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Over 1 Million PS3 Owners have used [email protected]
Posted by T0SH in [email protected], PS3 on February 5th, 2008
[email protected] first arrived on the XMB March 22, 2007. And since then, if you average it out, around 3,000 PS3 owners register each day since then. Now it's over 1 million strong.
In line with this another milestone, Stanford Associate Professor of Chemistry Vijay Pande had this to say:
Since partnering with SCEI, we have seen our research capabilities increase by leaps and bounds through the continued participation of [email protected] users.
Now we have over one million PS3 users registered for [email protected], allowing us to address questions previously considered impossible to tackle computationally, with the goal of finding cures to some of the world's most life-threatening diseases.
That's great news, keep those PS3's folding. Maybe next year we'll hit 2 millions users or more! We actually have our own [email protected] team here at PS3Blog.net and we are doing very well. Currently we are ranked at 345.
We have even out folded Joystiq's team 🙂 To join our team, just enter 55054 as the team number, for more info check out this post.
SCEI: Over one million PS3 units now registered to [email protected]
New [email protected] Features Coming Soon [Update]
Posted by T0SH in [email protected], PS3 on December 19th, 2007
Ever thought to yourself, I wish the PS3 would shut itself down after it completes a work unit. Well now you can. With [email protected] 2.1 will come a few new features. You can choose to automatically shut down your PS3 after a work unit completes and uploads the results to Stanford University. Or you can choose to have it shut down after so many hours. Pretty handy.
This holiday season you can now play music while running [email protected] Now you can entertain your guests and tell them your helping cure cancer at the same time.
Good to see more PS3 games and application taking advantage of using customisable soundtracks.
The Team Number is 55054
Current at rank 357
New [email protected] Features Coming
It's now available, just run [email protected] and you'll be prompted to upgrade
[email protected] gets a Guinness World Record Title
Posted by T0SH in [email protected] on November 14th, 2007
The [email protected] project gets a Guinness World Records Title as the World's Most Powerful Distributed Computing network. Mostly thanks to the powerful PLAYSTATION 3. In September the PS3 alone hit the one petaflop barrier, quite a achievement.
If you don't know what the [email protected] project is, it's a user-friendly application for the PS3, and pretty much every OS out there (Windows, Mac, Linux). You just choose a donor name and join a team if you wish. By the way our team number is 55054 😉 Then just let the app run and that's it.
Here is more info about [email protected]:
For those who are yet unfamiliar with the term, [email protected] is a project which was started by researchers from Stanford University. The project involves the study of protein folding which has been thought to be the root of diseases such as Alzheimer s Disease, Parkinson s Disease, Huntington's Disease, cystic fibrosis, and some types of cancer. The aim of the project is to help the researchers to build models and simulations of these proteins by lending them some CPU power and a bit of bandwidth.
Our [email protected] team is doing very well. We are currently at rank 376! Keep those PS3's & PC's folding!
[email protected] project nabs Guiness World Record title, thanks to the PS3
Also the PC side of [email protected] is getting a new GUI similar to the PS3. They don't have a ETA on the release but they are trying to get it out ASAP.
And here is another way the PS3 has helped science.
Gaurav Khanna is using a cluster of eight PS3 units as a supercomputer replacement (donated by Sony) for his space research. More details below.
Join the PS3Blog [email protected] Team
Posted by T0SH in [email protected], Life with Playstation on March 23rd, 2007
Come join our PS3Blog.net [email protected] Team
The Team Number is 55054
Click Here for our [email protected] Team Website
Here is another website to check our stats.
It's very simple to join our team. Once you've launched Life With PlayStation, hold square and select [email protected] Press the triangle button to bring up the Options, select "Current Channel", and then select "Identity". Here you can change your donor name, which I suggest doing. If not it defaults to PS3. After that select "Join an exiting team" and enter PS3Blog.net's team number 55054. And that's it, your now part of the team. To get more points on your PS3, choose the advanced option in the settings.
Here is a nice option for people that use the remote play option of the PS3. Just start remote play and start the [email protected] app. Then you can turn off your PSP, and the [email protected] app will continue. Then when you try to connect again via remote play you will get the [email protected] screen. From there you can go back to XMB if you wish.
Even PC users can join the team. I have my work PC running the [email protected] software as well. You can download the PC version here.
For those who are yet unfamiliar with the term, [email protected] is a project which was started by researchers from Stanford University. The project involves the study of protein folding which has been thought to be the root of diseases such as Alzheimer s Disease, Parkinson s Disease, Huntington's Disease, cystic fibrosis, and some types of cancer. The aim of the project is to help the researchers to build models and simulations of these proteins by lending them some CPU power and a bit of bandwidth.
