mike carey

Don't worry, I understand the subtext and the possible sensitivity of using the term!

It was in the review. Russ has been on my list for some time, but not perhaps for a cruise where I paid him that.

You may recall about a year ago a British academic in South Korea was giving an interview to the BBC from his home office. The clip of his interview went viral, not because of what he said but because his four year old came in and danced around behind him. He wrote this nice article for a Sydney think tank. He will also be speaking at the Sydney Writers Festival in May. https://www.lowyinstitute.org/the-interpreter/year-internet-stardom--bbc-dad-reflects It's worth wandering around the rest of the Lowy Institute's site while you're there.

https://tenplay.com.au/channel-ten/the-project/top-stories-march-2018/speak-even-if-your-voice-shakes I hope this isn't geoblocked. An anti-bullying video shown on TV here in a segment where the Waleed Aly usually does an editorial. The words in the first sentence of the title are those a 14 year old girl here wrote shortly before she took her own life. Here's a twitter thread about this.

Sorry to hear about this Gman, hope all works well with your move back to Baja Oklahoma.

Early to the piece as is often the case, Happy Birthday to one hot man, Junior Benz (@JuniorNYC), hope you have a great day and enjoy the hell out of it.

I would travel to see a guy. I would probably only do so if I wanted to go to that city already, but you never know. Would I go to NYC, DC or LA, no doubt. Are there escorts I'd go to LV to see, yes (hello @peterhung85). If Eric, Mike Gaite or TB (or some others) were in Spokane, when I wanted to see them, definite maybe.

Mike, I won't say your on my list but I'm damn ready to try.

I wonder how many tourists will want to visit Königsberg or Stalingrad. Or how many will want to visit the site of the martyrdom of the tsar at Yekaterinburg.

Of course! *Pours bottles of GB over Victor*

Not so fast! Whether the shorts are ugly or not, they come off.

As you would expect, his passing was one of the topics on the daily news panel show on ABC TV here. Their go-to quantum physicist (I kid you not, smart guy on all sorts of levels) had a different take on that. He said Hawking ran over people's toes to break into conversations because it would have taken so long for him to do so using his voice simulator. I suspect both versions are true.

I'm not saying me + lance isn't in my thought process. I'm a simple man.

Oh, you two get a room. Preferably with a webcam.

I suspect that at this time of year, in Detroit, sailing is not an option.

To me, PC is a synonym for respectful, and mostly claims of things being 'too PC' can be refuted by asking exactly how you can be too respectful. That said, the term has become more widely used as code for all sorts of sentiments. I don't think there is anything wrong with being uncomfortable with usage or themes in music and literature from another day. If anything can be too PC, it could be expecting the works to be changed to reflect today's sensibilities. Even then, using 'too PC' has the undesirable effect of blurring the difference between contemporary respect and a desire for historical revisionism. When looking at old works, context is everything. If it reflects the prevailing views of the world from its time, by all means avoid it if you don't like it, but your discomfort should not be the basis for editing out the things that you don't like. Also, don't underestimate the ability of others to enjoy if for what it is, and even to reflect on the outdated views it shows.

It's sort of an oblique application of Occam's Razor, simplest answer is best. Sugar has a known number of kJ, known effect over time on blood glucose levels and known effects on things like teeth. Artificial sweeteners were seen as an uncomplicated way of replacing the sweetness in foods and beverages but it is turning out that their effects aren't as uncomplicated as we first thought. IIRC along with other things already mentioned they mask the satiation reaction we have to eating and drinking. We'd be better off weening ourselves from our collective sweet tooth rather than finding ways to remove the energy content from sweet foods. Or accepting that sweet foods contain kJ and eat accordingly. Easier said than done, I know, but looking for a magical method of removing energy from food has brought unintended consequences. In any case, the main sugar problem isn't from eating sweet foods that our great grandparents would recognise it's from the sugars added to foods that they would not. Corn syrup/fructose added to drinks (in addition to empty kJ, it has different physiological effects to sucrose or glucose), low fat products that have sugar added to make them more palatable (IIRC low fat yogurt with its sugar has more kJ/g than regular fat yogurt). (Sorry, got to the end of writing that and realised I'd used kilojoules (kJ) rather than calories for the energy content of food.)

Happy birthday, have a great day!

Disclosure: I had Eric's password, not sure whether he told me or if I saw it in his profile. My quoted comment was for comic effect.

@Eric Hassan, your private photo password is in your ad? FML

But every cat in the twilight's grey, every possible cat.

Thanks for sharing this Brian. A beautiful, heartfelt tribute to this man you shared some of your life with. I'm so sorry to hear how it ended.

I can only commend you for playing along with @peterhung85's joke of using faux broken English. For one of those poor foreign gentlemen, his English is near as can be to perfect.

They'll never know Pan Am either.