Reader Tips

Reader Tips 42 Comments
 
 

Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation, here are Sweet performing Love Is Like Oxygen from their Level Headed album, in 1978 (7:14).

Nota bene: Ladies and gentlemen, this is the daily SDA Reader Tips entry. It is a place that is provided for you, dear reader, to alert other SDA readers to various level-headed tips you might have, in order to alleviate the shame and embarrassment that would arise from being off-topic in other SDA entries. How to remove wax from a carpet is a tip, SDA is like oxygen is a tip, that Mark Steyn has a great new article here is a tip, if the Large Hadron Collider sees a Higgs Boson that will be a tip, I could go on and on: tips is a pretty broad category. And, the daily Reader Tips entry is a place to make occasional comments about said posted Reader Tips, including the opening LNR tip, comments on those comments, and so on, to a degree.

That all makes sense: not enough and you’re gonna’ die. Nevertheless, you get too much you get too high: Reader Tips is not a place for copying and pasting vast tracts of text from other publications. That’s not only illegal, it’s actually rude. Use a link. It is not a place for you to go on and on and on and on trying to convince all SDA readers that you are righteously correct about some pet peeve of yours. Get your own blog for that, then post an excerpt from and link to your essay here. It is not a place for posting ill-formatted run-on comments. Be considerate of your readers. It is not a debating society. I wish it was, but Kate says it isn’t. And it is not a place for school-yard name-calling of those you don’t agree with.

There is a reason for my saying all this, and that is that to the degree that Reader Tips becomes overrun by excessive commentitis from a small number of activist commenters, signals from otherwise legitimate and possibly interesting SDA Readers’ Tips become lost in the noise of the verbodiarrheic, thus lowering the overall Shannon information value of the exercise for all of us. Remember, my job here (in Reader Tips) is to be like a host to the guests of Reader Tips, and that means I have to know when to (and be willing to) invoke the bouncers (and I am).

Therefore, in order to be reasonable to all the guests of Small Dead Animals who might like to post occasional Reader Tips and occasional comments thereupon, I say to those of you who have recently been trying to use these Reader Tips entries as if they were your personal blog: don’t do that any more. I’m not asking anyone to go away or to not talk about something, it’s just that this is the world-famous Small Dead Animals, so try to be reasonable, please.

Your Reader Tips are, as always, welcome in the comments.

42 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  1. Thanks Vit. I respect your ‘fatherly’ discourse.
    BTW… ‘verbodiarrheic’ is that from any particular dictionary or is it your own?
    I usually just say purple piffle, but I kinda like that one of yours.

  5. Wax in carpet … dry ice and shop vac…
    Wax out of carpet!
    You get dry ice at butchers.
    Shop vac at Home Depot.

  6. Signal-to-noise, Vitruvius; signal-to-noise.
    Query: What is the problem?
    Too many people?
    Or…
    Not enough energy?
    Your answer determines the course of future civilization.

  12. Too many people?
    Or…
    Not enough energy?
    Actually Tenebris it’s lack of gratitude that bedevils mankind and future society.

  14. Daniel m. Ryan @ 12:20 Whether or not you agree with EnCana’s habit of burning off the sour gas, health wise; of course the terrorism must stop. For those looking for adventure, I believe there is a reward of about half-million $$$ for info leading to their arrest.

  15. Daniel @ 12:20, though I loathe to agree with anything Joe blowhole Biden says…good advice during a downtime is to spend. Buy your way out of it by buying well and buying lots, when everyone else is cutting back.

  16. OPINION: The More Hybrid Drivers the Better?
    More People, More Hybrids, More Problems was the intro heading on a mass email from Worldwatch. Find at worldwatch.org/node/6192?emc=el&m=271066&l=5&v=3a1ed1ab78

  17. I have it on good authority that the Large Hadron Collider won’t be seeing any Higgs Boson in this or any other universe.

  19. wuberman – I’ve seen a lot of energy expended on the virtousness vs the malignancy of the atomic bomb.
    I was so happy to find a copy of “Plain Speaking” by Merle Miller – an oral biography of Harry Truman yesterday at a used book store.
    Recommended reading for everyone. The last high-profile honest American politician. (D!)
    From his address to the American public:
    “Having found the bomb we have used it. We have used it against those who attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor, against those who have starved and beaten and executed American prisoners of war, against those who have abandoned all pretense of obeying international laws of warfare. We have used it in order to shorten the agony of war, in order to save the lives of thousands and thousands of young Americans. We shall continue to use it until we completely destroy Japan’s power to make war. Only a Japanese surrender will stop us.”
    The retrospectoscope is fine, and we can use it, but we have no idea what it’s like living in the past.
    The only place we live in is the here and now.
    So, our current collective howling against Obama may be right or wrong, but it will be judged appropriately in the future.
    Hope I’m not too off-topic thx

  20. Posted by: wuberman at July 17, 2009 1:39 AM
    wuberman, thanks for sharing that vid from PJTV. A very satisfying broadcast to watch.