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TheStreet) -- The battle for Dell (DELL) continues.Southeastern Asset Management, one of Dell's (DELL) largest independent shareholders, on Tuesday said both a $14.25 a share proposal by the Blackstone Group (BX - Get Report) and a $15 a share proposal by Carl Icahn to buy the struggling PC-maker are superior to the company's earlier $24.4 billion buyout deal with founder Michel Dell and Silver Lake Partners. Southeastern's support for either of the newer proposals indicates that activist investor of Carl Icahn is still gaming for Dell, despite media reports to the contrary. Icahn's proposal for the acquisition of up to 58% of Dell's shares relies on the participation of large shareholders such as Southeastern and T. Rowe Price, in addition to the roughly $1 billion stake Icahn Enterprises holds in the Dell's shares. "The Special Committee has obtained two preliminary alternative proposals, both of which we view as superior to the Michael Dell / Silver Lake buyout," Mason O. Hawkins, Southeastern chief executive, said in a Tuesday letter. The special committee was formed by Dell's board of directors to solicit competing bids to Michael Dell and Silver Lake's offer for the company. "We view these proposals as superior primarily because each offers shareholders the opportunity to remain owners of Dell while also offering a higher cash price to owners who choose to exit their investment," Hawkins wrote. Both Blackstone and Icahn have yet to submit formal offers to follow up proposals they submitted ahead of a late March deadline on the company's so-called 'go-shop' period. Blackstone is about four weeks away from making a formal offer for Dell, a source familiar with the proposal said. That source said the Blackstone investor group has been in contact with Michael Dell and has traveled to the company's Round Rock, Texas headquarters, as it conducts a due diligence process. The disclosure by Southeastern raises new concern that Dell's shareholders will not back the initial $13.65 a share buyout offer agreed between the company, its founder, Michael Dell, private equity firm Silver Lake Partners, agreed on February 5. Charlotte McCrum, a spokesperson for Silver Lake at Brunswick Group, declined to comment. Southeastern previously criticized the initial offer as an insufficient price that wouldn't give shareholders commensurate payment for Dell's cash stockpile or the acquisitions the company has made in an effort to shift from PC's to tech services such as IT security, cloud computing and databases. Hawkins' fund sees a special dividend of up to $12 a share, among more shareholder friendly alternatives to the full takeover agreed between Dell, Silver Lake and the company's founder. Southeastern also said it would consider participating in a so-called 'stub' of Dell's stock that is a key element of the Blackstone and Icahn proposals. A Dell stub would allow current shareholders to either take cash payments for their shares at a takeover price, or continue to hold the PC-maker's stock in public markets. "Southeastern urges the Special Committee to negotiate and evaluate these alternatives in good faith, and to recognize that offering shareholders a choice is a win / win outcome for all parties," the fund added in the letter. Dell's Mar. 29 proxy statement "fails to make a case for shareholders to accept" the Silver Lake offer, according to the Southeastern letter. "As we have indicated, while the Board's Special Committee continues to manage its process, the Dell team remains focused on its customers and on providing innovative products and solutions to help them succeed," Jess Blackburn, a Dell spokesperson, said in an e-mail.Updated from 12:08 p.m. ET to reflect Dell comment and information surrounding Icahn proposal NEW YORK (
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Alcoholic Sibling keeps asking to baby-sit. How should I handle it?
My sister has three boys under 10 and had some kind of mental breakdown about a year ago from living with her mother in law and has started drinking. I have a son that is 16 month old. Backstory My sister in the past has gone to pick up her children after having a few drinks. I know she has brought a covered cup of vodka to the school yard while waiting to pick up her children. I also know that the school refused to release one of my nephews to her because she showed up either drunk or smelling of liquor. She got a DUI last year. I also know that she does drink in front of her kids. She has started going to therapy and getting help for her problems so she isn?t as bad as she used to be but she still does drink. Last weekend, I had her, her kids, and my mom stay over my place and my mom told her she saw my sister raid my liquor cabinet when I wasn?t looking. My question is? My sister is constantly asking to baby-sit my son because her boys want to play with him. She asks me constantly and is surprise when I tell her that ?probably not/we?re busy/someone?s got him already/insert any excuse I can make up?. I see my nephews at least every 2 weeks so its not like they don?t get to see each other. I feel bad about it, but I?m very uncomfortable with letting her watch my son while I?m not there. My husband is very adamant that she DOES NOT watch him without me there. He won?t even deal with her anymore. I don?t want to hurt her feelings, because I feel like it will just make her drink or get depressed, but how can I tell her that I?m not comfortable with it. I am not going to risk my son just because I feel guilty, so I want to tell my sister in the best way.
