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Spring/Summer Sunglass Style Guide

Spring/Summer Sunglass Style Guide

The Sunglass Style Trends you Need to Know for Spring/Summer 2018

Lük Lab | May, 2018

The sunshine is finally here, and we know that sifting through 1000s of sunglass styles to potentially add to your wardrobe may seem like an impossible task. Not sure what sunglass styles to rock this spring/summer? No worries! Lük has boiled down all of the most popular Sunglass trends for the season just for you! From Retro 90s Sunglasses and vintage Cat Eyes, to statement Aviator or Tinted lenses, Lük has all of your spring/summer style inspiration needs covered!

Cat Eye Sunglasses

The original chic statement sunglass, the Cat Eye is versatile, and makes makes transitioning from brunch to day party as easy as a quick shirt change.

^^ Cat Eyes feel at at home with a simple, chic lük. Allanah pushes through in Kat Attack, a vintage mandarin collar blouse and a high wasted, wide leg pant.

^^ You can easily take a Cat Eye lük over the top with a tinted frame and simple street style fit. Above, NAME gives us a lesson in simple street style with Margaux in red paired with denim and matching red sneakers.

Shaped Frames

The days of the boring sunglass is over. Frames in any shape/size are a must have for spring/summer. There are 1000s of styles to choose from, so finding your perfect unique style should be a breeze.

^^ Any lük gets an extra boost from statement, shaped lenses. Above, Sheela rocks our Professa Square in red with a fun take on Leather & Lace.

Tinted Lenses

Our favorite style influencers are making sure their vision is rosy this spring with tinted shades. A drop of color with tinted sunglasses can add the just the right amount of flare to a simple, minimal fit or an over the top Lük.

^^ Tinted lenses can give a subtle color accent to any lük. Using simple muted red color pallette above, Pacha Light rocks our "Smalls" in red with a simple monochrome crop & color denim combo.

^^ The tint isn't a girl only trend. A simple outfit can always be elevated by a tinted sunglass , Karsten rocks "Wheeler" in red with a collared shirt for a modern update to the 'Sunday Best'.

Vintage Sunglasses

Vintage sunnies are the name of the game this season, with retro inspiration from the 60s and 70s taking over both eyewear and fashion. Go with vintage 60s cat eyes for the refined lük, or 80s-90s statement retro frames to bring a bold take to any classic style.

^^ If statement frames with a chic edge are your goal, vintage shades may be your ticket. Above, NAME uses "Glen Coa Coa" in leopard to take full advantage of the elevating power of the vintage oversized frame. Even with a simple old gym shirt, she still serves us a chic "I can buy everything" vibe. We love it <3

^^ Statement retro frames say "I'm in charge." Above, Aldotg rocks our El Hefe in nude, matching blazer and a bold shirt/ multi-chain combo to take his lük to the next level.

Aviator Shades

Tis the season to give “fly” a new meaning; With both classic and statement styles to pick from, the aviator will give your style classic moviestar appeal no matter what lük you decide to step out with.

^^ Statement retro frames say "I'm in charge." Above, Aldotg rocks our El Hefe in brown,  matching blazer and a bold shirt/ multi-chain combo to take his lük to the next level.

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How to Clean BaseboardsThe beauty and uniqueness of a room is in its details. Baseboards are one of the necessary accessories that smooth the visual transition from wall to floor. Yet, as pivotal as baseboards are for the finished look of a room, we rarely give them any thought and we hardly ever remember to clean them. Follow our guide for clean baseboards and let the details of your house shine.

Dust and Wash

First give those baseboards a good dusting. Wipe with a clean cloth. Once the molding is dust-free, wash with warm soapy water and a sponge. Make sure to squeeze out excess water then scrub until marks are gone and the surface is clean. Dry with a clean cloth.

Clean the Crevices

Baseboards differ in design, but they often have small curves and woodwork patterns that can be more difficult to clean. To clean these crevices, use a cotton swab dipped in warm soapy water.

Dust Prevention

It’s not fun stooping or crawling around on your knees in order to clean baseboards. Put off the next cleaning and make your handiwork last longer by repelling dust. Wipe down the baseboard with a dryer sheet. The sheet’s anti-static properties will repel dust.

Clean Baseboards Make the Room

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A Momotaro "Peach Boy" statue made with pure gold is seen at a jewelry shop in Okayama on Oct. 27, 2016. The statue is made with 140 grams of gold, and is approximately 10 centimeters wide and 10 centimeters tall. It shows Momotaro wearing samurai clothing, with one foot out of the peach in which he is said to have traveled down a river in a folk story, and a fan in his right hand. According to Tomiya Corp., whose flagship store has placed the statue on display, the price of the statue will vary depending on gold prices, but it was priced at 2,229,600 yen as of Oct. 27. (Mainichi)

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Introducing Friday’s Blog Topic. . . “Fix Your Face Friday!” Beautiful skin is vital to beautiful makeup.  As a makeup artist, one of my favorite things to do is focus on the skin: moisturizing it to a dewy radiance, highlighting the cheek bones, brow bones, cupid’s bow with tantalizing shimmer, bronzing it to a sun-kissed gold. […]


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The keyboard robot can use the keyboard of another computer –

A keyboard robot is a device that allows one computer to operate the keyboard of another computer. It also allows a computer to control its own keyboard. It can even be used to control a network of computers if a multiplexer is added.

