46 Replies to “Reader Tips”

  2. I’d be surprised if anyone who reads the right blogosphere
    hasn’t heard about it, since a 1½ week old story can hardly
    be considered the latest.

  4. Wait, wait, Mr. G., I didn’t mean to suggest that it’s an
    invalid Tip, I just thought “latest” was a bit of a stretch 😉

  6. “In the global poultry market, a nation is a dark meat country or a light meat country, a leg quarter country or a whole chicken country. A country’s place on the meat color spectrum is determined in large part by economic preferences, but taste matters, too.”
    “Here, humans are competing with chickens for corn.”
    ” … and climate change are thrown into the mix.”
    http://tinyurl.com/ycj8aan

  8. Vitruvius – of course. As a native Albertan myself, I was just trying to show that I wasn’t closed-minded to poultry. Although they have a poultry bias, the site:
    http://www.meatpaper.com
    has many excellent articles on beef.

  9. I remember Darren McGavin playing a scruffy slovenly kind of dick, but I had never seen this show. Maybe had spent evenings in alcoholic stupor and daytimes banging with hammer and dolly and inhaling acrylic lacquer. Always liked him though, suppose he’s gone now, like most everyone I liked.

  10. You “spent evenings in alcoholic stupor and daytimes banging
    with hammer and dolly and inhaling acrylic lacquer”, Larben ?-)
    But seriously, Kolchack: The Night Stalker was little cult classic in it’s own right ~ a parody of shows like Twilight Zone and The Invaders ~ classic impossible paranormal fiction that played suspense like a cheap violin! My favourite part of this episode are the multiple instances of slow-mo stunt-man cops flying through the air. Cracks me up every time. My favourite episode is the one where Carl’s at a Greek temple, and some of the statues come alive. It’s great, but I can’t (yet) find it on line.

  11. It’s what I did for a living at one time; boy some hangovers. We did use those particle masks, but had to poke a hole in them for the cigarette.

  12. Heh – the ‘Coffee Party’ sounds so, so, well, so suburban, so proper, so Duncan Hines cake mix.
    I think if it’s the party of those socialist leftists, it ought to be the ‘Latte Party’.

  14. “We did use those particle masks, but had to poke a hole in them for the cigarette.”
    I’d like to use that for my email signature – if you don’t mind.

  15. Sort of off topic I suppose, but can any of you who are more mathematically informed than I tell me the name for that little “squiggly” that indicates infinity on the infinity squared signature? (I have a very primitive keyboard)

  16. Thanks Vit!! I love the old Remington typewriter. I used one just like it years ago when I worked in small town papers. Sometimes we’d just give our notes to the girls who were professional typists, and they write the article for us. Today, it’s sad that most of the energy is used up studying computer programs when reporters should be out getting the facts.

  20. mr. g – always beware commenting on “Vit’s” site. Its kind of like he’s the third brother on “Fraser”.

  22. ET, “Latte Party”, yes, much more appropriate and could include a sprinkle of effeteness.

  26. from wikipedia
    An interesting example of such polynomial lemniscates are the Mandelbrot curves. If we set p0 = z, and pn = pn−12 + z, then the corresponding polynomial lemniscates Mn defined by |pn(z)| = ER converge to the boundary of the Mandelbrot set. If ER

  29. Per Wikipedia supra: “The infinity symbol is available in standard HTML as ∞ and in LaTeX as \infty. In Unicode, it is the character at code point U+221E (∞), or 8734 in decimal notation”. So, while I don’t know what your software’s Unicode escape sequences are, if you use ∞ in these blog comments you get ∞. Here’s a decent list of HTML Character Entity Names, with which you can post very clever comments at SDA such as this essay On the Matter of the Loss of Innocence. And for bonus points, you can generally copy and paste from those character reference pages right into your comments.

    In theory the Unicode Chart goes on seemingly endlessly, but in practice not all clients have all the necessary fonts to render all these glyphs. In practice though, one can often find useful characters at Wikipedia (for example, here is a musical flat: ♭). And on that note, ☺, good night, ladies and gentlemen, best wishes, and as always, thank you Kate.

  33. Thank you mr. g for reader tip # 1 in this thread. I, for one, had not heard this. Mr. Vitruvius, is it now a requirement to read SDA that one must also “read the right blogosphere”? If not, why would you “scold” mr. g for his tip?
    Do you not find it ironic (or some other long word that is more precise in this case) that 10 of the 32 posts in this thread are posts by you and that most are not reader tips?