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My mom is an alcoholic... bad. Always has been. Do not let your sister watch your son, and be blunt about it. That is the only way I can get through to my mom.. We live in another state now, but when I did like in the same state and my husband was in schools for military I was working and needed a sitter. My mom kept saying on let me watch her, blah blah blah- I wont drank. Well, my original sitter had an emergency one night and I let my mom watch her since I was only working 4hrs that night. WORST mistake EVER! I called my mom 1hr into watching my daughter- it was 8pm and she said she put her in bed (1yr.. I don't normally put her in bed until 9pm, but I didn't care) Little did I know she had been drinking since I left for work! By 9pm she had LEFT MY baby ALONE.. and DROVE to the liqour store 4blocks down.... I know because a friend of mine worked there and called me!! I was so mad.. I left work and got my baby girl. Do trust an alcoholic... Alcoholism is the most selfish addiction.posted 06/02/2011 by Emkaed
Be honest with her. If she does not realize that she has a problem then she will be upset with you, but your babies safety has to come first...tell her just that. Maybe hearing that her family members don't trust her will wake her up and help her in the long run.posted 06/02/2011 by Mommy too many
I wouldn't risk it or trust her. Don't keep lying to her just to get out of it. Tell her the truth or she won't stop asking. According to your post, she obviously needs more help than just therapy. She needs rehab. My father was an alcoholic when I was a kid. He used to drive even with me and my brother in the car. Terrible. I didn't really understand was it was then, but now as an adult I wished I could of helped. He died in a car crash. It's just a matter of time before CPS gets involved and take her kids away. They deserve better. Good Luck, and hope your sister gets help.posted 06/02/2011 by imShadz
Okay. Sweetie, you cannot live your life worrying that you will make your sister drink more or become depressed if you tell her no to babysitting. You are not responsible for her, she is responsible for her own behavior! She and only she can fix her problems, all you can do is suppport her. What you and your mother are doing is enabling her behavior. You know she is drinking, but yet you haven't reported her to CPS. Why? Is it going to take her killing someone (maybe even her own children) before something is done? Instead of making up excuses, give your sister a lesson in tough love. Tell her, "No, you will not ever be allowed to watch my child as long as you are drinking. Until you are clean and sober, I consider you a danger to my family and you will never be left alone with my son." She needs to know in no uncertain terms that you do not tolerate her drinking and that you will not be around her until she gets clean. Stage an intervention or cut her off until she gets help.posted 06/02/2011 by FaerieQueenofSnark
You sound like a very kind and considerate sister. It must be very frustrating to watch your sister ruin her life this way. However, your responsibility is to your child, not your sister. Do not let her watch your child. Nothing is more important than the safety of your children. This is how really terrible things happen to innocent people. And think of how you would never forgive her or yourself if something happened. It's not worth it. In fact, it could almost be considered child abuse to leave your child with someone you know is having these problems. Tell her exactly why you will not let her babysit, and offer to have her children over to your place with you there if she wants the kids to play so much. This is your child, and you make the decisions.posted 06/30/2011 by cody2009
Heck no! Be very clear about why so that she is under no illusion that there is the possibility of it happening in the future either. Also, if you know she is driving under the influence with her children then YOU are failing your nephews.posted 04/05/2012 by a BabyCenter Member
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EVANSVILLE — Columbus East junior Dalton Noblitt won three matches Saturday to claim third place in the Evansville Reitz Semi-state and become the area's only qualifier to next weekend's state finals.
Noblitt was one of seven Olympians in the semi-state. Six won their first-round matches, but Noblitt was the only one to break through to the semifinals. He fell to Castle's Luke Welch in a 13-2 major decision before pinning Greenwood's Bailey Schober in the third-place match.
"(The second round) was kind of some bad luck," East coach Chris Cooper said. "We were ahead in some of them and got pinned. Things just didn't go our way that round."
Mitch Gilbert (132), Mike Wayant (145), Kyle Stillinger (152), Jimmy Fisher (170) and Rob McKee (285) all won first-round matches for the Olympians, who finished 12th as a team with 30 points. Gilbert and Stillinger came back to finish fifth, while McKee took sixth.
"Guys didn't just pack it in at the end," Cooper said. "That was nice."
Luke Teague (182) was the only one of five Columbus North wrestlers to win a first-round match. All seven Jennings County wrestlers and Brown County's lone entry, Austin Ely (113), suffered first-round defeats. Seymour's Matthew Ruddick (145) won his first-round match and finished sixth.
North girls win invitational
CONNERSVILLE — Columbus North scored a season-high 109.4 to win the six-team Connersville Invitational.
Danielle McDermott won the vault (9.3) and bars (9.45) on her way to winning the all-around competition with a 36.95. Chelsea Wieland took the beam (9.4) and floor (9.2) and finished fourth in the all-around with a 35.325.
Katrina May was third in the all-around with a 35.7, while Megan Heathcote was fifth with a 34.775.
Cougars win sectional in 2 OTs
FRENCH LICK — Once again, Trinity Lutheran had to face a team that beat it in the regular season when it played West Washington in the Springs Valley Class A Sectional championship game.
The Senators scored a win against the Cougars by 12 on Jan. 3. This time around, it was the Cougars who returned the favor with a 72-66 double-overtime win to claim their first sectional title in school history.
"We got the win, and we had our goal set out, and it was very hard-fought," Trinity coach Mike Lang said. "There was not a loser here tonight, and that's for sure. It's more than we ever thought it would be."
West Washington's Shelby Springer missed a 3-pointer, but teammate Kalen Nice collected the offensive rebound and put it back up for a 51-48 lead with 3:42 remaining in the fourth quarter. Haley Couch cut the lead to one with 1:40 left.
Nice collected another offensive board for a putback with 55 seconds left for a 53-50 lead. After a missed West Washington free throw, Couch drained a 3-pointer for the Cougars to force overtime.
"I got the ball inbounds, and I knew we needed the score, so I took it and also knew the team needed it, and it went in," Couch said. "It was phenomenal, and it was a big moment."
In the overtime session, Springer nailed a 3-pointer for the Senators, but Kyra Klosterman had a three-point play and Angi Bergstedt hit a layup with 2:35 left for the 58-56 lead. Allison Posey scored and Klosterman hit one free throw for the 61-56 lead.
Posey put the Cougars up 69-65 with 1:22 left in the second overtime by hitting two free throws. Two free throws by West Washington cut the lead down to three, and then it implemented a full-court press only to have Trinity break it. However, with 20.4 seconds left, the Senators' Shana Miller hit a deep 3-pointer to make it 62-61.
Springer made a layup with 5.6 seconds left to force a second overtime.
With 27.6 seconds left in the second overtime, Mariah Nolan hit one free throw to put the Cougars up 71-66. Desperation 3s by the Senators were unsuccessful, and the Cougars secured the win.
