Posts by Lyndon Hood
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I guess it may have come up already, but another thing I just remembered regarding Starbucks. When we had a American intern she would go there for the filter coffee. I suspect in the US they're not even as espresso-y as they are here.
Writing that, now I recall I once saw a study comparing caffience levels in different Starbucks filter servings, ranging widely, all the way up to most of you daily maximum.
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The Arrival, I reckon. Here's what I said at the Arts festival, and I gather some people share my enthusiasm.
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Speaking of research programmes and the evils of the US reminds me: according to the intro this was a proposal by two academics when asked for reseach initiative Lockheed might fund:
Irony is a powerful and incompletely understood feature of human dynamics. A technique for dissimulation and “secret speech,” irony is considerably more complex than lying and even more dangerous...
And yet while major research resources have for forty years poured into the human sciences from the defense and intelligence community in an effort to gain control over the human capacity to lie (investments that led to the modern polygraph, sodium pentothal–derived truth serums, “brain fingerprinting,” etc.), we have no comparable tradition of sustained, empirical, applied investigation into irony.
That article would arguably be one good thing Lockheed Martin is responsible for.
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IIRC there was a story off Boing Boing a while ago about about a guy who liked sketching portraits of folk who came witnessing at his place. Or (I think it was the same chap) having impromptu baseball games. It sounded quite sweet.
And apparently you can take advantage of Mormons' community-mindedness and get odd jobs done if you look like you might need it.
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Should such a movement emerge, I have this horrible feeling it will be wearing (per a recent ETS protest and IIRC originating with the farmers land-access protest) an orange fright wig.
So I guess I understand the temptation to call them clowns.
Also note the ‘don’t tread on me’ flag in one of the pics, which seemed otherwise irrelevent.
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Also, can we please stop calling any scandal “something-gate” now.
Wikileaks on twitter specifically requested that hashtag. Which seemed extra sad considering the actual controversey hadn’t really got going at the time.
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What with the obsessions and the small town, I can't resist mentioning the not-a-ballet Giselle that was at the '08 Arts Festival. Also because it has filled up all the 'Giselle' space in my brain.
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FWIW "an underground loader is thought to be blocking the access way"
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU1011/S00588/update-on-rescue-at-pike-river-mine-221110.htm -
I have stupid amount of self-seeded italian parsley coming on. Pesto ahoy at some point.
My latest effort is putting some long-term stuff down the far end of the garden. Rhubard and - somewhat without regard for the recommened planting methods - asparagus seedlings. (Bought after trying some from seed. I pretty much actively ill-treated those, but to my surprise one has actually germinated).
Want to line up a few fruit trees for autumn. Hopefully will water them more than the citrus we put in, the smallest ones have gotten into a bit of peril.
Saffron? Really. Hmm.
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And equally fine in the default maemo browser.
I say keep the typekit as a way of making people switch from windows. Typographical hotness.