February 2011
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January 2011
93 posts
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2011-1-30) →
Neutral Milk Hotel (4)
Aloe Blacc (3)
The Avett Brothers (3)
Cee Lo Green (2)
Justin Townes Earle (2)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
bird is the word
In the past couple six weeks, I have been called a bird by a couple different people using it as the same sense as chap or man. I wonder if that term is making a come back. I’ve spent years bringing back cool beans just because I find the phrase funny to say.
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Cool
Cool article for Biologists and Computer Science people: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/69121/title/Unnatural_selection
A little human meddling may prevent the mess of extinctions that can ripple through disturbed ecosystems.
A new analysis of how perturbations propagate through a network of organisms reveals that when an ecosystem is already off-kilter, proactively removing...
‘The stock market is for suckers’ →
No wonder American companies like Facebook are avoiding the hoi polloi of traditional stock markets in favour of raising capital from private, rich investors. “The idea of the stock market was to help businesses raise capital, and to provide people, individuals, with a chance to invest their savings and participate in that growth and have enough money to retire,” says Peter Cohan, president of...
The Worst Case →
The legal debate surrounding repeal is complicated and multi-dimensional. But part of it revolves around a novel philosophical twist: a distinction between activity and inactivity that, repeal advocates say, makes the insurance requirement an illegitimate exercise of federal authority. It’s an arcane legal point, but, suddenly, a consequential one, and not just because of its relevance to health...
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Malaria caught on camera breaking and entering... →
apostasies:
spooky
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Job Search
If I added “international financier and ostrich racer” to the hobby section of my monster account, I wonder if I would get more interesting job matches.
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beta simmonsceramics.com 1.0
I am having problems with the fancier photo gallery not wanting to work on my hosts web server. My computer programming friend is going to figure out what the problem is in the next day or so. So for now, I’m using the built in basic gallery. I’ve been making things with clay for 10 years now, so it is a bit of a challenge to narrow down the galleries to a tight focus on the...
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jetanders asked: Whooaaa Clemson has hockey?
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Web page time!
This is the pre-release version but I wanted to share it with some of my friends. I have something up for simmonsceramics.com It is very basic site right now. I’m in the process of making a custom header and background. I also still need to install a gallery, since a picture is worth a thousand words especially when you are showing off visual art.
Ask me question if you want to
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Red Channel by Bird Noises.
Yes!
The new elements for my kiln came in the mail today!
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Places to travel to this year.
If I can squeeze it out of my budget some how this year, there are three trips that I really want to make:
1. NCECA 2011 in Tampa, Florida It has been years since I last went to a NCECA conference. I miss spending a week going from gallery to gallery looking at wonderful ceramic work from traditional functional work to conceptual installations.
2. Visit my friend Katie in NYC. I only see her...
Problems
Problems with the recent supreme court decision on the case CITIZENS UNITED v. FEDERAL ELECTION COMM’N are starting up in a large way. Rep. Darrell Issa knows who now holds the financial keys to help him win elections. With that knowledge, Rep. Issa sent over 150 letters to trade associations, companies and think tanks to seek opinions on which federal regulations needed to be repealed....
Watchkeepyourselfwarm:
President Obama’s full speech from the Arizona shooting victims memorial last night. Many are calling this his best speech ever and given his track record, that’s a huge claim.
I may not agree with everything Obama’s done so far in his Presidency (though he has done some pretty great things), but the one characteristic that always stood out about him was just how sincere he...
“— July 2008: A gunman named Jim David Adkisson, agitated at how “liberals” are...”
– Eighteen examples of right-wing domestic terrorism detailed by freelance journalist and author David Neiwert (via Digby)
I remember many of these. But of course each one happened in its own convenient vacuum. No need for society to turn a critical eye to itself, no siree.
(via tenderstatue)
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