"About halfway through the season, we developed a motto, 'We believe,' and these kids never stopped working, and I have great assistant coaches," Lang said. "The kids earned it and fought for it, and Couch hit the biggest shot of her career to send the game into overtime."
Trinity got off to an 8-3 start in the first quarter as Hannah Barker scored, Posey knocked down a 3-pointer and Nolan hit a 3-pointer for the five-point lead. The Senators took a 13-12 lead when Tori Packwood hit a 3-pointer, but the Cougars quickly retook the lead when Posey scored with three seconds left to give them the 14-13 first-quarter lead.
The Cougars opened the second quarter on an 11-0 run that gave them a 25-13 lead. Packwood and Springer hit back-to-back 3-pointers for the Senators, but Posey answered right back for the Cougars.
Posey had 12 first-half points to lead the Cougars for the 29-21 halftime lead.
With more than five minutes played in the third quarter, both teams had eight combined turnovers and 12 points, but the Cougars still held an eight-point lead, 35-27. West Washington won the third quarter 11-8 and cut the Trinity lead to 37-32.
Posey led all scorers with 21 points, while Couch had 16, Nolan added 11 and Klosterman had 10.
On Saturday, the Cougars (15-8) will play Northeast Dubois in the second game of the West Washington Regional.
Crusaders rout Trinity Christian
INDIANAPLOLIS — Columbus Christian jumped out to a 33-2 halftime lead and went on to claim a 54-15 victory.
Emily Price led the Crusaders (7-13) with 13 points. Tori Robinson and Rachel Warren each added 10.
Columbus Christian rolls
INDIANAPOLIS — Josh Miracle and Chris Noblitt recorded double-doubles to lead Columbus Christian to a 73-50 win at Trinity Christian.
Miracle netted 19 points and 11 rebounds, while Noblitt added 17 points and 10 rebounds for the Crusaders (19-8). Dalane Shaull scored 16 points, and Austin Martin had 11.
Lancers fall to Attucks
INDIANAPOLIS — Edinburgh fell behind by 12 points at halftime, and a 49-point second half wasn't enough to climb out of the hole in a 74-71 loss at Attucks.
Riley Price led the Lancers (11-6) with 25 points. Caleb Giles added 23.
Mitchell rallies past Eagles
MITCHELL — Brown County led by 12 at halftime, but couldn't hang on as Mitchell rallied for a 64-61 victory.
Collin Hoskins led the Eagles (4-13) with 18 points. Steven Norman scored 12, and Brayden Cosby added 11.


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What TV Character Have You Wanted to Be?
TV—we watch so much of it, it's only inevitable that eventually we'd want to be it too: time-traveling, crime-solving, vampire-slaying, endless-cheeseburgers-at-Luke's-Diner-eating heroes. Once while on a particularly grueling rowing trip on the Hudson River, I motivated myself by picturing Pam Beesly's walk across the hot coals on "The Office." It worked. We asked a group of the small-screen-obsessed to tell us which TV characters they most wanted to be growing up and/or which ones they wished they could be now. Here's what they said.
If you weren't an 11-year-old boy in 1982, you probably have never heard of Phineas Bogg, or the show in which he existed, "Voyagers!" (NBC included an exclamation point in the title, ensuring it would last no more than a season. See also: ¡Rob! and Woops!). Bogg was a presumably immortal member of a secret society of time travelers who had devoted their lives to jumping through the centuries, trying to make right potential historic wrongs. (In one episode, FDR almost becomes a world-famous motion picture director instead of president!) The great thing about Bogg (as played by the late Jon-Erik Hexum) was that he never took his job too seriously. Hell, if anything, he was entirely too casual about his quantum leaps: He treated the fixing of potentially catastrophic wrinkles in time as no more important than fixing a leaky faucet. But that's what was so great about Bogg. Most of us would probably freak out if we suddenly found ourselves charged with making sure the North still won the Civil War. Bogg? He was totally chill about the whole thing, and usually still found a way to hook up with Marie Antoinette or some other historical hottie. Anybody can time travel, but Phineas Bogg made it seem like the coolest job ever. Sadly, I'm still waiting for the Voyagers Society to respond to my application for employment.
In 1982, I wanted very badly to be Jeffrey Jones—Meeno Peluce's character on "Voyagers!" Jeffrey Jones was a precocious smart-alecky orphan who is rescued from near death in the first episode by Phineas Bogg, a swashbuckling hunk who belonged to a society of time travelers called Voyagers—they would journey through time to ensure that history unfolded as we know it. Phineas Bogg was played by the the hottest guy who ever was on TV, ever, the late Jon-Erik Hexum. Pretty much the only reason I wanted to be Jeffrey Jones was because he traveled through time with this insanely hot stud. To my luck, I came of sexual age around the time of early 80s "beefcake," when men were becoming as sexualized for their bodies as women on television. Hexum would wear revealing International Male-style poet shirts, vests with nothing underneath, and sometimes (if the historical era called for it) little gladiator outfits. I yearned to be lost in time with Hexum in a man-boy relationship.
