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| Friday, July 4th, 2008 |
cesarsalad
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12:04a |
it's nice to go 4-0 once in a while wed. club: 1) vs elizabeth r., ARTSIER PATRONS ANTEVERT / GEnOISE, W 503-368 got away with TONDU* this game. i coulda sworn it was good. i was actually proud of it, because it cleaned up my rack, scored, and kept a good leave, and it's no good! it's TENDU. 2) vs judy l, uNSTATED REGRINDS / PECHANS IGNiTED, W 410-402 3) vs ira c, aNURIAS / none, W 359-355 a low scoring game. ira made a rare endgame error which cost him the game -- he only had about 30 seconds, but he said that wasn't an excuse. 4) vs maddy k, TEOSINTE UNHaIRY* BUOYAGES ANTIARS CHALKIER / NEONaTE, W 559-303 can you say lucky? after an initial exchange, 4 bingos in a row. too bad one was phony. it sounded good to both of us. ---- in other news -- join james's natls roto! http://community.livejournal.com/orlandoroto/ |
| Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 |
evwhore
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11:53p |
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ftangredi
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11:45p |
this post has NOTHING to do with Galatea Yes, you all have a temporary reprieve. (I repeat ... temporary.) Figured I'd catch up on a few other things. 2. I did that session where I acted as a mentor to a young playwright. She's eleven years old and wrote a sweet little fairy tale. I gave her a few suggestions -- mostly things to think about -- and she responded quite well and did some rewrites. It was very rewarding and right up my alley. 3. Despite the spread at Ira's tournament, I passed the 35 pound mark in weight loss this week. I would have passed it a few weeks ago, but I did some backsliding in the interim. Not much, just a little. 4. |
evwhore
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3:50p |
Sharks sign Rob Blake One year, $5MM. Yeah, he's old*, but I like it (and a lot more than Campbell at $57MM for 8 years). * I finally got around to listening to the Pratt & Taylor farewell interview with Trevor Linden ( MP3 link) and there was a great comment about how on the day he resigned he went from being an old hockey player to being a young man. |
evwhore
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3:47p |
Wis. law makes Calif. marriage a crime PlanetOut: Same-sex couples from Wisconsin who go to California to marry could face criminal charges when they return, though a Wisconsin rights group hopes no one will challenge the law.
Wisconsin law makes it a criminal offense to enter into a marriage outside the state if that marriage were illegal in Wisconsin. The law was passed decades ago to prevent underage couples from crossing state lines to marry, but it could be used against same-sex couples, Glenn Carlson of Fair Wisconsin told The Capital Times newspaper in Madison. Although I obviously would prefer equal status, I can at least see how states might legitimately argue that they are not obligated to provide the benefits of marriage to those whom it would not deem to be legally married under its own laws. However I utterly fail to see how a state can criminalize actions which take place in a completely separate jurisdiction. Lawyers, please tell me this is a no-brainer to get overturned... |
qaqaq
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6:02p |
Taking the fifth I was looking up Gadsby on Wikipedia, and was pleased to see that the article is written appropriately, aside from one unavoidable exception. (Yes, I even did a text find to be certain.) You may want to see for yourselves soon. From the discussion I see on the talk page, it may well get reverted to a duller version soon. (Yes, I considered constructing this entry similarly. But hey, I'm a busy guy.) |
captaino
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2:28p |
Puzzle o' the Day 175!
Since most of you are going on holiday, let's make this a very easy one. Really, I promise. Here it is -- an old chestnut.
