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August Berkshire, President Minnesota Atheists, Minneapolis
Scarbro claims "One of the tenets of Christianity, thankfully, is
tolerance." He then spends the rest of his column berating atheists and
pagans. (Newsleaders, Sartell, Opinions, "So this is Christmas - peace
and goodwill to all!" Dec. 12).
Christmas is not to be found in
the Bible. Judging from the nativity story, the birth of Jesus would
have occurred in the spring. (Jehovah's Witnesses don't celebrate
Christmas.) The earliest reference to Christmas being celebrated on
Dec. 25 - the winter solstice in the old Julian calendar - was in Rome
in 354. In 380, the Roman emperor Theodosius ordered all pagan temples
to be destroyed and forced pagans to accept Christianity.
had celebrated the winter solstice as the birth/rebirth of their
sun/savior gods. It was so popular the early Christians could not stamp
it out, so they co-opted it for the birth of their god. However, all
the fun parts of the celebration are pagan in origin: gatherings of
families and friends, feasts, gift-giving, lights, music, decorated
trees and more.
In fact, the Bible states, "Learn not the way of
the heathen... For the customs of the people are in vain: for one
cutteth a tree out of the forest... They deck it with silver and with
gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not."
(Jeremiah 10.2-4)
1659 to 1680 the Puritans in the Massachusetts Bay Colony prohibited
the observance of Christmas: "Whoever shall be found observing any such
day as Christmas and the like, either by forbearing labor, feasting or
any other way upon such account as aforesaid, every such person so
offending shall pay for each offense five shillings as a fine to the
The U.S. Congress was in session on Dec. 25, 1789, and
also for 64 of the next 67 years. It wasn't until 1836 that Alabama
became the first state to make Christmas a legal holiday. In 1894,
Christmas was included in the first group of federal holidays.
Previously, Congress often met, and mail was delivered, on Christmas
Scarbro wonders if atheists and pagans can be "at least as
tolerant as Christians?" We'll do better than that. We'll allow
Christians to continue to imagine their god was born on Dec. 25, so
long as they don't try to force their religion on the rest of us.
Reprinted with permission from the Star Tribune.
Motivations may vary, but we all can spread joy and goodwill at this time of year.
'Tis the season. With winter coming, some members of the religious right have begun bracing themselves for the so-called annual atheists' "war on Christmas." While we think that the government and public schools should remain neutral when it comes to religious celebrations, we have no interest in depriving anyone of whatever private celebrations they wish to conduct.
Nevertheless, in case you were wondering, here are the plans some of us have for December.
The cards we will be purchasing will not say "Merry Christmas" (or "Happy Hanukah" or "Happy Eid") but rather "Season's Greetings."
After all, the original "reason for the season" is the winter solstice, which has long been appropriated by religious people to celebrate the birth or rebirth of their sun/savior gods. Nowadays, with religion in decline, the reason for the season is becoming merely a time for festivities. What's wrong with that?
The trees that many of us will have in our homes will have colorful lights, originally symbolic of the postsolstice lengthening of days, but now just a pretty sight.
Of course, we will not have angels on top of our trees. We know this will make us unpatriotic as, in this economy, it is likely to lead the treetop-angel-making industry to seek a federal bailout.
The meals we will share will not have prayers said over them, but we will give thanks to those who provided them and to our families and friends.
The songs we sing will be secular -- "Jingle Bells," etc. But, fear not: Atheists are just as likely to sing them out of tune as religious people, though we will derive no less joy.
And jolly old Santa Claus? Well, the disappearance of milk and cookies left out for him and the appearance of wrapped presents are evidence in the minds of many that he exists. We'll relax our skeptical standards for a day and leave Santa's existence up to each person's imagination.
We wish everyone well in celebrating the season as they see fit. Let us set aside our differences and come together in the goodwill of our shared humanity. It is the Jewish-Christian-Muslim-Buddhist-Hindu-pagan-humanist-atheist thing to do.
August Berkshire is president of Minnesota Atheists.
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Like many of you reading this, I describe myself as a flaming liberal. Yet in one area I am a conservative. I am an atheist.
Yes, atheism is a conservative position. We accept statements only so far as there is reason and/or evidence to back them up. Anything else is speculation. We make no leaps of faith. If there should some day be a compelling reason or piece of evidence for a god, then we would acknowledge it and change our views. This is also known as intellectual honesty.
An atheist possesses clarity in his or her thinking processes. We are able to identify those things for which we have evidence and separate them from other things that are merely wishful thinking.
