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Fuck Christmas, we aren't having it this year.
By undermyne in Meta
Tue Dec 23, 2008 at 01:01:11 PM EST
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For the last 10 years or so we (my wife and I) have been advocating for a change in how our respective families celebrate the Christmas holiday. This year, with the help of circumstance, we decided to cease observation of the Christmas holiday (and all other Catholic holidays) and make our annual family-oriented holiday Thanksgiving. What has been most surprising about this is the consistent response to our decision, a chorus of "scrooge","what about your kids?!", and "How exactly is CHRISTmas not a Christian holiday". Not one single person has said "neat", even the unwashed pagans get all bent out of shape about it. Apparently not celebrating Christmas makes you a bad parent, the anti-Christ, and a generally despised pariah (not necessarily in that order).
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A Mini-Guide To Surviving the Holidays
By GrandWazoo in Culture
Mon Dec 15, 2008 at 12:01:20 AM EST
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In the last few weeks of every year, most of the western world will be celebrating holidays. It is one of the few times if not the only time of year that family and friends get together and share happiness, camaraderie, hope and best wishes for the new year and reflection on the past year.
It can also be a time of stress, anxiety, loss of your job and financial ruin. Below is a brief guide for making it through the next couple of weeks in a way that saves face, helps out with family and in general will help you maintain your sanity.
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Isopod Attack Formations Engage
By Hiphopopotamus in Fiction
Fri Dec 12, 2008 at 03:12:01 PM EST
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When I get into work, I usually put on a CD. Strictly to annoy the broads in the typing pool. I pipe the music through a speaker I set up one night that vents directly into their cess pit of typing and gossip. The place is a sick mess. Today it was Enslaved's newest record, RUUN. I blasted it as loud as the speakers could go and all the chicks in the typing pool got all hot and bothered because it was too loud. A wail like the Mooslim call to prayer went up with a sad dying shriek.
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The Making of a Mash/Lauter Tun
By GhostOfTiber in Culture
Wed Nov 26, 2008 at 01:51:23 PM EST
Tags: The Spoils of Wort (all tags)
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This is a rewrite of this diary. People were encouraging towards making it a story. Citations will be provided for images since that jew bastard who runs the place hasn't enabled image tags yet.
Making beer is pretty easy, and if you've been following The Spoils of Wort, you probably have the basics down. Making beer, up to this point, has been:
- Buy a can of extract (or four)
- Steep the specialty grains to make "grain tea"
- Bring it to a boil
- Toss in hops at some intervals
- Cool it, put it in a fermenter and toss in the yeast.
In our bag of tools, we're going to expand number two to eliminate step one. In terms of flavor, we're going to change how many fermentables are present in the wort (body) and the sweetness (enzyme profile).
Full Story (63 comments, 1939 words in story)
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QNX 6.4 > 6.3
By Trollaxor in Op-Ed
Sun Nov 23, 2008 at 12:54:19 AM EST
Tags: operating systems, QNX, Unix (all tags)
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I had been running QNX 6.3 on my trusty old 1.4 GHz Pentium III system with two gigs of memory for the last couple years and it was alright. Never quite fast enough despite decent hardware (P3 chips were 2x as fast as P4s clock per clock, don't whine otherwise) and limited hardware support, I was looking forward to the upgrade because, finally, after four years I might get a better-optimized system.
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Beefeater's holocaust
By sudogeek in News
Thu Nov 20, 2008 at 09:16:03 AM EST
Tags: vCJD, BSE, mad cow (all tags)
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A recent episode of Boston Legal featured a courtroom drama where a farmer filed suit in order to be able to test all of her herd for BSE1/vCJD, the agent which causes "mad cow" disease (otherwise known a bovine spongioform encephalopathy) in cows and variant Creutzfeld-Jacob disease in unfortunate beefeaters. In TV land, the farmer won and was allowed to test her herd and advertise the results.
In reality, the USDA prohibits testing of cattle for BSE (except by the USDA) and the FDA has refused to even allow applications by biotech/pharma companies for newer generation quick blood and tissue tests for BSE.
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Why the Big 3 Bailout is Bullshit: Cadillacs Made in China
By nostalgiphile in MLP
Wed Nov 19, 2008 at 05:02:40 AM EST
Tags: bankruptcy, automobiles, Japan, made in China, Detroit, YFI (all tags)
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First, they say that between 160,000 and 3 million manufacturing jobs are on the line, but then turn around and blame the unions (the organization that represents those workers). In fact, foreign (mainly Japanese) automakers employ almost as many Americans as the "Big 3" do (113,000). Helping GM, Ford, and Chrysler could actually hurt those American auto-workers at non-Big 3 factories. Moreover, even according to optimistic estimates, the crappy clunkers Detroit has been making for years will be far less feasible in the coming worldwide depression than the smaller, cheaper more sensible Japanese brand cars which are (by % of parts/labor) MORE AMERICAN than the "American" cars. (GM parts are often made in China, whereas cars like the Honda Accord are 70% American-made).
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FreeBSD Owes Apple Big
By Trollaxor in Op-Ed
Wed Nov 19, 2008 at 05:00:12 AM EST
Tags: Apple, Darwin, FreeBSD, Mac, Mac OS X, Unix (all tags)
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The other day, while booting my eight-core 3.2 GHz Mac Pro with 32 GB RAM, I watched my system startup messages (nvram boot-args="-v") and thought of Darwin's origins at NeXT as a pastiche of academic research and hacker hobby. Darwin has come so far and exhibits the best of long-term software engineering. But while thinking of how far Darwin has come, I also thought of all it has given back to FreeBSD. By the time my Mac had loaded my desktop, I was at work researching just how much FreeBSD owes Apple.
Full Story (67 comments, 769 words in story)
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Friday, November 7th
 The Silver Lining for California's Gay Marriage Ban (88 comments)
Thursday, November 6th
I'd never vote for a black President (70 comments)
Wednesday, November 5th
Official K5 2008 Election Poll (41 comments)
Tuesday, October 28th
On The Violation Of The Law Of Conservation (71 comments)
Tuesday, October 21st
Introducing New People to Hunting (83 comments)
Wednesday, October 1st
The Credit Crisis and the Bailout in Plain English (137 comments)
Monday, September 29th
The Meat Hooker: Steak (71 comments)
Tuesday, September 23rd
The 700 Billion Dollar Question (132 comments)
Monday, September 22nd
Delicious, delicious irony (166 comments)
Tuesday, September 9th
HOWTO: Avoid your civic duties, write a self-indulgent missive about the experience (73 comments)
Sunday, September 7th
If thy blog post offend thee, pluck it out (95 comments)
Wednesday, September 3rd
California Medical Marijuana: My Doctor Says I Need Weed to Get High (154 comments)
Monday, September 1st
The Invention of the Christian Videogame (25 comments)
Saturday, August 23rd
Ultralight Backpacking: The "Why" and the "How" (91 comments)
Wednesday, August 20th
Presenting... MichaelCrawford's Ideal K5 Diary (65 comments)
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