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The days of rain have slowed down the chiller loop project but not enough to cause serious delays in Bakersfield College.
To increase efficiency, the Grace Van Dyke Bird Library, the Language Arts building and the BC bookstore will be connected via pipe system with one chiller cool loop to accommodate all three. The chiller loop project has its trenches complete and the polyvinyl chloride (PVC) pipes inserted. However, according to Keith Keevil, manager of maintenance and operations, that was just the easy part.
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Other things from Day 1:
Taught Archipelago twice, back to back (didn't play). People seemed to enjoy it.
Ate some fairly spicy Thai food, to prepare my body for hot chicken. Cartoonin, Cathadan, karmajay and I had a good rap session about GWJ and various/sundry people therein. Cartoonin would not shut up about how dreamy he thought Q Stone was. I can't emphasize this enough.
Minarchist taught Nations to Cpt, boogs, and myself. We were all quite impressed! Minarchist edged me out by 1 point in true Andy fashion (never mind he was playing on a higher difficulty). We had fairly contrasting styles between the four if us and it really gives you that Civ, progress type feeling.
Later, we made mistakes with Labatt and Krystal burgers. We picked up earbuds and they did an okay job.
A Distant Plain lies on the horizon...
Hot chicken can cause bodily harm to you. Just FYI, everyone
Recap, Director's Cut! (Carrotpanic is doing an amazing job with his recaps, which are being put together on the phone at the con. But with as many Goodjers as we have haunting the halls of this con, we all split into groups, so I'm going to try to cover some of the games that were played without the carrot's august presence.)
The day started with more Galaxy Trucker, with Minarchist, Boogle, CptDomano and I hurling our battered, broken spaceships through the hazardous depths of space to meet their (most likely) doom. This has been one of the highlights of the con for me. What it lacks in strategic depth it makes up for with sheer hilarity, as boogle's ship got pounded to pieces, an epidemic wiped out my crew, and CptDomano just kind of idled along trying desperately to look casual. In the end, experience won the day as Minarchist raked in all the fat space bucks.
Next, I broke off and joined Cathadan, KarmaJay, and Manta for a game of Space Cadets, a space exploration game simulating the bridge of a starship. Each station frantically tries to complete various minigames during a far-too-short time limit. Primarily due to some excellent weapons work by the ruggedly handsome tactical officer (who might have finally figured out how to keep his torpedoes from whizzing off the table), the day was won by the intrepid crew of the USS WaitIHaveToLookSomethingUp. The game wasn't my favorite, but it might have been due to the fact that none of us really knew what the hell we were doing. Might be worth a second look.
We all donned our Armani suits and thick billfolds for the next, as nearly all of us came together for a chaotic and noisy game of Panic On Wall Street. By the end of the first round, this was a bonafide hit for most of the people at the table, as the combination of desperately screaming at each other and wheedling a few more thousand dollars out of your friends for a stock that will most likely ruin them and leave them turning tricks on a street corner for dice bag money had the entire convention watching us and laughing. In the end, Boogle won as the top investor, and I brought home the prize for top broker, as he and I worked together to bring home, in his words, "stacks on stacks".
During the lunch break, I sat down with the creator of a card game called Allegiance, an odd fusion of the deception of Resistance and the interplay of Love Letter. It was quite good, and due to come up for a Kickstarter soon. Planning to back this as soon as the campaign launches.
After a lunch of nose-bleedingly hot chicken, I sat down with some friends and my much more significant other to play Steam Park, a game of constructing suspiciously racist theme parks for visiting robots. (As an example, you have to keep the different color robots strictly segregated, and there's a card granting a bonus for having the fewest black robots in your park... so, yeah.) It was a bit bland. There wasn't anything specifically wrong with it, but there wasn't anything to recommend it either.
Next, Minarchist took the three minutes he needed to teach us Takaido, a lovely game about taking a quiet stroll across Japan. It's one of the most beautiful games I've ever played, and one that I'd heard mixed reviews about. It was a big hit with us, and one that I'm excited to add to my collection.
After that, Jen and I sat down with some friends to play Compounded, a worker placement game about running a chemistry lab. While I was a bit dubious at first, this game quickly won me over with some really intriguing gameplay and dynamics that keep it from being the solo experience that a lot of worker placement games end up becoming. I really do recommend this quite a bit.
Finally, the day wound down with me teaching KarmaJay, Manta, and Obirano Love Letter. A perfect game to wrap the day up with, this little gem always seems to be a big hit with everyone.
Cartoonin would not shut up about how dreamy he thought Q Stone was. I can't emphasize this enough.
He is just jealous of our love! Don't hate the player, baby!
All in all, I had a good time over the weekend, and as always, it's a treat to put faces to avatars from GWJ.
FYI, stay the hell away from the extra hot chicken, unless you truly enjoy capillary damage.
Hey, the USS WaitIHaveToLookSomethingUp was a fine vessel, only suffering major structural damage twice and ultimately being led to victory through the clever machinations of a dashing and charismatic captain.
Was a great weekend... still trying to remember all the things... played a lot of games and got some time on two prototypes included the above mentioned and one that needed more balancing.
Short of a major life event I will be there next year... although I might go for a normal lunch... hot chicken is hot... and I got the mild.
Lots of Alabama people were there. I feel like we could get one going down here as well. Then we would have double the fun. Now we just need someone to organize and pay for the space and advertisements... easy right?
Phew, back and home and now I can catch up with a keyboard...
El Grande - Played this with Cpt, boogle, Minarchist, and Minarchist's friend, fake Iron Maiden. It was really interesting hearing him teach the game that I've taught a few times now. He had a lot more flair and wit maybe, but I don't think he did a great job overviewing what the game was about prior to getting to really detailed specifics. Anyway, this grand-daddy of them all area control game once again provided a ton of thrills, surprises, confusion, elation, and comebacks. Someone won by one point. I was in third or something. The cards on the last round dicked me over; that's my story.
Panic on Wall St. - Trichy covered this really well above but I'd like to footnote that I foolishly risked a bunch of money on a hot stock acquisition for the last round, which was a departure to my steady/managable strategy that had gotten me into first place among brokers to that point. It bit me in the butt and I lost by like $20k, losing $55k on that single stock. Regrets. So many regrets. Trichy doesn't deserve to even look at my yacht.
