TangledCat

The University to seek $2 million to study something.

Link: The State | 01/31/2006 | USC to seek $2 million.  What do they need the money for?

Parenting for people who want to smoke pot with thier kids

Link: Wired News A MySpace Cheat Sheet for Parents:.  Kevin Poulson must have a chronic illness necessitating medical marijuana.  This is really the only explanation for this I think really anyone who can speak and works at Berkeley and is not on the Seti@home project has some form of chronic illness. I like this quote:

UC Berkeley researcher Danah Boyd says it's a bad idea. "Don't go on and engage in surveillance. That makes things really hard for kids to engage with you as a parent." Instead, Boyd recommends parents talk with their youngsters, and ask their teens to show them their profile, if they have one.

This is the sort of parenting that makes for legal bills.  I Parent from the Guantanamo Bay school.  My children are required to wear orange jumpsuits and have loud music blasted in their rooms at all times - no wait I have some things re-arranged...  No I do not let them blast loud music so they will not have to wear orange jumpsuits - anyway I parent from the lowest common denominator - I see my children out of the court system or drug rehab and I am proud.  In order to do that I need information - so I go through the room monitor any correspondence,  key loggers are good for this I look at the phone logs a couple of times a week and call the numbers I do not have in my contacts and Mom does not remember who they are.  Seems a bit much but then her friends do not seem to mind neither does she because I am helpful and funny and she knows that I love her.. (and want her to be very wealthy so she can "lend" us money when her mother and I are retired....)

Cayce responds quickly to chemical leak

Link: The State | 02/27/2006 | Cayce responds quickly to chemical leak.

I like this headline.  It makes me feel safe...  last year arround this time a couple of log cars derailed about 75 feet from my house.  It sounded like thunder - Tornados sound like trains, derailments sound like thunder - we are so screwed....

a long tired view of a Ballpark

Link: The State | 02/26/2006 | Take me out to the ballpark to live, shop, see USC play.

I tend to get overworked when I write about this.  But I will say that unlike Chocolate Baseball is not something I see as worth much heavy breathing.  I went to a planning meeting here in

Olympia

with the very helpful people from the

University

of

South   Carolina

.  I came away from it with this thought -the baseball field is the most annoying thing I can imagine if only because it is so completely stupid and un-necessary.  Also the University of South Carolina could actually blend the neighborhood into itself a little better by putting a “Community research park”  A place where researchers could live and do their science in the same place a place with smart aliens and their uncommon food serving as a buffer to the beer swilling inanity of University Life.  No we get a baseball field which they promise will not be used for whatever passes for Rock and Roll in the years to come.  I imagine that in 15 years some form of sonic vibratory amalgam will be played very loud there.  Hopefully our nation will have been overrun by the Islamic Fundamentalists and such things will be blissfully illegal.

What Hollaman did not mention was the attention paid to the nature of things.  Presently the baseball field floods this is why they want to move to the flood plain I guess this is to assure a continuity of dampness as I imagine this is one of the hallmarks of University of South Carolina Baseball – hydrologic accounting, muddy cleats and long long slides. What will happen is that snakes of uncommon leangth and vibrancy of color will take up residence in the stands where they will dine on the many small rodents that will eat the leftovers from the music shows. Roc sized mosquitoes will carry off any small children not being constricted by the reptiles draining the patrons of any blood that has not been turned to beer. All this is only of course during the dry season when the river is not flooding and baseball has replaced water polo in the stadium.  There will be specially designed “Raptor Runs” where fans who tiring of whatching their favorite mud wrassling team can whatch as small rabbits and children of park goers are carried off by flying eagles and albatrosses where foxes can hunt for the rodents that the snakes don’t eat. And where we can see that there is a baseball stadium near a neighborhood which is better than having a truck leasing company that keeps trailers of spent nuclear fuel in the parking lot

oh boy...

Michelle Cottle Craves Chocolate

Link: Journalists went overboard on the Cheney story. Good for them.

quote: "Political journalists crave access and information the way women crave chocolate."

 

Michelle Cottle knows my dear wife.  She will claw her way throw 7 inches of steel to get to chocolate.  I made some chocolate the other day because I like very bittersweet chocolate with hot pepper she ate it all without any remorse - no "oh sorry honey I ate all your chocolate" nothing not a word just a look that means "it was chocolate it is gone" nonverbal communication.  The only way I can keep chocolate safe is to make extremely large quantities or to make it in a mountain under a fault line near the equator.
 