  34. Brave Dan Gardner, The Ottawa Citizen March 12, 2010
    “So it seems the paranoid racists were right all along….. In 2031, there will still be pale people worshipping a dead Jew.”
    “ the number of Muslims is expected to more than triple, ”
    Why didn’t he continue in the same vein and write, “the number of people that follow the teachings of a dead pedophile is expected to more than triple,”?
    http://www.ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/Canada+same/2674130/story.html

  35. I bet YOU missed this..
    KevinB at March 13, 2010 1:55 AM said …
    [Quote] check out the front page of drudgereport.com (Small child advisory) [\Quote]
    http://tinyurl.com/ygdraoo
    Scroll down a bit and listen to Trump on the video..
    Gripping, about China and our idiot [US] politikons.
    Trump has COMMON SENSE.. I thought he was just a blow-hARD.. Damn, i WAS WRONG AGAIN! Just like last time in 1959.

  38. I wouldn’t normally consider Stacey David as a source for information on things other than tweaking your latest ride.
    But!
    He just did a great show about the determental effects of the “Cash for Clunkers” program in the US. The effect it had on the used car industry, after market manufacturing industry, automobile service industry etc.
    http://staceydavid.com/showdetails.php?episode=45

  39. When Jean Chretien’s son Michel was charged in 2002 with sexual assault, illegal confinement, and sodomy, the mother of the victim stated that she had been pressured by a sitting Liberal MP to not press criminal charges. She said the MP told her –
    “…(Chretien) is the Prime Minister, he has all the power and he will fight this case for Michel. Then she told me that ‘a lot of dirty things are going to come up about your past and the media will be there’…I almost changed my mind (about pressing charges) because of that.”
    Kate, who was or is the liberal mp who pressured the victim’s mother not to press charges?

  41. I ate so much chicken, in the 80’s, I started growing feathers. Made me anemic. I’ve never bought into another diet fad.
    Darren McGavin may have looked scruffy, but he was really quite healthy. He was a martial artist, and a very professional actor.
    He did an interesting movie, in the early 70’s, called “The Challenge”. It wasn’t a big hit, but I enjoyed the plot. Instead of starting a world war, the US sent their best guy, to fight the enemy’s best guy, on a desert island. The enemy’s best guy was played by Mako. The theme was similar to a book I once read, though I can’t remember the title.
    McGavin earned $2 million, for “A Christmas Story”, which was one of my favourites. Apparently, that was a lot of money, in those days.

  42. First, Jethro, what scold? Did you read the 4th and 5th comments? Mr. G. clearly understands what’s going on here. Second, “right blogosphere” means as opposed to “left blogosphere”, sorry I wasn’t more clear. Third, it is not required that a comment in Reader Tips be a Reader Tip, comments on extant reader tips are also allowed, as long as they don’t become flame wars or extended debates (per the rules shown in cyan above the comments box at the end of this page). Ergo, my comments last night, which amounted to one or two per reader tip, are legitimate, as are those of others doing the same thing. Lastly, from time to time I get DJ’s dibs. That’s just how it works. If you have any other questions, I’d be glad to attempt to answer them.

  43. IMO: It’s not going to look good Mr. Benny!!
    Iacbucci to Review ‘All’ Afghan-detainee-scandal documents Dating back to 2001
    Jane Taber G&M Sat.March 13/2010
    *Former Supreme Court judge Frank Iacobucci will review all relevant documents….
    *Opposition has been demanding to see his terms of reference..
    *Will begin his review immediately..
    * He will also look back as far as 2001 when the mission began under the Chretian Liberals..
    IMO watch for screaming & hollering to begin soon…
    can you hear it now Thats not what we asked for…..

  44. The snark from the left is an old political ploy: deflection from reality.
    …-
    “Dollar pushes Canada ahead of the pack
    Surging loonie, 10-month low in unemployment have foreign investors betting on Canada
    As the rest of the developed world trudges through a fragile recovery, Canada is pulling away from the pack.
    The jobs market is healing after the brutal recession, following the path of other economic indicators. Canada’s fiscal position stands out among its peers, its banking system is strong, and the dollar is moving ever closer back to parity with the U.S. currency.
    The economy churned out another 21,000 jobs in February and the unemployment rate dipped to a 10-month low of 8.2 per cent, Statistics Canada said Friday. That compares with the peak of 8.7 per cent in the summer of 2009, and is well shy of far gloomier projections made at the height of the crisis.
    The jobs report in turn drove the dollar past the 98-cent U.S. mark, welcome news to many Canadians heading to the United States for spring break, where they now have more buying power. Analysts believe the dollar will reach parity with the greenback within months.
    While there are quibbles in Ottawa over just how quickly and smoothly Finance Minister Jim Flaherty can shrink Canada’s biggest budget deficit, the books are in such good shape compared with many other governments that foreign investors are being drawn in, buying a record amount of Canadian bonds last year.
    That keeps borrowing costs down for Canadian governments, allowing the country to benefit from stimulus spending that is helping to bring back the 400,000 jobs lost in the recession without having to fear big tax hikes.”
    http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/dollar-pushes-canada-ahead-of-the-pack/article1499480/

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