Hot Chicken was up next after executing the no ship math trade (got Shogun for my Manhattan Project, yesss!) and I went for medium this year up from mild last year. Mild last year was one of the hottest things I've ever eaten and maybe it was because I was more mentally prepared this year or because I got tenders which came with a small packet of ranch that I carefully doled out throughout the course of the meal...but I thought medium was pretty much the same as the mild last year and it didn't really give me any issues afterward (unless it's some kind of sleeper cell in my gut right now...distinctly possible). Again, the fried chicken itself is some of the best I have ever had and I'd be happy as a pig in mud to go back to Bolton's every time I visited Nashville from here until the end of time. Fat Mo's malt is the cherry on top that helps soothe. I did also accidentally get some cayenne pepper in my eye which hurt like hell to say the least. I wasn't far from a bathroom to rinse my eye, luckily.
A Distant Plain - The further we got into the 90 minutes it took to run the tutorial rounds (think about that for a second) the more I wondered what I had gotten myself into. I was the Coalition (of the willing, Japan's sending PS2s), Cpt was the Government (COIN buddies for life, yo), Minarchist was the Taliban (boo this man!), and boogle was the Warlords (he said something about rollin' on the streets of Trashganistan...just saying). The GMT games COIN system is the heart of the system and I was really impressed. Mainly it boils down to considering what you want to let the other players have the option to do vs. being greedy and doing the best thing you can do when your turn is available. Cpt and I worked really well together to beat back an early Taliban lead (that the game set up) and boogle helped by backstabbing/being opportunistic (depending on who you ask). Since boogle's Warlords bubbled up to the top of the heap we tried to get him under control and just barely did so prior to the first win check. I was also fairly close to my win condition, mainly by judicious use of events that were in my favor (and various jockeying to make that work out by getting Cpt on my turns so that he was the one who got the added benefit of going second when I took my "greedy action" since we were working well as a team to start the game). We quit at the second propaganda round (so maybe 40-60% through the game) after about...4.5 hours? We declared all four parties joint winners of the Afghanistan war and rolled through the streets in sweet Beemers.
Kemet took place after a quick bite, and saw Minarchist, Cpt, Stilgar, boogs, and myself going at it in ancient/crazy Egypt. This are control game really advocates fast/nutso/repeated fighting from the very start and was really engaging. Plus, it's cool to fight a giant Scarab against a Sphinx dude. Minarchist and I focused on early income/tech investments while the others went to war to try to score points that way. I made a move too early to use my income to buy victory points outright instead of improving my defense and got quickly ganged up on. It came down to the final round, and after a comedy of errors we had a four way tie for first that nominally was won by Minarchist. I literally would have won if I understood how to use a tech that I just purchased that I might not have if Minarchist hadn't said anything about that he wouldn't have said anything if I didn't move boogle to last in the turn order...). Definitely looking to play this again sometime and it wasn't nearly as intimidating as I thought it might be---or maybe that was just in comparison to A Distant Plain
Allegiance - As Trichy mentioned above, Allegiance is a variable player power, backstabbing, secret information, deception card game that plays in about 20 minutes. Trichy, Boogle, KarmaJay and I played and I was the sole winner for the Thieves after getting some lucky draws and despite the fact that I was trying to make the Temple side win the entire game until the last couple cards. WHOOPS.
Quantum - Going in, this was one of two games I wanted to play and I came away having enjoyed it but not quite hooked. I definitely want to play again to form a more well informed opinion. It's a simplified space-combat game where your ships are dice. Everything is extremely abstracted and stripped down, but as such there seems to be a lot of room for smart plays depending on when you use your powers vs. when you use your limited actions. In a game between Minarchist, Trichy, Cathadan and myself I made combinations early by hiding behind Trichy which allowed me to acquire permanent traits to boost my military and from there there wasn't much anyone could do to stop me. Run away lead problem maybe.
Clue: The Great Museum Caper - Cathadan, his lovely sister Mary and super nice boyfriend Chase were really excited to play this childhood favorite of Cath/Mary's. I think Cath might be the world's biggest fan of this proto-Letters from Whitechapel/simplified version of Scotland Yard. One player is the invisible thief that attempts to disarm the security, steal paintings, and escape without being caught and the other players try to take actions to infer and deduce where the thief is. I was thief first and took about 5 turns to grab a painting and jump out the first window I saw. I was hoping everyone else would be foiled, but the experience paid off for Cath and Mary who had a tie at 3. Chase was being the most meticulous and careful, running us every which way around the board, but we stumbled upon him before he ever touched a painting, stopping him in his tracks.
After a nice pizza buffet lunch with Cath and his friend David (go Tech!), it was back to the con for the second annual Tennessee Game Days Pitch Car 500. This year's track featured a raised track figure eight and a jump right before the finish line. These were our two major problem areas, with many people getting stuck just on the up-slope of the upper track, for some reason. Pitch Car is funny...you feel inept on 3 of 4 shots but your 4th shot will sweep around a corner perfectly or nail a jump, flip your piece over a couple times and land just right and you feel great again. It definitely provided a lot of laughs as always, and got Trichy's friend Rachel to play, too! Minarchist lapped the field (some literally twice, on a three lap race) due to his golden fingernail and I believe I was the only player who wasn't lapped when he crossed the finish line. I cruised to a second place after I managed to free myself from the quagmire and take more conservative shots. Boogle got 3rd, cause if you ain't 3rd you're 4th or 5th or 6th or 7th. That's what my daddy always told me.
Loopin' Louie - We wrapped up with a couple quick games of Loopin' Louie, an erstwhile kids dexterity game that is way too much fun. A motorized crane moves a plane around in a circle around which four players have levers that precede their target areas. When the plane is over your lever you flip it up to bounce the plane over your targets and hopefully landing right onto someone else's (or giving it a one-bouncer). I won the first game despite having a non functioning lever the first round (think I knocked Minarchist's targets out three shots in a row at one point) and Cath dominated the second game with a new crew. I of course, had already retired from Loopin' Louie competition undefeated for life.
TNGD was bigger and badder, although not necessarily better than last year. Both years were great in their own ways. Last year it was easier to talk to everyone and get to know people, especially Trichy's lovely family. This year we had the added benefit of Boogle time (4 pound, that's all I'm going to say). I got to spend time with new folks like Klax, cartoonin, Manta, and KarmaJay which was one of my favorite parts of these things. Some of my favorite times were just riding in the car bullsh*tting with people like Minarchist, Trichy, Cpt, and Boogle. We laughed hard, we got a flat tire, we got stopped by the cops, we set our mouths on fire and it wasn't that bad at all. I really wish we could see each other more often but it's best just to cherish the times we have. Until next time!
Bonus game of the show info: Nations, although it's just not fair. It pushes all my buttons. Civ builder. Abstracted confrontation. Worker placement. Variable player powers. I can't wait until I play this game again. Honorable mention: Kemet.
My game of the con is probably Archie P. Luego, of the Boston Luegos. (Archipelago if you're nasty.) It's pretty rare that I play a game where I spend half of the time figuring out what's going on, but spend the next few hours thinking over what happened and wanting to play again as soon as possible. So good, so deep, and I'm really wanting to add this to my collection. Honorable mentions go to Galaxy Trucker and Compounded.
