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So, yeah, sure, the health care bill passed the House. But, I am not cheering. With the Stupak amendment attached to it, it represents a giant step backward for women's health care. It wasn't enough for him, for the Republicans, or for 64 other Democratic representatives, that the Hyde amendment forbade the use of federal funds for abortions. No, they had to go a step further, and use the public option and the health care exchange to effectively prohibit private insurers from covering abortions, too. Nor is there any guarantee of covering other women's health procedures, such as pap smears, mammograms, hormonal contraception, and the like. This amendment was a giant, extended middle finger to 51% of the United States population. It remains to be seen whether the Senate does something similar, or if they act against this odious amendment. And there's always the conference committee, as well. But even the fact that this amendment passed, with the support of many Democratic reps (including my own!), is bad enough. Tags: politics
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Dubbug: how's flew? Flewellyn: Pretty good. Flewellyn: I had good dinner. Dubbug: ooo Dubbug: turkey? Flewellyn: Nope. Flewellyn: Hungarian goulash. Dubbug: GHOULS!??!?!!? Flewellyn: No, goulash. Flewellyn: It's a kind of beef gravy dish. Dubbug: it's not even hallowe'en yet!!! Dubbug: wha?! Flewellyn: With paprika. Dubbug: ghouls aren't made of beef you know...? Flewellyn: This has nothing to do with ghouls. Flewellyn: It's just a coincidence of spelling. Dubbug: erk Dubbug: I doubt it! Dubbug: I bet it was some sneaky secret thing waaaaaaay back Dubbug: and ppl just forgot it Dubbug: ...or the secret managed to NOT leak, for once Flewellyn: You absurd bug. Dubbug: am not! Flewellyn: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoulashDubbug: I am most definately not a bean curd! Dubbug: wait...absurd? Dubbug: what's that? Flewellyn: It means very silly. Dubbug: oh, definately not that, either Dubbug: CAULDRON! Flewellyn: Yup. Dubbug: it's HAS to have ghouls in it NOW! Dubbug: a WITCH MADE ITTTTT Flewellyn: Witches can make perfectly good food, you know. Dubbug: so? Dubbug: I never said ghouls were not tastey Flewellyn: Hmm. Dubbug: I just never had them before Tags: chat transcripts, dubbug, humor
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Okay, so I'm not a huge fan of fanfic. I like writing stuff, and I like reading stuff...but I prefer to write stuff about my OWN stuff. I will gladly be inspired by the works of others, but I want to make my own plots, my own settings, and my own characters. It's just a thing. I'm also not usually fond of reading fanfic. I've made some exceptions, but most of the time I am not interested. I find, in particular, the idea of crossovers to be hideously wrong. To me, it doesn't make sense to mix together two fictional worlds, which have different assumptions and serve different narrative needs. But, doing so humorously can be a delightful bit of evil fun, and so I have lately found myself trying to think of the worst possible crossover ideas ever. Paul T. Riddell, former sci-fi and comics writer, came up with my first entry: Absolutely Fabulous/Farscape. Here are some of my own: - The Shield/Diff'rent Strokes
- Stargate SG-1/My Little Pony
- Hellraiser/Care Bears
- Aliens/Harry Potter (whence the post title)
and
- Silent Hill/Sesame Street
If any of you have any other ideas, I dread welcome them in comments! EDIT: One more: A Midsummer Night's Dream/Night of the Living Dead. Tags: humor, sheer diabolical evil
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So, this morning, as I was driving to work, I reached an intersection in the semi-rural area north of town, near the bridge I cross to go to work. And, in the middle of this intersection, I saw a teapot, just randomly sitting there. Not broken or anything, just a small blue china teapot, in the middle of the road. The thought which crossed my mind? "Goodness, did Russell's Teapot somehow fall to Earth? What are the odds?" Tags: random
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This is a note for anyone out there who has run into this problem on Mac OS X Server: your program needs to resolve a host name, and works fine from the command line. However, when run from Apache, host names fail to resolve, and you get the error message "temporary failure in name resolution" in your Apache error_log. You may be tearing your hair out, because from the command line, DNS resolution works fine, but somehow, any program run from Apache can't resolve a DNS lookup. The problem is not with your DNS server, or your Apache setup. It does not depend on what language you use to write your programs, either. You need to make sure that httpd starts using the program "StartupItemContext" so that its Mach ports are set up correctly! This is found in /usr/libexec/ and will fix the problem. So, you must use /usr/libexec/StartupItemContext to run Apache. This will fix it. Do this! And boost the signal! I drove myself nearly crazy looking for solutions for months before I found this out. Tags: geekdom
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Okay, so a friend started one of her posts with "It's time to change the layout." Nothing too earth-shattering, but the cadence of that sentence must have excited the hamster in my head, because it started running on its wheel and got the little gears turning in my brain. And so, from somewhere in there, this came out. It's sung to the tune of the "Muppet Show" theme: t's time to change the layout
It's time to choose hilights
It's time to tweak the spacing in my LJ style tonight!
