Well, almost definitely.

I think.

Mind you, I've already given Bob permission (and a royalty-free license) to use anything I post to the forum.


"There is one thing that disappointed me, though."

"Oh?"

"When all of you arrived for the start of the school year, I overheard some of the students talking about a Dada professor. I was loking forward to meeting him, until I realized that 'DADA' was an acronym and they were talking about me."

Hermonie gave me that look of annoyance that only a teenaged girl can reliably pull off. "Did you really think Hogwarts would have an arts department?"

"You never know." I turned on my helmet mic so I'd get a bit of reverb in my speech. "It Can Happen Here!"


(Doug's quoting "Dough for the Do-Do", of course. While that's more surrealism than it is dada, who's going to correct him?)

I was idly leafing through the AD&D 2nd Ed. Players Handbook, and paused to read the specifications for the 6th-level Cleric spell Heal.  "...wipe away disease and injury ... blindness ... heals all points of damage suffered due to wounds or injury.  It dispels a feeblemind spell.  It cures those mental disorders caused by spells or injury to the brain."

I wondered, still idly, how Doug's "I'm Alive" would stack up against that in terms of power, given that "I'm Alive" will also repair people's clothing.  And then I thought again about the curing of mental disorders, and ... oh, Emperor on Earth, Neville's parents....

Finally, I'm about to hit episode 4.

It'll all be offscreen, with Usagi giving Doug an after-action report... but in that episode Usagi originally beat the crap out of a set of musclemen at a gym with just her raw senshi abilities.  Imagine how she'll do with training.

What may be one of the oldest known rocks from Earth has been found in the material that Apollo 14 astronauts brought home from the moon nearly 50 years ago.

He was indicted yesterday for, among other things, obstruction of justice and witness tampering, and was arrested at his home in Florida this morning by the FBI.

CNN story here.

Associated Press story, via MSN, here.

New Scientist: We may finally know what causes Alzheimer’s – and how to stop it

tl;dr: Possibly caused by the same bacteria that causes gum disease, maybe. And the report mentions a possible cure for gum disease - that is showing some signs of also treating Alzheimer’s - is currently being tested.

CBC Op-ed: Donald Trump is the best president the left has ever had

Quote:Not to commiserate over what a pig the man is (calling someone a pig is presidential language now, so that's fair ball, right?). That's just easy. What's fascinating is the reaction when you advance the argument that Trump, judged solely on his actions, is the most left-wing president any of us has ever seen.

By people "on the left," incidentally, I don't mean small-l, bourgeois, reflexive urban liberals. I mean committed progressives; people who believe in collectivism over rugged individualism, in the replacement of social hierarchy with social equality, who advocate wealth redistribution and robust government intervention to restrain the predations of the market. Generally, these people also oppose government austerity and militarism and globalization.

They are generally well educated and serious. And they can be irritatingly self-righteous. Which is why it's such fun to point out that Trump has often been their objective ally.

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Man, I love PMJ

My playlist is pretty cool, but epic trailer style, gothy metal (Nightwish etc.), black humor and sarcasm do not make for a good mix when I just need cheering up. Any suggestions? Not rap, not country, and not too much in the way of percussion-focus like techno because it tends to give me a headache.

The Register: Wow, fancy that. Web ad giant Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome. For safety, apparently

Quote:Content blockers may be used to hide or black-hole ads, but they have broader applications. They're predicated on the notion that users, rather than anyone else, should be able to control how their browser presents and interacts with remote resources.

Quote:"The declarativeNetRequest API provides better privacy to users because extensions can't actually read the network requests made on the user's behalf," Google's API documentation explains.

But "better privacy" here means privacy as defined by Google rather than privacy defined by a third-party extension developer.