An atheist is also consistent. We apply our skepticism equally to all supernatural claims. We do not say, "All prophets, saviors, or gods are false - except ours." We make no exceptions or special pleadings.
Another benefit of atheism is that it is contradiction-free. We don't have to try to reconcile an all-loving, all-seeing, all-powerful god with the existence of evil. We don't have to define love exactly the opposite of how we normally define it in order to make it applicable to a god. We don't have to claim a poor supernatural designer is intelligent.
Finally, an atheist possesses courage. It is natural for people to have a healthy survival instinct. However, some people have such a fear of death that they feel compelled to believe in an afterlife to alleviate those fears. It takes intellectual and emotional courage to abandon belief in an afterlife because there is no evidence for it (and compelling evidence against it). It also takes intellectual and emotional courage to abandon one's belief in a cosmic, supernatural "protector" and realize that we are alone in our solar system and must therefore help each other as best we can.
One of the arguments of Pascal's Wager is that a person loses nothing by believing in a god. I beg to differ. Accepting Pascal's Wager means saying that we are willing to abandon reason and evidence as our standards of living, and instead make a leap of faith to... where?
It's true that by converting (or deconverting) from theism to atheism a person can lose his or her divine specialness, cosmic meaning in life, and any hope of an afterlife. But you can't lose what you never really had.
The reality of atheism far outweighs the dream of religion. There is an excitement and beauty to perceiving the world as it really is, and not as a wishful thought.
© 2008 August Berkshire


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a person who is hopelessly addicted to heroin and then the junky replied:"I eat the talking bees because I am George Wahington Christ."
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A person hopelessly addicted to a controlled substance. Rush Limbaugh
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A term referring to someone addicted to psychoactive drugs, opiates in particular, and especially those using heroin (an opiate). The term was coined during WW1 when heroin or morphine addicts collected and sold scrap metal (junk) for a higher price to buy their drugs. After this, heroin and morphine themselves began to be known as "junk" and the users of said drugs became known as "junkies". He's been slamming M for 2 months now...He's starting to seriously become a junky.
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A William S. Burroughs novel detailing a story of opiates and users, published as a nearly "pulp" novel by Ace Books. "I read this good book about heroin. It was called 'Junky'."
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A heroin addict, one that is was and will always be. Before the crackheads and the crackwhores, Way before the dexheads and the E-tards wasting his life away, for pure bliss and contentment. Jon: why is he such a junky?
James: hes traded his life for happyness Jon: what a loser James: NO, nobody is a loser.... |
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A term used for someone ecspecially a girl who is shady, a back stabber, alchoholic, drug user, loose morals, glamourises themselves, sleeps around, and also makes everything about them. Jennie "Oh my gosh, I cant believe she is acting like this, She has slept with every nasty person in town not to mention she drinks and does drugs too, but then she talks about everyone decent in town!"
Erica "I know she is so junky!" |
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One who dabbles with illicit drugs. A junky could be thought of as a drug-user who goes on continuous benders.

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I am excited to announce that I'll be leading another Spacebrew workshop at the Museum of Art and Design (MAD) on May 11th. This is the second installment of a workshop series that is part of the After the Museum exhibit.
Join me if you are interested in learning how to use Spacebrew to connect interactive stuff. Space is limited so make sure to sign-up for the event on meet-up as soon as possible. The workshop will take place on the 6th floor, in a room with beautiful views of central park. You will also get free access to the entire museum.
Here is a quick overview of the day's activities:
- We will begin with a 30-minute overview of Spacebrew, which will cover why it was created and how it works, followed by a few live demos.
- Then we'll dive into an hour long hands-on workshop where we will take participants through our a tutorial for connecting an LED strip to Spacebrew using Arduino and Processing.
- After the workshop we will hang out for a few hours to help people who are interested in learning about more advanced uses of Spacebrew, and who want to integrate Spacebrew into their personal projects.
You don't need to have any previous experience with Processing or Arduino to take part in the workshop. The workshop will be a little challenging for you, if you've never written any code before. However, if you are up for the challenge we'll help you through it.
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We would like to extend our sincere thanks to Dean Whalen and all members of the Altamont Community Tradition Holiday Decorating Committee for awarding our home first prize in the 2012 Holiday Decorating challenge.
Every year, we look forward to seeing the beautiful decorations throughout the village, and enjoy taking tours of the holiday homes. We are always impressed with the wonderful ways that residents find to brighten our streets and infuse a warm and welcoming holiday spirit to our village.
It's part of what makes living in Altamont so special, and we feel very gratified to be recognized as a part of that effort.