For someone who watches virtually all TV there is, this is a tough question to answer. I considered Leslie Knope of "Parks & Recreation"—a proud feminist, admirable public servant, excellent friend, and waffle enthusiast—but she works really, really hard. Tami Taylor of "Friday Night Lights" is certainly one of my very favorite TV characters of all time, and though she is gorgeous and perfect, I don't think I'd want to be her; a career in academia is a thankless grind, plus she has kids: no thank you. So I had to go with Malcolm Tucker of the British sitcom "The Thick Of It". Though he works a lot harder than I care to, and lives in England where the weather and food are terrible (I hear), he has managed something I admire and envy: his main professional duty (as a highly placed aide to the PM) is yelling at whomever he feels like, using as many expletives as he deems necessary, and suffering no negative consequences whatsoever. Is he probably going to die young, of a rage-induced stroke? Maybe. But until then, he will have lived his best, angriest life. Plus in one episode we get to see his flat and it is super-nice.
The only answer anyone should give you is Arya Stark.
The obvious answer for me right now is Tami Taylor, who is my barometer, my lodestar, my moon and my sun in all things parental, marital, professional. But, really, my hair is not nearly good enough.
I think that the televisual ur-me, the fantasy I still hold inside of me somewhere, is Melissa Gilbert's Laura Ingalls. Less for her endearing spunk and more for her off-putting earnestness, the way she took things real hard in a vaguely narcissistic way. Like when she thought she was responsible for her baby brother's death and ran away up the mountain where she was cared for and psychoanalyzed by… God, it would seem? Like, God came down to tell her, specifically, that she was good and not at all selfish. That's kind of my childhood fantasy in a nutshell.
I didn't know it then, but as a 7-year-old recent immigrant living in Los Angeles, I was learning how to be a good, postmodern American by watching "Wild Wild West" on TV. James West was everything I wanted to be: a secret agent cowboy playing cat-and-mouse with the most diabolical b-movie character actor villains ever assembled. Each week, on a surreal western tableau, West and his trusty proto-vaudevillian sidekick Artemus Gordon would do battle with the kind of steampunk bad guys that would design ultimate weapons controlled by pipe-organ pitch, or imprison you in a giant birdcage that had been nicked from the set of "The Prisoner".
Looking back, the appeal was all about being genre-bending. It's like Bakhtin and Foucault were let loose on the Screen Gems backlot. James West was like a trickster god putting one over on dim evil henchmen with his James Bondian gadgets and anachronistic expertise in "kara-tay," or with the help of celebrity guest stars rounded up from the bar at Trader Vic's.
In reality I'm probably as insufferable as Frasier or Niles Crane, but I really strive to be more like Eddie the dog.
I'm a total TV baby. My first memories are of TV, and I shudder to think how many hours I spent sitting way too close to that screen. So naturally there was a healthy amount of TV hero worship growing up. Johnny Gage from "Emergency!", T.J. from "S.W.A.T." , Kolchak from "The Night Stalker", and of course Fonzie. Everyone loved Fonzie.
But the character that I was most fixated on was the Bill Murray character from "Saturday Night Live". My folks would play bridge with another couple on Saturdays, so we kids would get to stay up late (late!), which included the obligatory viewing of "SNL" by parents and kids alike. And I remember it all being funny (and no doubt much of it over my head), but that Bill Murray fellow? He really made an impression on little kid me. Sure, the roles he played were different—Nick the Lounge Singer, Todd DiMaLuca (with Gilda as Wendy), Niko in the Greek diner sketches—but behind them all there was this Bill Murray character: blithe yet open, cocksure as if that was the default position, bemused but totally present. I was too young to identify any of those qualities ("He's really funny," I would've said), but it was not long until I knew that I wanted to be that Bill Murray character when I grew up. (Still do.)
No question about it, I wanted to be Angela Chase from "My So-Called Life." Angela had that perfect blend of brooding insouciance and sweet, genuine awkwardness that made her the standard bearer for the Manic Panicked among us. I'll never forget how touched I was by the episode in which Jordan Catalano and Brian Krakow simultaneously realize why they love her (she's, like, real!) after their English teacher reads Shakespeare's Sonnet 130 aloud. Angela Chase was real—well, not really real, but real enough for me.
I wanted to be Veronica Mars, or, at least, to possess her crime-solving diligence, bravery, smarts, internal moral compass, and sheer awesomeness. I have a great fondness for pretty much any woman who solves crimes and mysteries (including Mariska Hargitay's character in "Law and Order SVU", Emily Deschanel's character in "Bones", and all the female DAs on "L&O") but I especially love Veronica because she is so very indefatigable and badass—and also, right about nearly everything. Terrible things happen to her: She loses her best friend, she loses her popularity (by choice, to stand by her dad), she gets into scrape after scrape (and they're not really scrapes but near-death experiences—she's the victim of violence repeatedly), but despite everything she perseveres. She is a survivor, and not only that, but she'll get those who done her wrong back, oh yes she will. You do not mess with Veronica Mars, if you know what's good for you. After all, she's smarter than pretty much anyone else in her town. And she can hang with the boys.
Other characters I loved were Pacey Witter of "Dawson's Creek", who lived a charmed life even when it didn't seem like it and had a quip ready for every situation. Pacey, the faux tough with the heart of gold… Or maybe I just wanted to date Pacey Witter. Tell no one! I also loved-while-I-hated Brenda Walsh, and who didn't sort of want to be her and, at the same time, her FOIL, the ever-so-popular-and-pretty Kelly Taylor—at least in the first couple of seasons of the show? And while we're talking about Shannen Doherty, I know it's terribly, terribly cheesy, but I would have given a lot, and maybe still would, to be any of the Halliwell girls in "Charmed", like, just for an evening, perhaps? Spells. Ah, to have spells at my disposal.