To back up carrotpanic, I can't stress enough how much fun I have with this con. For the price, I don't know of a better event out there, and it's way too much fun to see old friends, meet new ones, and spend a few days inhaling board games like an addict. The guests of Casa del Trichy all chipped in to fuel Jen and my Agricola addiction by surprising us with two expansions and a two-player variant, all of which have Jen chomping at the bit to start planting corn and putting babies to work in the fields.
Finally, the weekend ended in similar fashion to the first year, with Boogle, Cath and Klax coming back to my house for homemade pulled pork and chocolate pudding cake, followed by JS Joust. This time saw Boogle in a slow motion duel with a 12 year old girl, all of us playing in pitch black rooms with the eerie Blackout mode, and tactics from hiding in the bathroom, inadvertent nut punches, and sofa cushions to the face. It was an absolute blast, and I can't wait to see everyone again.
All the recaps made me truly jealous, glad you all enjoyed yourselves. It's definitely went to the top of my list for things to try and check out next year.
A Distant Plain remains perhaps the most interesting and engaging game I think I've played to date. I apologize to my fellow players if I seemed a bit put-out or weary, but after hot chicken and a two-hour teaching session before we actually played I was tired and irritable, and the game was frustrating me. Upon further organization of my thoughts, I cannot wait to get the game back to the table. It's very interesting: the first time we played, I was completely bewildered. The second time, frustrated. The third time, I think I will "get" it. I already "saw" much more of the game in our 2nd game than I did in the first, and its systems started to make more sense. I hope that my local group will see some use for this in the near future. However, for those who are thinking about it, I might note that it may be one of those games where it's better to break up the teaching and the playing into two separate days. Everyone's pretty damn weary by the end of the teaching session. I felt bad for both carrot and CptDomano; I know those feels, man.
I'll admit that I was a bit tired by the time we got back to the table for this one--I'm pretty sure I was even nodding off during the teaching portion, so I apologize for asking the same questions over and over. Once we got into the game itself I woke up a bit and was super interested in what was going on even though I was completely overwhelmed by everything going on.
That being said, A Distant Plain is the one of the few board games I've personally been engaged by both the theme and the mechanics. Most of the time whenever a person declares a game as being good because it is strong thematically my eyes just sort of glaze over. I have a tendency to just boil most games down to looking at the end goal, then trying to understand the mechanics while ignoring most of the "flash". A Distant Plain was definitely one of those games that (in my opinion) does a good job of conveying the difficult task of being in a war where different factions need to work together while opposing each other at the same time. I feel like I'm explaining it properly, but I'll just say that the game feels more than just trading resource/victory points on a board and I'm really interested in trying it again.
As for me, I don't really have a specific game of the con as I loved the hell out of everything I played. Aside from El Grande, Eclipse, and Galaxy Trucker, everything I played was new for me. I wish I would have had time to get in a game of Sekigahara, but that's the problem with leaving super early on the last day (thanks again to obirano for making the early morning trip to the airport so I could make my flight!).
I think if I had to pick a game I'd go with Nations as my game of the con. I'm a big fan of the Civilization games, and this one reminded me a lot of that game but in board game format. Really easy to learn and a ton of fun to play, even though I had no idea what I was doing (which is how I was for most of the con).
The only downside that I saw was that because there were so many GWJ'ers there that I didn't get a chance to really meet/talk with all of you as much as I would have wanted since we were all in various stages of play/hanging out throughout the day. However, it was still nice meeting everyone and looking forward to running into each other real soon *COUGH*
I'll definitely be in Nashville again next year for the three-peat!
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I'll definitely be in Nashville again next year for the three-peat! :)
I will definitely plan on attending next year as well.
A couple of extra games I was introduced to away from the rest of the group included Dixit and The Great Dalmuti. The first of which is a excellent intersection of Apples to Apples and Balderdash, trying to describe art instead of words. The second is Richard Garfield's variant of the traditional card game Asshole (aka President, Revolution, etc) that is played with a custom deck and balanced in just the right way as to make it my favorite version of the game I've played. At some point I also was able to introduce several people (Klax, KarmaJay, Cartoonin, David, Obirano?) to RoboRally. In spite of the added difficulty of having to figure out the old early 90s printing we had on hand, it still produced the appropriate amount of robo-chaos, and my experience with it from PenCon was what I needed to pull ahead and finish the race properly before everyone gave up on it.
I must say I was thoroughly grossed out, shocked, and amused by several of Domano's Tales of TNGD. Sounds like you guys had a great time!
Next year you're coming out and making him stay with the babby, yes?
Had a fun time this weekend, particularly meeting other Goodjers. Game-wise the ones that stood out to me were of course the 9 player Eclipse (even though we had people come by and looks at our table and say "Good lord" at the scale of the game), Galaxy Truckers, Lords of Waterdeep (personal favorite of the weekend), Panic at Wall Street (a close frantic second place nod), and the game I picked up for me and the boys, Poo!
All in all, a successful weekend, and hopefully I will be there for next year's festivities and since I will have my own place, possibly a place where at least a couple of people can crash on couches.
I must say I was thoroughly grossed out, shocked, and amused by several of Domano's Tales of TNGD. Sounds like you guys had a great time!
Well, all that Krystal and Labatt has to go somewhere…
Yeah, in my tummy! Krystal + Labaht = so good.
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I must say I was thoroughly grossed out, shocked, and amused by several of Domano's Tales of TNGD. Sounds like you guys had a great time!
If Jen was there for that conversation, I give her my deepest, most heartfelt condolences! Haha! I was laughing pretty hard though. And seriously, that is half a baby. It's a whole preemie.
I have to build up a lot of inappropriate conversation pieces if I'm going to come out next year. I'd better start now.
trichy wrote:DiscoDriveby wrote:
I must say I was thoroughly grossed out, shocked, and amused by several of Domano's Tales of TNGD. Sounds like you guys had a great time!
If Jen was there for that conversation, I give her my deepest, most heartfelt condolences! Haha! I was laughing pretty hard though. And seriously, that is half a baby. It's a whole preemie.
I have to build up a lot of inappropriate conversation pieces if I'm going to come out next year. I'd better start now.
Jen was not, fortunately.
Also, boogle loved to say "la-bots." HWATTABURGER/WATERBURGER.
Btw, Trichy, where is Beef Hero? I don't see her in this thread yet.
Also, boogle loved to say "la-bots." HWATTABURGER/WATERBURGER.
*waits for laughter, gets confused*
Safe home and looking to make my own version of the geekchic Spartan table for war gaming. Oh boy.