The Keybot can do many things that cannot be done any other way. It can do something as simple as set the CMOS settings during a power up of a computer. It can do something as complex as linking many computers & programs together for artificial intelligence. It does not require knowledge of those computers nor the program languages used.

This report includes all the information needed to build your own Keybot. It also includes control software written in QBASIC. The Keybot project is inexpensive to build but it requires you to have some electronic knowledge and soldering ability.

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In this installment of our Food Skill Builder series, guest-resident geek gourmand Jeff Potter runs through some of the cooking capabilities of common hotel and office kitchenette appliances and some yummy food you can make with them. -Gareth

I have a confession to make: I’m a picky eater. My everyday cooking is much more about healthy, simple foods that get the job done than the over-the-top, involved productions that one might expect from the author of a food science book. Don’t get me wrong, I love whipping up a fun, multi-course meal with friends. But day-in, day-out, I’m much more likely to stick to simple, healthy meals that have a good nutritional profile.

But what about those times when I’m away from my home kitchen? Finding healthy, affordable meals while on the road is unfortunately still hard. Luckily, by knowing a little food science, you can re-purpose common kitchenette appliances, like coffee makers and toaster ovens, found in hotel rooms or on your cube farm, into something more than they were originally designed for. Here are a few ideas to get you started.

Coffee Makers

Coffee makers are the combination of three different things: a hot water dispenser, a “pot” (usually glass), and a hot plate. Ignore the hot water dispenser, and you’ve got yourself a stove-top setup that can cook anything that normally gets cooked via simmering. Oatmeal? Soft-poached eggs? Crab legs or stew? They’ll all work, for one simple reason: the coffee maker gets hot enough-around 200°F-to trigger the chemical reactions that cause things like the proteins in eggs (~144-158°F) or starches in oatmeal (~200°F) to cook.

While the idea of pulling off a stew in a hotel room is probably beyond most of us–although I do know one person who’s done it (not yours truly)–things like oatmeal are super easy. You can even pack up your own TSA-friendly oatmeal mix before you hit the skies. In a small plastic bag, measure out one cup steel-cut oats, 1 teaspoon cinnamon, a spoonful or two of raisins, and a small handful of walnuts. Check into your room, drop the dry ingredients into the coffee maker’s pot, and fill the reservoir with two cups of water. Set your coffee maker to go off an hour or so before you want your breakfast the next morning, and off you go. (You might want to rinse out the coffee filter part in case there are any stray grounds.) Total time? Five minutes. Total cost? Less than a Starbucks coffee. Snag some yogurt at a local store, and you’ve got a good blend of healthy carbs, fats, and proteins. Tasty, too!

Pro-tip: a plastic bag of steal-cut oats, walnuts, raisins, and cinnamon will keep practically forever. Stash a bag of this mix in your cubicle for days when you’re running late and don’t have time for breakfast at home.

Toaster Ovens

Like coffee makers, toaster ovens get a bad rap from the get-go: the first word just screams: “I’m only good for one thing: toast!” Nice try, Mr. Toaster… Toaster ovens are nothing more than small, miniature ovens. They’re not designed to run for hours on end, and aren’t as well-insulated as their bigger brethren. Still, they can be used quite successfully to do everything from poaching salmon to baking cookies.

Ovens are essentially “hot air chambers” that heat up air which then in turn heats up whatever items you pop inside. This type of heat transfer is called convection. In an oven, air imparts energy into your food, a dry cooking method; in a coffee maker, it’s the water that transfers the heat, making it a wet cooking method.

One of the key differences between dry and wet cooking methods is temperature. Wet cooking methods–steaming, poaching, boiling–can only get the food as hot as the water (~212°F under normal circumstances); whereas dry cooking methods–roasting, baking, grilling–can get foods much, much hotter. In cooking, there are two important chemical reactions, the Maillard reaction and caramelization, that don’t occur until well above boiling point. Because of this, these reactions and their resulting flavors can’t occur with wet cooking methods. This is why boiled or steamed Brussels sprouts are so bland. Next time, try roasting them: quarter ’em, coat with olive oil and sprinkle them with a little salt, and roast ’em. You’ll get these great, richly-flavored Brussels sprouts.

