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Winter Bowling: Sport League [jackdied] Feb 02 2009, 22:15 EST [updated Feb 02 2009, 22:27 EST] [permalink] ANN: There is a 5-game Sport Tournament at Lanes & Games Sunday, Feb 8, at 9:30am. Price is $50 at the door. Each game is bowled on a different PBA oil pattern. It should be wildly infuriating. Unfortunately the lounge bar doesn't open until noon, but I Full Text Who Designs Cellphones? [jackdied] Jan 31 2009, 18:53 EST [permalink] I just did my semi-regular cleaning and deleted a combined 56 pictures and videos of the inside of my pants pocket. I couldn't tell you what combination of the outside buttons takes pcis/video but it isn't uncommon enough. Full Text Your week in Quickies [quickie] Jan 30 2009, 13:56 EST [updated Feb 03 2009, 20:55 EST] [permalink] The Bacon Explosion [bobsalive] Jan 29 2009, 18:46 EST Another glorious bacon culinary invention. Full Text No Wonder Baltimore is a Mess [jackdied] Jan 30 2009, 13:41 EST [updated Jan 30 2009, 13:46 EST] [permalink] Meet Michael D. Sydnor Jr. He's been arrested 101 times under the name Sydnor since 1994, but he sometimes uses the last name Thomas. He's been convicted more than 30 times for crimes that include dealing drugs and urinating in the street He's been Full Text This is JEOPARDY! [jackdied] Jan 27 2009, 20:24 EST [updated Jan 27 2009, 20:37 EST] [permalink] I found out about the online Jeopardy! auditions half an hour before the event (everyone has to take it at the same time so the J-folks can use just one set of questions). Mountain and Pacific people can take it Wednesday and Thursday. If I'd known abou Full Text Greater Boston USBC Bowling Tournament [jackdied] Jan 25 2009, 18:01 EST [updated Jan 25 2009, 18:22 EST] [permalink] I played once in all three categories (singles, doubles, quad/team) spread out over yesterday and today. I had fun but won't be winning any prizes. There are no brackets or ladders or bowl-offs; prizes are awarded based on the three scores scratch/hand Full Text Climate Prophet's Excess [jackdied] Jan 25 2009, 12:12 EST [permalink] New Scientist mag interviews James Lovelock. Lovelock is not very upbeat about the coming Global Warming Apocalypse [emphasis mine] Q: Do you think we will survive? A: I'm an optimistic pessimist. I think it's wrong to assume we'll survive 2C of warm Full Text CNN Colors the News [jackdied] Jan 25 2009, 11:48 EST [updated Jan 25 2009, 11:55 EST] [permalink] In Miami two people were killed when a gunman broke up a craps game Saturday night. The headline on the front page is "Gunman used AK-47 to fire on crowd, police say" which makes it sound like a random act. I suppose a gunman could have randomly shot up Full Text The Prisoner [jackdied] Jan 20 2009, 10:03 EST [updated Jan 20 2009, 10:38 EST] [permalink] Patrick McGoohan died (which bobsalive mentioned). I liked the guy even though I didn't know him. He had many roles including the bad guy in Braveheart but I saw him first and foremost for his starring, writing, and directing in The Prisoner (free to wa Full Text 24 Everyday things that are about to be slightly less common [jackdied] Jan 20 2009, 07:23 EST [updated Jan 20 2009, 07:52 EST] [permalink] Forwarded was Scout's list of 24 things that are about to go extinct (hat tip Hilary). As personally biting as the pending extinction of "stand alone bowling alleys" is, the list kinda fails. Many of the items have already become so niche that they are Full Text Cory Doctorow to Keynote at EuroPython 2009 [jackdied] Jan 19 2009, 23:08 EST [updated Jan 20 2009, 08:03 EST] [permalink] Announcement here. Doctorow is a sci-fi writer, devoted futurist, and a main contributor at BoingBoing. I'm just not sure what he has to do with python. [later] I'm likely to attend but I'll need a new talk to make it certain (I did a talk last EuroPy Full Text Winter Bowling: Sport League [jackdied] Jan 19 2009, 22:06 EST [permalink] 132, 142, 153. See? I don't just post when I have a good week. The tournament is this weekend so I'll have to go in and practice every day during the week. Time to hot up the video camera again. Full Text Your week in Quickies [quickie] Jan 16 2009, 14:28 EST [permalink] Keanua Reeves to star in live-action Cowboy Beebop [jackdied] Jan 16 2009, 14:27 EST People sometimes ask me "when is violence morally a Full Text Great Moments in Naming [jackdied] Jan 16 2009, 14:19 EST [updated Jan 16 2009, 14:21 EST] [permalink] The Australians may have a strange rhyming custom which makes "afternoon" into "arvo" but they have a very plain naming custom for geographic features. See the wikipedia entries for the Great Sandy Desert, or the Snowy Mountains, or the Great Barrier Ree Full Text Congress Thinks Small [jackdied] Jan 16 2009, 12:00 EST [updated Jan 16 2009, 12:22 EST] [permalink] The House has approved a bill to raise tobacco taxes to pay for a $32 million increase in SCHIP. That's $0.60 a pack of cigarettes and $0.40 per cigar. My first reaction was $32 million? Only $32 million? Haven't these people gotten the memo that only Full Text Blackout Facebook for Earth Hour!!! [jackdied] Jan 13 2009, 04:26 EST [updated Jan 13 2009, 07:18 EST] [permalink] May there be many small hells for the people that forward this piffle. This particular forwarded scheme involves turning out your lights for one hour to "raise awareness on our everyday energy usage and personal impact on the environment and climate chan Full Text Healthcare End Point [jackdied] Jan 11 2009, 22:49 EST [permalink] You want universal healthcare? This is what happens. The Japanese government argues that it must regulate citizens' lifestyles because it is paying their health costs. First the law makes you pay for other people's healthcare and then it regulates Full Text Home From The Holidays [jackdied] Jan 09 2009, 02:12 EST [updated Jan 10 2009, 13:50 EST] [permalink] Lots of parties: Christmas Eve, Christmas, day after Christmas, day after that, New Year's Eve, and just generally hanging around. Plus some dinners. I don't have a large family or 100 friends on facebook but I can't imagine those folks packed more into Full Text Winter Bowling: Sport League [jackdied] Jan 05 2009, 22:18 EST [updated Jan 05 2009, 22:20 EST] [permalink] 147, 152, 160. Not too shabby. January 24th/25th is the USBC Greater Boston Tournament. 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