  21. “It’s a lot of banning.”
    Nanny, how I love ya*.
    …-
    “…Australia’s government nannies have officially banned 1,370 web sites.
    They’ve drawn up a blacklist, just like the medieval index of banned books. Right now it’s a voluntary pilot project to which Internet service providers can submit. But if the trial run is deemed a success and made law, anyone who links to a blacklisted site can be fined $11,000 a day. That means it will be a crime not just to provide the contents of a web site, but to merely reproduce its address.
    That’s not just like banning books. It’s like banning books, and banning saying the banned book’s title. It’s a lot of banning.”
    “Australia’s Internet censorship gong show
    By Ezra Levant”
    http://ezralevant.com/
    (*H/T Al Jolson)

  23. Red Tory is dead and buried in the PET Cemetery.
    TORedStar has given space for a lengthy Eulogy, which has been partially exposed below*.
    The Eulogy is by “Arthur Haberman is University Professor Emeritus of History and Humanities at York University”.
    The tombstone, immediately to your left as “we” enter PET Cemetery, is pinko limestone with the epitaph:
    Joe Who?
    …-
    *”Party’s over for Canada’s Progressive Conservatives
    We are all the losers as Red Tories no longer have a prominent role in this country’s public life
    Arthur Haberman
    I recently attended a university convocation ceremony at which an honourary degree was given to Joe Clark, celebrating his many contributions to Canadian politics and public life.
    Clark delivered the convocation address and reminded all of us what a forceful public speaker he can be.”
    http://www.thestar.com/comment/article/667580

  29. Anyone have the lowdown and Graham Harrell?
    Sounds like, if he can learn the CFL game, and if he can take being a pro, he could be a great QB.
    All time college pass and touchdown leader, quite impressive. Just wondering why the NFL snubbed him.

  30. Socialism = Procrustes*.
    …-
    “… as Mark Steyn, detecting the whiff of extortion in the air, asked: “Why not just break his (Kyl’s) legs in the Senate parking lot?”
    “Obama’s war for socialism. Yes, for socialism”
    Diana West
    urlm.in/ctcj
    …-
    ” Tall body’s legs cut off to fit casket
    By Jeffrey Collins, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS”
    urlm.in/ctck
    …-
    *Procrustes: urlm.in/ctcl

  31. Top Court throw out $4mil coke seizure after illegal search.
    the canadian press
    *claims the police broke the accused’s Charter of Rights.

  34. Goreacle Update.
    No “dog days”; no “sizzle”.
    Watch/listen for calls for Nanny State to help.
    …-
    “Phillips says what’s unusual is that the cool weather isn’t just affecting one region, it’s having an impact on growing areas from Alberta to the Maritimes.
    Various growers have been affected by either too much – or too little – rain, but the weather has been consistently cool almost everywhere, and that has delayed crop growth.”
    “Relentless cool summer across Canada has crops crying for heat, say farmers”
    urlm.in/ctcs

  36. I was wading through the debris that is CBC looking for a mention of the Green Party of Alberta being deregistered and a posssible noteworthy quote from numero uno screaming greenie Lizzie May,when I came across this little nugget—http://www.cbc.ca/canada/calgary/story/2009/07/16/calgary-chicken-farming-hens-urban.html —. There appears to be an organization pressing for us rednecks out here in Calgary to be allowed to have up to six chickens in the backyard(Brandi and Cletus would be so happy).The organization is called ‘CLUCK’. I think that CBC is being taken for a ride,but you never know,we do have active PETA people around.

  37. Tip:
    Avoid getting sucked into those boring “polite” conversations with total strangers on buses or subways by pretending to be drunk.

  39. Bryanr @ 2:18
    The judge that made this decision is extremely controversial having been a big time criminal lawyer prominent in many drug related cases. He was appointed by the Liberals, and deserves a lot of scrutiny by all of us. Out here in B.C. there are many who claim the judiciary are involved in the very lucrative drug business, with some judges frightened because of threats against them and their families. I don’t usually hook up to conspiracy theories, but I’m thinking this one may have legs.

  40. [censored] is bammed by “Canada’s own”.
    …-
    “Maclean’s cover declares [‘censored censored’]
    Just a week after Mayor David Miller took to the airwaves to defend Toronto over a U.S. newspaper report about its garbage strike, Canada’s own Maclean’s magazine features a cover declaring “[censored censored]”.”
    urlm.in/ctdl
    S’more from 2006:
    “Toronto stinks
    And Ottawa might get the two-headed babies. Some marvelous hyperbole from the Globe’s Margaret Wente (full text not online):
    …
    Toronto has a very curious attitude about trash. It’s harmless when it’s piling up on people’s porches or spilling out of public bins and blowing around the park.
    But once it’s collected, it becomes so hazardous that we’ve got to take it far away….everybody knows that pregnant women living within 500 miles of a landfill will probably give birth to babies with two heads.”
    http://www.damianpenny.com/archived/006509.html

  41. The comparison between that drug case and the Chatterjee case at the Supreme Court a few months ago is staggering. In the latter, the Court allowed the confiscation of a sum of money (somewhere around $20,000, I believe) from a man who was not even charged with a crime.

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