There's the fictional world of PIs and then there's reality. I just can't picture Sam Spade driving around car with Spade & Archer plastered all over.
- Chris Munro
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"Malcolm Gladwell is a rare figure: A science journalist who is loved by everyone except scientists and journalists. It’s easy to see where the love comes from. The prolific New Yorker contributor and sure-fire bestseller author has made a cottage industry out of translating the latest sociology, psychology, and neuroscience research into easily graspable nuggets of folk wisdom, all with a clear, effortless style. Is that so bad, really?"
- Chris Munro
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Movies I really wanted to see but didn't: There Will Be Blood, No Country for Old Men, Pineapple Express, and Darjeeling Limited. I may treat myself to rental later. Of this lot, which would you recommend?
Happy Thanksgiving FFers and Tweeps. And, if anybody knows a good technique for getting foil around the pie crust without burning fingers, then arms when trying to get pies back in the oven without the foil falling right back off, I'd love to know it for next year.
"Respectful"? People were concerned that the adaptation be respectful? I'd think they'd be more concerned, given the source, that it would be tiresome. Did nobody else think the book was over-rated?
- Chris Munro
The creatures living in the depths of the ocean are as weird and outlandish as the creations in a Dr. Seuss book: tentacled transparent sea cucumbers, primitive “dumbos” that flap ear-like fins, and tubeworms that feed on oil deposits.
- Chris Munro
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Provincetown: Pilgrims Landed Here First - Plymouth rivalry heats up as P-town seeks rightful place in history - http://www.newser.com/story...
"Provincetown, Mass., wants you to know: The Pilgrims landed here first. Sure, the fresh water was lacking, the sand not so great for growing things, and the Native Americans were a bit scary, causing them to move a few weeks later to Plymouth—the same Plymouth that gets all the tourist dollars and fame as the place our forefathers supposedly first set foot. This is a situation P-town urgently wants to change, reports the Boston Globe, and it's launched a campaign to restore its deserved glory."
- Chris Munro
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"I'll have no participation / in this vampire wussification"
- Chris Munro
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After rocking the old desktop since 2002 I finally broke down and got a new model. With, like, fastness n' stuff. Applications open when I click them, not minutes later. If only I wasn't working 70 hour weeks so I could actually enjoy it for a while.