How does knowing this help somebody like me when trapped in a hotel room? Given a coffee maker, microwave, and if I’m lucky, a toaster oven, and I can think about what type of heat the given device produces. Once I understand that, I can think about foods that match up with what each device can do.

Take a toaster oven. They get plenty hot to brown toast, so things like cookies will work too. Place a spoonful of cookie dough on top of a piece of tin foil, drop onto the wire rack in a pre-heated toaster oven, and 8 to 10 minutes later, you have fresh-baked cookies. (If you’re on vacation with your significant other, snag some cookie dough from a grocery store and then when s/he’s not looking, pop the dough into the oven. Snuggling up to watch a movie with fresh cookies while on vacation = repentance for every time you had to work late…)

If you’re on a budget but still want a gourmet lunch at work, poached salmon works surprisingly well in a toaster oven. Salmon, like most fish, can be quite easily cooked in oil at relatively low temperatures, and a properly-cooked piece of fish, straight out of the oven, has this incredible texture and flavor. With fish, like most meats, it’s the temperature of the food, not how long it’s been in the oven, that matters. Snag a probe thermometer, a heat-safe bowl, a piece of salmon, and some olive oil. Place the fish in your bowl, cover with olive oil, and insert your probe. Set the thermometer to beep at ~130°F and transfer to your toaster oven. Two tips for making this easier: 1) have the store cut the salmon into individual-size portions, so that you’re not having to do any cutting; and 2) use a small container–a coffee mug will even work–that just fits the fish, so that you only need a few tablespoons of oil to cover it. Once the fish is done cooking, drop it onto some fresh greens, and you’ve got an easy, healthy, and great-tasting lunch.

Even if you don’t try making oatmeal, poaching salmon, or baking cookies, hopefully these office cooking tricks will inspire you to try adapting your favorite dishes to work with whatever appliances you have at hand while away from home. I’d love to hear what on-the-road tricks you use for cooking-both success and failures! Drop me a note in the comments below, or on my blog.

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Cooking for Geeks
Jeff Potter, O’Reilly, 2010
Are you the innovative type, the cook who marches to a different drummer, used to expressing your creativity instead of just following recipes? Are you interested in the science behind what happens to food while it’s cooking? Do you want to learn what makes a recipe work so you can improvise and create your own unique dish? Author Jeff Potter has done the cubicle thing, the startup thing, and the entrepreneur thing, and through it all maintained his sanity by cooking for his friends.


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Taking Risks Based on Evidence

My opinion has long been that football teams are too scared to take an action that is smart but opens the coach to criticism. So instead of attempting to make it on 4th down (if you don’t understand American football, just skip this post) they punt because that is the decision that is accepted as reasonable.

So instead of doing what is wise they do what avoids criticism. Fear drives them to take the less advantageous action. Now I have never looked hard at the numbers, but my impression is that it is well worth the risk to go for it on 4th down often. In a quick search I don’t see a paper by a Harvard professor (this article refers to it also – Fourth down: To punt or to go?) on going for it on 4th down but I found on by a University of California, Berkeley economist (David Romer wrote called “Do Firms Maximize? Evidence from Professional Football.”).

On the 1,604 fourth downs in the sample for which the analysis implies that teams are on average better off kicking, they went for it only nine times. But on the 1,068 fourth downs for which the analysis implies that teams are on average better off going for it, they kicked 959 times.

My guess is that the advantages to going for it on 4th down are greater for high school than college which is greater than the advantage for the pros (but I may be wrong). My guess is this difference is greater the more yardage is needed. Basically my feeling is the variation in high school is very high in high school and decreases with greater skill, experience and preparation. Also the kicking ability (punting and field goals) impacts the choices of going for it on 4th down and that dramatically increases in college. So if I am correct, I think pro coaches should be more aggressive on 4th down, but likely less aggressive than high school coaches should be.

But in any event the data should be explored and strategies should be tested.

I am not at all surprised to see very competitive and well studied situations not being optimized by very smart individuals. We often just keep doing what is expected even when the evidence is not there to support the wisdom of such actions. There are lots of things managers should have stopped doing decades ago that they still do. There are lots of things managers should have started doing decades ago that they still don’t do. Evidence based management is still rare.

It does seem a few coaches over the last decade or so have been more willing to go for it on 4th down. They tend to be very successful coaches, probably less fearful of being criticized – including Les Miles (LSU), Nick Saban (Alabama), Bill Belichick (New England Patriots).

The psychology is more complex than just fear. It is also a common trait to view errors of commission as worse than errors of omission. Even though the decision to punt is a decision (one of commission) since the default accepted action is to punt the decision to go for it is seen as commission while not going for it is just seen as omission. This adds to the reluctance to go for it on 4th down.

I believe many organizations fail to take risks due to fear as well as people seeing failure due to commission as worse than failure due to omission. And that most organizations are far too slow to continual improve – too tied to old ways of doing things.

