Wounded Veterans
This is the actual lead sentence from a USAToday story today:
Train crashes into Texas veterans parade; 4 dead
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/11/15/texas-train-crash/…
This is the actual lead sentence from a USAToday story today:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/11/15/texas-train-crash/…
origins diverse
from throughout the universe
there is no better verse
than 'nature is perverse'
Joel Pett, a cartoonist with the Lexington-Herald Leader, has brilliantly captured the silliness of opposition to climate friendly policies with the caption:
"What if it's all a hoax and we create a better world for nothing?"
The cartoon itself is widely reproduced on the internet, but I haven't paid the fees to reproduce it here. Still, you should be able to find it at one of these links:
OK, I do mostly like Netflix. Even though they often won't stream the film I'd really like to watch, usually I can find something I haven't seen. But their "Suggestions For You" are, often as not, just silly.
Here are two examples Netflix thought I'd like, and why:
Initial website:
Content generation
anonymous, ab test
admin, ab test
Benchmark Protocol
I host a number of low traffic Drupal (drupal.org) websites. Several for a non-profit, a few consulting shops, a book & poetry site. Low traffic, but a couple sites use lots of drupal modules, so performance and resource limits can sometimes be issues.
I've used hotdrupal.com as my hosting service for some years. They've really been excellent. First rate. I've only needed support a few times and they've always been prompt and professional. But the big thing, for me, is the accounts are highly optimized for drupal. My webpages load in less than 200 ms (thats a Drupal Devel module timing number). I've toyed with other hosts but nothing comes close. Part of it the large php memory_limit = 160M in the stock php.ini for my account. Nice. But they've obviously got other optimizations too.
Still, nothing lasts forever. As Drupal grows, and as my websites grow, I've used more and more resources. Currently I'm bumping into my account's 3GB disk space limit. And that includes the MySQL databases. One of those is using > 400 MB. That's as reported by Cpanel, which is the number that counts toward my allowed quotas. phpMyAdmin reports less than half that number, but I gather this discrepancy is fairly common.
Now, hotdrupal.com isn't all that generous on disk space. They say they provide premium disk space (meaning fast), so they can't provide unlimited amounts of space. I'd just get more diskspace, but for the incremental cost I could price myself into another provider.
OK, here's the story.
I've got my Google homepage setup to give me headlines from various sources. Anything really big will be on all of them. You know, I need to keep informed. So as I can hold an informed conversation down at the Wheelhouse Tavern. But from time to time there will be an oddball headline that just catches my attention.
Today's winner? This one: "Army looking at how fish oil might reduce suicides."
Mind you, I'm not all that interested in the story. I just want to parse the headline.
The Army. The friggin' 'Be All You Can Be" US friggin' Army. Two friggin's.
Is looking at. Looking at, mind you. Fish oil. That's right, fish oil. I'm thinking, 3-omega. And for reasons a marketing guy might better explain, I'm also thinking ginko biloba.
And suicides.
Army. Fish oil. Suicides. Got it.
Now, that's the sort of news I want Google brining to my attention. Army. Fish oil. Suicides.
Money isn't real: it's just a mutual agreement to keep track of what we've promised to each other. Frequent Flyer Miles are even less real. But trading the two, until today, could get you travel around the world at no cost.
Here's how it works. Get one of those credit cards that gets you frequent flyer points for your purchse. Then, go to the US Mint and buy dollar coins, charged to your credit card. The Mint would ship you the coins for free. You deposit the coins in your bank, pay off your credit card, and pocket the Frequent Flyer points. Voila. Something fo nothing.
Sadly, as of today the US Mint will no longer allow purchase of coins by credit card.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/07/22/138616763/the-friday-podcast-dollar-coins-in-the-wild
That's a headline today over at CBCnews today.
"Some 'green' detergents still contain chemicals"
One has to wonder what the other 'green' detergents are made of? Dark-green matter, perhaps.