It's time to select backgrounds
It's time to design right
It's time to customize themes in my LJ style tonight!
Why do we always change things?
I guess we'll never know
It's like a kind of torture
To edit S2 code!
And now let's get things styled
Why don't we get things styled
It's time to get things styled
In my most layoutified, brightly colorified, HTMLified, CSS-stylified,
This is what I call my LJ styyyyle!Tags: filk, humor, sheer diabolical evil
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Okay, the latest Freeper/Birther/Obama's-really-a-half-br eed-muslin/alien overlord/whatthefuckever meme flying around the wingnutosphere is that Obama can't possibly be a legitimate 'Murrican*' because, supposedly, he's... ...wait for it... NOT CIRCUMCISED. Seriously. Actual people have expended actual time actually speculating about this actual topic. Now, of course, rational thinkers everywhere (which rules out most of the hard-right GOP base these days) would respond with two questions: 1. How in the blue peepin' hellacious eyes of Samuel W. Scratch would anybody other than his parents, his doctor, and his wife know about the Presidential member's cut or uncut status to begin with?! and 2. For the sake of Saint Fuck of Fucksenbourg**, what the hell difference would it make? It's not as if men in America with both cut and uncut penises do not exist, side by side, living in perfect penile harmony. This is so risible, so laughable, so beyond absurd, that the phrase "grasping at straws" doesn't begin to cover it. (And brings to mind rather less than welcome mental images, so let's not go there.) My first thought, when I read this? "Wow...the shadowy corporate overlords orchestrating these insane shitstorms sure are getting awfully cocky..."
* As opposed to Merkin, who is not appearing in this picture. ** Saint Fuck of Fucksenbourg is the patron saint of fivenication. It's one better than fournication... Tags: batshit insanity, humor, politics
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Talking about Engrish with Dubbug: Dubbug: I like when I went to china Dubbug: they had kfc there Dubbug: you know kfc uses the slogan "we do chicken right"? Flewellyn: Yes? Dubbug: they translated it to chinese Dubbug: exactly like that Flewellyn: How did it come out? Dubbug: but if you read it, it means "it's right for us to be prostitutes" Tags: chat transcripts, dubbug, humor
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LimpingPigeon: http://newmedia.funnyjunk.com/pictures/CamelSpiderPoster.jpgLimpingPigeon: WHY HAVE THOSE THINGS NOT BEEN DRIVEN TO EXTINCTION!!!!??? Flewellyn: GAAH Flewellyn: Probably because they're very successful predators? LimpingPigeon: THOSE THINGS SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO EXIST!!! Flewellyn: By whom? LimpingPigeon: ? Flewellyn: Who should do the allowing? LimpingPigeon: ME!!! Flewellyn: Ohh. LimpingPigeon: And I say that those things are just UNCALLED FOR! Flewellyn: Why? Flewellyn: I think they're kinda cool. LimpingPigeon: Because they're huge and icky! Flewellyn: So is Donald Trump, but... LimpingPigeon: ... you win Tags: chat transcripts, humor, random
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Sara Robinson of Orcinus wrote an excellent summary of the terrorist activities of the radical right-wing, which have averaged one attack on American citizens every two weeks since January 20th. The campaign by the far-right against mainstream America, against every enemy they imagine themselves to have, has been relentless, and it has been openly encouraged, or at least condoned by the conservatives in the media, halfhearted condemnations to the contrary. Conservatives in general do not, I believe, approve of such things; that is to say, I don't believe everyone in America who self-identifies as conservative, or even the majority of them, would look upon any of these attacks with anything but horror. But to hear the likes of Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, Michelle Malkin, Ann Coulter, and company tell it, these extremists are part and parcel of the mainstream of the Republican party. After each attack, they have shed a few crocodile tears, while