An even number of pennies are arranged in a row. Your job is to put them in stacks of two. The only movement rule is this: you can take a single penny and move it left or right over exactly two pennies (either two single pennies or a stack of two), and land it on the first single penny beyond (if there's a stack there instead, you can't make the move).
a. The smallest number of pennies for which you can solve the puzzle is eight. Demonstrate a solution. Piece of cake, right?
b. Show that the puzzle is solvable for any even number greater than eight (if you get a., this should be easy). |
evwhore
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2:12p |
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jigsawn
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4:47p |
two words of the day
LIKUTA = a monetary unit of Zaire
MAKUTA = the plural of LIKUTA
No hooks for either one. |
redaragorn
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12:59p |
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drbing
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8:23a |
Game of the Day 338 SWILLNS 2008 Round 9
This would be the first of 3 against our esteemed host. Play the Game |
| Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 |
evwhore
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9:53p |
Exchange rates and buying power Heh. Post on vpFREE just now: Geez, I thought Station Casinos were bad with $4/point. I just noticed that at 4Q's it $8/point. Ouch! Of course, it's pointless to compare the coin-in-per-point in a vacuum without also considering how many points it takes to redeem a dollar in cash back or whatever. I guess the poster never read A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. |
ftangredi
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11:58p |
It's official ... this is what i'll be sending people HOLD THE DATE… … or at least one of these dates. I’m pleased to announce that my play Galatea will be performed at this year’s New York International Fringe Festival by the original Los Angeles cast. While it’s too early to order tickets, I wanted to alert you to the performance dates and venue. DATES Saturday 8/16 @ 4:15 – 6:00 Monday 8/18 @ 5:00 – 6:45 Tuesday 8/19 @ 7:00 – 8:45 Wednesday 8/20 @ 2:45 – 4:30 Saturday 8/23 @ 7:00 – 8:45 LOCATION Barrow Street Theatre
27 Barrow St. (at 7th Avenue, South of Christopher Street) SUBWAY:
1 to Christopher Street
1 block south on 7th Avenue to Barrow
A C E B D F V to West 4th Street
West on 4th Street, left on Barrow
PARKING: Barrow St. between 7th Ave. and West 4th or 7th Ave. below Bleeker St. As soon as the box office is open, I will send you a notice via postcard or e-mail. You can also check Please try to attend, especially the earlier performances. And, once again, a thousand thanks to everyone whose generous donations made this possible! |
anendlessnight
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9:36p |
Bingo Study for Nationals, Part 1 I don't know if I'll have enough time to get to all of them...I probably wont...but whatever. Criteria: All sevens and eights beginning with A, with associated anagrams where applicable; Anagram Quiz mode with five second timer. Results: 3275/3755 (87.2%) Current Mood:  determined |
hebdomad
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10:28p |
Quick Sports Thought
If you're in the stands of a major sporting events waving a broom, I don't care who you root for, you're an idiot. |
ftangredi
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8:58p |
another of those testy things I got this one from ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) verbophage, and here's how I scored. It does not sound like me to me! (The courage score is interesting, and true in many ways.) Compassion is the most human of the virtues. And you? Your heart has limits far beyond normal levels empathy, and your capacity for feeling the world's pain is boundless. You poor, beautiful, wonderful thing. All 7 virtues are a part of you, but your compassion runs deepest. It is likely you're an altruist. And it's likely (but not necessarily true, think of Bono) that your humility score is high too. Compassionate famous people: Brad Pitt, Mother Theresa, The A-Team. Your raw relative scores follow. 0% is low, and 100% is perfect, nearly impossible. Note that I pitted the virtues against each other, so in some way these are relative scores. It's impossible to score high on all of them, and a low score on one is just relatively low compared to the other virtues. YOUR VIRTUES 60% Compassion 56% Intelligence 25% Humility 33% Honesty 38% Discipline 0% Courage 33% Passion |
drbing
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5:11p |
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evwhore
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2:31p |
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anendlessnight
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3:47p |
I am now 24-hour HAZWOPER certified. Not as impressive as the full 40 hour course, perhaps, but good enough for government purposes...and more importantly, good enough for Siemens' purposes. Now to dig through three+ days of LJ posts to see what I missed. Scrabble people -- anyone want to fill me in on whatever brouhaha I missed? I have absolutely no idea what is going on that has two people I care about upset with one another, and I really really really don't like the feeling. Current Mood:  anxious |