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Here's a little background about me. I spent the 2010-2011 school year teaching English in Grenoble, France. Before that, I spent a year working in the heart of Chicago in the Jewish non-profit community. When I was abroad, my eyes were opened to the everyday experience of the Jewish community in my town and in the country at large. I experienced what it meant to me to be not only Jewish in France, but a Jewish, young, female, American in France. It was a ridiculously fun, thought-provoking and thrilling seven months and I'm excited to share these stories. By the way, all thoughts and opinions are purely my own…I take full responsibility for any sweeping generalizations.
Picking up where I left off, I was last in contact with the local in Chabad in Grenoble, looking for a place to stay prior to the start of a seven-month teaching contract. I'd heard back from a representative, Arie R. and he let me know he would put the word out.
Just a few short days later, I heard from Arie that a family expressed interest. They were a pair of business owners with two teenage boys, one of them leaving the nest to study at Oxford during the upcoming school year. I feverishly read the email. I shot a quick response back and within a few days, plans were firmed up to stay with the B. family in a house on Rue Raspail. I couldn't believe it. What was merely a suggestion from my boss slowly evolved into a concrete reality. Moving to France was becoming more and more "real" by the day. As I came to know my host father by correspondence, I felt welcomed and grateful.
As the date of my flight got closer, my investigation of my new hometown grew intense. Now that I had a jumping off point, suddenly my days were spent mapping how to get from Rue Raspail to every possible destination. To my school, where I'd made contact with the principal, to the bars in town, to any potential creperies (my absolute favorite French food), to the mountains that outline the northern curve of the city, anywhere. My new world, with the exchange of a few emails, quickly took shape. Before I knew it, my mother and father drove me to the airport on a crisp September day. Armed with two suitcases, some phone numbers and an iron will to make this all work out, I left my parents at the airport food court and tepidly headed toward la vie Francaise.
There's something a bit heartbreaking about airports. In my younger days, I went to overnight camp. The final day always closed with the whole camp singing "Leaving on a Jet Plane" and it always struck me as a little wrenching. To be fair, I'm pretty sentimental. I'd "left on a jetplane" many times before, but never for this long. And looking at my parent's faces, it finally hit me that I was leaving behind my whole "Chicago" life for quite some time. It would resume, of course. But at that point, I didn't know when I would be back again. A one-way ticket to a place I'd never been. It was exciting, more than a little gut wrenching, but hopefully worth it.
My flying motto is have Dramamine. The flight rushed by. After a lengthy layover at Heathrow, my stomach leaped into my throat as the plane hurtled toward my final destination, Lyon, France. From Lyon, I took the one-hour bus to Grenoble, where the B. family awaited me. The fatigue of traveling untangled my nerves. At that point, I didn't possess the energy for nervousness.
As the night grew darker and the coach bus whisked down the AutoRoute, I caught my first glimpses of Grenoble. What struck me first were the mountains…everywhere. As the bus sped down the main thoroughfare with lights flashing, signs glaring and French people strolling, my eyes lit up. I rolled up to Rue Raspail feeling content, exhausted and overwhelmed. Mrs. B. met me at the gate, and my first night in France unfolded.
It wasn't just any night, it was Erev Sukkot. After plopping down my suitcases, I was shepherded outside to the beautiful sukkah in their backyard. I sat down and saw the smiling faces of Mr. and Mrs. B., their two children, Joachim and David. I knew I was going to be just fine. After we collectively said our prayers over the bread and wine, I breathed a sigh of relief.
We washed our hands and began our meal. I, being the American, was offered a can of Coke; it's our favorite, right? I was asked a peculiar question. In rapid fire French that I was not quite ready for, Mr. B. asked me right out, "So, what think about American Judaism? What do you have to say about it?" Maybe it was the desperate need for sleep, maybe I was taken off guard, but the question gave me pause. I'd been on birthright and I'd been asked similar questions about Jewish life in America, albeit by peers. To Mr. B., I'm sure I rattled off something about how it's a complicated issue, there are shades of gray, to each their own; all of those fair and good diplomatic phrases. In the coming weeks I got to know and develop relationships with this family and learn about their modern Orthodox life in France as well as in Tunisia (where Mr. B. immigrated from). His question was a thought I often came back to. As a very reform Jewish gal, I could only speak from that experience. It was interesting to ponder and discover how French Jewish culture differs from American Jewish culture.
To come…learning how to shop for kosher groceries, going to services in France and more! Stay tuned and thank you very much for reading.
