Day: June 15, 2005

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No more Blogger Comments….

Haloscancommenting and trackback only.

Just got tired of the old “both and” thing. (Thanks, Rich, for spurring me to get off TDC and just do it.) Yeh, that means past Blogger comments aren’t visible right now, but they aren’t gone, and if I wanna I can put ’em back.

But I don’t think I wanna. 😉 It also means I’ll be checking comments only once or twice a day, so no quick replies via email as I have sporadically done. If you really need to get my attention, drop me an e- cos that’s checked automatically umpteen times a day. Or call me at my Minneapolis phone number. Oh! You don’t have that one? heh (Well, I do… 🙂

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Links Up!

Start surfin’

Short shrift. Just lunchtime links cos time’s pressing today.
Woody’s News and Views: Selective Outrage On Gulags From the LLMB and MMPA? Really? Who’da thunk it? 😉
Cathouse Chat comments and links to an essential Varifrank read with Why Should Gitmo Remain?
Kim duToit: Where the Law Belongs Yup.
Diane’s Stuff includes Environmental Concerns, today. A thoughtful post. Which leads right to…
A Chaos Manor discussion. Jerry Pournelle carries on a thoughtful, civil and informative email discussion with someone presenting a thoughtful, civil and informative (will wonders never cease?!?!? 🙂 position on global warming.
Cao’s Blog has a look at ACLU attempts to undermine our society and force its religion on the rest of us with ACLU demolishing the Los Angeles Seal: A Call to Action from David Horowitz
And yeh, it’s early—I’m jumping the gun on the Carnival of the Recipes by a coupla days—but Christine has posted a GREAT recipe for No-Cook Cream Cheese Candies Oh. Yum. (RCat’s Spanish Tortilla recipe is a work of culinary engineering/art, too. Gotta have some-a that!)
CLICK on over to Keep the Coffee Coming for a fix of Laura Nyro and Judy Collins.
Boudicca warns of an upcoming Blog Crawl. Be afraid. Be very afraid. One potential participant asked about blogging “nekkid” so You Have Been Warned. 🙂
ALa comments on the Torture Log…. (*UPDATED*) Oh. Dear. The tortures at gitmo are almost as horrible as listening to U.S. Senators bloviate on C-SPAN!!! Almost.
Rich’s Daily Link Zeitgeist has a couple of “my” links already, so grab some linky stuff from him.
Well, I wish I had time to link more stuff just off my RSS feeds and such, but I can scan through them faster than I can link back to ’em and I’m outa lunch time, folks! TTFN!
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Pull the other one

Blessed Son & Heir just brought me another cuppa joe and I had a brilliant insight. See comments. heh. indeed.

Found this over at Spurs’ place. Linguistic logic isn’t the author’s strong suit, but it still works… kinda. In an enormously funny way (well, to me).

Your IQ Is 140

Your Logical Intelligence is Genius
Your Verbal Intelligence is Genius
Your Mathematical Intelligence is Genius
Your General Knowledge is Genius
Yeh, well if I’m so smart why ain’t I rich? 🙂 The central flaw of this test is revealed in the score I got (see my revelation below).
Funny thing (confession’s good for the soul and bad for the rep): I posted a mini-rant about a screwy question on the test in comments over at Spurs’ place… and I’m still operating on sleep mode. (Coffee deprivation.) I ranted on about one of the questions being faulty and needing to answer it incorrectly to get it “right”—and I couldn’t even remember what the questions and answers were 5 mins after taking it.
Cuppa coffee later, I started wondering about what I’d said. Went back and looked at the lil quiz. Unless someone sneaked in and changed the thing between my rant and my first cuppa joe, I ranted on about the wrong question—had not even gotten my reasoning about the test right 5 mins after taking it!
Just goes to show ya. Smarts ain’t all they’re cracked up to be. I ace tests. It’s a given. Give me a test and I’ll ace it. Any form: multiple choice, essay, whatever. But have I learned anything from the test (or even leading up to the test)? Can I apply what I’ve “learned”? Who knows?
There’s only one constant: How much I actually learn, how much I actually reason (rather than just go on “gut”) all depends on how much coffee I’ve had.
Coffee: the original brain food.