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Everything2 Cool Archive http://everything2.com/?node=Cool%20Archive%20Atom%20Feed 2009-12-03T16:51:31Z Hey Queens, you need a King (essay)http://www.everything2.com:80/user/artman2003/writeups/Hey+Queens%252C+you+need+a+Kingartman2003http://www.everything2.com:80/user/artman20032009-12-03T15:37:24Z2009-12-03T15:37:24Z <p>After I sat there while I was working and listened to the state of <a href="/title/New+York">New York's</a> <a href="/title/senate">senate</a> vote on their <a href="/title/Same-sex+marriage">gay marriage</a> bill, heard all the senators stand up and give speeches as to why they were voting "YES" but then, ultimately, the bill wasn't passed, I about blew a gasket. I've had about enough. Yet again, this country, which is supposed to be all about freedom and civil rights, has failed to end one of the final legal bigotries that we just can't quite seem to shake off. After <a href="/title/Proposition+8">Proposition 8</a> and <a href="/title/Proposition+1">Proposition 1</a> (<i>especially</i> 8) and now this, I have to say something. Anything. I can't hold this inside of me. This insanity is starting to eat at me like flesh-consuming bacteria.</p> <p>This is going to be ranty I'm afraid. Maybe I should submit it to the BitchQuest. The point is, I'm not going to do any research so some of what I'm about to say may not be accurate, maybe even flat-out wrong, but I don't care.</p> <p>First of all, a lot of people might wonder why am I&hellip; Fuzzy Poet Doctor and Faith (idea)http://www.everything2.com:80/user/lizardinlaw/writeups/Fuzzy+Poet+Doctor+and+Faithlizardinlawhttp://www.everything2.com:80/user/lizardinlaw2009-12-01T14:21:57Z2009-12-01T14:21:57Z <p>I went to a <a href="/title/sermon">sermon</a> at our <a href="/title/Unitarian+Universalist+Covenant">Unitarian Universalist</a> Fellowship on Sunday: the topic was <a href="/title/Faith">Faith</a> but our <a href="/title/minister">minister</a> talked about the <a href="/title/brain">brain</a>. It was lovely.</p> <p>He is in the Sunday morning <a href="/title/book+group">book group</a>. I am too, but he has been going, unlike me. I've been <a href="/title/AWOL">AWOL</a>. They have been reading <u> On Being Certain</u> . The group is a mixture of <a href="/title/skeptical">skeptical</a> scientists and <a href="/title/Carl+Jung">Jungian</a> <a href="/title/analyst">analysts</a> and the minister and it is <a href="/title/Satanic+Zombie+Cyborgs+Meet+the+Unholy+Girlfriend">great fun</a>. We <a href="/title/bounce">bounce</a> between books on the brain and books that argue against the existence of God and books about our present world and <a href="/title/technology">technology</a>. I am an amateur Jungian and doctors are rather half-assed scientists, really. We have to apply science to actual people which is messy and <a href="/title/inaccurate">inaccurate</a>. Some patients just don't read the book, damn it.</p> <p>B, the minister, said that the cells in the brain correspond to actual thoughts. We build networks of <a href="/title/neuron">neurons</a> as we&hellip; where they used to live (poetry)http://www.everything2.com:80/user/lizardinlaw/writeups/where+they+used+to+livelizardinlawhttp://www.everything2.com:80/user/lizardinlaw2009-12-03T13:46:03Z2009-12-03T13:46:03Z <p>she's saving the nodes</p> <p>she's written more now</p> <p>checks nearly daily <br>1.5 weeks <br><a href="/title/The+Operative%253A+No+One+Lives+Forever">no one home</a></p> <p>wanders in and out of the catbox <br>longing <br><a href="/title/Do+you+C%2521+what+I+C%2521">Do you C! what I C!</a> <br>tastes are different <br>friends of friends <br>longing</p> <p><a href="/title/It%2527s+a+good+idea+to+take+a+bath+once+in+a+while">they've shared the catbox once</a> <br>someone asked if they knew each other <br>"In meatspace." <br>now wishes <br>said <a href="/title/sisters">sisters</a> <br>sisters <br>sister <br>sis <br>s</p> Allspice (thing)http://www.everything2.com:80/user/peanut/writeups/Allspicepeanuthttp://www.everything2.com:80/user/peanut2004-04-07T20:26:47Z2004-04-07T20:26:47Z <p><strong>History of allspice</strong></p> <p>Allspice, also known as Jamaican pepper or <a href="/title/pimento">pimento</a>, is the dried unripe <a href="/title/berry">berry</a> of the <a href="/title/evergreen">evergreen</a> tree <em>Pimenta dioica</em>, which is part of the <em><a href="/title/Myrataceae">Myrataceae</a></em> family