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Which is why, this morning, I am posting here a "letter" I sent to Time magazine a couple of days back:
"On defense and politics, I am a middlin' conservative, on social issues I am a bit of a liberal. I am no prude, have been a subscriber of yours for years, but your cover on the woman nursing a small boy (he's no baby) bothered the hell out of me.
"How many child molesters you think will put your cover under his/her mattress, huh? My guess is you offended half the country and for what reason? It added nothing to your discourse on the subject, but Larry Flynt is probably upset he never thought of that cover.
" George Smith
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If you subscribe to Time, you know where I'm coming from. If you are not a subscriber, let me enlighten you about the May 23 cover.
The headline poses the question: "Are You Mom Enough?"
The cover displays a slender (good looking) blonde in black with the straps of her top pulled aside for the nursing of a young boy – NOT a baby.
The boy appears to be 4-6 years old and is standing on a small chair in order to reach his mother's breast (I sure hope it's his mother).
To say I was bothered is an understatement. Without being preachy, there is absolutely no justification for the cover. I am no prude by any stretch of facts, but this one was over the top.
No, I will not drop my subscription any more than Time will print my letter. For the most part, I find Time to be informative and while a bit left leaning, it's a reliable read for the most part. Its recent story on the killing of bin Laden is a good example of solid work, but this cover is pretty close to pornography, at least in my mind.
Lois had 67 years of a great love with husband Howard Murray who died 11 years ago.
Lois now lives in Oxford House, but takes care of herself. And, back on May 6, she attended homecoming at her first church, Happy Hill Baptist in Cleburne County.
Happy birthday, lady.
Katie is a member of the National Honor Society, 4-H Club, Pep Club, and holds an English Award this year. She is also on the yearbook staff, is senior class representative, and JCA's Youth Leadership of Calhoun County representative and has a scholarship grant from Jacksonville State University.
"Katie has been an excellent student," says Tomya Hancock, assistant principal. "She has been an asset to our journalism staff and her hard work is reflected in her success in securing a college scholarship."
Proud parents are Denny and Becky Parker, State Farm Road, Alexandria.
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Measuring the permeability of metallic objects
Hello everyone. I'm working on a project where I have to do a finite element simulation of low frequency magnetic coupling. But my problem is that I don't know the permeability of all the objects involved. Can anyone suggest a good way to measure the permeability of these objects ? The objects are quite irregularly shaped, i.e. not spheres or boxes or cylinders.
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That is pretty much what you do all right. That way the geometry considerations should take care of themselves.
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Permeability of materials is normally measured on purposely-made toroidal cores, to get sensible values.
In normal life, if these objects are undesired, they have unit of infinite permeability. Often accurate enough, because air gaps rather than metals determine the flux. Or take 1000, then 10000, and observe no difference. If the field is intense enough, saturation can be more important than permeability. Uncommon with separated objects. |
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EMC AutoStart ftAgent Opcode 0x2d Subcode 0x1194 Parsing Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
ZDI-12-161: August 22nd, 2012CVE ID
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This vulnerability allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable installations of the EMC Autostart ftAgent, which is deployed on machines managed by EMC Autostart by default. Authentication is not required to exploit this vulnerability.
The specific flaw exists within the parsing routines for op-codes used by EMC Autostart ftAgent's proprietary network protocol. This ftAgent.exe service listens on TCP port 8045, and performs arithmetic for memory size calculation using values read from the network without validation. This arithmetic is susceptible to integer overflow, causing the memory allocation to be undersized, ultimately allowing for heap-based memory corruption. An attacker can exploit this condition to gain remote code execution as user SYSTEM.
Vendor Response
EMC has issued an update to correct this vulnerability. More details can be found at:Disclosure Timeline
2012-01-12 - Vulnerability reported to vendor
2012-08-22 - Coordinated public release of advisory
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10:48 am on Thursday, September 20, 2012
I don't think the article was written to imply that the adoption costs are too high for people to adopt pet. What the county is saying is that there are too many animals in the shelter and not enough funds and space to provide for them. What attracts people more than the words FREE and PROMOTION? By waiving the adoption fee, the hopes are that more people will adopt sooner than later which will reduce the number of animals in the shelter. The ultimate result is less animals will be unnecessarily put to sleep when they could be in good homes.
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7:58 pm on Thursday, September 20, 2012
Gloria is absolutely correct. This promotion motivates us to visit the shelter to look for our next rescue animal.
Ella Vader
8:45 pm on Thursday, September 20, 2012
I am not sure I agree with the promotion. I understand that the shelters are overcrowded and the alternative is putting the animals to sleep....but offering the animals for free? I just worry that people who are not truly serious about caring for an animal might decide to get one on a whim. Just a thought. I know it is a tough decision.
