This will make Omaha unhappy
Nov. 17th, 2004 10:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsTiVo, our PVR of choice, and one to which we've made a five-year commitment to keep (the idea being that after five years we'll have amortized the initial purchase cost sufficiently to make it worth buying in the first place) has announced that now, while you fast-forward the TiVo interpreter will put banner ads on the screen.
Combine this with the "new" feature that pay-per-view shows will have hard expiration dates, and the value of a TiVo is plummeting fast. It's almost time to consider building my own Myth and Buffalo system.
So, Omaha and I were reading this review by bookslut, and we were vaguely amused in that "oh, you're trying to be offensive and amusing at the same time, aren't you?" way by the claim that Cooking Light magazine, our cooking magazine of choice is for "people really into yoga," and that Bon Appetit is for "people frightened by Cooking Light's intended audience."
Hey, I've cooked out of both. I'm tempted to see the mashed potatoes recipe in Gourmet. It's supposed to be fiendishly difficult.
By now you've all heard that K-Mart is buying Sears, and is rebranding itself as Sears. But if you're not paying attention, you might have missed bigger news: Kraft is selling its Altoids and Lifesavers candy divisions to Wrigleys, the gum people. Kraft believes that the Atkins awareness is killing the candy industry, and Wrigley believes that it can make Lifesavers and Altoids interesting again.
And a new stupid people report: The Sadie Hawkins dance, especially one where boys and girls are encouraged to dress up in each other's clothes and act out their roles accordingly, has been cancelled in Texas. In it's place, students have been told that they should all wear camoflage.
It's delightful to see the reddest of red states show its objectives so openly and honestly. "No, you should not try and understand the opposite sex. Instead, you should want to kill things."
Good news even Yamaarashi-chan would love: The gene sequence known as "Sonic The Hedgehog" has been shown to stimulate the growth of cells in the brain, even in older adults, when introduced directly. The only problem right now is turning the mechanism off once it's started: you don't want neuronal crowding to produce brain tissue that doesn't work.
The U.S. Military is forbidden from attempting to proselytize or otherwise attempt to convert is members, and it is not permitted by law to restrict activities of its members to those of certain beliefs. The U.S. Military may not contract with organizations that discriminate based upon religious beliefs. The Department of Defense, working with the ACLU, has solidified this policy.
As a result, the DoD has informed military commanders tha they or their bases may not officially sponsor Boy Scout troops. (Girl Scout troops are okay.)
Predictably, the usual suspects go apeshit.
Yay, New Scientist!. The cover article (subscription only, sadly) states the obvious:
Combine this with the "new" feature that pay-per-view shows will have hard expiration dates, and the value of a TiVo is plummeting fast. It's almost time to consider building my own Myth and Buffalo system.
So, Omaha and I were reading this review by bookslut, and we were vaguely amused in that "oh, you're trying to be offensive and amusing at the same time, aren't you?" way by the claim that Cooking Light magazine, our cooking magazine of choice is for "people really into yoga," and that Bon Appetit is for "people frightened by Cooking Light's intended audience."
Hey, I've cooked out of both. I'm tempted to see the mashed potatoes recipe in Gourmet. It's supposed to be fiendishly difficult.
By now you've all heard that K-Mart is buying Sears, and is rebranding itself as Sears. But if you're not paying attention, you might have missed bigger news: Kraft is selling its Altoids and Lifesavers candy divisions to Wrigleys, the gum people. Kraft believes that the Atkins awareness is killing the candy industry, and Wrigley believes that it can make Lifesavers and Altoids interesting again.
And a new stupid people report: The Sadie Hawkins dance, especially one where boys and girls are encouraged to dress up in each other's clothes and act out their roles accordingly, has been cancelled in Texas. In it's place, students have been told that they should all wear camoflage.
It's delightful to see the reddest of red states show its objectives so openly and honestly. "No, you should not try and understand the opposite sex. Instead, you should want to kill things."
Good news even Yamaarashi-chan would love: The gene sequence known as "Sonic The Hedgehog" has been shown to stimulate the growth of cells in the brain, even in older adults, when introduced directly. The only problem right now is turning the mechanism off once it's started: you don't want neuronal crowding to produce brain tissue that doesn't work.
The U.S. Military is forbidden from attempting to proselytize or otherwise attempt to convert is members, and it is not permitted by law to restrict activities of its members to those of certain beliefs. The U.S. Military may not contract with organizations that discriminate based upon religious beliefs. The Department of Defense, working with the ACLU, has solidified this policy.
As a result, the DoD has informed military commanders tha they or their bases may not officially sponsor Boy Scout troops. (Girl Scout troops are okay.)
Predictably, the usual suspects go apeshit.
Yay, New Scientist!. The cover article (subscription only, sadly) states the obvious:
We seek intoxication for a simple reason that we are almost too scared to admit--we like it. Intoxication can be fun, sociable, memorable, therapeutic, even mind-expanding. Saying as much in the present climate is not easy, but an increasing number of researchers now argue that unless we're prepared to look beyond the "drug problem" and acknowledge the positive aspects of intoxication, we are seeing only half of the story--like researching sex while pretending it isn't fun.Wow. I love this quote:
What if our actual brain chemistry evolved to help us survive and reproduce at the cost of giving us false beliefs about the world? If so, it is possible that mind-altering drugs might in fact give us a better, not worse, insight than we have in our so-called normal state.