along with <a href="/title/eucalyptus">eucalyptus</a> and <a href="/title/clove">cloves</a>. The tree is native to the <a href="/title/West+Indies">West Indies</a> and the <a href="/title/rain+forest">rainforests</a> of <a href="/title/south+america">South</a> and <a href="/title/Central+America">Central America</a>. Today, allspice is produced mainly in <a href="/title/Jamaica">Jamaica</a>, <a href="/title/Mexico">Mexico</a>, and <a href="/title/Honduras">Honduras</a>, making it the only spice to be produced exclusively in the <a href="/title/Western+Hemisphere">Western Hemisphere</a>. The best allspice is said to come from Jamaica because of its ideal climate.</p> <p>Allspice has been used for centuries. It was originally used by natives of South America including the <a href="/title/mayan">Mayans</a> as a flavoring for <a href="/title/chocolate">chocolate</a>, a digestive aid, and an <a href="/title/embalm">embalming agent</a>. It was also widely used to <a href="/title/cure">cure</a> meat. The natives called this cured meat "<a href="/title/boucan">boucan</a>". European traders who later cured meat in this manner were called "boucaniers," which later&hellip; gnaborretni (thing)http://www.everything2.com:80/user/BIII/writeups/gnaborretniBIIIhttp://www.everything2.com:80/user/BIII2009-12-03T07:18:00Z2009-12-03T07:18:00Z <p>Gnaborretni: &#11800;<p> <p>The gnaborretni (pronounced: "gnab-or-ret-ni"), is the little known and even little-er used <a href="/title/Spanish">Spanish</a> counterpart to the slightly-more-but-still-relatively-little known <a href="/title/interrobang">interrobang</a> (&#8253;). e.g.<p> <p>"&#11800;Dónde diablos está mi heroína&#8253;"<p> <p>"Oi, where's me smack&#8253;"<p> You are precious to me. Did you know that? (idea)http://www.everything2.com:80/user/originalzin/writeups/You+are+precious+to+me.+Did+you+know+that%253Foriginalzinhttp://www.everything2.com:80/user/originalzin2006-07-31T13:24:28Z2006-07-31T13:24:28Z <p> The young private anxiously buttoned his jacket. Freshly laundered in <a href="/title/butternut">butternut grey</a>, the wool coat felt oddly stiff and unfamiliar. In his four years in the <a href="/title/Confederate">army</a>, this was the first time the private had ever washed his coat. He never needed to before. </p> <p> He was clean shaven, but his hair was long. Saving up for the portrait took all the money he had. There was nothing left for a haircut. He slicked his hair back as best he could, and made his way to the photographer's studio. </p> <p> Sitting down in the posing chair, the private heard the photographer ask if there were any props he wanted to include in the picture. Many <a href="/title/Johnny+Reb">Johnny Rebs</a> would pose with their muskets or their <a href="/title/Bowie+knife">Bowie knives</a> when they had their pictures taken. The private supposed the soldiers thought it made them look braver, more masculine. </p> <p> "Yes. Here." </p> <p> He pulled a small <a href="/title/daguerreotype">daguerreotype</a> from his pocket. A portrait of his wife and infant son&hellip; University of South Carolina (fiction)http://www.everything2.com:80/user/kthejoker/writeups/University+of+South+Carolinakthejokerhttp://www.everything2.com:80/user/kthejoker2009-12-03T04:52:53Z2009-12-03T04:52:53Z <p>Carolina and I are talking again. It was always just a <a href="/title/question">question</a> of timing, the scintillae of permanence in her voice, like all things Southern, an affectation of manners. This time I have with even voice and sound mind laid <a href="/title/marriage">marriage</a> on the table. I have planned an elaborate question-popping once I've heard her answer. If it is no it will be easy enough to convert it back into its original form (a parade against wearing fur, beloved but ineffective.)</p> <p>The things we are talking about are Important Things, things I had never considered particularly important before. Things like my bowed legs.</p> <p>A genetic deficit to our children, Carolina chides. (Theoretical children ... surely.)</p> <p>They've done me alright, I note.</p> <p>Carolina laughs and her legs alpine and smooth stir ever so slightly as she inhales.</p> <p>Besides, I note, cumulatively, our genetic account is in the black.