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meezerman. The first 2 games were blowouts (one each way); this was the best of the bunch. Play the Game
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Mon, Nov. 9th, 2009, 12:19 am
From an after-hours session at the CO with meezerman. The first 2 games were blowouts (one each way); this was the best of the bunch. Play the Game ( Read more... ) Sun, Nov. 8th, 2009, 10:46 pm
[on e-mail encryption] Nobody intercepts e-mails to steal credit card numbers or learn corporate secrets; instead, they break into servers and corporate networks and get at those e-mails before they're sent or after they're received. E-mail encryption doesn't protect against that threat at all. The primary risk to the data is when it's at rest, not when it's in motion. Ubiquitous hard drive encryption improves security much more than ubiquitous e-mail encryption, and good network security is even more effective. That being said, we now know that the NSA vacuums up all sorts of electronic communications, e-mail included. So maybe it would be a good idea for all of us to routinely encrypt our e-mail. But since most corporations don't regard the NSA as a threat--they're supposedly on the side of the good guys--defending against them isn't high on a CSO's (chief security officer) to-do list, even CSOs of international companies. Don't people care about their privacy? Schneier: Of course they do. Survey after survey demonstrates this. What you really want to know is why, if people care about their privacy, do they continue to give up their privacy in return for what seems to be so little? The answer to that question is complicated, and psychologists are not studying it sufficiently. In short, though, it has to do with immediate vs. long-term consequences, the fact that privacy is something people don't notice until it's gone, and how salient privacy is when the decision is being made. What do you think are the most serious legitimate threats to consumer privacy? Schneier: Marketing. The legal collection, storage, resale, and reuse of personal information. Information brokers are doing more to hurt consumer privacy than anything criminals or the government can do. And, even worse, the government can buy information from them, and criminals can break into their databases. Sun, Nov. 8th, 2009, 10:10 pm
http://www.cross-tables.com/annotated.p Mon, Nov. 9th, 2009, 12:00 am
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http://twitter.com/big_ben_clock Sun, Nov. 8th, 2009, 08:06 pm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ca via boingboing: "Skeptics who believe that a university is actually a diploma mill often prove their point by enrolling their cats in the university's program and seeing whether the cat can get a degree. Some enterprising Wikipedians have assembled a list of several such cats." Sun, Nov. 8th, 2009, 07:57 pm
"The findings suggest that infants begin picking up elements of what will be their first language in the womb, and certainly long before their first babble or coo." Quoting a study: "The dramatic finding of this study is that not only are human neonates capable of producing different cry melodies, but they prefer to produce those melody patterns that are typical for the ambient language they have heard during their fetal life, within the last trimester of gestation." Sun, Nov. 8th, 2009, 10:34 pm
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High win percentage (88.9%) High margin of win (93.4) High bingos per game (2.33) High 3 game series (1692) Linda Hoggatt beat Steve Grob to stop his win streak at 16. Nice run Steve. Summary of Flint Club 2009 to follow. Sun, Nov. 8th, 2009, 07:51 pm
Why is it I'm always the last person to know about great TV shows. Let's take a look at my track record with some of my favorite TV shows, specifically, when I started watching them:
I didn't complete drop the ball. There are some series I've watched during their respective first run, and some of them include:
I'll admit I'm a TV junkie but in my defense, my PVR, the Sun, Nov. 8th, 2009, 04:18 pm
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KYNE# ZO# DSO# DZO# DZHO# JOMO# ZOBO# ZOBU# DSOBO# DSOMO# ZHOMO# YAKOW# COWHEEL# COWTREE# KILLCOW# LADYCOW# COWGRASS# COWHEARD# COWHOUSE# SUPERCOW# WIRRICOW# WORRICOW# WORRYCOW# COWFEEDER# COWFETERIA# BOVATE# OVIBOVINE# NECKBEEF# SEMIBULL# OXGANG# OXGATE# OXHEAD# OXHIDE# OXLAND# OXSLIP# MOOI# MOOVE# MOOLOO# MOOLVI# MOOLVIE# Sun, Nov. 8th, 2009, 04:55 pm