Rendanko does it again

I love Ballet good conservative classical Ballet, Balanchine or whoever. You can kick Brittany and Madonna to the curb for all I care. I mean I probably would not like it so much if my wife did not love it so passionately. Anyway Rendank Pavlovich puts on a great show called Life Chance.  It is a great display of ebullient dancers doing impossible things to recorded music.  Now I am provincial and I am easily impressed I am sure but I like to be impressed  - I saw a Polish guy throw a grown woman around in ways I could not hurl my Three year old.  I could not move my arms and legs without any weight and do with the grace and whatever it is that brings tears to your eyes.  This one local man who I swear I thought I was looking at a CGI image - he was perfect and he did perfect things - I was impressed. I saw a ballerina do somthing so effortlessly  and flawlessly only because I have sat through the Nutcracker being choked by fake fog and snow dewdrops or whatever.. Let me say that anytime Lea Lumpkin slurs her way through an introduction it is sure to be intense and beautiful ,whatever it is, afterward.
It could be that my respect for the art is that I have sweat like a dog before the Master - Mr. Pavlovich - only because my dear wife had concocted some plan for us to have our Oldest go for free to his dance school - I was supposed to do some "computer" work for them but I am not a web designer and he had Macs so all my virus cleaning skills were of no use to him so I was put to filling in building long planter box that had been emptied to treat a termite infestation around the studio.  I can tell you I tried to get him to rent me a bulldozer but no I had to hand shovel about half a beach worth of sand into these boxes. It was a podvig a spiritual work for my wife and child.  I spent no less than 18 hours of shoveling and hauling and then cleaning up afterward.  I was able to be around Rendanko I have seen one of his fits of rage I know humility and that proper obeisance is due I know that he can get work from a donkey in the air. I praise him..

Anyway there was a new dance that some older George Lucas looking guy had put together - it was really good - set to Phillp Glass - it gave me a sense of catharsis and gratitude for being married - because it seemed that male dancers were always being pushed down and then poping up and trying to get the female dancers to dance with them... Which meant a lot of flipping them in the air and having them spin arround and fly off. It reminded me of 5th grade, I am sure I had a catharisis whatever that is.

Radenko Pavlovich  Columbia Classical Ballet

great humor

Link: Warriors and wusses - Los Angeles Times.

But I'm not for the war. And being against the war and saying you support the troops is one of the wussiest positions the pacifists have ever taken — and they're wussy by definition. It's as if the one lesson they took away from Vietnam wasn't to avoid foreign conflicts with no pressing national interest but to remember to throw a parade afterward.

This is trully funny

Which one is a better review...

I like TNR a lot it is almost as good as the New Yorker only there are no articles by Toni Morrison to make you regret thinking she was so cool when you were in college and you have to love Washington DC more than New York Anyway you get the historical perspective of an editorial issue which is one of the better things to come from the Internet.  Strange – the perfect antidote to the acerbic pajama blogger is an old magazine archive.  Read lest you be drawn against your will toward the singularity of opinion one dimensional blind allegiance to a collective concocted ideology of coffee stuck keyboards and cramped buttock muscles…  Get up stretch and remember the last time you had some depth to an opinon…

http://www.tnr.com/arch/hs/hp.mhtml

or

AmericanEpiscopalianChurchIf you can stand reading for hours on your PC – US$4.95 is not much for a historical view of current editorial opinion from the “liberal” or University point of view. The writing and logic may be entirely self-righteous, self-absorbed and anti-religious but is always extraordinarily pithy and thought provoking and done well - like the modern American Epscopalian Church 

http://www.tnr.com/arch/hs/hp.mhtml

 

We are what we know.

      The apostle John wrote, “And this is eternal life, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom Thou hast sent.” (John 17:3). The supreme blessing of the human soul is that it can know God. The supreme tragedy is that we place knowing other things above knowing God. To know God is not just another kind of knowledge. It is a matter of life or death, heaven or hell. Francis Bacon, the philosopher said, “knowledge is power.” Knowledge of God is more than power; it is eternal life. It is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, gentleness, faithfulness, and self-control.      The highest form of knowledge is not to know about God, but to know Him personally. Such knowledge is intimate, personal and based on love.

Anthony M. Coniaris

Pithy - hmmmmmm

Link: Cool words to increase your vocabulary.

pithy [n. PIH-thee] Pithy, when used accurately, describes speech or writing that is short, direct, and memorable. Examples of pithy slogans are "Save the whales" and "Don't worry, be happy." Pithy is something that consists or abounds in pith. While pith refers to the white substance under the peel of a citrus fruit, it also means force or energy.
Both pith and pithy are derived from the Old English pitha which is a variant on the German pith (pit). Pithy is traced back to the 1500s but pith was around before the 12th century. A collection of pithy sayings: http://www.clanvis.com/loc/pithey.htm.

I think I used the word right didn't I?