Cortney: Secretly, I had the same fantasy. But I thought Zadie's odds were better . . . something about being close friends with Salman Rushdie just makes her really hot. Much hotter than I am.
Did you read his article in Real Simple last year about vegetarianism? My favorite line is one he borrows from Mark Twain -- that "becoming a vegetarian is easy. I have become a vegetarian at least once a month."
(If you have a Carnegie Library card, you can read the whole glorious article here: http://search.epnet.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&an=16571972) |
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3922. terpy (c-67-160-47-110.hsd1.wa.comcast.net) –
09 Feb 2006 16:04:42
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>>the majority of the new levels have been sort of neophyte stuff<<
Yeah, like Changing Positions.
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you weren't disturbing me. I was half looking for a clip of the immaculate reception if you recall. Anyway, I'm glad my half-assed attempt at working led you to finding a new book! |
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3920. this is like so anonymous (chiggins.ce.cmu.edu) –
09 Feb 2006 12:27:40
[ Bathroom? Mushroom! ]
if you do a google search for bathroom mushroom, yours is the second side. Congratulations, dude! |
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Right, I don't eat anything that has been on my bathroom floor.
I don't know how this page got to be the one stop shop for household fungus, but I am happy to report now that I haven't seen a mushroom in my apartment for a year and a half. |
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3918. Anonymous (adsl-6-49-121.tys.bellsouth.net) –
09 Feb 2006 11:20:41
[ Bathroom? Mushroom! ]
The picture looks like Pleurotus ostreatus and is a good edible, but it growing on treated wood or chemicals used to clen with would make it unwise to eat. |
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Well I think it would be reasonable to just base it on the timezone of your server. I mean, that's where the time displayed for each posting comes from, regardless of the poster's timezone, right? That's how I've always seen any sort of online forum work. |
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Moira: Before I found out he was married, I fantasized that we would meet and fall madly in love .... he's a vegetarian! But maybe he and Nicole Krauss will have an amazing kid, ala Last Samurai? |
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I made this comment just so I could test my ability to edit it with some new jazz behind the scenes.
My comment was perturbed by editing with jazz.
It's beautiful!
OMG awesome! |
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And after that, you should read Zadie Smith's "White Teeth," which is the only book in the whole wide universe that I like more than "Everything."
Before I knew Jonathan Safran Foer was married I used to fantasize that he and Zadie Smith would end up together and produce ridiculously smart kids. Or at least co-authored novels. |
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Adam, it is already taken by Andre 3000.
CJ & JC: You two should swap books, because I bet Jason would like Last Samurai too. And then it's like, collateral. ;) |
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3911. Tom 7 (h-72-244-70-225.phlapafg.dynamic.covad.net) –
09 Feb 2006 00:00:27
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K: Yeah, though the majority of the new levels have been sort of neophyte stuff. Most of the old standbys have been silent for a while. Speaking of which.. can we expect any levels from you anytime soon? =)
Y: Thanks for the encouragement, but don't hold your breath; sourceforge may take a while. The sad thing is that I can totally compile Escape on OS X machines that I have access to, but they are newer versions, so if I do, then the version of Escape that I build won't work on early versions of OS X. Urgh. |
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Thanks Jason ... once I finish Last Samurai (only 100 pages left to go!) I would love to borrow it. |
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3905. Kirima (201.158.62.81.cust.bluewin.ch) –
08 Feb 2006 19:30:59
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I'm looking forward to be able to resize the window, thank you Tom :-)
Did you notice that only a few new levels "use" bombs? |
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Cortney: I have a copy of Extremely/Incredibly if you want to borrow it. It is a pretty good book, albeit very sad. |
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I knew Muse were a slick machine, but I didn't realize they were actually programmed! |
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J: Do you think you can be #8 by just saying it? Because it doesn't make it true.
C: I left a bookmark in it, but I still feel like I have to finish Infinite Jest (which I am totally enjoying, it's just... really long) first. I think that I don't read books with "history" or "love" in their titles, which means that Krauss's book might be in double trouble, but if you stick it in front of my eyes and say forthwith, it might still happen.
S: Sort of. He wanted to know about some destroyfx software, but it wasn't one of my plugins (Sophia, did you get his mail?) so I couldn't really help him. He did seem kind of interested in plugin programming and Max/MSP kind of stuff though. If only he were like, "What multiparidigm typed programming language should I write my next certifying compiler in?" |
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Did the programmer for Muse call to talk to you about literal computer programming? Because that would be funniest to me. |
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Did you take it with you? You should have, but remind me and I'll pass it along to you. Yay! I'm glad you liked it! I'm looking forward to reading his second book "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" (?). I read the first three pages of that and found myself laughing a great deal. I might also recommend "A History of Love" (cough, a terrible title, I know), by Nicole Krauss. She's Foer's wife and a gifted writer all her own. |
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Oh yeah, everyone keeps telling me to read that book too! Okay, well just mainly one person. Or actually only one person. And she only told me like once. But I did also read the first few pages and decide I should read it. But then I didn't. But then you reminded me, so maybe I will now. Thanks! |
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By the way, I fixed the problem on OSX with resizing the window! Unfortunately, the sourceforge compile farm servers are down for OSX, and they have been for like a month. As soon as they are fixed I will release a version with the fix (and a bunch of small stuff I have been working on over the last few months). |
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I can't really make it work the way you want, because midnight happens at different times around the world. Also, I don't really know when people go to sleep. But I can make it at least round up so that 40-something hours does show up as two days, which I will do. |
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Oy, it is still annoying me how comments from 2 days ago mostly show up listed as "yesterday" when I check radar in the morning... |
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