Jeez. I was actually in Franklin on Saturday and forgot all about this.
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I have to build up a lot of inappropriate conversation pieces if I'm going to come out next year. I'd better start now.
Yessss. Build them up so that you can come visit
so that I can scheme ways to convince you and hubby to move here permanentlyfor no particular reason.
I heard Domano was chided for rushing...I'm not sure The South could handle me!
Minarchist wrote:DiscoDriveby wrote:
I have to build up a lot of inappropriate conversation pieces if I'm going to come out next year. I'd better start now.
Yessss. Build them up so that you can come visit
so that I can scheme ways to convince you and hubby to move here permanentlyfor no particular reason.
I heard Domano was chided for rushing...I'm not sure The South could handle me!
Yes, but we like you so much more than we like him. Granted, I've never met you, but I feel it's a safe bet.


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When can a landowner challenge the constitutionality of a local ordinance? Not often, if a recent decision by North Carolina's second-highest court stands. Indeed, a strongly worded dissent suggests that citizens may have little ability to challenge newly passed ordinances if local governments delay enforcing them until after a two-month statute of limitations has expired.
On Oct. 2, 2006, Boone's town council adopted a steep slope ordinance and modified its existing viewshed protection ordinance. Jeffrey Templeton and Elizabeth A. Colonna Bird filed suit challenging the town council's actions. A superior court judge threw out their suit, finding that they had failed to state a claim upon which relief could be granted.
Templeton and Bird challenged this ruling and brought the matter before the Court of Appeals, arguing that the ordinances violated their constitutional rights to procedural due process and substantive due process, were an unconstitutional taking of property, and a violated their rights "to use their land" under Article 1, Section 19 of the North Carolina Constitution. The two also contended that the town did not follow proper procedure in adopting the ordinances.
The appeals court rejected the constitutional claim, finding that Templeton and Bird did not having standing to challenge the ordinances. The court based its decision on the 1987 N.C. Supreme Courts ruling in Grace Baptist Church v. Oxford. In that case, the high court held that "[i]n order to challenge the constitutionality of an ordinance, a litigant must produce evidence that he has sustained an injury or is in immediate danger of sustaining an injury as a result of enforcement of the challenged ordinance."
The court said Templeton and Bird did not present evidence of any such injury or immediate threat of injury.
"Plaintiffs' complaint simply states that plaintiffs own or have an interest in property within an area of town that will be affected by the subject zoning ordinance amendments," wrote Judge Donna Stroud for the court.
"Without an allegation that the subject zoning ordinance amendments will be or have been enforced against property owned by plaintiffs, plaintiffs have failed to demonstrate that they have 'sustained an injury or [are] in immediate danger of sustaining an injury' from enforcement of the ordinance amendments against them."
Moreover, under North Carolina law there is a two-month statute of limitations to challenge the constitutionality of a zoning ordinance. Lawsuits brought after that time will be dismissed. It's also well settled under state law that merely being a taxpayer or a citizen of a certain municipality does not allow a challenge to a zoning ordinance. Instead, to obtain standing, a plaintiff must have "a specific personal and legal interest in the subject matter affected by the zoning ordinance and . . . is directly and adversely affected thereby."
Judge Barbara Jackson agreed that Templeton and Bird did not have standing, but for different reasons. She also questioned the logic behind the majority's holding.
"I think that a requirement that the ordinance be enforced before a property owner may challenge it could allow a municipality to evade statutorily-mandated procedural safeguards by waiting to enforce an ordinance until two months after its adoption, thereby immunizing itself pursuant to the statute of limitations," she wrote.
In Jackson's view, the court's majority misapplied the N.C. Supreme Court's holding in Grace Baptist Church v. Oxford, a case about the selective enforcement of a zoning ordinance. There are, she notes, two types of constitutional challenges: as-applied and facial.
Facial challenges argue that a statute or ordinance is unconstitutional on its face. But, Jackson said, it's appropriate for a party to show injury or danger of injury when it contests whether an ordinance is unconstitutional as applied to the party bringing suit.
A "facial challenge to an ordinance's validity or, as the majority discusses, challenges to the procedures ensured by statute or local ordinance should not depend upon threatened enforcement," she wrote.
In support of her argument, she pointed to Judge Greene's dissent in Messer v. Town of Chapel Hill, a 1997 Court of Appeals decision.
Green wrote, "the plaintiffs contend that any application of the ordinance is unconstitutional because their property rights were violated the very moment the government enacted the ordinance, without regard to how it may be applied.
"This constitutes a 'facial challenge' as opposed to an 'as applied challenge.'"
The majority created the possibility that unconstitutional ordinances might escape challenge if the locality enacting them waits at least two months before beginning enforcement, Jackson said..
The situation has come up before. Challenges against a Nags Head zoning ordinance were dismissed because no harm was demonstrated and then later because the statute of limitations had expired.
Even so, Jackson said she also would dismiss the suit, because the parties did not make a facial challenge to the constitutionality of the ordinance. And, as the majority noted, Bird filed her claim after the statute of limitations had expired and Templeton failed to provide specific details in his claim to establish standing.
The case is Templeton v. Town of Boone (09-1332).
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This posting describes how I am assigning quantitative characteristics to texts in an effort to answer the question, "How 'great' are the Great Books?" In the end I make a plea for library science.
With the advent of copious amounts of freely available plain text on the 'Net comes the ability of "read" entire corpora with a computer and apply statistical processes against the result. In an effort to explore the feasibility of this idea, I am spending time answering the question, "How 'great' are the Great Books?"
More specifically, want to assign quantitative characteristics to each of the "books" in the Great Books set, look for patterns in the result, and see whether or not I can draw any conclusions about the corpus. If such processes are proven effective, then the same processes may be applicable to other corpora such as collections of scholarly journal articles, blog postings, mailing list archives, etc. If I get this far, then I hope to integrate these processes into traditional library collections and services in an effort to support their continued relevancy.
On my mark. Get set. Go.
Assigning quantitative characteristics to texts
The Great Books set posits 102 "great ideas" — basic, foundational themes running through the heart of Western civilization. Each of the books in the set were selected for inclusion by the way they expressed the essence of these great ideas. The ideas are grand and ambiguous. They include words such as angel, art, beauty, courage, desire, eternity, god, government, honor, idea, physics, religion, science, space, time, wisdom, etc. (See Appendix B of "How 'great' are the Great Books?" for the complete list.)
