May 20, 2013
Ubu Roi (Bumped)
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Ubu Roi has had a rough year.
A completely accurate rendering of Ubu in a top hat and parachute*.
Ubu is steadily progressing though, and he has advanced up the tiers of Hell from
STROKE to
SPINAL INJURY.
Note that this is still, as our Dear Leader would say, "sub-optiomal".
Today he
finds out if he has to go down one level to BACK SURGERY so send him
your good wishes. Oh, and prayers are not to be disincentivised.
If I'm not the only one unable to comment there please feel free leave your words of encouragement here.
UPDATE: He
will require spinal surgery (ugh).
*and wig and shawl and dress and freaky-deaky anime mask.
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Eh, it's not the end of the world. Lots of advances in microsurgery, and it's almost outpatient. Sounds like they plan to keep me around for a bit for observation, but the doc says I should be back at work in a week or two after the surgery. He's one of the top ten neurosurgeons in the country.
The real pain is that I was getting established in a new section and role post-stroke (the measures I took to ensure stress reduction at work were swift, effective, and left bruises), and now this. My plans involved working 5-10 more years and at least one more promotion. Instead I'm burning all my vacation and sick time, then taking unpaid leave. Not good.
Posted by: ubu at Thu May 23 10:37:48 2013 (GfCSm)
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April 24, 2013
The Hoyt Principle
Sarah Hoyt has explained College Faculties (and I’m sad to say a lot of
College Republicans) big "L” libertarians, the sad state of both Anime
and American Comic Books, the Air Force, Climate Gate, Young Earth
Creationism, Birthers, Truthers, Todd Akin, The View and quite possibly
New Coke.
Go read the whole thing
This shall be called the Hoyt Principle and I strongly urge everyone
to learn from it, for to fail to do so is the first step on the path to
perdition and madness.
more...
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April 11, 2013
Thoughts on Authenticity
James Lileks holds forth with a rather lengthy disquisition on those who presume to define that which is authentic.
Length notwithstanding, I encourage you to read the whole thing. This is a particularly good screed and gives some historical perspective on those who haets them some suburbia.
Be advised that there is initially some discussion of plumbing and pigments, but that's OK, 'cause it's Lileks.
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March 15, 2013
March 02, 2013
Don is Mocking my Dulcimer
...with some contraption that looks like someone crossed a xylophone and a zither to produce some bizarre and unnatural hybrid.
More importantly, in the first video
over there there is a dude with a saw...It is a worthy video indeed.
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February 27, 2013
Alamo Blogging
Ben at
Midnight Tease just revealed
a dark secret about himself. However, we won't hold that character flaw against him as he has been doing an interesting day by day post of the battle of the Alamo. He's up to day 5:
here,
here,
here,
here and
here.
If I had Photoshop working I'd put them on Jim Bowie!
UPDATE: THANKS Wonderduck!
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Your "dark secret" link is busted.
Posted by: Rick C at Wed Feb 27 23:58:15 2013 (WQ6Vb)
Posted by: Wonderduck at Thu Feb 28 02:42:04 2013 (PHdMw)
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Wo0t! I was visited during the night by The Magical Photoshop Duck!
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at Thu Feb 28 11:06:19 2013 (F7DdT)
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Ah. I'll admit to not knowing enough about the show in question to know why his revelation is bad. Don't feel as if you need to explain, though. I assume GL is well-regarded.
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Thank you very much for the link! I then I completely violated your trust by failing to post the next day's events! (Mainly because it's the calm before the storm, and there just isn't much you can post about Bowie being more sick today than yesterday.) However, there will be an update this evening.
If only Travis would have found a tiny, golden drill bit when they dug the new irrigation ditch. I can just picture Bowie standing on the head of a giant mech, Bowie Knife in hand, as Travis flies straight at Santa Anna, bowling over Mexican troops.
There's something wrong with me.
Posted by: Ben at Fri Mar 1 21:19:24 2013 (/Mdmg)
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And by letting my imagination get the better of me, I completely forgot to mention Wonderduck's awesome photoshop, which inspired the derailment. I will be linking back to this.
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January 29, 2013
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November 18, 2012
Well Then...
Today in Austin they held the first Formula One race in the US since 2007.
I completely missed it.
Wonderduck did not..
Art by Abubu
By all accounts it was an awesome race.
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June 24, 2012
Ubu Roi has had a VERY bad week.
Fortunately, although he is bedridden, his prognosis seems decent. He's blogged about it for one thing, which is certainly hopeful. Still, a stroke is a terrifying thing indeed.
I sincerely hope his recovery is swift and full.
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March 12, 2012
Post Spring Break Cleaning...
...of the tabs.
Here's an interesting gun...Melvin Johnson developed a semiauto rifle and machine gun, both of which were adopted on a limited basis by the Marines in WW2. Shortly before the war started, he designed another gun that combined his weapons best features with a much shorter overall length. It saw very limited service (one prototype used in the Pacific) but if it had been a few months earlier it might have been the general issue rifle US rifle of the war.
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February 12, 2012
The Pachinko Effect
History is neither preordained nor a straight line. It is a fiendishly complex game of billiards or perhaps a massive pachinko machine. The cascade effect of screwing with a few variables is inherently unpredictable as the tapestry of history is bound together with a collection of seemingly insignificant threads, the removal or reordering of which will unravel said tapestry in unknown ways.
Pondering such things is often dismissed as silly fantasy or mental masturbation, but our future will soon be history, and it behooves us to remember what a near run thing our existence is. Such reflection might, for instance, have made a great deal of difference in the August
of 1914.
A short, glorious endeavor...sure to be finished by Christmas.
As we look upon the uncharted, unlit highway that is our future, it is, perhaps, wise to reflect upon how
surprising our history was to those that made it. We should take great
care to learn as much as we can from their astonishment, for the road we
travel has as many forks and is at least as precarious as theirs.
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Obviously, I've never found
What If...? scenarios to be wastes of time. Just as obviously, quite a few (if not most) "legitimate historians" do... which makes me feel quite superior to them, actually.
Posted by: Wonderduck at Sun Feb 12 19:46:50 2012 (K/dx0)
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Without what-if you'd never get yes-but, which can introduce you to things that don't fit into the canned narrative of a history textbook (like Japan's nuclear weapons program, or submersible aircraft carriers). I once had someone try to shout down my political opinions with the words "I was a history major, I know", and yet it was obvious that there was no real
depth to his knowledge, particularly when he lectured me about American Imperialism.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Mon Feb 13 13:39:01 2012 (2XtN5)
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