Elizabeth Ann
6:43 am on Friday, September 21, 2012
I do not like the words FREE PET = wrong hands. To many animals are adopted and they end up on craigs list to make some money off of them. I do agree if the adoption fee is to high then maybe you are not serious enough to own a pet. Positive promoting of animal shelters are needed. Many GREAT animals are put down daily because of overcrowding we are a very sad society in my opinion. I wish the County would consult with other shelters that have gone to no kill status...it can be done but I guess this society just prefers to kill gods creatures....
Ella Vader
7:59 am on Friday, September 21, 2012
The no kill shelters work when there is a financial incentive. Some shelters get grants (in the millions) to do this. Anyway, people need to be smart about where they are getting new pets from and realize that the cute little puppy you find on the internet probably came from a puppy mill or an Amish puppy mill. These are horrible places. County shelters and non profit adoption groups are the way to go.
1:00 pm on Wednesday, September 26, 2012
It's either give them away or put them down. All shelters are overflowing with animals. If you all are so concerned, then maybe you should volunteer to work at one or one of these adoption events.


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I have some friends and we've played Warhammer Invasion and The Lord of the Rings LCG. I was talking to them about the 2 I have yet to play and one of those being AGoT and how it appears that out of the two AGoT is one of the best of the 4 LCG that FFG has released. I was planning on maybe picking it up next.
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There's not many real spoilers in the game, but there are some. They can come in the form of cards as a whole, traits, art (possibly, can't think of an example right now) and flavor text on the cards. Some are pretty straight forward, others require some connecting of dots. If you are not familiar with the books at all, then there'll already be some spoilers in the Core Set. But A Game of Thrones LCG is a fun game indeed. If your friend feels really strongly about possible spoilers, then you have two possibilities: Not play the game or find a way to pick out the spoiler-ish cards and only play with the spoiler-free cards. Like I said, it's really a handful of cards that contain proper spoilers. If you know somebody who's a fan of the books, they should be able to pick them out for you, or perhaps you can find someone on the forums here to provide you with a list.
Ok thanks for the advice, knowing them this will probably be a game that I will play with my kids who understand how to play other LCGs etc. I may just play it and then let decided if they want to take the plunge for the fun factor and not worry about possible spoilers lol. Thanks for answering I appreciate it.
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Given that the books and the show will take years to complete and you like it now but want to avoid spoilers either dont get involved or just go out and read the books or the fairly thourough overview on wikipedia of the story because you will definetly get spoilers. The stories are that well read at this point and likely to get more so in coming months. It will be like not wanting to know if the one rings gets destroyed or not. Seriously.
Dont get to attached to Ned. Because he doesnt stay to attached to something that ryhmes with ned.
I already knew that, but I think that for anyone asking about spoilers, to put one (and yes I know you were trying to be clever and hide it with a bad joke, but it's so obvious what you mean that I don't see the point in pretending) in the thread like that is just rude and down right cruel. Especially one of that big a deal.
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art (possibly, can't think of an example right now)
Amusingly enough, 'Make an Example' is an example...
Without Signature
In the core set there isn't many spoilers and those that are you'd need to have good observational skills to spot. The picture on the Stannis Baratheon card for example could be a spoiler but you probably wouldnt notice mid game.
Without Signature
I have no sympathy for those who only watch HBO to discover the mysteries of Westeros. It is my firm opinion, that TV viewers lose rights to avoid spoilers when the books have been out for over a decade. Moreover not merely out and published but celebrated as the greatest fantasy since Tolkien.
Read More, Watch less.
That being said, none of the cards really give away the plot.
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Literature doesn't attract that level of devotion alas and the facts are so well known that they don't really count as trivia, however, thematically following on from my last post, I have compiled a list of 8 facts that may amuse some of you. (Why 8 and not 10? Well, I sometimes think about what life would be like if octopii had used their surprisingly large brains to become the dominant species on Earth and everything was thus in base 8, and, also, to be honest, I got a bit lazy.) And yes I know that's not the plural of octopus. Ok on with the facts:
1. Marcel Proust and James Joyce once shared a taxi in Paris. (You won't be surprised to learn that both complained about their health and Proust paid.)
2. Samuel Beckett and Raymond Chandler were both cricket playing Irish novelists.
3. Philip Larkin worked as a librarian in Belfast.
4. William Faulkner wrote the plan of his novel A Fable on a bedroom wall in his house in Oxford, Mississippi (and its still there to this very day).
