What are you gonna do, play with your prick for another 30 years? ... George Carlin
RE: UPI - WH confirms Saddam on feeding tube
Topic: Current Events
9:03 am EDT, Jul 25, 2006
Rattle wrote:
White House spokesman Tony Snow Monday confirmed former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein is on a feeding tube as the result of a hunger strike.
When it comes to hunger strikes, I guess practice makes perfect..
Snow told the daily press briefing Saddam agreed to be put on a feeding tube but said he did not know whether the procedure was performed at the detention facility where Saddam is being held or whether the former Iraqi leader had been hospitalized.
[Insert Terri Schiavo joke here]
Ha! Maybe he thinks his people enjoyed starving all those years that he would give it a shot himself. I think part of this hunger strike that might fall flat is that no one cares if he lives or not. He should have stuck to Doritos.
A number of sources, most recently ProgrammingOutsideTheCube and the RingerTape page, say that many folk find it takes time to get into a state where work flows. Do you plan to get into flow, does it come upon you more as a kind of inspiration, or is it not necessary for you? Do you use tactics to improve your team's ability to flow? Which particular events disrupt flow the most, and how do you solve them?
For me, flow requires both inspiration and expiration, if that makes sense. I need to get out into green places or seasides to drink in what's around me, and then I can breathe that vitality back into my work. Does this happen similarly for others? I think flow is vital for quality work - what's the best strategy to improve it? -- PeterMerel
Decius Wrote: An animated map of Americans getting fatter over the past 15 years. The heart of the fat seems to be right here in the South East. I guess pulled pork and fried everything isn't as healthy as I thought.
I'd like to see this overlayed with voter information. Perhaps there's a growing segment of the populace which just eats wht its fed, no matter what that is.
CNN.com - Pink Floyd legend Syd Barrett dies - Jul 11, 2006
Topic: Arts
12:44 pm EDT, Jul 11, 2006
LONDON, England (CNN) -- Syd Barrett, the eccentric guitarist who founded Pink Floyd but later left the music business to live quietly and somewhat reclusively, has died at the age of 60, according to a spokeswoman for the band.
How to Write Screenplays. Badly.: On Follow-Up Calls
Topic: Movies
1:34 pm EDT, Jun 29, 2006
ME Jeremy Slater. You know, the awesome screenwriter. I'm a big fan of your work, by the way. Especially the way you directed Jurassic Park. And that other one...what was it called? Snakes on a Something. Bus? Plane? Plane, right?
(long silence)
MR. X That wasn't me.
ME Shit, I meant Jews on a Train.
MR. X ...Schindler's List.
ME What?
MR. X Schindler's List. That's what it was called.
ME Are you sure? That can't be right.
(long silence)
MR. X Who is this again?
ME Jeremy Slater? I, um, sent you my screenplay a few days ago? Just wondering whether you want to buy it or whatever. Make me an offer. I'll take anything.
This 1987 PSA is a tried and true classic, bringing the immortal line "I learned it by watching you!" into our pop cultural lexicon. After years of searching for this commercial in vain, my quest came to an end when it turned up in VH-1's "I Love The '80s" series. The narrator at the end sure sounds like actor Orson Bean, to my ears
AOL News - Tattoo Customers in Three States Get Infections
Topic: Arts
6:07 pm EDT, Jun 23, 2006
ATLANTA (June 23) - A worrisome superbug seen in prisoners and athletes is also showing up in people who get illegal tattoos, federal health officials said Thursday.
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The tattooists sometimes did not use masks or gloves, did not properly disinfect skin and did not properly clean the equipment. One Ohio tattooist used a homemade tattoo gun made from a computer ink-jet cartridge and guitar strings, LeMaile-Williams said.