nov 19: boston-->chicago-->hong kong-->singapore we land late friday and check in at the scarlet hotel in chinatown. we've got four days in singapore to get used to the time and eat street cart food. i bought the makansutra 2009, which is a sort of zagat guide to the city's thousands of food carts. i'm bookmarking where to find the best chilli crab, chicken rice, char kway teow and nasi lemak! nov 25: singapore--> johor bahru we're staying at the zon and taking the meal plan, so our time in malaysia will be pretty much occupied with the tournament and meeting everyone there. i figured i'd go off sightseeing or something while they play scrabble, but there doesn't seem to be so much to see in/around johor bahru, so i think i'll end up helping with the tournament. nov. 30: johor bahru-->koala lumpur-->bangkok-->chiangmai after the tournament, it's on to northern thailand by way of a bunch of one-hour flights. thanks to tolarjev , we connected to mameow, a scrabble player in chiangmai who signs all her messages with kitty ears. she recommended an awesome-looking bed and breakfast and a cooking school where we'll be taking two daylong classes!!!dec. 3: chiangmai-->bangkok we've got two nights at the lamphu tree house. no plans here, basically exploring and eating. dec 5: bangkok-->tokyo--> chicago-->boston wish we had more time in thailand, but we hope to go back someday. i really want to run into wild monkeys at some point, but not sure where it would be most likely. we got immunizations and don't need any visas, so before then i figure we need to read up a bit more on culture, history and language, and figure out what to pack for two weeks in asia. all advice appreciated. Sun, Nov. 8th, 2009, 02:05 pm
I moved into the new place yesterday. Current Mood:
 optimisticSun, Nov. 8th, 2009, 03:51 pm
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Not sure if anyone cares, but there you go. Sat, Nov. 7th, 2009, 11:13 pm
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Sat, Nov. 7th, 2009, 08:44 pm
i need a little spice here to get the endorphins running, to try and get this headcold out of the system, so i went for an old favorite sauce of mine to give the food some zing. North Carolina style BBQ sauce this is table sauce meant to accompany any sort of slow-cooked or grilled meats, veggies, or what have you. you'd find it served in a squeezie bottle in a good BBQ joint, and you can slop it all over everything. 3/4 C white vinegar 3/4 C red vinegar 1 T brown sugar 1 T chile (i used chile powder, but cayenne or crushed red pepper flakes also work) 1-2 T Tabasco or other red hot sauce combine all of that, let it sit at least 4 hrs. in the fridge. (i left mine over night). then bring it to room temp and stir it up once more just before serving. i poured that all over my dinner tonight. it makes my mouth happy. coming soon to the program – how Chef Jackass fights vegetable abuse. stay tuned. Current Mood:
 pleasedSat, Nov. 7th, 2009, 08:36 pm
stmonday, aruspex and director pbzeigler. Brian and I got free entries, the latter two got a list of twos to consult (and each purchased the list of threes for $5). So, since entry was $40, that put $130 in the prize pool.Was a round-robin group of six, including Mr. Bye, then Pete selflessly forfeited the last two so none of the rest of us would sit out the KOTH rounds. So, results not counting byes: Hoekstra: 5-1 ($90) McKenzie: 3-3 ($40) Bowman: 3-3, worse spread Idalski: 2-4 Zeigler: 1-3 So much for that whole fundraising for the U.S. team thing... :) Lot of fun, great learning experience. Octothorp-free clubby tomorrow. Jason Sat, Nov. 7th, 2009, 08:21 pm
NATTERS, ORIGINS, DISTRAIN / GROINED, PERUSAL, BOOGIEs SNARERS / rETINaS none / JETTiES, IdEATING, ELOPING DUDGEONS / WEARING GLASnOST, VITtLES / PUNTING HoLSTEIN, SANTERA, PROLONgS / none PEWTeRS / none I flat-out missed one bingo, UNSTAcKS, and chickened out on one, REEDIFY (I thought it was #, like REAEDIFY#). Sat, Nov. 7th, 2009, 07:17 pm