</p> <p>There, another Important Thing: our joint bank account. (Not so much theoretical as&hellip; sleep (idea)http://www.everything2.com:80/user/lizardinlaw/writeups/sleeplizardinlawhttp://www.everything2.com:80/user/lizardinlaw2009-11-06T22:52:40Z2009-11-06T22:52:40Z <p>Our sleep <a href="/title/doctor">doctor</a>, a pulmonologist, gave us a wonderful update talk on <a href="/title/sleep">sleep</a> in early 2009.</p> <p>He said, "First of all, <a href="/title/advertisement">I hate that blue butterfly</a>." For those who do not watch tv or read magazines in the United States, the blue butterfly is in advertisements for a <a href="/title/drug">sleep medicine</a>.</p> <p>"The blue butterfly <a href="/title/liar">lies</a>," he said. "<a href="/title/Eight+hours+for+work%252C+eight+hours+for+sleep%252C+eight+hours+for+what+we+will">Eight hours sleep</a> is NOT normal and NOT average."</p> <p>The <a href="/title/average">average</a> amount of sleep for an adult is 7.5 hours. Some people need more, some people need less. I need 6 to 6.5 except on the first day of <a href="/title/menses">menses</a>, when my body prefers 10-11 hours. Too much information?</p> <p>"Catching up is a <a href="/title/myth">myth</a>." He said that we don't catch up on sleep after the first night. I get people all the time in <a href="/title/clinic">clinic</a> who say that they haven't slept for a month and "need to catch up." The first night with a sleep medicine, people catch up some but that is it. After that, their body returns&hellip; tasteful nudity (thing)http://www.everything2.com:80/user/Pandeism+Fish/writeups/tasteful+nudityPandeism Fishhttp://www.everything2.com:80/user/Pandeism Fish2009-11-03T23:19:48Z2009-11-03T23:19:48Z "<a href="/title/Tasteful">Tasteful</a> <a href="/title/nudity">nudity</a>" is the phrase used to <a href="/title/advertise">advertise</a> the fact that, yes, there will be naked <a href="/title/body+parts">body parts</a> shown on <a href="/title/film">film</a> of the type that the <a href="/title/law">law</a> prudishly requires people to keep to themselves, but that this <a href="/title/display">display</a> is necessary because, <a href="/title/goddammit">goddammit</a>, it's <a href="/title/art">art</a>!! Perhaps the best example of tasteful nudity in movie <a href="/title/history">history</a> is to be found in the culmination of the <a href="/title/1997">1997</a> version of <a href="/title/The+Wings+of+the+Dove">The Wings of the Dove</a>, which has <a href="/title/Helena+Bonham+Carter">Helena Bonham Carter</a> buck naked for what seems like <a href="/title/twenty+minutes">twenty minutes</a> while she engages in impassioned <a href="/title/dialogue">dialogue</a> with another character.<br><br> To be fair, nudity is not inherently <a href="/title/distasteful">distasteful</a>, and it is only our <a href="/title/suppressed">suppressed</a> <a href="/title/obsession">obsession</a> with <a href="/title/reproduction">reproduction</a> that makes some <a href="/title/feel">feel</a> <a href="/title/shameful">shameful</a> at the thought of the bodies into which we were born being viewed without covering the titillating bits. But, such is the <a href="/title/nature">nature</a> of our day that we still must pretend there's something unpleasant about nakedness unless it is wrapped in a tragic <a href="/title/morality+play">morality play</a> written a century or so ago.&hellip; December 2, 2009 (log)http://www.everything2.com:80/user/The+Custodian/writeups/December+2%252C+2009The Custodianhttp://www.everything2.com:80/user/The Custodian2009-12-02T18:14:48Z2009-12-02T18:14:48Z Be still my blood pressure. <p> I guess I should be flattered, but I'm *not*. <p> Apparently someone desperate to complete <a href="/title/NaNoWriMo">NaNoWriMo</a> has decided it will be simpler to just wholesale copy my story "The New York Magician" off Everything2.com and present the work as their own. <a href="http://a-small-star.livejournal.com/100741.html">Here's</a> my favorite post of theirs. <p> User "a-small-star" on LiveJournal.com, who is also user 'Starcastically' on both tumblr.com and NaNoWriMo, has posted 61,000+ words of my work and claimed that they are hers. <p> I'm pursuing DMCA takedowns but honestly? That isn't enough to lower my blood pressure. <p> I think I need to have a couple drinks to calm down. <p> Apparently, according to <a href="/title/Jet-Poop">Jet-Poop</a>, she's stolen other Everything2.com content from other users as well. :-( <p> <strong><em>Update:</em></strong> <p> Well, okay, I feel marginally better. <a href="/title/tumblr.com">tumblr.com</a> agreed with me that the content was mine, as did <a href="/title/NaNoWriMo">NaNoWriMo</a>. Both seem to have taken quick action.