So according to Jonathan Alter, you’re a great president until proven terrible? Anyone who supported Obama in 2008, though, is obviously not big on objective standards of competence.
I need a website called “One Word, Two Words, or Hyphenated.”
Get prepared for Irene right now. It’s a hurricane, not a procrastinate-cane.
C# doesn’t trust me enough to let me look at memory. Well, I don’t trust it which is why I want to look at memory.
It’s ironic how often “deferring to science” is used as an excuse to shut off one’s brain on an issue.
Always be listening to a song from the current year because you never know when what you’re doing will be the subject of a flashback.
You really should never get to attached to particular politician. In a smarter world, we’d never even give them names.
For a while, I wasn’t going to get the SNES because I thought I was too old for videogames. 20 years ago.
Why did I think I was too old for videogames at age 12? 12 year olds are so stupid.
Never was sure the left had coherent reasons behind their dislike of Christine O’Donnell. The right has reasons, though.
Can’t take anyone seriously who uses the phrase “free healthcare”… or beats up women.
My understanding is that you’re never supposed to go outside during a hurricane unless you’re holding a microphone.
Probably one of the deadliest hurricanes ever would be if one hit Omaha because they’d be super unprepared.
The standards for the people who supported Obama in 2008 are low as you rightly noted. But how do you explain those who STILL support him as we head into 2012? Isn’t this an issue the National Institute of Mental Health should be addressing?
And if you do go outside with a microphone in a hurricane, only people who took drama class in high school should do it. You have to pretend you can barely stand up and that you might just die any second.
Have we had enough “selling of disasters” yet?
Alter is obviously trying to justify his supporting of Barry in the last election. He doesn’t want to be viewed as a gullible rube. This is a classic case of him having to deal with his…
…wait for it…
Alter-ego.
Or is it alterego or alter ego. Dang! I wish there was a site where I could look that up.
Here on Long Island there were plenty of people out in the hurricane without microphones. We didn’t get hit that hard. I slept through most of it.
“Get prepared for Irene right now. It’s a hurricane, not a procrastinate-cane.”
No, actually it was a “get Obama’s awful presidency off the front pages while simultaneously pretending that he’s guiding us through a Katrina-like disaster better than Bush-icane” FAIL
merriam-webster.com will take care of your one/two/hyph issues.
As for current years, boy howdy, that’s the truth. I flashed back once to myself in 2003, but at the time I was listening to Tull c. 1977, and I almost got caught in a time feedback loop. It could have dropped me in 1979, which would have been very bad — I’d have had to wait on line for gas for the DeLorean.
I noticed one reporter with an exagerated hurricane lean leaning in the wrong direction.
Obama is running the recovery. Your power will be back on in three years. Maybe. If you are lucky.
Reporters use the Microphone to counterbalance the empty head syndrome. The lean is really caused by the wind tunnel through the head; internal echo can cause an opposite lean. They do not use wireless mic’s because they need the tether to the Mother ship.
Most are really standing in front of a Green wall with a fan going. Do not try this at home folks, because we are not really doing it here.
Omaha? Unprepared? Isn’t a hurricane just a tornado that lasts longer?
My non-random but philosophical question of the day:
If a Marine farts in a forest, does anyone get demoted?
Burma,
The answer is, only if an uppity staff officer hears it.
“To Our Scattered Bodies Go” by Phillip Jose Farmer (A Hugo award winner)
An oldie but a goody. Features Mark Twain(deceased) and various other famous people (also deceased) in the Riverworld.
C# says, go back to coding and don’t worry about memory! You are just a code monkey. Leave the memory alone! When we let code monkeys start messing with memory we get all kinds of fun stuff going on… I know…you are a super giant Carnagie Mellon code monkey brain…blah…blah…blah…
ussjimmycarter you are so right i couldn’t say it better myself except to add that I then tell C# I can not trust you for you are created by Microsoft and so you are tainted.
I agree. I thought I was too old for 1966’s “Batman” TV series at age 12.
Re-runs, of course. I wasn’t 12 in 1966. *whew!* Re-runs.
C# doesn’t trust me enough to let me look at memory. Well, I don’t trust it which is why I want to look at memory.
Download the microsoft debugger; you can look at anything you want. Also ms studio 2010 C++ allows you to embed assembly language in there, and you can really rip things up.
Come to think of it, C# allows you to use pointers if you jump through some hoops, (“non-managed code”, or something) so I guess you could reference memory if you know where to look.
Best.