Activity from doctornemo

From the Journal of Modern Illogical Studies
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MeFi post - Over five years ago

Seeing use of the Ordnance Survey always reminds me of this offhand comment in Dracula: I was not able to light on any map or work giving the exact locality of the Castle Dracula, as there are no maps of this country as yet to compare with… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

What the hell is quinoa, they asked.
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Our elementary school screened this several times, and the film always made me sad. The boy's sadness was infectious, and the finale never quite lifted my melancholy. [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

It's like the description of a one-act play or short story: "the dentist, with his wife's encouragement, fired his assistant so he wouldn't be tempted to pursue a woman who'd expressed no romantic interest in him" [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Doodle the alien home
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MeFi post - Over five years ago

That was awful, jbickers. I'm glad you posted it. [more]
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Reminds me of the final scene in The Quiet Earth. [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

I loved UFO when I was a boy. I had toys, built versions of scenes out of Legos and Tinkertoys, even wrote fanfic in 3rd grade. Thanks for the memory-rush post. [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

37 years of Breakout
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MeFi post - Over five years ago

"The cryptanalyst has two cards in her hand, so there's nothing to do"
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MeFi post - Over five years ago

"a drug-addled turkey-headed monster who can only get high by killing other junkies and drinking their blood" I've been telling people about this for years. Oh yes. One favorite scene: the narrator telling us not to put stuff in our… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

The untouchables
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MeFi post - Over five years ago

swift, for more on that check out the Greenwald "via" link I posted. vuron, phaedon, I agree. That's why I feel politically stymied, here in the US. [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

There's a cut bit in _Inside Job_ where Spitzer's fall is mentioned. So the film checks with NYC madams to see how easy it would be to find client lists for Wall Street bankers. How easy? Pretty easy... if you want to get the info. [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Watching this remix early in the morning, before dawn, it seemed immensely bleak and sad. [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

There is no higher education bubble
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MeFi post - Over five years ago

First time I read GR I got in an accident, injured my head, and lost memory. So I picked up my battered paperback and found marginal notes throughout, which I could barely make out and scarcely understand. They were mine, but I couldn't remember… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Another Ligotti fan here. I started with Songs of a Dead Dreamer, like misteraitch . The Poe->Lovecraft->onwards vibe attracted me, and still does. There was also the weird emotional heft of some stories, a potent effect of… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

This image charms me somehow: "when a clumsy recruit dropped his rifle, the sergeant walked up to him and simply held out his fist, against which the recruit proceeded to bang his head." [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Google doodles Halloween
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MeFi post - Over five years ago

(Wife and I took turns reading O'Connor stories out loud to each other, when we moved from Yankeeland to Louisiana. Was fine preparation.) [more]
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We found a 50 Shades of Gray magazine at the grocery store last night. Right between Men's Health and Cosmo. [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Critic and multitasker. Recovering book owner - well, down to 3k books in print. Feels like nothing. [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Overshooting faster
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MeFi post - Over five years ago

Nice sting at the tail: "Napolitano then urged the visibly saddened Americans to be careful, get back home as soon as possible, lock all their doors, and never leave their homes unless it is absolutely essential." [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

I certainly wouldn't want doctornemo to do anything drastic! Im playing my cards close to my best, KokuRyu. For now. [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

This article reminded me of an Orlando conference experience a few years back. I picked a hotel about 3/4ths of a mile from the conference center. When I asked the front desk staff for walking directions they reacted with surprise and horror. The… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

How is it that there aren't many many more incidents of people going postal? I've been wondering about that for the past five years. Americans, at least, have been remarkably nonviolent during the Great Recession. [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Aura was the first Fuentes I really got into. Fell in love with it, taught it many times. He'll be missed. [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

"We have no idea what to do next."
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MeFi post - Over five years ago

Agreeing with treepour. Is this type of story closely bound to a couple of generations? TV after the cable revolution isn't going to create the same expectations for children , and especially after VCRs and Netflix and Youtube. [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

One GPS unit's voice talked me across upstate New York during a blizzard. I drove for hours in the dark, and feel a bit in love with her. [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Not so smart as everyone and their cat?
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MeFi post - Over five years ago

Another Radiolab fan here. I also love the enthusiasm and banter. Also: I usually listen to the podcasts in very quiet places (the woods around our homestead, highways at night), so the sound effects help create a soundscape which opens out… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

I agree about the huge power of peak oil, ninjew. That's one piece missing from Lanchester's analysis. What a trio of deep problems: financial woe, climate change, peak resources! [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

I remember hearing about Islandia in the Society for Utopian Studies, but still haven't read the thing. Thanks for the pointer. Interesting background from the bio link: After his death, Wright's widow taught herself to type and organized a… [more]
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Bill Gates on the future of energy
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MeFi post - Over five years ago

Goldman Sachs: Suppose you had eight identical balls. One of them is slightly heavier and you are given a balance scale. What’s the fewest number of times you have to use the scale to find the heavier ball? First, create a bet that you… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Blackboard being bought
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MeFi post - Over five years ago

I've only read Daughter of Time, and love it. Time to read the rest. (Find myself muttering "Tonypandy!" sometimes, to my surprise) [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

GeorgeBickham: "Sakai is the leading open-source alternative to Blackboard." Don't forget Moodle. [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

I agree w/Vidur and Ironmouth about Zakaria as a writer . Very light, rapid, interminable stuff. (Heh - Zakaria on Middle East protesters, and himself, and NPR: I think what one would call them, honestly, is yuppies. They're all sort of… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Is Apple bypassing the Web?
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MeFi post - Over five years ago

Ah, thanks, East Manitoba... I hadn't thought of adding that content to a reply. Works for me. [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Heh: "Output was how many books we'd stamped out, and outcome was something that had actually resulted from someone borrowing a book. So say someone took out a book on mending cars and then drove the car back, that's an outcome; or made a batch… [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Lessig's appeal to older faculty and senior administrators is significant. That cadre can tip the system over towards open access, almost by themselves. [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Lovely. It's nice to compare the flickering human activity on the bottom of the screen with the stately, vast migration above. [more]
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MeFi comment - Over five years ago

Not a typical 70s revival
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MeFi post - Over five years ago

Great project. Thanks for the pointer. Me too, wandering steve. Just experienced some book horror when playing a Call of Duty game with my son, where our unit fought through a library. (shudder) [more]
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