In a previous posting, "Great Ideas Coefficient", I outlined the measure I propose to use to determine the books' "greatness" — essentially a sum of all TFIDF (term frequency / inverse document frequency) scores as calculated against the list of great ideas. TFIDF is defined as:
( c / t ) * log( d / f )
- c = number of times a given word appears in a document
- t = total number of words in a document
- d = total number of documents in a corpus
- f = total number of documents containing a given word
Thus, the problem boils down to determining the values for c, t, d, and f for a given great idea, 2) summing the resulting TFIDF scores, 3) saving the results, and 4) repeating the process for each book in the corpus. Here, more exactly, is how I am initially doing such a thing:
- Build corpus – In a previous posting, "Collecting the Great Books", I described how I first collected 223 of the roughly 250 Great Books.
- Index corpus – The process used to calculate the TFIDF values of c and t are trivial because any number of computer programs do such a thing quickly and readily. In our case, the value of d is a constant — 223. On the other hand, trivial methods for determining the number of documents containing a given word (f) are not scalable as the size of a corpus increases. Because an index is essentially a list of words combined with the pointers to where the words can be found, an index proves to be a useful tool for determining the value of f. Index a corpus. Search the index for a word. Get back the number of hits and use it as the value for f. Lucene is currently the gold standard when it comes to open source indexers. Solr — an enhanced and Web Services-based interface to Lucene — is the indexer used in this process. The structure of the local index is rudimentary: id, author, title, URL, and full text. Each of the metadata values are pulled out of a previously created index file — great-books.xml — while the full text is read from the file system. The whole lot is then stuffed into Solr. A program called index.pl does this work. Another program called search.pl was created simply for testing the validity of the index.
- Count words and determine readability – A Perl module called Lingua::EN::Fathom does a nice job of counting the number of words in a file, thus providing me with a value for t. Along the way it also calculates a number of "readability" scores — values used to determine the necessary education level of a person needed to understand a given text. While I had "opened the patient" I figured it would be a good idea to take note of this information. Given the length of a book as well as its readability scores, I enable myself to answer questions such as, "Are longer books more difficult to read?" Later on, given my Great Ideas Coefficient, I will be able to answer questions such as "Is the length of a book a determining factor in 'greatness'?" or "Are 'great' books more difficult to read?"
- Calculate TFIDF – This is the fuzziest and most difficult part of the measurement process. Using Lingua::EN::Fathom again I find all of the unique words in a document, stem them with Lingua::Stem::Snowball, and calculate the number of times each stem occurs. This gives me a value for c. I then loop through each great idea, stem them, and search the index for the stem thus returning a value for f. For each idea I now have values for c, t, d, and f enabling me to calculate TFIDF — ( c / t ) * log( d / f ).
- Calculate the Great Ideas Coefficient – This is trivial. Keep a running sum of all the great idea TFIDF scores.
- Go to Step #4 – Repeat this process for each of the 102 great ideas.
- Save – After all the various scores (number of words, readability scores, TFIDF scores, and Great Ideas Coefficient) have been calculated I save each to my pseudo database file called great-ideas.xml. Each is stored as an attribute associated with a book's unique identifier. Later I will use the contents of this file as the basis of my statistical analysis.
- Go to Step #3 – Repeat this process for each book in the corpus, and in this case 223 times.
Of course I didn't do all of this by hand, and the program I wrote to do the work is called measure.pl.
The result is my pseudo database file — great-books.xml. This is my data set. It keeps track all of my information in a human-readable, application- and operating system-independent manner. Very nice. If there is only one file you download from this blog posting, then it should be this file. Using it you will be able to create your own corpus and do your own analysis.
The process outlined above is far from perfect. First, there are a few false negatives. For example, the great idea "universe" returned a TFIDF value of zero (0) for every document. Obviously is is incorrect, and I think the error has something to do with the stemming and/or indexing subprocesses. Second, the word "being", as calculated by TFIDF, is by far and away the "greatest" idea. I believe this is true because the word "being" is… being counted as both a noun as well as a verb. This points to a different problem — the ambiguity of the English language. While all of these issues will knowingly skew the final results, I do not think they negate the possibility of meaningful statistical investigation. At the same time it will be necessary to refine the measurement process to reduce the number of "errors".
Measurment, the humanities, and library science
Measurement is one of the fundamental qualities of science. The work of Archimedes is the prototypical example. Kepler and Galileo took the process to another level. Newton brought it to full flower. Since Newton the use of measurement — the assignment of mathematical values — applied against observations of the natural world and human interactions have given rise to the physical and social sciences. Unlike studies in the humanities, science is repeatable and independently verifiable. It is objective. Such is not a value judgment, merely a statement of fact. While the sciences seem cold, hard, and dry, the humanities are subjective, appeal to our spirit, give us a sense of purpose, and tend to synthesis our experiences into a meaningful whole. Both of the scientific and humanistic thinking processes are necessary for us to make sense of the world around us. I call these combined processes "arscience".
The library profession could benefit from the greater application of measurement. In my opinion, too much of the profession's day-to-day as well as strategic decisions are based on antidotal evidence and gut feelings. Instead of basing our actions on data, actions are based on tradition. "This is the way we have always done it." This is medieval, and consequently, change comes very slowly. I sincerely believe libraries are not going away any time soon, but I do think the profession will remain relevant longer if librarians were to do two things: 1) truly exploit the use of computers, and 2) base a greater number of their decisions on data — measurment — as opposed to opinion. Let's call this library science.


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jim35 wrote:jim35 wrote:About finding connections, might that be what's meant by "flight of ideas?"
I'm not sure. They seem to be very fast logical connections with me. "This means that, that leads to that, which is why that is" and so on and so on.
Eureka moments maybe, but they only really make sense at the time. They don't last and they mean nothing when it's passed. Very transient and I can never remember my train of thought afterwards.
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Making Brushes by Robert Shelton
An expanded version of an article originally appearing in the World Famous CAG Newsletter. Note: this information is intended for personal use only. It cannot be redistributed in any way without prior consent from the creator of the article.
For less than $ 20, and in a few enjoyable hours, you can craft custom glaze brushes that will be the envy of your fellow ceramicists. If you have a fly tying fisher person in the family or neighborhood, the cost might be even less. This article will tell you what you need and how to go about it.
After you have materials in hand, these are the steps:
- Cut hair from supply piece.
- Fasten hairs together with thread wrapping.
- Cement butt of the hair bundle together.
- Make a handle from bamboo or dowel.
- Epoxy the hair bundle into bamboo handle.
Materials and Tools
Animal hair patches of your choice: buck tail($4.50) is the most versatile; elk mane($1.50), moose mane($1.50), or antelope($3.50) work well also. Buck tail comes in a much larger piece, so it's the least expensive. Prices and sizes vary widely. In selecting a patch, look at the length of the hairs, remembering that 1/4 to 1/2 inch forms the butt and goes inside the handle. Also look at the thickness of the hairs where they meet the hide. The thinner, the better in order to avoid "spinning", the flaring out of hairs when you tighten the thread. If you won't use a lot, try to trade with others so all have more variety.