I grew up on 80s comedies, looking up to fast-talking schemers like Ferris Bueller, Axel Foley, and Peter Venkman, but there was always one quick-witted Reagan-era smartass who stood above the rest in my book: John Winger, Bill Murray's character from Stripes. While John Winger was the screen character I always wanted to be as a tween, the closest thing I have to that as an adult is Jeff Winger from NBC's "Community", who was named after and patterned after Murray's Stripes character by "Community" creator Dan Harmon. Both Wingers are quick with a lie when they need to get out of a jam and even quicker with a joke, always prepared to rally the underdogs with a funny and moving halftime speech.
Jeff Winger differs from these 80s movie heroes, though, in that living in the real modern world is forcing him to grow up and leave behind his arrogant ways while still retaining the qualities that make him someone that others want to follow. In real life, we can't be as bulletproof as guys like Ferris Bueller or Axel Foley because, let's face it, they're kind of assholes. What's fascinating about Jeff Winger is that he's one of these stock 80s movie blowhards, but he's learning to mature into a caring human being. Winger is discovering how to be confident without being cocky, how to be a strong leader without being an egomaniac, and that delivering a speech to rally the troops is much more rewarding than doing so because he loves the sound of his own voice. He's emulating John Winger and Ferris Bueller's good qualities and shedding away the bad ones. As a kid, movies like Beverly Hills Cop, Ferris Bueller, and Stripes always made me wish I was the main character, but "Community" has taught me there's more value in being a human being.
I wanna be like a million TV characters. One is Raven Baxter, for her psychic powers and cool attic room. Also, Diane, the person Cooper is always talking to in his tape recorder on "Twin Peaks." Also, I wouldn't want to ever be Topanga or Winnie Cooper, but a Savage brother as a love interest would be nice.
Like most people, I've never been interested in any career that would prevent me from insulting people to their faces or saying "cocksucker" a lot. For this reason, Al Swearengen has always been something of a hero to me. On "Deadwood" the man proved, time and time again, that it is possible to run a small business and rally the people around a cause, all the while drinking to excess, intimidating strangers, sleeping with prostitutes, and wriggling out from under the thumb of The Man. In fact, if our politicians were free to make ample rhetorical use of sodomy metaphors, we'd be sure to attract a much livelier, more entertaining pool of candidates. In urging us to stand together against another terrorist menace, wouldn't it be refreshing to hear Obama ask, "Will we of the United States be more than targets for ass-fucking?" And conjuring Swearengen could help Obama to efficiently address everything from North Korea's empty diplomatic gestures ("He must think I'm a fucking dog, forgives the blow first friendly scratch at the ear.") to the ethicality of drone strikes on foreign targets ("You can't cut the throat of every cocksucker whose character it would improve.") Best of all, instead of playing the "Star-Spangled Banner" before major events, someone could simply shout, "Open the fucking canned peaches!"
Funny that you're asking this, as I was asking myself this same question just recently. What I came up with is that probably the only television character I could ever be is Graham Chase from "My So-Called Life." I think when I was younger I'd have said I wanted to be someone like Jordan Catalano, some brooding, artistic loner who all the girls love. But then you get older and you're like, "Oh, yeah, Jordan Catalano was a selfish illiterate who never knew what day it was!" Nowadays I like Graham: Just a dude trying to figure out what in this life fulfills him while also trying to do right by his wife and kids. I could get down with that.
MacGyver The stakes are never as high, but I like to think of myself as having MacGyver-like skills when it comes to home repairs. So to actually be MacGyver would take things to the next level. With his skills I could surely dazzle my kids by making explosives out of toothpaste or some such thing
When I was 10, I would have answered with a resounding Lisa Simpson, then gone back to practicing my saxophone, which I totally started playing because of her. The subsequent 18 seasons of "The Simpsons" and puberty have relieved me of that ambition, however. So speaking as Adult Me, I'd have to say Veronica Mars. The idea of having access to the tools of a private investigator appeals to the nosy know-it-all in me, and I've always wanted to take someone out with a stun gun. (Let's just leave out the whole "acquaintance rape" and "in constant mortal peril" aspects, though, shall we?)
If I could be any TV character, I'd want to be Ralph Wiggum. I'd have a cat named Mittens whose breath smells like cat food. I wouldn't be allowed in the deep end of the sandbox, which, honestly, is something that's always freaked me out, anyway. I'd have a pre-packaged collection of Star Wars characters, still in their original display boxes (but I'd take better care of my Wookie). I'd have an imaginary Leprechaun to keep me company. I'd play a mean George Washington. I'm Idaho. Best of all, I'd be blissfully unaware of, well, everything, and that sounds pretty great sometimes. In other words: I choo-choo-choose Ralph Wiggum.
Embarrassingly, I kinda wanted to be Seth Cohen from "The O.C.", nerdy and wiry and a little weird, but still cool and sexy. I think I wanted to be Dana Scully from "The X-Files" for a while, and probably Buffy at some point too. Mostly though, and I know she's not technically a TV character, but I want to be Samantha Brown from the Travel Channel because she has the best job of any American working today.
Alex P. Keaton, of course. A nerdy, too-smart-for-his-own-good white dork who overcame all of that to be charming, popular and attractive to girls? He was everything I could possibly aspire to be. Even if I never understood all the references to trickle-down economics.
All the shows I currently adore feature people who are insanely flawed and/or living in hellish Medieval warscapes. I don't want to be Tyrion or Kalinda or River Song, even though I love those characters.
