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Life imitates art, cont’d – Kablammo!
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The doom of a planet.Crush Punch! Life imitates art, cont’d. June 27, 2014. Following up on the last post. Eddie Murphy’s con man gets elected to Congress in the first place because his name happens to be quite similar to that of the deceased incumbent. He relies on the electorate not being particularly discerning, just going with a somewhat familiar name. Here’s a story. Posted 11:34 in Drivel. September 11, 2014 at 0:50. Are you my Blammy from poker? I’m reaching out—–. December 1, 2015 at 18:57.
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Idiotlists – Kablammo!
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Say good-bye to your souls. Bio3! April 30, 2008. On the minus side, they were out of Haribo Goldbären when I had a hankering for gummi bears, so I had to settle for some Happy Cola instead. On the plus side, there was a stray bear in the bag of cola bottles! Hooray for assembly-line screwups. On the minus side, Olsson’s was all out of Boulez and Stockhausen recordings yesterday, when I was eager to buy some at Maurizio Pollini’s recommendation. Posted 17:07 in Idiotlists. Son cheval est son partenaire.
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Insights – Kablammo!
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God is watching. have faith! January 27, 2009. Odd, isn’t it, that it took me until now to realize this. I do much better on closed-universe problems, where outside research is strictly forbidden. If I’m expected to generate an answer based on the information provided in a very limited set of documents, I can do it just fine. That has held, so far, both at work and at school. Posted 19:25 in Insights. August 15, 2008. Best idea ever: using CAPTCHAs to decipher old, damaged texts. Posted 01:15 in Insights.
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Doggerel – Kablammo!
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Spirits of life, return us! How my time is spent. March 12, 2007. Or: Wasn’t Notes from Underground. Meant as a guide to happiness? Doubting, qualifying, hesitating;. Waiting for the moment. To pass me by. Dithering, agonizing, considering;. Wishing to be left alone. Then wond’ring why. Doubting, fearing, loathing;. Watching men of action make. Decision look so easy. Distracted, disgusted, defensive;. Wondering just what it is I want. Then having a drink. Getting rather sick of this.
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OAG – Kablammo!
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Here's a drop of evil from me! December 7, 2005. The other day I ran across a GPO. Publication, specifically a pamphlet printed in 1955 under the authority of the 84th Congress, after the ratification of Wright Patman. 8216;s House Concurrent Resolution 85. It’s called “Our American Government”. Here’s a picture. As you can see, the cover of the pamphlet clearly states “…our American government. And accurately portrayed” (emphasis mine). Is decidedly more choice. To it For another thing, though, you don&...
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Temporal distance – Kablammo!
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Black sheep of evil times, cover our light! April 25, 2013. Some possibly counterintuitive examples of temporal distance. The first two have been making the rounds on the Internet for quite some time on “mind-blowing facts! 8221; lists, while the third occurred to me recently. Less time separates us from Tyrannosaurus rex than separated T. rex from Stegosaurus. Cleopatra lived closer in time to the first Moon landing (or to the writing of this post) than to the building of the Great Pyramid. Published 19...
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Free Association – Kablammo!
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Strip away the ground with glistening blades! Head in the sand. January 14, 2007. And the Glass Handed Kites. Is one of my favorite albums from 2005, and due to its long-delayed American release, it’s one of my favorite albums from 2006 as well. One song, “The Zookeeper’s Boy”, has the word ‘ostrich’ in the lyrics, but it’s pronounced as three syllables: ‘os-ter-rich’. To me, that sounds an awful lot like. I wonder if there’s any relation there? Well, I know that. C1225, from O.Fr. ostruce. Speaking of A...
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Juxtaposition – Kablammo!
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My spirit of rest will consume the purest of souls! March 19, 2014. From C. P. Snow’s “The Two Cultures: A Second Look”:. It seems to me that engaging in immediate debate on each specific point closes one’s own mind for good and all. Debating gives most of us much more psychological satisfaction than thinking does: but it deprives us of whatever chance there is of getting closer to the truth. From Thomas Frank’s “ Broken English. Assert this, were one so inclined. One of his own books. Like this: What we...
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History, myth, and legend – Kablammo!
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All light, fall into darkness! History, myth, and legend. March 6, 2015. Andrew Wheatcroft, in. The Enemy at the Gate: Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe. Myths like [ Prince Eugene of Savoy. Robert Jordan, in each and every book in the. The Wheel of Time turns, and Ages come and pass, leaving memories that become legend. Legend fades to myth, and even myth is long forgotten when the Age that gave it birth comes again. So some quick searching has revealed that, sure enough, as I assumed, plent...
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