- Pair of small scissors from toiletry or sewing stuff. Use what you have.
Spool of sturdy fly tying or sewing thread ($ 2). Black seems to work best, but it is up to you.
- Fly tying or other liquid cement ($2). You need a cement that is thin enough to flow between
the hairs and glue them together. Better too thin than too thick.
- 5-minute epoxy to hold hair bundle into handle. No, you won't need the 2000 pound stuff.
- Single edge razor blades.
- Dry bamboo for handles; hardwood dowels will work well also.
- A fine comb to clean fluff from the straight hairs. Source: steal one from the baby or from the electric shaver kit bought to trim your mustache.
- Access to fine toothed saw and small electric drill & bits. A fine coping saw blade may do
the job, but a hobby saw is better. Try the hobby shop across from Diablo Valley College.
- Fly tying bobbin holder ($ 7 to 9) - optional. It is possible to run some rubber bands around the spool of thread so that it does not go running across the floor when you drop it.
- Bobbin holders, thread, and many kinds of animal hair are available at Creative Sports, 1924C Oak Park Blvd. in Pleasant Hill, a couple blocks west of the County Central Library and at other fly fishing shops. Pay little attention to color as it will probably wash out anyway.
- Pieces of bamboo can be obtained from gardener friends, nurseries and Orchard Supply Hardware. I like black bamboo best, but it is hard to find.
Now that you are surrounded by your equipment and are ready to make brushes, consider two things:
- Will you be happy to have odd pieces of animal hair littering this area?
- Will you be happy if you spill cement on your table?
A "no" to either question should move you to find a new work space.
Cut Hair from Supply Piece
Select a piece of animal hide. Cut a squarish chunk away from the supply. For small
brushes, it is easiest to cut out a small piece of hide with desired amount of hair still attached. Wait to cut away the hide until you have thread wrapped tightly on bundle. First brush? Start with a piece 1/2 to 3/4 square. Larger brushes can be made of several smaller bundles. More delicate brushes can be made by combing out the fluff, leaving the guard hairs, but it will take more hide to make a brush. Try some of each. Larger brushes may require that you first grab a bunch of similar length hair and cut it from the hide.
Fasten with Thread
If using a bobbin holder, put the thread through the tube on the bobbin holder and the bobbin between the round knobs. Without a bobbin holder, just hold the bobbin in the palm of your hand with your little finger and control the thread between thumb and forefinger and have someone else nearby when you need a third hand. :-} It may also be possible to fashion some wire and rubber bands to keep the spool from unraveling.
Start wrapping the butt ends of the hair firmly but not super tight. To start the wrap, hold the thread end with the same hand as the hair, then wrap over the thread end to lock it in place. Thirty turns around the bundle is not excessive. How tight? If you wrap too tightly, the hairs will splay out in every which direction. Try to wrap as tightly as you can without causing the hairs to splay out -- unless you want that shape brush. Tie off by making a loop in the supply thread and dropping it over the butt end, pull tight. Here is where the bobbin holder really pays off because you can let it hang in mid air without the thread coming unrolled.
Cut Away the Hide
Cut the hide away from the bundle now. Then make some more wraps with the thread and tie the thread off as above. Trim the butt ends of the hair neatly so that the stub will fit neatly into the hole you will drill in the handle. Avoid cutting your wrapped thread!
Cement the Butt of Hair Bundle
Fly tying cement is quite liquid, so it will flow between the threads and into the butt of hairs to cement them to each other and to the thread. Use a toothpick, nail, or needle tool to dip drops of cement from the bottle to the hair bundle butt. Also cover the thread completely with cement, using two or three applications. You don't need to use a huge amount, but the threads should be well covered to seal them together for long brush life. Set the bundle aside to thoroughly dry on waxed paper.
Make a Handle
Select a piece of bamboo for the handle. It is most attractive to use a piece with a knot on both ends. Bamboo pieces between four and eight inches are the most useful. Select a section whose length and diameter seem in good proportion with the size of your hair bundle. Remember, the bundle of hair must fit into a hole you drill in the end of the bamboo. Cut your handle section out of the larger bamboo spear using as fine a saw as you can get your hands on. A fine hack saw blade may work, but do work gently to avoid tearing wood fibres. Adjacent bamboo sections may not be useful, depending on how you would like the handle ends to look. I use a saw from the hobby store across from DVCC. Sandpaper the bamboo ends as needed or if you have a grinding wheel, use that lightly. Want to get fancy: stain the cut portions to match the outsides.
Holding the bamboo while you drill is NOT a trivial issue. Drill slowly and you MAY be able to hold it by hand. Try to "hot dog" it and you may whip the bamboo out of your hand, perhaps injuring yourself if you have a tendency to be extraordinarily unlucky. I have a work bench vise equipped with a rubber jaw insert which works nicely, but I still drill slowly so that I don't split the bamboo. If you have a vice, but no "soft jaws", find some cork, felt, canvas, or rubber pieces to cushion the grip of the vice on your precious bamboo handle. Again, take it slowly so you don't mess up your handle. A MotoTool works particularly well due to its excellent speed control, but ordinary drills will work also.
There are various kinds of drill bits available, but since you are drilling into end grain, you don't need "brad point bits", in fact they are less effective. Good, old fashioned carbon bits are just fine. If you are planning on a BIG brush, consider drilling out a small hole and working up to the size you need. Use a round rasp or burring bit to make the hole larger.
Glue Hair Bundle into Handle
The hair bundle should slide into the hole without excessive force and far enough for most of the thread to be hidden inside. Check for fit before you apply epoxy. Epoxy the hair bundle into bamboo handle. 5-Minute Epoxy works best, especially for impatient folks like you and me. Follow the safety precautions on the tube and mix a small amount per the instructions. Mix the epoxy with a large nail, popsicle stick or such. Smear some epoxy inside the hole and a bit on the outside of the hair bundle stub (the wrapped part). It does not take a lot. I usually squeeze out half an inch of epoxy and same of hardener. Wipe off and wash your hands after use, epoxy in the mouth or eyes is a definite NO NO and the best way to avoid that is to keep your fingers out of it. After the first epoxy has set, examine the junction between hair bundle and handle to see if there are any voids to fill with some more epoxy via a toothpick -- this is mostly cosmetic, but may make your brush easier to clean.
Wow Mom! My Very Own Brush!
So, now you have a brush. Congratulations. You can make some more to expand on what you have learned. When the epoxy is fully hardened, get out some glaze and give it a try!