&hellip; Star Trek (review)http://www.everything2.com:80/user/artman2003/writeups/Star+Trekartman2003http://www.everything2.com:80/user/artman20032009-11-30T18:28:29Z2009-11-30T18:28:29Z <p>In a nutshell, the 2009 <b><i>Star Trek</i></b> film, directed by <i><a href="/title/Lost">Lost</a></i>'s <a href="/title/J.J.+Abrams">J.J. Abrams</a>, did about as good of a job it could do at the task handed to it. Ever since 1994's <i><a href="/title/Star+Trek%253A+Generations">Star Trek: Generations</a></i> which was the end of the movie series with the original cast, the entire franchise has <a href="/title/jumped+the+shark">jumped the shark</a>, it's been on a downward spiral. <i><a href="/title/Star+Trek%253A+Deep+Space+Nine">Star Trek: Deep Space Nine</a></i> (arguably one of the best written series as a whole) jumped ship in 1999. <i><a href="/title/Star+Trek%253A+Voyager">Star Trek: Voyager</a></i> took off in 1995 and finally came home in 2001, an ending barely noticed by anybody not a real hard core <a href="/title/Trekkie">Trekkie</a>. The "Next Generation" movies with <a href="/title/Jean-Luc">Jean-Luc</a> and the gang were pretty good, <i><a href="/title/Star+Trek%253A+First+Contact">First Contact</a></i> being the best of them, but they didn't generate any new Trek fans and annoyed most of the ones that already existed, especially <i><a href="/title/Star+Trek%253A+Insurrection">Insurrection</a></i>. Those ended in kind of a weird and unceremonious way in <a href="/title/Star+Trek%253A+Nemesis">the next film</a>, which pretty&hellip; Crystal (idea)http://www.everything2.com:80/user/OldMiner/writeups/CrystalOldMinerhttp://www.everything2.com:80/user/OldMiner2009-12-03T01:58:55Z2009-12-03T01:58:55Z <p> When you think about crystal, do you imagine a <a href="/title/geode">geode</a>, glistening at its opening or maybe imagine the the rough shafts of <a href="/title/plaster+of+Paris">gypsum</a> and <a href="/title/feldspar">feldspar</a> that stick out at every angle from cave walls? Maybe the geeky out there will remember <a href="/title/LCD">LCD</a> monitor is a liquid <strong>crystal</strong> display, so surely it <a href="/title/liquid+crystal+polymers">must have crystals in it</a>. Whatever the image, with their sparkling beauty and rarity, crystals have taken on a captivating aura. Some have even taken crystals <a href="/title/Why+I+Take+This+New+Age+Nonsense+Seriously">to hold healing powers</a>. </p> <p> But <a href="/title/metallurgy">nearly everything solid in the world</a> is made up of crystals! Not even rare, they're far cheaper than a mere dime a dozen. Even that dime is made of crystals! The <a href="/title/bedrock">dull granite that make up the ground</a>, the metals that make up a car, and <a href="/title/white+tea">the ceramic that makes up your coffee cup</a> all have a <a href="/title/Borg+cube">crystal structure</a>. This is because of the somewhat-surprising fact that atoms&hellip; Crystal (person)http://www.everything2.com:80/user/Incorrigibleness/writeups/CrystalIncorrigiblenesshttp://www.everything2.com:80/user/Incorrigibleness2005-03-09T03:10:41Z2005-03-09T03:10:41Z <p>When I met Crystal, she was 19 and I was 15. It was at practices for the <a href="/title/play">school play</a>, a noble but ultimately pathetic attempt by a young drama teacher to get <a href="/title/inner+city">inner city</a> kids to do <a href="/title/Anton+Chekhov">Chekhov</a>. I don't think even many of the students in the play understood what it was about, let alone the audience, and certainly not Crystal, who had been given a bit part out of <a href="/title/sympathy">sympathy</a>.</p> <p>Crystal was a <a href="/title/nice+girl">nice girl</a>. I can say that much for her. She was dumb, and nice. I wouldn't be surprised if she qualified as mentally <a href="/title/retarded">retarded</a>. She was fairly ugly&mdash; <a href="/title/pudgy">pudgy</a> and <a href="/title/pale">pale</a> and <a href="/title/droopy">droopy</a>-looking, her huge breasts hanging down like the saggy pendulums of a much older woman. She wore purple plastic glasses that looked like they belonged to a second-grader, and <a href="/title/awkward">awkward</a>, ill-fitting clothes. She had an <a href="/title/aura">aura</a> of trashiness about her&mdash;that particular brand of <a href="/title/twang">twang</a> that tells you so much about a person's background around here, that patched-together appearance that said quite simply, "I'm&hellip; Baader-Meinhof syndrome (idea)http://www.everything2.com:80/user/dee+lee/writeups/Baader-Meinhof+syndromedee leehttp://www.everything2.com:80/user/dee lee2009-11-30T18:12:51Z2009-11-30T18:12:51Z <p>Also known as 'the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon', 'Diegogarcity', or <a href="/title/plate+of+shrimp">'Plate o' Shrimp'</a>, it's one of the little weirdnesses of life and of cognitive function.