continuing to insist that the rhetoric they spout, the rhetoric the extremist terrorists themselves use as their justification, is completely unconnected to the rapid upswing in violence. Yet they do nothing to try and actually discourage the extremists; if anything, they intensify their hateful rhetoric. Well, we can add another attack to the tally. Three people connected with the anti-immigration group Minuteman American Defense invaded the home of a Mexican-American family and shot and killed two people, a 9 year old girl and her father. The motive is obvious: these people hate immigrants, especially Mexicans. The entire purpose of their movement is to "protect" America from the "menace" of Mexicans coming into our country. It's a refrain we've heard a great deal from right-wing media pundits such as the aforementioned Limbaugh, Hannity, Malkin, Coulter, et al. And yet we are expected to believe that the mainstreaming of extreme right-wing hatred in our national discourse has no connection to the upswing in extreme right-wing violence. I'm not buying it anymore. As far as I am concerned, the talking heads in the media who spout rhetoric that is used to justify domestic terrorism, are themselves guilty of aiding and abetting. Freedom of expression doesn't make it okay. Tags: essays, politics
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So I was talking to my friend Kitling, and... Yeah. Flewellyn: I feel weird. Kitling: you are weird Flewellyn: Well, yes, but I mean in a bad way. Kitling: wait... are you growing extra limbs of some sort? Flewellyn: Vaguely nauseated. Flewellyn: Oh, uh, let me check. Flewellyn: Hmm...no, doesn't seem so. Kitling: cause that usually feels pretty odd Flewellyn: Indeed. Kitling: are you pregnant? Flewellyn: Err, pretty sure I can't be. Kitling: you never know Kitling: but we'll put it at the bottom of the list Flewellyn: Yeah... Flewellyn: Although it would be funny for me to buy a pregnancy test. Kitling: heh. yeah Flewellyn: It's similar to the idea from XKCD, of standing in the produce section of the supermarket with a can of lube, looking contemplative. Kitling: heeheehee Flewellyn: Or, try to find the combination of items that most freaks out a cashiere. Kitling: heehee Flewellyn: XKCD's winner so far: home pregnancy test and coat hanger. Kitling: diapers and a ball-peen hammer Flewellyn: Uhhhhh... Flewellyn: *brain breaks* Kitling: *wins* Flewellyn: Or, how about a nail gun and a can of lube? Kitling: *falls over laughing* Kitling: lube and a dog-training video Flewellyn: GAAAH Kitling: heh Flewellyn: Lube with just about anything, really. Kitling: true Flewellyn: Helium canister and a box of condoms. Kitling: though in portland you can get lube and the things that are supposed to go with it at about 1,000,000 places Flewellyn: Oh, I got one. Kitling: we have the highest per-capita porn stores and strip clubs in the country Flewellyn: A nature video and a big box of tissues. Kitling: ....odd Flewellyn: Like you were going to jerk off while watching it. Kitling: not freaky. just seems like you'd be crying a lot Flewellyn: Oh. Kitling: add in lotion, then, ok Kitling: remember, it doesn't have to just be two things Flewellyn: Condoms, baby oil, and a jackhammer. Kitling: HA Kitling: are we sticking to the grocery store? Flewellyn: A shovel, quicklime, and a set of handcuffs. Kitling: niiiiice Flewellyn: Oh, and a box of ammo. Flewellyn: Okay, now, that one gets a bit too disturbing. Kitling: nah, cause you could jsut beat someone to death with the shovel Flewellyn: *thinks* Kitling: adding the ammo shows intent, and is enough for a warrant Flewellyn: True. Flewellyn: Of course, you wouldn't actually have done anything, so the police would find nothing. Flewellyn: Still, a bit too disturbing. Flewellyn: I prefer to go with the "pervert" idea. Kitling: true, but if you're buying AS IF you were going to do something, you'd have thought of that Kitling: oh, yeah, I'm much more about being a pervert than being violent Flewellyn: A staple gun, a caulking gun, and a box of adult diapers. Kitling: ......aaaand you win Tags: chat transcripts, humor
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