If you want to get fancy about appearances, here are some ideas:
- Design a way to put your initials or mark on the handle.
- Use a black marking pen to touch up cut ends of black bamboo.
- Drill a small hole at the back end and glue in a loop of black or gold cord.
- Paint the handle lightly with some DEFT wood finish or equivalent.
Now What?
So far we have not talked about how the individual hairs are lined up end-to-end. We just took them as the animal grew them. But it is also possible to build a different shape brush by aligning the hairs so that the points are together; such a brush may not trail as fine an ending to a stroke as before. But it will yield a brush with more control. There is a fishing fly tying device called a hair stacker ($15 and up) which is helpful in lining up the points. You can make a substitute with brass tubing per my example.
We used hair thickness as we found it, but it is possible to pick out hairs of similar thickness, points aligned or not, to make other styles of brushes. Consider that narrow, long bristled brushes will make snakey lines, short stiff ones will make more precise lines, and full, robust brushes will create broad, heavy lines. Which is best? Depends on what you want! Several of each would be nice. ;-}
After your first dozen animal hair brushes, you may want to explore other materials that can be used for bristles. Try one made with straws from a broom. You might use pieces of rag or artificial hairs from the Fly Tying Shop. If you have a house painting brush whose bristles look interesting but it's not in the right shape, try them.
What else?
Enjoy your brush crafting and make a few extra for gifting your potty friends!


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Career-wise Swedes abandon gap-year tradition
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Taking a year out before university is common in Sweden, with thousands of teenagers going overseas before embarking on their studies. While The Local's Elodie Pradet finds out the gap year is still de rigeur, stats show the tradition is on the decline.
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Cruising At A Gay BeachBy the time I accepted that I was bisexual I started exploring places where men picked up men. In the city in Europe where I lived then were a couple of parks where gay men cruised after dark. I went there a couple of time, but they felt very dangerous. I flirted a bit but as far as I recall I never had sex there.
In the summer however I found down the river just outside the city a remote nude beach frequented by gay guys. While at a regular nude beach it was a taboo to get an erection or to play with your **** at this gay beach almost every guy wallked around with a hard one.I took my clothes off, took my towel and watched what happened. I made it a game, not immediately responding to flirts. When I had to pee I walked to a couple of shrubs and realized that between the bushes guys were openly ************ and some of them even more. I acted as if I didn't see them, but made sure that they could see me peeing. Later that afternoon I went back to fhe bushes and made eye contact with one of them. He walked up to me, kneeled in front of me and gave me a blow job. After which I returned the favor.
I went a couple of more times always making sure I was pleased by the time I left.
Besides these gay adventures I was given a couple of times blow jobs by street workers in back allees. I never ****** outside although I tried to convince a couple of times girl friends to do it.
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Tobedone is a Web-based Java applet project management tool which organizes complex projects in tree structures and offers you many manipulation tools. You can give specific tasks priorities, assign them to persons, create and delete databases, give permissions to users, sort project tasks by priorities, dates, etc, and a lot more.
SSIComment is a simple database-backed comment system for websites. It uses server side includes (SSI) so you can easily add it to existing static pages without a lot of messy CGI scripts. SSIComment is great for adding interactivity to your site, building community around your content, and increasing repeat visits by encouraging discussion and debate.
Sixpack is a graphical and command-line bibliography database manager written in Perl/Tk. It interacts with the supplied package 'bp', which can import and export from a number of formats including bibtex, endnote, medline, procite, and many others. It can download references directly off the Web, and open articles using external viewers. It can also interface with Emacs/XEmacs and Lyx.
pks-commands.php3 allows your Web server to search and add PGP/GPG keys from the public keys out there. It takes the TCP 11371 port connection and does it all on the web server. It is good in environments where the client machines are unable to get to arbitrary TCP ports (such as behind tightened firewalls).
Orac is a GUI tool for Database Administrators written in Perl, Tk, and DBI. It organizes many useful DBA scripts into a nice graphical interface, for collecting statistics on your database, or diagnosing problems. It currently supports Oracle, Sybase, and Informix. Richard Sutherland's DDL::Oracle Perl module has been integrated with the current version for the Oracle side of things, greatly improving the Oracle developer options on the program.
MP3-Database is a tool to organize your MP3 collection. If you insert a CD with MP3 files in your CDROM drive, MP3DB can read all ID3 tags of the MP3 files. With this information MP3DB creates a database which can be searched for a specific song, artist, or CD. A GUI makes it easy to use the program. Any title found in the database can easily be added to a playlist or can instantly be played by XMMS.
Ldapconf is a linuxconf module providing dialogs and tools to be used for LDAP directory management, configuration, operation, etc. on GNU/Linux systems. It depends on OpenLDAP binaries to do the actual LDAP operations, and includes support for keeping multiple form/config/access profiles, for easy access to directories of various types. The forms and profiles may also be used for managment of remote directories on other servers.


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Mises Daily Articles
The Incredible Stuff Machine
So those scurvy bums at Wal-Mart are finally getting what is coming to them! The state of Maryland will force all companies with more then 10,000 employees to spend at least 8 percent of their payroll on health insurance. Lots of companies have that many employees, but only one falls under the 8 percent threshold, which is you know who.
It is only the latest legislative blow dealt against the company that is finally accomplishing what everyone throughout all of human history dreamed of: plentiful food and goods available to all people in all places at low prices. What's to complain about? This is the mystery that cries out for investigation.
That success breeds destructive attacks is part of business lore. A classic in modern libertarian literature, for example, is the poem "The Incredible Bread Machine" by R.W. Grant. It tells the story of Tom Smith, who invents a great machine to bake bread and package bread so cheaply that it could sell for less than a penny. "The first time yet the world well fed, And all because of Tom Smith's bread."
But then Tom Smith developed a problem: success. His bread was everywhere, and he was rich. But soon the public began to decry the Bread Trust, and regulation smashed his company. The last two stanzas:
Now bread is baked by government.
And as might be expected,
Everything is well controlled.
The Public well protected.
True, loaves cost a dollar each,
But our leaders do their best!
The selling price is half a cent...
Taxes pay the rest.
The key to the story is antitrust regulations pushed by business competitors and cheered on by an envious public ignorant of economics. It's pretty much the same with Wal-Mart. Companies with whom Wal-Mart competes are only too happy in the short term to see the company get hammered for undercutting them on price. If you have been trying to fob off products for high prices for years – and these are essential to your profit margins – it must be torture to see Wal-Mart doing so well selling at a fraction of the old market price.