</p> <p>You learn about or hear of something seemingly obscure for the first time, and you go, "Huh." </p> <p>Then, within the next few days, you encounter it again in another context, maybe even multiple times. This time, you go, "Huh. Weird." It's everywhere all of a sudden. What? What's going on here? </p> <p>The phenomenon is cited, along with <a href="/title/deja+vu">deja-vu</a> (and its brothers, <a href="/title/jamais+vu">jamais-</a> and <a href="/title/presque+vu">presque-</a>) and <a href="/title/synchronicity">synchronicity</a>, as an example of: <a href="/title/apophany">apophenia</a> and the <a href="/title/recency+effect">recency effect</a>, <a href="/title/memetic+evolution">memetics</a> and the Zeitgeist, or of <a href="/title/Jung%2527s+concept+of+the+self">Jung</a>'s <a href="/title/collective+unconscious">collective unconscious</a>, depending on who exactly it is you're asking. </p> <p>The <b>apophenia/recency</b> explanation is the most widely accepted and explains the perception like this: when you encountered the idea&hellip; Little Nemo in Slumberland (thing)http://www.everything2.com:80/user/schrodingers+rabbit/writeups/Little+Nemo+in+Slumberlandschrodingers rabbithttp://www.everything2.com:80/user/schrodingers rabbit2009-11-30T02:26:00Z2009-11-30T02:26:00Z <p>"Little Nemo In <a href="/title/Slumberland">Slumberland</a>" (later retitled "Little Nemo in the Land of Wonderful <a href="/title/Dreams">Dreams</a>")is the most enduring work of the prolific <a href="/title/cartoonist">cartoonist</a> <a href="/title/Winsor+McCay">Winsor McCay</a>. The first title ran from October 15, 1905 &ndash; April 23, 1911, and the second from April 30, 1911 &ndash; July 26, 1914 in the <a href="/title/Hearst">Hearst</a> newspaper syndicate. Both incarnations lacked <a href="/title/dailies">dailies</a>, spinning lengthy storylines through huge, detailed, full-colored sunday pages. The format of Little Nemo, a story contained within a dream, originated in McCay's earlier work, "<a href="/title/Dreams+of+the+Rarebit+Fiend">Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend</a>." It had no recurring characters, and instead chronicled the nightmares of assorted victims of the eponymous <a href="/title/cheese+sandwich">cheese sandwich</a>. It was usually black-and-white, and dream manner tended to be slightly darker than that of its succesor, prompting several modern critics to call it a more grown-up version of Little Nemo. <br> The protagonist was a boy called, unsurprisingly, Little <a href="/title/Nemo">Nemo</a>, who appeared to be about six years old. His name, which is the <a href="/title/latin">latin</a>&hellip; Installing LinuxPPC on a Powermac G4's second hard drive (idea)http://www.everything2.com:80/user/The+Custodian/writeups/Installing+LinuxPPC+on+a+Powermac+G4%2527s+second+hard+driveThe Custodianhttp://www.everything2.com:80/user/The Custodian2000-09-03T04:53:42Z2000-09-03T04:53:42Z I recently embarked on a quest to get <a href="/title/LinuxPPC">LinuxPPC</a> installed on my <a href="/title/Powermac+G4">Powermac G4</a>/500 at work. Below is a record of my travails, in the hope that others may avoid some of the same pitfalls I ran into. This is an alternative guide to those found on the LinuxPPC site at http://www.linuxppc.com in the support section. Note: The Powermac G4 is a '<a href="/title/New+World+ROM">New World ROM</a>' machine, so when looking for linuxppc info on it make sure to follow New World ROM directions. <p> <strong><a href="/title/Open+Firmware">Open Firmware</a></strong><p> Repeat after me: <a href="/title/Open+Firmware">Open Firmware</a> (OF hereafter) is a <em>gooood</em> thing. Open Firmware is essentially the hardware-based <a href="/title/bootstrap">bootstrap</a> shell that resides in all <a href="/title/CHRP">CHRP</a>/<a href="/title/PReP">PReP</a> machines' (remember