Fascinating thing about memory
Scientific American: Unmaking Memories: Interview with James McGaugh—this is really interesting.
On the agenda today: getting out of bed, breakfast, laundry, and a birthday party.
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Merry Christmas
That’s all I have to say, really. Peace and Love to you.
Links and Stuff of the Moment
- He’s Not In It For The Money: Frank Zappa’s Big Band Brother Ed Palermo
- QRIO: Your Plastic Pal Who’s Fun To Be With!
- Zinni, Vietnam veteran, Bush supporter in 2000, against the conflict in Iraq
- Judge: I saw police commit felonies: A judge who said he witnessed some of the anti-free trade protests complains in open court about how police handled the demonstrations.
- Net Smartass Extraordinaire gives us: Shock and Awe: Merry Christmas from the White House!
- Mission creep for Patriot Act
- From Leah: Tolerance.org: MISOGYNY IN MUSIC: Have Videos Gone Wild?
- Hilarious Audio from NPR: NPR : Humorist and NPR commentator David Sedaris—a Santaland Diary thing. Very very very funny.
- My Quixtar URLs Page was updated.
- I like this Doug Welch column, which can be summed up as Think.
- NFL Click for Cans
- jwz points to Eyesore of the Month by James Howard Kunstler—wow! bitter, smart, witty!
- HTTP made easy
- What Does LVX Mean?
- Great quote: “No man was more comprehensively doomed than him whose chief source of gratification was making favorable impressions on some particular woman.”—Quicksilver p. 389
- Slugging—I did not believe in this—but my sister who lives in DC says: My friend slugs to work every day. She lives with her dad way out in Potomac Mills, slugs to the Pentagon, takes the metro there and is work in about a half an hour to forty minutes. Otherwise it would take her up to an hour to two hours (on a bad day) to get to work. Evidently, there are unspoken rules, for example, no talking, driver controls the radio, driver must pick up two people (to make it safe), and you don’t make future arrangements to meet up. It’s a great way to commute because all parties involved benefit and there’s no commitment. Driver gets to take the HOV lane and everybody gets to work faster. Erica was saying that they did a piece on NPR and she heard that it was started by military folks who lived out in the burbs when the HOV lane was created. Or, so I’ve heard.
Onward.
Christmas Stuff to Enjoy on ArtLung.com
Joe Namath: the new Mahir?
I want to kiss you! vs. I kiss you! (see what Mahir did with his fame at: ikissyou.org). More on the ESPN broadcast at oliverwillis.com. The reporter, Suzy Kolber, handled the incident perfectly I think. I think this is not sexual harassment of any kind, but I think people will be loathe to put Joe Namath on the air without a breathalyzer test.
Holidays.
I’m stressed out. Working on it.
Xmas Rap
Voom. So busy. Ankle feeling better. Christmas tree up. Crafts done. Stocking made for my Aunt for someone else. Freelance project going well. Lord of the Rings seen. Chocolate covered cherries made by Leah. Leah put up links to her articles on her blog. Some old decorations will be taken to Goodwill. Gifts purchased. Many Christmas cards mailed. Enjoying Fairytale of New York and A Charlie Brown Christmas music.
I am content, though a bit more stressed than usual. Supposedly, this is typical during the hoidays. Being aware of it is a nice change. To know my own limits is a wonderful thing.
Saddam, Captured… by the Kurds?
So Saddam was caught the other day. Today, Mathowie and Anildash point to the first person account of the Saddam Raid.
But was Saddam awfully haggard in those photos? And was that spider hole: a of base of operations or more like a prison cell?
Looks like it was actually the Kurds that caught Saddam – note the sources are in the Arab world, Australia, UK, India. I don’t see any US sources there.
They say the first casualty of war is the truth.
So will we see the US domestic media tell this story?
And don’t tell anyone, but “The Lab” is moving…
See: lab.artlung.com.
Just worked on this:
Respiratory therapy – Wikipedia. Supposedly I know about this field.
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