evwhore
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1:11p |
Dear Lord, what a mess The BBC reports that the ICC is expected to change the result of the aborted test match between England and Pakistan at the Oval in 2006 to a draw. As a basically neutral lurker on rec.sport.cricket, I have always been sort of amused in a watching-a-train-wreck way at the chest-thumping jingoism on display from all corners of the globe, so I can't wait to see what firestorms have been ignited by this latest news. |
verbophage
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1:00p |
I'm not too surprised at this Your result for The Best Thing About You Test... Intelligence
Intelligence (also called intellect) is an umbrella term used to describe a property of the mind that encompasses many related abilities, such as the capacities to reason, plan, and solve problems. And you? Your brain shines. All 7 virtues are a part of you, but your intelligence runs deepest. It is likely you're a smarty-pants. And it's likely (but not necessary) that your discipline score is high also. It takes a certain resolve to maintain all those neural thingies. Intelligent famous people: Einstein, Shakespeare, Da Vinci. Your raw relative scores follow. 0% is low, and 100% is perfect, nearly impossible. Note that I pitted the virtues against each other, so in some way these are relative scores. It's impossible to score high on all of them, and a low score on one is just relatively low compared to the other virtues. YOUR VIRTUES 30% Compassion 89% Intelligence 63% Humility 67% Honesty 38% Discipline 29% Courage 17% Passion Take The Best Thing About You Test at HelloQuizzy |
jigsawn
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3:23p |
accidental haiku I just had a little computer problem that I was chatting with spherulitic about. After I overcame it, I sent him this message: the problem seems to be fixed
a cold boot did what a restart did not |
evwhore
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11:52a |
Looming resource crisis? via slashdot, a German scientists says never mind about oil, we'll be running out of certain rare elements soon: Gallium's atomic number is 31. It's a blue-white metal first discovered in 1831, and has certain unusual properties, like a very low melting point and an unwillingness to oxidize, that make it useful as a coating for optical mirrors, a liquid seal in strongly heated apparatus, and a substitute for mercury in ultraviolet lamps. It's also quite important in making the liquid-crystal displays used in flat-screen television sets and computer monitors.
As it happens, we are building a lot of flat-screen TV sets and computer monitors these days. Gallium is thought to make up 0.0015 percent of the Earth's crust and there are no concentrated supplies of it. We get it by extracting it from zinc or aluminum ore or by smelting the dust of furnace flues. Dr. Reller says that by 2017 or so there'll be none left to use. Indium, another endangered element -- number 49 in the periodic table -- is similar to gallium in many ways, has many of the same uses (plus some others -- it's a gasoline additive, for example, and a component of the control rods used in nuclear reactors) and is being consumed much faster than we are finding it. Dr. Reller gives it about another decade. Hafnium, element 72, is in only slightly better shape. There aren't any hafnium mines around; it lurks hidden in minute quantities in minerals that contain zirconium, from which it is extracted by a complicated process that would take me three or four pages to explain. We use a lot of it in computer chips and, like indium, in the control rods of nuclear reactors, but the problem is that we don't have a lot of it. Dr. Reller thinks it'll be gone somewhere around 2017. Even zinc, commonplace old zinc that is alloyed with copper to make brass, and which the United States used for ordinary one-cent coins when copper was in short supply in World War II, has a Reller extinction date of 2037. |
evwhore
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11:30a |
Kentucky john paid prostitute with $100 fuel card The Smoking Gun: A Kentucky woman is facing prostitution charges for allegedly trading sex for gasoline. Angela Eversole, 34, was nabbed last weekend during a police stakeout at a Days Inn, where she allegedly trysted with customer Kenneth Nowak. According to court records, Nowak admitted paying for Eversole's services, in part, with a $100 Speedway gas card. Eversole was hit with a prostitution rap and also charged with doing business without an occupational license. Nowak was charged with promoting prostitution. I wonder, was there any way for her to verify the amount on the card before completing the transaction? And then there's this story about an angry prostitute being turned away from the casino cage because they won't honor the no-cash-value tournament chip she was "paid." |
getofftheoven
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1:18p |
a puzzle if you like
You hold AGINOST. The sevens don't play, but on the board there are five letters to use for eights: D, G, K, M, and P. Do you have a bingo? If so, how many, and what are they?
EDIT: Answer given in comments. |
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