5. JD Salinger once bought Ernest Hemingway a drink in the bar of the Ritz Hotel during the liberation of Paris. The bar of course now (like many others throughout the world) is called the Hemingway Bar.
6. Jonathan Swift was a vicar in my home town of Carrickfergus for about a year, during which he time he wrote A Tale of a Tub and possibly a preliminary sketch of Gulliver's Travels.
7. The focal point of L Ron Hubbard's "novel" Battlefield Earth is the Denver Public Library which is the same place where Jack Kerouac wrote preliminary sketches for On The Road. (And, I, er, your humble correspondent, wrote a couple of novels).
8. Alexander Pushkin's most famous poem is about a man who ruins his life in a duel. Pushkin was later killed in a duel. Mikhail Lermontov (Pushkin's most famous successor) was so incensed by this that he wrote a series of passionate poems about the stupidity of duelling and accused the Tsar of being complicit in the duel which killed Pushkin. Lermonotov, of course, was later killed in a duel.
Incidentally when I visited the site of Pushkin's duel in a park north of Saint Petersburg a young girl had brought flowers for Pushkin and was weeping for him uncontrollably - proving once again that poets and rock stars should die young and a little bit stupidly if they want immortal fame.
Ok that's it, we're out, if you can think of any lit triv, I'd love to hear to it.
43 comments:
- Bill H said...
Satchel didn't play in 1963 or 1964. He retired in 1953 at the age of 46. He came back in 1965 at the age of 58 to appear in one game. He pitched for 3 innings and gave up one hit and struck out one. :-) - October 24, 2009 at 2:14 AM
- Michael Stone said...
#8 is brilliant. You couldn't make that stuff up. Or did you? Hmm.
- October 24, 2009 at 3:43 AM
- Sun Singer said...
I need to memorize this trivia and see how it goes down in the local biker bar.
Good stuff.
Malcolm - October 24, 2009 at 5:25 AM
- adrian mckinty said...
Thanks for explaining that. It didnt make a lot of sense before. Obama's pretty young, isn't there anyone close to his age in the majors at the moment? - October 24, 2009 at 6:45 AM
- adrian mckinty said...
Its all true. - October 24, 2009 at 6:46 AM
- adrian mckinty said...
I am sure the bikers will be impressed. The only thing I know about bikers and literature is Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance and the fact that the Hells Agenls nearly beat Hunter Thompson to death. - October 24, 2009 at 6:47 AM
- HoldenCaufield said...
Great tidbits about writers, Adrian. I'm eating it up!
One more well-known biker story that I'm sure you know: the Rolling Stones hired the Hell's Angels as "security" at Altamont (actually, gave them beer to surround the stage) and one of the bikers ended up stabbing a member of the audience who was allegedly brandishing a gun. - October 24, 2009 at 7:55 AM
- HoldenCaufield said...
But I digress... (the Altamont story is not about bikers and literature, but about bikers and rock and roll, and stories of that nature are countless).
- October 24, 2009 at 8:08 AM
- adrian mckinty said...
I remember watching that French documentary about the Stones and there's a bit in where they freeze the frame with Jagger watching and show that the guy really did have a gun.
However, I also remember watching a different documentary and Gerry Garcia talks all about Altamont and says that it was a recipe for disaster right from the start and that the Angels were looking to cause trouble. - October 24, 2009 at 9:49 AM
Elvis watched Monty Python and the Holy Grail 45 times. Does that count?
- October 24, 2009 at 9:57 AM
- adrian mckinty said...
Sad to say I did actually know that. Supposedly Elvis cut his finger once and said to his posse "dont worry its only a flesh wound." Whether they got the ref or not I dont know. - October 24, 2009 at 10:02 AM
- HoldenCaufield said...
In 1991, I went to the park near St. Petersburg where Pushkin had his duel, but saw nobody weepy-eyed. (Darn!)
I did, however, see a weepy-eyed older lady sweep snow off Stalin's tomb in Moscow's Red Square and then place flowers on the tomb. So I guess despotic dictators can die old and a little bit stupidly and still be immortalized. - October 24, 2009 at 10:38 AM
- adrian mckinty said...
Funnily enough when the missus and I were at the Kremlin Wall (where JS is buried) there was a pro Soviet rally going on. Only about twenty people but still not nice to see... - October 24, 2009 at 10:54 AM
- Bill H said...