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Kudos to iceplanetsfor doing the lion's share on this one.2. KATE Chopin AND 20. LEOPOLD Stokowski 5. DAVID Lloyd George AND 9. LISA Kudrow 6. THELMA Houston AND 25. LOUISE Nevelson 7. HAROLD Lloyd AND 26. MAUDE Findley 10. SID Luckman AND 30. NANCY Dickerson 11. ROGER Williams AND 40. Frank "ME" Tangredi 12. HILARY Swank AND 39. JACKIE Coogan 13. MELVIN Belli AND 36. HOWARD Baker 15. ANNA Pavlova AND 21. Elvis "THE KING" Presley 19. BONNIE Blair AND 38. CLYDE Tombaugh 22. JULES Verne AND 3. JIM Palmer 23. FANNY Brice AND 1. ALEXANDER the Great 29. ROBIN Yount AND 24. MARIAN Wright Edelman 31. FRANKIE Laine AND 14. JOHNNY Mercer 32. BOB Fosse AND 17. CAROL Alt AND 27. TED Turner AND 8. ALICE Roosevelt 33. DOMINICK Dunne AND 16. EUGENE O'Neill 34. AMOS Alonzo Stagg AND 28. ANDREW Carnegie 35. PAT Benatar AND 4. MIKE Hammer 37. JULIE Nixon Eisenhower AND 18. JULIA Ward Howe Sat, Nov. 7th, 2009, 03:02 pm
Back to your previously scheduled programming. Record so far: 63-77. Quackle's gonna remain somewhere around 15 games up for a very long time. The lack of variance that occurs for the next 200 games is actually somewhat surprising. I don't manage to win more than 5 in a row the rest of this match, and Quackle can only manage 6 in a row (and that's just once). The odds of this occurring is actually very low: about 1 in 80,000. If Quackle had not won that 6th game in a row, the odds of that would have been 1 in over 9 billion. (Yes, that's Billion, with a B.) Note that I'm too lazy to come up with the actual number exactly. Tired. Sick. Less prepared than I'd like, though I've gone over top 10k the last two weeks. Dangerously sticking to "challenge all" mode. Won't talk much, and probably won't post games unless things get weird. Record against field is pretty funny. Thankfully my last tournament I'll ever play during school. Sat, Nov. 7th, 2009, 09:02 am
Sat, Nov. 7th, 2009, 01:39 am
evwhore recently wrote about The Incredible Machine, which filled me with delightful nostalgia. This entry is a summary of my life in games. Maybe there's a meme here; I've focused heavily on the more obscure titles, and I'd like to hear some of yours. ( Let's play! ) Fri, Nov. 6th, 2009, 11:19 pm
Fri, Nov. 6th, 2009, 09:43 pm
wisemonkey, quinquennia) can handle it. some of you (bbstenniz, cesarsalad) can work your way up to it. and some of you, of course, (spherulitic) need to learn how to turn on the oven. sigh ...Not-Half-Baked Chile Rellenos most of the time, rellenos are served battered and fried. however, you can also bake them. for tonight's recipe, i'm going to use the cedar plank, but any sort of baking dish will suffice. the foundation of rellenos is traditonally the poblano:  the poblano is a good, middle-class chile. it doesnt have the flashy star power of the hot ones out on the fringes, but it has a nice taste and its ample girth makes it ideal for stuffing. we need to concoct a good mixture here. so i heat up some olive oil in a frying pan, add about 1/3 of a diced onion and 3 cloves of garlic. OK, brown those up here, and now we're going to add 1 lb. of ground pork. ah, yeah. the swine without the flu. whats not to like? OK, so we brown the pork here, but we dont want to overcook it. it doesnt need to be crispy here. let that drain on a paper towel. while the pork is draining here, i dice 1 mango – a fine dice, small squares. i'm also going to shred a small bowl's worth of pecorino:  pecorino romano is an Italian sheep cheese. its got a mild flavor, and it doesnt contain too much salt. i want the cheese to enhance the flavor here, but not overpower the meat. so, now we're going to combine the swine, mango, and sheep cheese together in a bowl and set that aside. OK, time for some fun. i've got 4 poblanos here. the first thing we need to do is char the chiles. very simple on a gas stove - just put it on the burner and crank the flame. you could even use a crème brûlée blowtorch for this, if you wanted to. (a blowtorch in the kitchen, thats fuckin awesome!) keep the stem out of the flame, use it as a handle. you want to turn the chiles and blacken the skins all the way around. after you remove it from the heat, you want to wrap the chile in a paper towel and let it sweat for 10 minutes, and so i'll hand this here to sophonax, who is assisting me ably, and put another pepper on the flame, and ..."YIKES!!!" oh shit, there was an ember still burning on the chile and now the paper towel KC is holding is ON FIRE! isnt this awesome! pyrotechnics on the Chef Jackass show! alright! in truth, that was lazy of me – ALWAYS