Please don’t promote or Recommend this diary. It will last long enough anyway.
August 23, 2007 archive
Aug 23 2007
Rating America’s Next Top Model Cycle 8 or so
This is something that maybe only me and Melvin care about, but meet the next hopefuls for America’s Next Top Models!
Didn’t mean to have that on the front page, we should look into changing that button.
Aug 23 2007
Rating America’s Next Top Model Cycle 8 or so
This is something that maybe only me and Melvin care about, but meet the next hopefuls for America’s Next Top Models!
Aug 23 2007
Promotion and Roll Out
Please don’t promote or recommend this. It will last quite long enough anyway.
Aug 23 2007
Team Meta Meat
A request!
A suggestion!
A toothless demand!
A threat to hold my breath!
But NOT a rebuke!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can we keep non meta essays (yay to essays replacing ‘diaries,’ btw) off the FP for now? I know everyone wants to play with our new toy….but….
I am still recruiting, so new folks are still coming in. We have a LOT of meta stuff to work out. So I would LIKE to keep the FP focussed on that kind o stuff and keep the non meta stuff in the recent list.
There is a box under other options on the essay writin’ page to determine if it is an FP post or a recent list post.
But that’s just me. I have a bit of an anti-TOO much chaos fetish. It is a weakness you all will need to beat out of me. I am almost always willing to be overruled.
What say you?
We are trying for consensus decision making here. Which brings us to …
POLLS
Polls will be very important here and I URGE folks to put them up and to vote in them as much as possible.
Even if you just barely care please vote in as many as possible.
Jefferson was the first one to say that representative govt. only works if people show up….so show up!
Polls
Aug 23 2007
Braveheart
(brought to you by Cobalt6)
Sir William Wallace (c. 1270 – August 23, 1305) was a knight and Scottish patriot, who led a resistance against the English occupation of Scotland during the Wars of Scottish Independence. He is considered to be the greatest hero in Scotland’s history.
Wallace was the inspiration for the poem, The Acts and Deeds of Sir William Wallace, Knight of Elderslie, by the 15th century minstrel, Blind Harry. The 1995 film Braveheart is based on the poem.
From the Book Of Days:
He was hung in a noose, and afterwards let down half-living; next his genitals were cut off and his bowels torn out and burned in a fire; then and not till then his head was cut off and his trunk cut into four pieces.
Matthew of Westminster, on William Wallace’s execution on August 23, 1305
… I would relate
How Wallace fought for Scotland; left the name
Of ‘Wallace’ to be found like a wild flower
All over his dear country; left the deeds
Of Wallace, like a family of ghosts
To people the steeps rocks and river banks
Her natural sanctuaries, with a local soul
Of independence and stern Liberty.
William Wordsworth, English poet
Aug 23 2007
hello
just trying to leave comments but can’t… don’t know why and, fyi dear admins, there’s a black box following me around here… seriously i mean…
so this seemed the next best thing
as we are still in test mode (see buhdy, i said we…)
but happy to see old friends here and just wanted to say hellooooo to everybody except ek, who is ignoring me at present
i don’t have any ponies, but i do have a cute joke
Aug 23 2007
melvin’s statement of intent re: Docudharma
The dirty hippies at Lawrence Livermore tell me that global warming is costing us now, and in the past few years, $5 billion annually in lost production of cereal grains alone.
Consider: esteemed public research institutions are tallying and analyzing the losses, monetary and otherwise, that have already been caused by global warming, and we still have idiots in the Senate that deny its reality.
Politics be damned for the sideshow and fool’s game that it is. Reality is elsewhere.
Thirty, fifty years after it emerged as an issue in scientific discourse, global warming has finally made it into public awareness.
Aug 23 2007
So Say We All
I’m trying to organize the kind of meta conversations we should be having so we can set up a really polished and productive site.
On the Bus’ Invocation, budhy’s Mission Statement, and Turkana’s Structure have sparked a lot of agreement as you would expect from such a like-minded group.
Below the fold I’m going to post some things that should be conventional wisdom.
So say we all.
Aug 23 2007
Help! …..I am holding me down!
Help, help! I am being repres….I mean….
Help, help I am repressing myself!!!
Now that I am, as Jay Elias points out….The Man…..I feel a real urge to jack myself up against a wall, cuff myself, and give myself a good going over with a night stick!
Plus, I keep inextricably telling myself to get a fucking haircut!
Maybe I should just repress myself until I need glasses?
In any case I am looking forward to the day when I will be the subject of a Farcical Aquatic Ceremony, and my sinecure as Permanent Ruler of The Dharmaniacs is Writ into Holy Law.
Btw….first order of business, you must all grow forelocks AND practice your doffing!