Day: January 6, 2012

Friday Night Jukebox IFRL-TLC-War-34463341641_f2c6cae634_o

Friday Night Jukebox

David Ryan January 6, 2012

Francisco Tarrega’s Lágrima, played by Cesar Amaro

Thermomixed Up, Part 7: While My Guitar Gently Weeps IFRL-NaPP-Asia-Japanwest-Watt

Thermomixed Up, Part 7: While My Guitar Gently Weeps

David Ryan January 6, 2012

(Previously, Parts 1, 2, 3 , 4, 5, and 6) My younger daughter asked for a guitar for Christmas, so we put it...

Note on Surge: À la recherche du pop perdu IFRL-NaPP-Space-P07-Some-User-Assembly-Required-NASA-Recruitment-Poster

Note on Surge: À la recherche du pop perdu

Rufus F. January 6, 2012

Surge was a citrus-flavored soda pop launched in the US by the Coca Cola Company in 1996...

Europe is better than the US IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-tate.fishermen-at-sea-90

Europe is better than the US

Tom Van Dyke January 6, 2012

Well, it is the NYT, so I can’t vouch for it: But G.D.P. per capita (an insufficient...

Liberty and a national identity card (and other stuff) IFRL-NaPP-Space-14761953564_b243b392a2_k

Liberty and a national identity card (and other stuff)

Murali January 6, 2012

I live in Singapore and all citizens are required to have an Identity Card. (IC) The IC...

Leaguefest 2012 — Not To Be A Pest IFRL-NaPP-Space-P02-Work-The-Night-Shift-NASA-Recruitment-Poster

Leaguefest 2012 — Not To Be A Pest

Burt Likko January 6, 2012

I once received an invitation to a social event that concluded with the line “RSVP, please, by...

A paragraph for Ron Graff IFRL-TLC-Scenery-GAPD-tate.zonnebeke-102

A paragraph for Ron Graff

David Ryan January 6, 2012

(This will take more than a paragraph.) Ron Graff was noticeably shorter than me, which puts him...

Jaybird in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025My Ethics professor freshman year (so, 1991-1992) was approximately one jillion years old and he exp…
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Michael Cain in reply to North on From Freddie de Boer: Abundance, Up To A PointI think you're letting Texas and Florida overwhelm your opinion. A number of the other states in the…
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Michael Cain in reply to Andrew Donaldson on The Emergency Ordinary Times FaceliftAfter a relatively long absence, their pattern has changed somewhat. Working on recognizing it...
Andrew Donaldson on The Emergency Ordinary Times FaceliftA side note that probably only interests me, but outside from our legendary comments stalker needing…
Dark Matter in reply to Jaybird on The Emergency Ordinary Times FaceliftThat exactly. Well done.
Dark Matter in reply to DavidTC on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025Very true, that's why I said "normally illegal". That University didn't want to support Jews against…