check to make sure the chile is no longer on fire before you wrap it up like that. i'm fairly nonchalant about kitchen fires, since i've dealt with them for years and know what to do, but that was a little frightening. KC just tossed the whole thing on the stovetop and the fire burned itself out. OK, so where were we ... after you let the chiles sweat, you want to take the tip of a knife and scrape the burned skins off the peppers. you want to then make a slice on one side to open up the pepper, and you want to remove the pod and the seeds. now we spoon in our pork-mango mixture and fill the peppers up. i put them on the cedar plank, and bake 20 minutes at 400°. if you are using something like a glass dish, i would go 15 min. at 375°. it takes longer to cook on the plank, but we get that nice smoky flavour of the cedar, and we combine that with a great mix of the natural salty pork, the sweet mango, and the soft cheese. wow, this is awesome. serve them up with more grated cheese on top, plus a lime wedge and enough hot sauce to make my nose run. and we also have some of KC's delicious, fresh sourdough bread on the side, with a chardonnay-garlic dipping sauce. oh yeah. this much rulage is actually illegal in 18 states, so you should check all local laws and statutes before making this recipe. Current Mood:
 i can haz awesome?Sat, Nov. 7th, 2009, 12:00 am
Fri, Nov. 6th, 2009, 08:49 pm
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 11 What means you have truly moved?
View Answers You signed a lease You moved your furniture You moved your cats You got the utilities in your name You got a local library card Current Mood:
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 My new front yard:  Don't need to worry about mowing the lawn! Current Mood:
excitedFri, Nov. 6th, 2009, 07:02 pm
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Yesterday I'm doing a Jumble-like puzzle and the last word, alphagrammed, is EHILSTT. I recognized the rack, and *now* I see THISTLE! And THI(S)TLES was indeed a 94-point double-double. Furthermore, when I recounted the story to sr_orangepants last night, he taught me LITHEST. I shall never forget: Not SHITTLE*, but LITHEST THISTLE. Collins tourney Saturday organized by pbzeigler to put a few bucks in stmonday's and my pockets before leaving for WSC. First time playing live Collins! Club-rated NASPA clubby the following day. Should be a fun weekend.Jason Fri, Nov. 6th, 2009, 05:38 pm
Then the avalanche began. Cape Cod round 3 Fri, Nov. 6th, 2009, 02:01 pm
11/13 - Sydney 11/17 - Christchurch 11/25 - Melbourne 11/26 - Cairns 11/29 - Adelaide 12/1 - Sydney 12/2 - arrive LAX Booked the Sydney Opera House tour but have not booked Barossa Valley, Marlborough Valley, or Great Barrier Reef tours. Haven't even thought about hotels either. Fri, Nov. 6th, 2009, 04:33 pm
1) Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning. 2) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall. 3) Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to all kinds of crazy behavior. People may even wish to marry their pets because a dog has legal standing and can sign a marriage contract. 4) Straight marriage has been around a long time and hasn't changed at all; women are still property, blacks still can't marry whites, and divorce is still illegal. 5) Straight marriage will be less meaningful if gay marriage were allowed; the sanctity of Britney Spears' 55-hour just-for-fun marriage would be destroyed. 6) Straight marriages are valid because they produce children. Gay couples, infertile couples, and old people shouldn't be allowed to marry because our orphanages aren't full yet, and the world needs more children. 7) Obviously gay parents will raise gay children, since straight parents only raise straight children. 8) Gay marriage is not supported by religion. In a theocracy like ours, the values of one religion are imposed on the entire country. That's why we have only one religion in America. 9) Children can never succeed without a male and a female role model at home. That's why we as a society expressly forbid single parents to raise children. 10) Gay marriage will change the foundation of society; we could never adapt to new social norms, just like we haven't adapted to cars, the service-sector economy, or longer life spans. Current Mood:
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