The two oldest players in the majors in 2009 were both pitchers, Jamie Moyer (Philadelphia Phillies) and Randy Johnson (San Francisco Giants). They are both 46. Barack is 48 so he has them both by a couple of years. Interestingly (at least to me) is that both Jamie and Randy pitched for the Seattle Mariners for quite a few years. I live right outside Seattle and saw them both pitch many times. :-) - October 24, 2009 at 12:35 PM
- bookwitch said...
Did you see much of Swift during that time?
- October 24, 2009 at 7:28 PM
Did you see much of Swift during that time?
I bet Adrian was the main inspiration for "A modest proposal" - October 24, 2009 at 11:10 PM
- Bill H said...
Not sure if you were addressing that to me or not. If so, I'm guessing you are referring to Bill Swift the pitcher. He was taken high in the draft by the Mariners, but never got real good while with the Mariners. I did see him pitch a few times. I always liked him. He went on to San Francisco and had a couple of good years. - October 25, 2009 at 3:13 AM
- seana said...
Here's one I came across when I was researching the trivia book, though I didn't end up using it. You'll probably know it, Adrian, but others might not.
The writer Nathanael West died when he ran a stop sign. He was coming back from Mexico with his wife to attend the funeral of F. Scott Fitzgerald. - October 25, 2009 at 4:09 AM
- John McFetridge said...
Bill, I will always think of what Randy Johnson could have done if he'd remained with Expos - not of our better trades.
That Nathaniel West one is freaky.
Is there anything about women writers? - October 25, 2009 at 5:21 AM
- seana said...
You'd think I'd have at least one choice bit about a woman author, but nothing is springing to mind.
- October 25, 2009 at 11:28 AM
- adrian mckinty said...
I'm not entirely convinced that those defected Cubans were quite as young as they said they were. El Duque in particular. - October 25, 2009 at 12:19 PM
- adrian mckinty said...
Miss Witch
Marco's joke beats anything I could come up with. - October 25, 2009 at 12:19 PM
- adrian mckinty said...
Thats a 10 from the Irish judge. - October 25, 2009 at 12:20 PM
- adrian mckinty said...
Didnt know that. Poor Nate. He was good. Fitzgerald is buried in a strange out of the way graveyard in Maryland or somewhere. Well not that out of the way since I went there without a great deal of trouble. - October 25, 2009 at 12:21 PM
- adrian mckinty said...
I think at this stage we have to keep rooting that the Blue Jays remains a franchise. - October 25, 2009 at 12:22 PM
- adrian mckinty said...
I used to go to Colorado Rockies games and when there was interleague play it was always fun to see AL pitchers hit. The older ones always did better. - October 25, 2009 at 12:24 PM
- John McFetridge said...
Oh Adrian, I already lost my Expos I don't want to go through that again. Anything's possible, though. Baseball support doesn't run anywhere as deep as hockey support in this town so if the Jays are going to be a mid-to-bottom level team because they can't spend enough, who knows how long they can hang on. They were bought by Ted Rogers who loved baseball but he died.
I've been looking for trivia about women writers and all I found was th large number of times Alice Munro was told that no one would be interested in her "women's stories." - October 25, 2009 at 3:27 PM
- adrian mckinty said...
The AL East is the league of death. They should try and jump to the NL if possible.
I know a bit of Virginia Woolf trivia. In 1910 VW and five male friends dressed up in blackface and exotic robes and presented themselves to the British Royal Navy as the Prince of Abyssinia and his entourage. They got a personal tour of the warship Dreadnought and for forty minutes they toured the ship with its Commander talking amongst themselves in a made-up language. - October 25, 2009 at 3:45 PM
- seana said...
That sounds like something straight out of P.G. Wodehouse.
- October 25, 2009 at 6:01 PM
- bookwitch said...
Yes, Marco, I'm impressed!
- October 25, 2009 at 9:36 PM
- Bill H said...
Yes... we had one Cuban defector on the Seattle team that ended up being a couple years older than he said he was.
As for AL pitchers... they really can't hit very well. Especially, as you say, the younger ones. Now for the most part they don't hit in college or in the minor leagues so by the time they get to the majors it has been a long time since they got to hit. Funny, because usually the pitchers are the best hitters when they are young and in little league. - October 26, 2009 at 8:01 AM
- Bill H said...
Yes... Seattle fans always did like that trade. Not only did we get Randy for awhile, but when we traded Randy we got Freddy Garcia, John Halama, and Carlos Guillen who all played very will for the Mariners. I would hate to see Toronto go. They have a great baseball tradition. Once when I was in Toronto I went to a game and enjoyed both the game and the ball park. - October 26, 2009 at 8:21 AM
They were bought by Ted Rogers who loved baseball but he died.
