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X Marks the Spot
One of my favorite web comics, XKCD, has a really incredibly cool comic/map up today. I’m trying to decide where cavort.org lies in The Blogipegilo.
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How to properly finance a big building project for a venue
Not that I have any hope of any of the assholes at any of the local major sports organizations to pay any attention to this, but you would think that it would be possible to use tidbits like the Minnesota Orchestra privately financing a $90 million renovation for Orchestra Hall and Peavey Plaza in downtown Minneapolis to refute their continually idiotic requests for more public money for their monopolies. I personally get a whole lot more use out of that structure than I do out of any damned sports arena those fucking millionaires want me to help pay for, which is why I will probably be making a voluntary donation to this project at some point.
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Shared Viewing
There isn’t any word on when/if it will be deployed but there is some very interesting information about the direction that Netflix is heading with their Watch Now feature. Of particular interest to several people I know at about 7min into the presentation they show a shared movie viewing interface that allows you to sync up movie viewing with people that are, presumably, on your Netflix Friends list. There is also a built in IM client for chat.
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Onward into Middle Earth!
I picked up my copy of The Lord of the Rings Online today and I am just getting everything updated so I can pick up where I left off with the beta for the past couple of weeks. If you end up taking a look, look up Blairn on Vilya and say hello.
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Fuel for thought
I’m playing around with the publishing features on Google Spreadsheets and thought it would be fun to embed a couple of items from my mileage tracking spreadsheet. Here’s the averages bar, which I use as a kind of dashboard for overall historical information: I tried to get some of the new charts to publish, but it wasn’t working. Then I tried to get a link to a sheet that I made a couple of charts on, and that wasn’t quite working either.
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Yet another social book site
Not that the books themselves are social, though I can think of a few fictional libraries where that might be true, but Revish is yet another social website with a focus on books. In some ways it’s closer to what I’ve been looking for than the other ones I’ve seen http://www.cavort.org/2007/02/21/while-im-thinking-about-books/. In any case, I have a profile there too now.
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Recent Reading: Spindrift by Allen Steele
Just finished reading Allen Steele’s new novel “Spindrift”. It was really quite a good read but I could not shake the feeling that it was a book that I had read before. There just didn’t seem to be much that was new or challenging in it, which in some ways I suppose can be a good thing but possibly just wasn’t what I am looking for in a novel these days.
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So much for that brilliant idea…
Normally I don’t post about things like this, but it’s pretty irritating and I think some people might care. Fair warning: discussion about my body and it’s reactions to medications follows. So today I have determined that not only can I not take anything from the Aspirin family for muscle pain but I can also not take naproxen sodium either. In the last two years I finally linked the incidence of a particularly troublesome type of stomach spasm to taking ketoprofen (Orudis KT) for some occasional back muscle pain.
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Sour cows
In the category of things that would be a lot of fun to do, but I probably will never get around to actually doing anything about participating in: I’ve recently found two different races that I’ve thought it would be fairly entertaining to take part in. Yes, actual car racing, of sorts. The first one is actually a reality show on Spike TV called BullRun. I ran across it the first time when they posted the series premiere to the Xbox Live Marketplace for free.
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Comic Thoughts: Iron Man Disassembled
A friend recently bought the Iron Man Disassembled tpb and I mentioned how I had thought it was one of the worst Iron Man stories in quite awhile. Unfortunately when challenged for specifics I actually couldn’t quite remember why, but I did remember the story leaving a bad taste in my mouth that was only fixed four issues into Warren Ellis rebooting the series not too long afterwards. So I borrowed her copy and figured out what I thought the problems were.
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