Posts by giovanni tiso
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If Obama pulls this out, I will be stunned. Thrilled, and stunned.
He came out of a bruising primary process ahead in the head to heads with McCain. He's remained ahead in the heads to heads with McCain. The "no-toss up states" metric is just bs, as any pollster would admit, and most polls are unable to account for documented the surge in voter registration among democrats, or the likely surge among young people and minorities. To top it off, he's consistently outperformed polls wheneve actual elections have been held.
The campaign hasn't even started, and he's twice the campaigner and twenty times the public speaker as McCain. He's going to be able to play around with a lot more money than McCain.
He has better surrogates. Moderate republicans are not even going to the convention. McCain will be the first person in history to enjoy a convention dip in the polls, after the most unpopular president in history gives him a half-hearted endorsment on national television. People are running away from his VP spot. He'll be lucky if he gets Romney, and Romney is a huge douche whom the voters despise.
It's going to be a thing of Lyndon Johnsonesque proportions. You mark my words.
And if it isn't, I have plenty or recipes for humble pie that I'll be sharing with you all on November 5th.
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Do any PA readers know of a good way to clean up mucky vinyl LPs? When I say mucky, I mean needing a bit more than a wipe down with a soft, damp cloth.
If you're dead serious about it, this is how they do it at the Smithsonian:
1. Use a photgrapher's compressed air can to blow off any loose debris.
2. With an artist's brush gently apply a hypoallergenic conditioner-free face peel to the plastic surface of the record (Be sure to avoid getting anything on the label.) Do not scratch the surface but simply dab on as little face peel as possible while not agitating the dirt on the surface any more than absolutely necessary.
3. Place the record in front of a fan to dry the face peel as quickly as possible.
4. When the face peel has dried enough so that it has formed a soft but intact film, gently remove it from the surface. All the loose dirt in the grooves should come off with the film.
5. If necessary, repeat steps 2 to 4.
6. Once the particular debris is off the record, carry on routine cleaning. (Which goes something like this: apply a few drops of cleaning solution - 1 part conditioner free dishwashing detergent for 100 part distilled water - on a pad and wipe the disc while it's rotating on the turntable, then repeat with only distilled water).This comes from Saving Stuff, by Don Williams and Louisa Jaggar. Do you want to know how to preserve electric fans, ambrotypes, plastic campaign stickers, pipe organs? Ask these guys.
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but... how will they support one in his dotage?
We'll work something out.
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Would you be available to uncle children outside of your bloodline?
are they likely to grow up to become wealthy?
Er, no. Plus becoming wealthy generally is the domain of the uncle himself.
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heh. i let the neices eat chicken nuggets but never give them any gifts except books.
i also use work gear to record and edit stories to send them to them on CD.
Would you be available to uncle children outside of your bloodline?
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Despite a strong left wing tendency he is prepared to call things as he sees them and he would go to the top of my list if he allowed comment
I think s/he'd end up spending half his day answering sensible comments, and the other half deleting offensive ones. Seeing as it's probably not I/S's only occupation, I can see how it might be a wise course of action. Besides, NRT is part of a greater national conversation without having to be a place for conversation in its own right.
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What happens when the alphabet reaches it's mathematical outer limits. Will the alphabet need to have additional caricatures. there is already a tendency to add numerals to words in order to have them accepted as unique keys, in this ever increasing equation. Is the Internet a solvable; will it come to some sort of conclusion?
Borges asked himself the very same question in 1941. I think if you replace the word library with the word Web in his famous story you'll probably get as elegant a discussion of this as you could hope for.
More recently, Darren Tofts has written an absolutely fantastic book called Memory Trade on Joyce's Finnegans Wake and hypertext and the limits of language. I think you'd be interested also in the use of Murray McKeitch's original artwork to develop the discussion.
Because this is a deeply unjust world, the book is out of print. But available in libraries and wherever good second hand books are sold.
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You get people like me only interested in the human condition, not the language of the Web, nor it's technological intricacies.
That's one of the marvels, isn't it? Net historians point out that the thing has deep roots going back quite a few years, but as far as most of us are concerned it's a planetary communications infrastructure that sprang up almost overnight, and was already all there, plus or minus a few apps. My first forays with Netscape in 1997 were not qualitatively that different to what I do now, and email hasn't changed at all. So long as you had been schooled in how to use a mouse by owning or using a personal computer, you really were up and running from the start, and that made the technology so beautifully transparent you could simply enjoy it, and be creative with it.
Which is not to say that it's not also evolving and finding new ways to make you go gaga. I suppose this might be the place to make an admission and get something off my chest: I cried the first time I used Google Earth.
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You can't trademark a dictionary word.
You mean to say we can band together, form a computer company and send turtleneck boy to the poorhouse? I'm in!
Ach, no, Apple and the Apple logo are trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.
You can trademark a dictionary word in a limited context. So for instance I could start an Apple company that sells knitted sweathers, so long as I wasn't ripping off the logo or marketing said sweathers as iKnits, or do anything else that might piss off the iLawyers. It's not copyrighting a word, of course, which is why English speakers worldwide can still buy apples and talk about apples without prior written consent from Cupertino.
So I think they could have called the company Extra, so long as it wasn't already trademarked in a related commercial field. Maybe it was, maybe they thought it was snappier. Or they hate dyslexics. I know one of my very first emails ever was to my brother-in-law in NZ and it duly bounced for that very reason.
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Can words be copyrighted?
Yes they can.
I'm pretty sure they can't. Brand names can be trademarked, though, along with the logos.