them?) firmware. It is, for our purposes, also the best way to recover from a startup drive oops on a Powermac G4. Remember this now, so as not to panic later. If you reset a G4 using the front <a href="/title/NMI">NMI</a> button (the convex one), and <strong>as soon as you hear the <a href="/title/startup+chord">startup chord</a></strong> hold down the <a href="/title/programmer%2527s+switch">programmer's switch</a> (&hellip; December 2, 2009 (log)http://www.everything2.com:80/user/The+Custodian/writeups/December+2%252C+2009The Custodianhttp://www.everything2.com:80/user/The Custodian2009-12-02T18:14:48Z2009-12-02T18:14:48Z Be still my blood pressure. <p> I guess I should be flattered, but I'm *not*. <p> Apparently someone desperate to complete <a href="/title/NaNoWriMo">NaNoWriMo</a> has decided it will be simpler to just wholesale copy my story "The New York Magician" off Everything2.com and present the work as their own. <a href="http://a-small-star.livejournal.com/100741.html">Here's</a> my favorite post of theirs. <p> User "a-small-star" on LiveJournal.com, who is also user 'Starcastically' on both tumblr.com and NaNoWriMo, has posted 61,000+ words of my work and claimed that they are hers. <p> I'm pursuing DMCA takedowns but honestly? That isn't enough to lower my blood pressure. <p> I think I need to have a couple drinks to calm down. <p> Apparently, according to <a href="/title/Jet-Poop">Jet-Poop</a>, she's stolen other Everything2.com content from other users as well. :-( <p> <strong><em>Update:</em></strong> <p> Well, okay, I feel marginally better. <a href="/title/tumblr.com">tumblr.com</a> agreed with me that the content was mine, as did <a href="/title/NaNoWriMo">NaNoWriMo</a>. Both seem to have taken quick action.&hellip; I can think of worse things than to die like a dog (person)http://www.everything2.com:80/user/junkpile/writeups/I+can+think+of+worse+things+than+to+die+like+a+dogjunkpilehttp://www.everything2.com:80/user/junkpile2000-12-10T22:33:58Z2000-12-10T22:33:58Z <br><dd>I didn't know her very well, but <a href="/title/I+was+the+one">I was the one</a> who was home when it started to happen, and I sat with her <a href="/title/under+the+camellia+bush+in+the+front+yard">under the camellia bush in the front yard</a>. When my father got home I was brushing her; I couldn't tell if she could feel it, until she gave me one tail thump. <a href="/title/My+father+in+his+suit">My father in his suit</a> sat down in the dirt and started taking the little pink fallen petals out of her fur, then changed his mind, left them there.<p><dd> She licked his hand once; I think no <a href="/title/old+dog">old dog</a> has ever passed up that final heartstring. We said, Miss Lady, you can go now. It's ok to go to sleep. <a href="/title/You+need+to+rest.">You need to rest.</a> &nbsp; And she did. &nbsp; <a href="/title/My+stoic+father">My stoic father</a> buried his face in her shaggy coat and said, I was her papa. &nbsp; It was the first warm day of the year, as if someone kind had planned it. <br><br></dd></dd> Dear whoever (poetry)http://www.everything2.com:80/user/Demeter/writeups/Dear+whoeverDemeterhttp://www.everything2.com:80/user/Demeter2009-11-28T05:10:32Z2009-11-28T05:10:32Z <p>This winter's afternoon, I sit <br>here in my third-floor, <a href="/title/lacquer">lacquer</a>-washed <br>little <a href="/title/glass">glass</a> box.</p> <p>The <a href="/title/boss">boss</a> is away, and there is <br><a href="/title/boyle%2527s+law">just enough work</a>, if I forget <br>the filing, to fill <br>half <br>the time until five.</p> <p>(I find, somehow, that I can <br>always <a href="/title/boring">forget the filing</a>.)</p> <p>And so, I <a href="/title/scribble">write</a>.</p> <p>When I'm done, I will take <br>these <a href="/title/pretentious">shaped-and-crafted</a>, <br><a href="/title/opinionated">thoughtful</a> words, <br>and print them <a href="/title/emphatic">blackly</a> <br>on white <a href="/title/A4">A4</a>. I'll fold the page - <br><a href="/title/origami">five simple folds to form</a> <br>a paper <a href="/title/concorde">plane</a>, and send it <br>spinning from the window <br>to <a href="/title/soar">soar</a> or <a href="/title/plummet">plummet</a>.</p> <p>I hope when you find this, <a href="/title/stranger">stranger</a>, <br><a href="/title/smooth">smoothing</a> it out to read <br>my <a href="/title/message">message</a>, that it will make you <a href="/title/amuse">smile</a>.