IRC...

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Kerrey Debates His Students on Changing Iraqi Regime. New School University students and faculty members packed an auditorium to hear a debate in which the university's president Bob Kerrey was accused of betraying its pacifist legacy. By Robert F. Worth. [New York Times: Education] Actually, I'd say Bob Kerrey betrayed pretty much all pacifists when he participated in the slaughter of a village in Vietnam...

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Oh my - the Daily Show from last night nails exactly why Kissinger's appointment is fucked up: "If you want to investigate an assault on a democracy, who better to head it than the man who instigated the overthrow and assassination of the democratically-elected leader of Chile in 1973? Who better to look into a secret attack than the man who secretly bombed Cambodia? And in general, who better to investigate the failures of US intelligence on behalf of the American people than the man who successfully kept the American people completely in the dark about US intelligence? Plus, he had sex with Shirley Maclain." I'm sold!

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