I suppose I'll pick Leslie Knope, although I could not resemble her less. She's a role model for humanity without being totally obnoxious, plus she's dating Adam Scott. Alternately, maybe Max on "Happy Endings", but not during his yearly hibernation.
As a child of the 70s and 80s, this presents a huge challenge for me. TV in my formative years was chock full of enviable roles. I went as Underdog like three Halloweens in a row. In my 30s. I mean, the smart money's gonna pick Thomas Magnum (the Ferrari, the shorts), Jack Tripper (the innuendo) or ALF (the cat-eating), right? Or the guys from Riptide? That helicopter!
In the end, though, it's gotta be Hawkeye Pierce. My father was a huge fan of "M*A*S*H", so I grew up watching Alan Alda play Hawkeye long before I was old enough to discover the movie. His character was urbane but irreverent, professional but anti-authority; a womanizer, boozer and prankster who also seemed to care a lot about helping war casualties regardless of uniform. He appealed to me as a kid because he got to play Army, and as a pre-teen because he refused to play Army by the rules. His character got a bit preachy in the later seasons, but he had already taught me to put beer in my breakfast cereal, so it's all good.
Nowadays, as an adult, I'm less envious of the lives of fictional characters like Don Draper or Pauly D. In my rich fantasy life, I would love to be one of the "Mythbusters" or "Top Gear" guys. Boys will be boys.
The first TV character I remember looking up to (who wasn't a cartoon) was Albert Rosenfeld, the acerbic FBI agent played by Miguel Ferrer on "Twin Peaks". He came off as a cynical jerk, which was funny, but it was a strange, wonderful scene in which he revealed the deep principles beneath that cynicism that made him admirable to my 17-year-old-self, who was looking for a way out of the unearned cynicism my friends and I had cultivated as a way of life in high school. These days, now that I've aged into the role of a crusty editor, I most look up to Lou Grant from "The Mary Tyler Moore Show". That's in part because he and I have roughly the same sort of job, but mostly because he possesses a more complex version of Albert Rosenfeld's outer toughness and inner idealism, a combination that, in my experience, you need if you want to make it in the world while still holding onto your soul. I'd happily be Lou minus the obvious alcoholism and failing marriage (and, well, without Ed Asner's build and back hair).
I am sufficiently inadequate as a person that I don't think I can narrow it down to just one, but if I've got to pick: Coach Eric Taylor of "Friday Night Lights". As I wrote in my review of the series finale, he basically spent the five seasons of the show teaching a seminar in How to Be a Goddamn Man. Stick to your principles. Be loyal but not blind. Pull other people up, not down. Have faith. Give a shit. I could stand to improve on any of those qualities, plus I wouldn't mind better chin definition and to be able to hold a conversation about sports.
When I was younger, I would always identify with/aspire to be the sidekick characters. None of the responsibility of the leads, who always had to do stuff, save stuff, and put their lives and hearts at risk, but close enough to get some of that reflected glory or the sweet perks that come with being a Very Interesting Person's best friend. Then Joss Whedon went and poked Xander's eye out in the waning episodes of "Buffy," and while I can't say I ever wanted to be Xander (nerd-surrogate was never my bag), it certainly opened my eyes (ugh, I tried to avoid it, you guys) to the folly of sidekick superiority.
These days, I can't imagine anyone would want to pass up the life of a Leslie Knope, who manages to be wildly successful in her personal and professional lives without having to do anything mean or morally compromising and who enjoys the unfailing support of a street team who sometimes seem to exist only to see her achieve her dreams. Would I be willing to relocate to Pawnee, Indiana in order to reap such unfathomable benefits? Umm… (Just kidding! I'd be whisked to Washington D.C. within two years anyway!)
Honorable mention: if you're looking for all of that dogged friend propping-up without the pressure of actual success, you could do worse than Nick from "New Girl".
Andy Rooney: Growing up a fundamentalist Christian, I wasn't allowed to watch much TV, but every Sunday night my family gathered around "60 Minutes". I loved the show, and got teased by my classmates for listing it as my "favorite TV show" in my 8th grade yearbook. But I always shushed my siblings and sat close to the screen at the end when it was time for my favorite segment, "A few minutes with Andy Rooney.""
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As a boy, I wanted to be Buck Rogers on "Buck Rogers in the 25th Century"—the 1978 Gil Gerard character, the guy in the jumpsuit—because he got into cool adventures, had a Mr. Spock-like half hawkman as a best friend, and had Wilma Deering as a girlfriend but could have easily shagged the voluptuous Princess Ardala if he wanted. When I got slightly older I wanted to be Frank Furillo on "Hill Street Blues" because he seemed like the best-case scenario of what a heterosexual male adult could be. While far from perfect (he was a recovering alcoholic and could let his pride get the better of him) he was a great human being: tough but not stupidly macho, blunt but not cruel, and ultimately compassionate. He owned up to every part of himself, including his mistakes. And his girlfriend Joyce Davenport was as cool, sexy and smart as he was.
Summer Roberts ("The O.C."): Fast-talking, quippy best friend of town lush Mischa Barton with not insignificant—though consciously recognized!—daddy issues who, despite her initial fixation with high-school popularity eventually lands the equally fast-talking, quippy nebbish. The scene in which she and Seth stop at a diner on the way to Mexico and read the paper and butter each other's toast and pour each other's coffee without even looking up—oh my gosh! Its importance to my understanding of how ideal relationships should work cannot be overstated. Also she looked bomb in a Superwoman costume that she rented to make Seth swoon! I love a girl who appreciates the (dark) art of a well-timed costume!