Herein lies not only the origin of antitrust but of vast numbers of business regulations. They are advocated by dominant firms that seek to impose harmful costs on smaller competitors (such as when Wal-Mart itself was pushing for a higher minimum wage) or by smaller firms that hope to impose punishing costs on more successful firms. The notion that these regulations are designed to benefit the public is just the ideological junk-food that is fed to Congressional committees and the general public.
The way to address this problem is for the state to cease to offer business the chance to unfairly compete in this way. If there were no regulations and no antitrust laws, businesses would not face the near-occasion of sin to use government as a way to clobber its enemies. They would face no choice but to innovate, cut costs, and serve consumers better than the other guy.
Much more troubling and mysterious are public attitudes. Wal-Mart was made successful because people like buying there. They like the prices and convenience. The public could bankrupt the company in a matter of weeks simply by failing to show up to make purchases. People are free to do so. That's the way the market works.
Maybe you hate Wal-Mart. Fine. Don't shop there. What's so hard to understand about that?
Why would the same people who enjoy the fruits of Wal-Mart's entrepreneurship also celebrate laws that harm the company? They believe that they can have their cake and eat it too. There is a lack of economic understanding in operation here. They have failed to understand that one of the reasons Wal-Mart can offer such good deals is that they are running an efficient enterprise.
But does it not come at the expense of the labor force? Of course all workers want raises in all forms, just as all consumers want products and services to be available at the lowest price. These are conflicting demands. At some point in the scale of wages and prices, the tradeoff between the two demands finds a clearing point. What that point is cannot be worked out by a central planner. It has to be discovered by the market.
The moral import of the market is its non-coercive core. The workers who work at Wal-Mart would rather be doing that than any other activity that is open to them. So too for the shoppers. It is the matrix of exchange that has made Wal-Mart a success. No one, unlike with government, has a gun pointed at his head. Everyone is making a non-coerced choice in favor of exchanging as versus not exchanging. Everyone benefits.
Does that seem elementary to you? Then you understand something that most sociologists, literary scholars, news commentators, preachers, and government officials apparently do not understand. You understand that mutually beneficial exchange is the building block of civilization itself.
You probably also understand that this law is not going to be good for Maryland. Fewer Wal-Marts will start up in that state than otherwise would. A legal climate hostile to business will deter future businesses from locating there. Some businesses may leave. Also, a less competitive environment for business will mean higher prices and less consumer choice. And why? So that Wal-Mart's competition can thrive on an inefficient business model. This law, then, rewards waste and punishes efficiency.
Now, there is a further complication in this case. A main complaint against Wal-Mart's wage policies is that its employees were draining too much from the state's Medicaid budget. This is an interesting point. Is it possible that Wal-Mart was, in effect, free riding off the taxpayers? Would it then be better just to roll those costs onto the back of the company itself? There is a superficial logic at work here, but it is the logic that leads to all-out business regimentation.
It is doubtful that in a truly free market business would normally provide any health benefits at all, any more than they provide you shoes, movie tickets, or scotch delivered to your door. These are things that you buy on your own. Medical benefits tied to employment originated as a scheme to get around government wage controls.
If the Medicaid free ride is a problem, there is a more direct solution. Get rid of this program too. What we need are Wal-Marts in the medical industry too, firms that provide great services at low prices. But they won't come about until we rid ourselves of the subsidies attached to public provision.
Meanwhile, the Incredible Stuff Machine will pay and pay for all the glorious things it has brought the world population, and the ignorant among us will clamor for the machine to be destroyed. Then the only big companies will be those created, run, and subsidized by the government.


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January 30, 2013 — Los Angeles, CA
What does a nerd turn to when their life hits the proverbial fan?
Well this nerd had a major life crisis recently. My mother, who is 74 disabled (she has rheumatoid arthritis and COPD [Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disorder]) and retired, was recently diagnosed with colon cancer. WHAT? Yes. On top of the destructive and degenerative nature of her autoimmune disorder, she ends up with cancer.
Now, I have been taking care of my mother for the last 6 years as her joints have been slowly eating themselves alive. I really do liken RA to internal zombies. They devour perfectly healthy joints because they think it's a foreign body. This is the most nerdy and simplistic way I can explain it without posting information from wikipedia and The Mayo Clinic.
On a Thursday we found out she had cancer. The next day she went into surgery to remove the tumor. They got it all, thank god, but the recovery has been a very long and tedious process.
Of course, the last thing I want to have happen is to loose my mom. I lost my father in 1995 when I was 19. I'm 37 now. So, it's been me and my brother and my mom since then. And yes, I know that she will pass away before I do, Cthulhu willing, but watching her go through this battle has been extremely hard on me. Both physically and emotionally.
So, not only did I turn to my wonderful network of friends who are mostly nerds, to be honest, I also turned to fandom.
I immersed myself in The Big Bang Theory. You look surprised. I was surprised. No, really. I'm not. I named my blog after Sheldon's tag line! Come on!
And thanks to syndication, I have been able to DVR so many episodes of Big Bang that when I came home from so many hours of sitting by mom's bedside, watching her struggle and be in pain, and drugged up I could loose myself in the daily trappings of four nerds and a cute girl who lives across the hall.
And as a nerd, I relate to these characters because I see elements of myself and my friends in these characters. I know people who have PhD's or are getting them. I have friends who are so into comic books they opened their own store.
Plus, Big Bang Theory is so smartly written and plays on all of my fandom happiness that it's really hard to not love it.
For me this show has become my emotional salvation, just as much as my friends and family have been. And to that, I say:
With love,
Bazingirl, Grand Master Blogger


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January 31st, 2013 02:56 PM #12
The nameberry community will absolutely favor your names over your husband's, but of course it's not our baby! In real life babies are named by two people, with many conflicting influences.
I think Iris is wonderful, both because it honors your grandmother-in-law (surely your husband would be on board with that, unless they weren't close?). It also satisfies your craving for a unique, more deeply rooted name. So, I think Iris should be in the combination, somehow.
Your other children's names are modern. Riley, Jackson and Piper are all quite popular [which is perfectly fine; popular names are usually popular for a reason]. Since you have three children already, picking something very different for the fourth would really stand out. I like to say, two similarities is a coincidence, but three is a pattern. From your list, I would eliminate the vintage-y choices: Stella, Imogen, Juno, Amelie, Charlotte and Annabel. Evelyn too.
A name that ends on a consonant would sound best with Iris:
Scarlett Iris [though this is problematic as scarlet is a color and iris is a thing, so it sounds like a description rather than a name]
Meredith Iris
Arden Iris
Aislinn Iris
Seren Iris [again, 'star flower' or 'star rainbow' or 'star part of the eye' is a little problematic]
From his list, nearly all pair with Iris quite nicely.
Iris Mackenzie
Addison Iris
Iris Alexa [not Alexis, they rhyme]Blade, MD
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