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Author: Harold
Syndication updating in batches
There have been consistent reports that syndicated feeds are updating in batches instead of at a regular schedule. I decided to watch the
Dear Yuletide writer
Dear Yuletide Writer,
Delicious Links for 2013-10-11
The Friday Five for 4 October 2013…
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Computers!
- When did you/your family get your first computer?
- What type of computer was it?
- What were your favorite things to do on your first computer?
- When did you/your family first connect to the Internet?
- How did you spend time online when you first connected?(sic)
- 1984
- Commodore Vic-20
- There were a bunch of games, but I don't remember what they were called.
- 1995
- Well, I was a teenage boy so I did what any teenage boy would do given access to the Internet… I looked up MST3K transcripts and X-Files episode guides.
More manly than legally allowed
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Which reminds me; be sure to check out the webcomic Manly Guys Doing Manly Things. In addition to being funny the main character, the Commander, is easily the best father I’ve read in any work of fiction, in any medium, in the last year.
Dialect Quiz
One of the blogs I follow linked to a rather thorough dialect quiz from North Carolina State University. There’s a 25 question short form and the full 140 question quiz. Much better results from the full quiz; the short form had me coming from the other side of the country.
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Protected: I think I’m going to dress up as Frankenstein’s monster for Halloween this year
The Friday Five for 27 September 2013…
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Animals!
- What is your favorite animal?
- What animal do you resemble most in a physical aspect?
- If you could become any animal, what would you be? Why?
- If you could create a new animal by mixing up traits from other animals, what creatures would you comine?
- Who is your favorite animal character (from stories, books, TV, movies, etc.)? Why?
Probably
(sic)
- Frog (duh)
- Right now, one of those cute little ones you see on the evening news after it survives some horrible tragedy. “Koko lost part of one of her front legs in the attack, but is otherwise expected to make a full recovery.”
- Tortoise. I like the idea of carrying some armor with me and living for a couple centuries.
- Nuh uh, I’m not falling into that trap. Besides, the SyFy Channel is doing a good enough job on its own.
- Mole, from The wind in the Willows