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A United Nations report Monday criticised Australia's immigration camp on Papua New Guinea, warning living conditions are harsh and asylum-seekers' detention arbitrary.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees called for no more children to be sent to the camp on remote Manus Island, which was established as part of Australia's plan to ship refugees offshore to deter more from coming.
In its report, the UNHCR warned of "very significant inadequacies in the legal and operational framework governing the transfer, treatment and processing" of asylum-seekers.
Detaining asylum-seekers on a mandatory and indefinite basis, without possibility for review, amounted to "arbitrary detention which is inconsistent with international human rights law", it added.
"The key failing is that there are in place no legal frameworks for the processing of refugee claims," UNHCR regional representative Richard Towle told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
"If the sole purpose of transfer from Australia to Papua New Guinea was to process people, one would expect there'd be some kind of process in place for people when they get there."
The UNHCR said the delays and uncertainty for asylum-seekers about whether they will eventually be classed as refugees had left many feeling distressed and confused.
"They are in closed detention, without a process in sight. They feel they have been forgotten," Towle said.
A UNHCR team that visited Manus for three days last month said both Australia and PNG were committed to adequate procedures and conditions being in place despite the difficulties faced in remote Pacific locations.
But it said at the time of their visit, living conditions for most of the 221 detainees on Manus were harsh and, for some, inadequate.
"The hot and humid weather made the temporary accommodation very uncomfortable," Towle said.
Australia began dispatching asylum-seekers to Manus Island in November as part of a new policy of sending boatpeople offshore to deter others from making the risky journey to Australia which has claimed hundreds of lives.
Canberra's other offshore camp, on the small Pacific nation of Nauru, has also been criticised by rights advocates, with Amnesty describing conditions there as "appalling" and likely in breach of obligations to refugees.
Australia last year dealt with a record 17,202 asylum-seekers arriving by boat. The majority pay people-smugglers for passage from Indonesia on leaky wooden vessels, and sinkings are routine.


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Despite never having seen the track before, Dahlgren claimed third on the start grid, just 0.069 seconds from pole position. But things would get a dramatic turnover in race one as Dahlgren was pushed off in to the barriers in the first corner, forcing the Volvo driver in to retirement. Despite major damage, the Volvo Polestar Racing team managed to get Dahlgren out in time for the second race with frantic repairs.
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Charlotte is good, its an excellent salad potato - lovely with a bit of butter or blob of mayonnaise. But Pam's given me pause for thought now over main crops! Vivaldi is also listed as a 2nd early but is meant to be a good baking potato. Would like to try a few Marfona - where do you get the seed potatoes from Pam?
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It was extremely windy when I was at the plot today, and I discovered my water butt had fallen over. The ground is so soft the base had sunk on one side and as it was full the weight had caused it to fall.
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We did Lady Christyl 1st, Charlotte 2nd, Desiree n Golden Wonder main last year, all did well, not a massive crop, but plenty enough! but has someone said earlier! the wet weather never helped!
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I had Lady Chrstyl last year, only about 3 small flavourless potatoes on each. And I had Charlotte which was great. At first like a salad potato,good for summer. I left them in the ground and dug them up when needed. They got less firm and more floury, better for autumn and winter, and the last lot dug at Christmas made great roast potatoes.
My sister had Lady Chatterley under her mattress when I was about 14 so I nicked it and couldn't find anything exciting in it. Then I saw in the front it had "abridged version" so all the good bits had been taken out!
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Hello everyone - lots of potatoes on here today . I've been in school concentrating hard on fractions, percentages and decimals . Sorry to hear about leaks and Lottie's saggy butt . Have just found out we will be dog-sitting Fri - Mon for a cute little Jack Russell cross called Archie (friend's rescue dog) so will be doing quite a few walkies! Son went to Hong Kong 2 years ago and visited the Giant Buddha - will see if I can find picture.
I seem to recall he got to the actual site in a glass bottomed cable car and the walk up the steps to the statue was quite exhausting!
My house has just been turned upside down by Jess's school friends. 2 twin boys, came back to 'play' for an hour after nursery! Good Lord! Talk about . I really couldn't cope with them full time. They were so 'into eveything'. Poor mum. No wonder she always looked exhausted.
Think I'll have to go to GC. I suppose if I leave it too late they'll sell out. based on everyones ideas I think I wilhave a go at Kestrel, desiree (maybe) picasso, and Anya but as I only grow in containers I do not need KG's worth. There is always Charlotte to fall back on and will get christmas ones again - hoping it's a better year. Is this a good spread, experts?
Caz that is serious summimg you have been doing
OH has been to the dentist and doesn't want anything heavy-she is having omelette- I am having beans and egg on toast
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I only need small packs not the big bags. 1 or 2 bags a variety and then I have them along the garden path - plenty of room. A plan this year is to make a potato bag/plant nursery area that's the plan I have the gravel but......
No Caz-did you see the other one? -am waiting for someone to ask about that and the house details-don't want to appear pushy
We are nosey Geoff but far too polite to ask
Then we have reached a stand-off- who is going for their gun first?
Saw the other photo Geoff and did comment that only real men wear pink
You know how nosey we all are - we want to see everything
Just post the bloody pic and details!
Becks - we twinned or should we not mention twins to you after today's outing?