A cautionary tale. - October 26, 2009 at 9:00 PM
Remember kids, stay with sane European sports!
- October 26, 2009 at 9:13 PM
- John McFetridge said...
If the Jays were a National League team the Expos might still be in Montreal so I wouldn't care what happens to Toronto. If you see what I mean.
Up until Friday Night Lights baseball has always had the great books. So many, in fact, that one of my favourites, The Greatest Slump of All Time doesn't get much notice, but I was wondering, supose I wanted to read a book about soccer, where should I start? - October 27, 2009 at 8:43 AM
- adrian mckinty said...
Do you like David Peace?
I thought The Damned United was a great book. I havent seen the film but I really liked the book.
Awaydays is a pretty good novel about supporting the poor relation third team in Liverpool, Tranmere Rovers. Its also been made into a film. - October 27, 2009 at 8:48 AM
- John McFetridge said...
Thanks for the recommendations. I think we'll be seeing The Damned United soon, it's just opened in Toronto.
- October 27, 2009 at 10:28 AM
- adrian mckinty said...
If you like Nick Hornby you might want to check out Fever Pitch too, but personally I didnt care for it. - October 27, 2009 at 10:46 AM
is a pretty good novel about supporting the poor relation third team in Liverpool, Tranmere Rovers.
I thought it was about Leeds Utd. - was it meant as a joke?
There are some good books in Italian or from Latin American writers, but not much available in English
Eduardo Galeano is a great writer, and apparently Football in Sun and Shadow has been translated - I haven't read it, but it should be good - October 27, 2009 at 9:23 PM
- adrian mckinty said...
The Damned United is the one about Leeds.
Awaydays is the one about the Tranmere travelling hooligan squad. - October 27, 2009 at 10:07 PM
Eh - I've read Awaydays as anyways
- October 28, 2009 at 12:20 AM
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- adrian mckinty said...
They're going to clean up at next years Ignobel Awards. - October 29, 2009 at 8:53 AM


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Imagine you're a first time mom with a three month old little girl. You're little girl gets very sick and spikes such a high fever that you have to go to the hospital. After a couple days the fever comes down and you breathe a sigh of relief because your precious little girl is going to be alright and you can go home. Things turn tragically wrong though and you go into complete shock when you see part of your little girl's finger being cut off.
Sadly that is exactly what happened to Veronica Olguin last October. She took her three month old daughter Selena to Heart of Florida Regional Medical Center due to a high fever. When they had been cleared to go home the nurse went to cut off the IV and ended up cutting off part of Selena's left pinky finger. They were able to find the missing part of the finger and airlifted Selena to Tampa General Hospital where Veronica was told that the nerves in Selena's finger were so small that they couldn't reattach it.
Veronica watched as her daughter lost part of her finger. She is still having nightmares from it, and she fears for what her daughter will have to go through when she's older due to the loss of part of her finger. She is now suing the hospital for malpractice.
I'm shocked that such a thing could occur. Hours after first reading the article I still cannot understand how a nurse can go to cut some tape, and instead cuts off half a finger. Those had to be some strong and sharp scissors, and that nurse had to not be paying any attention to what she was doing. My heart truly goes out to the mother because I can't imagine what she's going through having watched the whole scene unfold. I think it would be hard for any mother to see someone hurt her child and not want to do bodily harm. To me the scariest part is that the hospital has allowed the nurse to return to work, although they won't comment on whether or not she is working with patients.
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Why havent i coded my first perceptron yet?
Because i cant get over the fact that they are learning disabled, they learn through trial and error and you need a million going at the same time to test for the most successfully linked net, and that has practicality problems... that i want to fix, and would bring it closer to how we operate.
Even though theres been fantastic results with what they have already, and the practicality problem is removed when operating in the virtual realm, still it annoys me that it could be better.
What foggy ideas do you have...
Well, i think that it needs some way to "build" on what it last had, instead of completely wiping it each new instance.
also, teaching it language has a moderation problem, its hard to write a moderator program for it, youd have to sit there learning in slow mo telling it if it said real english or gibberish, but if it had this "building" mechanism, then you could hand teach it!
and it could learn to walk without over trialing.
So... they over trial, and you dont like it.
I wonder if im onto something...
That we can reduce trials, is it still possible to reduce trialing?
If it didnt overtrial, it could be feesable to teach it language.
pissed off with perceptrons
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Posted 04 February 2013 - 12:41 AM
you used to be able to fit a game on a disk, then you used to be able to fit a game on a cd, then you used to be able to fit a game on a dvd, now you can barely fit one on your harddrive.
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