</p> <p>Perhaps you'll look up <br>into the <a href="/title/inscrutable">inscrutable</a> eyes of the <br><a href="/title/blind">blind</a> office buildings, seeking <br>a flash of sight <br>and <a href="/title/empathy">understanding</a>.</p> <p>But even if you&hellip; An easy way to make not-so-good food much better (thing)http://www.everything2.com:80/user/sensei/writeups/An+easy+way+to+make+not-so-good+food+much+bettersenseihttp://www.everything2.com:80/user/sensei2000-04-24T15:42:43Z2000-04-24T15:42:43Z Does your <a href="/title/ramen">ramen</a> suck? Eggs <i>again</i> (sigh)? Is your <a href="/title/soup">soup</a> <a href="/title/insipid">insipid</a>? Are your vegetables <a href="/title/dull+and+lifeless">dull and lifeless</a>? Is your <a href="/title/seafood">seafood</a> all kind of white and <a href="/title/meaningless">meaningless</a>? Are you a cook? No. Are you lazy? Yes. Or maybe. Or just tired.<p> Well, <a href="/title/friends">friends</a>, <a href="/title/step+up%252C+step+up">step up, step up</a>. No, it's not <a href="/title/snakeoil">snakeoil</a>. It's <a href="/title/shoyu">shoyu</a> (<a href="/title/soy+sauce">soy sauce</a>) with a bit of powdered <a href="/title/wasabi">wasabi</a>, powdered <a href="/title/ginger">ginger</a>, and a bit of <a href="/title/mirin">mirin</a> (<a href="/title/Japanese">Japanese</a> cooking <a href="/title/wine">wine</a>) mixed in.<p> Put it in a jar, <a href="/title/shake+it+up">shake it up</a>. That's it. Keep a jar at your <a href="/title/place+of+business">place of business</a>, another in your <a href="/title/cupboard">cupboard</a>. It doesn't need refrigeration. But <a href="/title/you+need+it"><i>you</i> need <i>it</i></a>.<p> <b><big><big><big>Yay!</big></big></big></b> December 2, 2009 (log)http://www.everything2.com:80/user/The+Custodian/writeups/December+2%252C+2009The Custodianhttp://www.everything2.com:80/user/The Custodian2009-12-02T18:14:48Z2009-12-02T18:14:48Z Be still my blood pressure. <p> I guess I should be flattered, but I'm *not*. <p> Apparently someone desperate to complete <a href="/title/NaNoWriMo">NaNoWriMo</a> has decided it will be simpler to just wholesale copy my story "The New York Magician" off Everything2.com and present the work as their own. <a href="http://a-small-star.livejournal.com/100741.html">Here's</a> my favorite post of theirs. <p> User "a-small-star" on LiveJournal.com, who is also user 'Starcastically' on both tumblr.com and NaNoWriMo, has posted 61,000+ words of my work and claimed that they are hers. <p> I'm pursuing DMCA takedowns but honestly? That isn't enough to lower my blood pressure. <p> I think I need to have a couple drinks to calm down. <p> Apparently, according to <a href="/title/Jet-Poop">Jet-Poop</a>, she's stolen other Everything2.com content from other users as well. :-( <p> <strong><em>Update:</em></strong> <p> Well, okay, I feel marginally better. <a href="/title/tumblr.com">tumblr.com</a> agreed with me that the content was mine, as did <a href="/title/NaNoWriMo">NaNoWriMo</a>. Both seem to have taken quick action.&hellip; National Radio Company (thing)http://www.everything2.com:80/user/Wiccanpiper/writeups/National+Radio+CompanyWiccanpiperhttp://www.everything2.com:80/user/Wiccanpiper2002-12-25T06:55:02Z2002-12-25T06:55:02Z <p>The National Radio Company, along with <a href="/title/Hallicrafters">Hallicrafters</a>, and <a href="/title/Hammarlund">Hammarlund</a>, was once one of the "big three" American <a href="/title/manufacturer">manufacturer</a>s of <a href="/title/shortwave+radio">shortwave</a> <a href="/title/receiver">receiver</a>s and communications equipment.</p> <p>The company began in 1914 as the National <a href="/title/Toy">Toy</a> Company, in <a href="/title/Cambridge%252C+Massachusetts">Cambridge, Massachusetts</a>. By 1916, it branched out into <a href="/title/household">household</a> and mechanical goods, and shortened its name to the National Company. In the early 1920s the company was approached by the <a href="/title/Boston%252C+Massachusetts">Boston</a> representative of Cardwell Capacitors, who was having trouble fulfilling <a href="/title/capacitor">capacitor</a> orders. National agreed to supply him with capacitors and thus entered the <a href="/title/radio">radio</a> business.