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My comment to a cashier after watching her deal with four goobers in front of me: "High school dropouts or software engineers....sometimes it's hard to tell the difference isn't it?"

Meanwhile, America has changed her alert levels from "Run With Scissors" to "If You Aren't Guilty, Then You Have Nothing To Worry About...Maybe".

This from the man who buys the deep biogenic origin of oil...

The ability of a planetismal/planetary sized body to become molten would depend on the mass infall rate (energy to melt things, depends on attractor size on availability of impactors) versus the rate that energy could radiate away from it's surface (cooling). If the infall rate were 'too small', a planetismal would not have to be 'spherical' per se, just lumpy. Fortunately, in the early solar system, infall rates were high and proto-planets were likely surrounded by an insulating gas/particle cloud. This would have helped the silicate planets to be initially molten (even without it, they probably would have melted simply because of the high infall rates) . The icy planets would have no need to be actually melted, I think, as two effects would help to 'melt the ice'. First, you have impactor energy. That should simply melt things upon impact which would then seek an equilibrium with the geoid. Second, as the planet grows, the internal temperature of the planet will rise due to the effects of compressibility. I'm not sure, but this is probably too weak to initiate anything but very slow overturning in the ice mantle. For things like the Jovian moons, you also have things like tidal forces from the main planet providing energy to melt things.

I got an email here at home about how the SWAT team was outside my office building in Pioneer Sq and that we should 'be aware' of that when we left......as if the dudes in black camo with automatic weapons and the snipers wouldn't give it away.... Good thing I left early.

Let me guess: Your job is to write those pithy little 'introductions' to all those horrid displays of 'publically funded 'art''. You know, those ones that look like a someone nailed a bunch of Coke cans to a rotating metal pole and then you write some blurb about how it represents 'the essential organic tension between modern technology and lost ancient goddess cultures blah blah blah'. Meanwhile, you and the 'artist' are sitting at some spendy cafe (after picking up your checks from the Publically Funded Art Dept) bemoaning modern American culture. Nice work if you can get it.

Maybe if they avoid using the word 'subluxation' and don't have any posters up showing the relationship between nerves and your ability to ride a fixie or eat a peanut butter sandwich.

I don't have TV but do you think he was going to be allowed to ask whatever he wanted to ask? I don't think so. Anyway, why watch Faux News when you get the crap direct?

haven't read it in a couple of years, but Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov is always on my recommend list.

Quote of the week: "The rest of you idiots actually seem to take [Anderson] Cooper seriously when he talks about how the IDF is going to "expel Hezbollah from Southern Lebanon." Christ, Hezbollah IS Southern Lebanon. You might as well try to expel ants."

Every time someone points out that list of names, I think it's funny that no one points out that it was another Muslim that ratted them out, not some sophisticated domestic spying program....

Hoax? No. Being used for political ends? Yes.

time's a-wastin' folks! are you going to waste another week in that cubicle or dealing with surly unappreciative customers? Hmm? ;-)

It's a little too much to be asking a government bureaucracy headed by these goobers to come up with a rational solution to anything. It's not too much to ask that they (or anyone) don't use it for obvious political purposes. And it is pretty effing obvious....

wow, pretty impressive to buy 23,000 songs. i'm sure the RIAA has an 'attaboy' for ya.

There goes any bottles of water too. Hope you don't mind feeling like a piece of beef jerky after that 12 hour LAX - SYD flight.

Well, I'm gullible that way. ;-)

I wonder what the white line spacing is? Would be interesting to work out his speed.

Just watch Congress in action and any press conference from the WHite House.

Did anyone unknown to you pack your bag today?

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Ah, waiting for the 1am Red Line to Arlington. What memories! :barf:

The ST 545 from Redmond to Seattle isn't so bad, but I've seen a bit of an uptick in riders. They changed the schedule recently though so some of that may be migration from earlier/later rides. Also, one has to discount the early riders in the week who seem to be mainly jury duty types. I get on early enough to get a good seat and I get a lot of reading done on the bus. I admit, I *have* thought about a motorcycle though.

Haven't been out much this summer but now's a great time. Anyone want to go to Squamish and do some 5.8-5.9-possibly easy 10 routes? Can't leave before 8/12 because of a wedding. Have to be back in town on 8/18 for a previously planned even in the evening with the frau. Would be nice if you can drive so I don't have to steal the car but negotiable. Have rack (with some shiny new bits) and 60m rope. Help me burn some of my vacation time before THEY find some way to keep me from it.

They're always catching those goobers downtown when they exit the express lane and get off at Pine St. They roll up to the stop light and there's a smiling trooper handing 'em a nice shiny new ticket and a delay. It makes me smile in a small and petty kind of way.