1970s, group 3 The Bad News Bears (1976) Breaking Away (1979) Smile (1975) The Long Goodbye (1973) The Paper Chase (1973) Brewster McLoud (1970) Getting Straight (1970) Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1974) Carnal Knowledge (1971) Going in Style (1979) What’s Up, Doc? (1972) Day of the Locust (1975) Shampoo (1975) Nashville (1975) The Longest Yard (1974) Kotch (1971) The Last Detail (1973) The Candidate (1972) Harold and Maude (1971)
May 5, 2005
RSS problems NOT fixed.
Well, don’t just sit there gawking. Anybody know how to fix the damn things?
May 4, 2005
In which I finally break my silence and offer a few words about Laura Bush’s performance at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner (or, as I like to call it, “THE NIGHT THE WHORE OF BABYLON SPEWED HER DIRTY DIRTY FILTH!")
I’m torn on this, to be honest with you. I mean, on the one hand, I can almost sympathize with those calling for Mrs. Bush to be burned at the stake for her anti-Christian, pro-homosexual, pro-bestiality references to horse tugging; on the other hand, even those of us who stand staunchly against gay man-on-horse action have to admit that had the Good Lord not wanted the First Lady talking publicly
May 4, 2005
RSS problems fixed?
Those of you who normally receive this site via RSS, please delete your old feed and replace it with the updated versions over on the left. These should work.
May 4, 2005
“Suspected Senior Leader of Al Qaeda in Pakistan Is Captured”
From the New York Times Pakistani authorities said today that they had arrested a senior Al Qaeda operative suspected of orchestrating two assassination attempts against the Pakistani president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf. Abu Faraj al-Libbi, described by some counterterrorism officials as the third-most senior leader in the Al Qaeda terrorist network, was arrested on Tuesday, the Pakistani information minister, Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, said this afternoon. A native of Libya, Mr. Libbi
May 4, 2005
Site blockage update update (re: Websense) updated
As of 1:35 PM EST today, protein wisdom is still being blocked by Websense. This despite their response yesterday that the site would be re-classified, as noted here: The site you submitted has been reviewed and the categorization has been changed to Message Boards and Clubs. This update should be available in the next publication of the database. Apparently, the site was once again submitted to Websense as having adult
May 3, 2005
If instead of going On The Road, famed Beat writer Jack Kerouac spent the early 1950s writing for “I Love Lucy”
Kerouac: “Right. And then Ricky enters, exhausted, and shouts, ‘Hey Lucy, I’m hooooome‘—at which point Lucy comes out of the kitchen toking on some primo reefer and says something like, ‘Sure, you’re home physically, Babalu. But where are you in your mind…?”
May 3, 2005
In which I respond to a quadratic residue cipher sent to me under suspicious circumstances
Next time, you might try a Rivest-Shamir-Adleman public key cipher (RSA), okay “Stevie”?¹ Authenticating the QRC requires a slightly more complex protocol, and I’m a busy man. Oh, and one other thing: What in the fuck is a “slrrpi ngbag”? Amateur. **** ¹“In the RSA algorithm, a user R who wishes to receive messages chooses a large number N as a modulus, and a number E as an enciphering exponent.
May 3, 2005
A very special thank you
To Sarah W, for the extraordinarily generous gift of the complete “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” on DVD! Between this and “The Sopranos”—which I watched for the first time on Sunday—I’m going to be quite happy for a couple of hours at the end of every day for quite some time. Thank you so much, Sarah.
May 3, 2005
Dalton from the B-movie classic ‘Road House’ and Friedrich Nietzsche: a time-bending philosophical disquisition in two parts
_________________________ Part I. Dalton: “Pain don’t hurt.” Nietzsche: “Truth is but a mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms.” Dalton: “Uh huh. And pain don’t hurt.” __________________________ Part II. Nietzsche: “But thus do I counsel you, my friend: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful.” Dalton: Nietzsche: Dalton: “I want you to be nice until it’s time to not be nice…?” Nietzsche: “Not quite, no. But I