</p> <p>National broadened its involvement in radio when it agreed, in 1924, to manufacture <a href="/title/component">component</a>s for the Browning-Drake kit <a href="/title/receiver">receiver</a>. National supplied the <a href="/title/coil">coils</a>, marketed as the "National Regenaformers", and also the capacitors and knobs. One component, the tuning <a href="/title/dial">dial</a>,&hellip; Wrong Team (idea)http://www.everything2.com:80/user/aneurin/writeups/Wrong+Teamaneurinhttp://www.everything2.com:80/user/aneurin2009-12-01T20:34:05Z2009-12-01T20:34:05Z <p>The <em>Wrong Team</em> was the name of a song performed by <a href="/title/Ishmael+McLean">Ishmael McLean</a> and <a href="/title/Rowan+Simon">Rowan Simon</a> which resulted in the former being sentenced to a term of four years imprisonment with the latter receiving thirty months. Which in itself would be something of a curiosity, since it is not often that the British legal system takes offence at the mere exercise of what might be regarded as <a href="/title/freedom+of+speech">freedom of speech</a>.</p> <p>It all revolved around the case of one <a href="/title/Jason+Johnson">Jason Johnson</a> who was shot in an alleyway behind Cavendish Avenue at <a href="/title/Ealing">Ealing</a> in <a href="/title/West+London">West London</a> at around 8.50 pm on the 21st November 2008. He was found dead at the scene, and a post mortem examination confirmed the cause of death as a single gunshot to the chest. He was twenty-four years old. It appeared there had been an 'incident' earlier that day after which Johnson, together with a group of his friends, had gone to the alleyway known locally as 'dead man's alley' to resolve the dispute. </p> <p>The <a href="/title/Metropolitan+Police">Metropolitan Police</a> succeeded in identifying an&hellip; December 2, 2009 (log)http://www.everything2.com:80/user/The+Custodian/writeups/December+2%252C+2009The Custodianhttp://www.everything2.com:80/user/The Custodian2009-12-02T18:14:48Z2009-12-02T18:14:48Z Be still my blood pressure. <p> I guess I should be flattered, but I'm *not*. <p> Apparently someone desperate to complete <a href="/title/NaNoWriMo">NaNoWriMo</a> has decided it will be simpler to just wholesale copy my story "The New York Magician" off Everything2.com and present the work as their own. <a href="http://a-small-star.livejournal.com/100741.html">Here's</a> my favorite post of theirs. <p> User "a-small-star" on LiveJournal.com, who is also user 'Starcastically' on both tumblr.com and NaNoWriMo, has posted 61,000+ words of my work and claimed that they are hers. <p> I'm pursuing DMCA takedowns but honestly? That isn't enough to lower my blood pressure. <p> I think I need to have a couple drinks to calm down. <p> Apparently, according to <a href="/title/Jet-Poop">Jet-Poop</a>, she's stolen other Everything2.com content from other users as well. :-( <p> <strong><em>Update:</em></strong> <p> Well, okay, I feel marginally better. <a href="/title/tumblr.com">tumblr.com</a> agreed with me that the content was mine, as did <a href="/title/NaNoWriMo">NaNoWriMo</a>. Both seem to have taken quick action.&hellip; Google Wave (thing)http://www.everything2.com:80/user/webmaren/writeups/Google+Wavewebmarenhttp://www.everything2.com:80/user/webmaren2009-11-29T21:05:24Z2009-11-29T21:05:24Z <p>Google Wave is <a href="/title/Google">Google</a>'s attempt to blast every other communication framework out there into the dust. Will it be that successful? I doubt it, but it's still gonna be making waves (ha ha <a href="/title/pun">pun</a>) for several years.</p> <p>If you don't feel like watching the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_UyVmITiYQ">intensely long video</a> that Google recorded when it debuted the software at its <a href="/title/Google+I%252FO">I/O</a> conference back in May of 2009, you're in luck. I'm gonna describe Wave to you, though it will probably be a little strange.</p> <p>Google Wave is the crossbreed of <a href="/title/email">email</a>, <a href="/title/instant+messaging">instant messaging</a>, <a href="/title/wiki">wiki</a>, and <a href="/title/forum">forums</a>. And that definition itself is probably glossing over half a dozen features that don't come from any of those four technologies. It aimed to combine the best elements of each, and in my opinion, it has. As it is (I'm looking just at the invite-only preview now), there are a lot of rough patches on the software, but it has delivered admirably on it core functionality.</p> <p>Google Wave is,&hellip;

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