Related: Randomization in Sports, my father’s suggestionWhy Don’t Football Players Just Thrown the Ball Out of Bounds to Stop the ClockMy Father Had Suggestions for Football and Basketball Coaches (but didn’t find willing coaches) (Dad also liked the idea of going for it more on 4th down) – The 4th Down Study by Brian Burkeposts on sports on the Curious Cat Science blogUniversity pay rates (football coaches at the top)Accept Taking Risks, Don’t Blithely Accept Failure Though

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Let’s face it – you know good work when you see it. Take a look at the shades being done by colorist Cherin Choi, who is based out of the Ramirez Tran Salon in Los Angeles. Also known via social media as ‘Mizz Choi’, this talented hair stylist has perfected the process of making your color treated hair appear as if you somehow naturally ‘grew’ this shade yourself, fading highlights out with more emphasis at the ends. Take a look for yourself from this before and after – and follow Mizz Choi on her Instagram account for more hair inspiration.

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Binbougami ga Episode 3

Not sure why Ichiko annoys me so much. Was this even supposed to be character development for her this week? She seemed to see things differently at the end, but is she actually changing?  What surprised me in this episode was the fact that Momiji didn’t point out that the kid Ryuu being locked in the sewer was technically Ichiko’s fault. Think about it…she leeches Fortune. Instead, there was this idea that she could “activate” her Fortune for others, which bugs me because I feel like good fortune should be something that isn’t in your control. Oh well…

Next week looks to just go back to business as usual. I dunno if I wanna keep writing about this…maybe it’s a bit much. I’m running out of things to say. I suppose if the show actually has a goal (probably in the form of reforming Ichiko so that she isn’t just selfishly leeching from everyone), then maybe…otherwise, it’s just random comedy, which isn’t bad, but nearly impossible to cover. Final side note: that scene where Momiji pockets the money on the ground while lecturing Ichiko made me laugh a lot more than I expected…

Binbougami ga Episode 2

So…new character: perverted priest…also Momiji joins Ichiko’s class. Just adding another dynamic to the fight between Momiji and Ichiko (the priest basically trolls Ichiko)…I guess that’s just what this show is. So many references to other shows too…some of which I got-ish. Some of the stuff is pretty funny…I’ll stick with it, I guess…least I can do is see what other character they’re going to add. It’s one of those shows where logic goes out the window…what I’d call mindless comedy.

Well, the preview doesn’t really give me much about next week, but it looks like the battle may be off while Ichiko deals with some personal stuff (some guy in her class?). I wonder if this Nadeshiko at the end of the episodes will ever become a full character or if she’s just doomed to pointing out her appearances at the end.

Binbougami ga First Impressions

So…I’m not completely sure what I just watched. I guess this show is the mindless comedy of the season…pitting a God of MisfortuneFlatness, Momiji, against a normal human, Sakura, presumably a reincarnation of a God of Fortune or something. So what exactly is the rationale behind sending a God of Misfortune (presumably a being that would be compulsively unlucky) to take care of an incredibly fortunate human, who would likely be too fortunate to be stopped.

I guess these sorts of paradoxical arguments show up when you try to quantify luck (for example, why would an extremely lucky person care about a dying butler when they should be so lucky not to experience negative emotions?). I could go on forever…

I guess the main question is where do we go from here? Does the entire show consist of this Momiji vs. Sakura struggle? If so, that can get really boring really fast. Or will they add more characters that can “withstand” Sakura’s fortune leeching?

Other than that, I’d say I actually was okay with the opening and ending songs…not outrageously silly songs as you would expect from a show like this (the ending kinda pushes it, though).


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The pavilion structure, designed by MTA, serves as an outdoor classroom and a place of repose, and is a focal point within the overall composition of the gardens. As one approaches the pavilion along the great wall, vine trellises occlude views to the planted terraces and gradually reveal the pavilion. Brushed stainless steel beams and columns support a roof of lead-coated copper over natural tongue and groove cedar. The juxtaposition of the wood elements with the stainless steel allows for a reading that is both modern and richly textured. Two sections of wood and metal roof float overhead with a slot of space between allowing shafts of southern sun and views of the sky to penetrate to the terrace below. The exquisitely crafted stone walls which form a base for the structure connect it to the terraces and the hills and trees in the background.


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Peggy Jo Ormson, 90, of Piedmont, OK passed away September 27, 2016 in Oklahoma City, OK. Peggy was born July 6, 1926 in Wewoka, OK to Albert Nealy and Edna Pauline (Johnson) Rogers. Peggy attended Pampa High school and graduated in 1943. During World War II she was an operator for Southwestern Bell. Later she returned to work at Southwestern Bell in Oklahoma City and retired in 1992. After the war she began her passion of Newspaper Journalism. She worked for various newspapers and most recently was writing for Piedmont Gazette. Peggy was an active volunteer at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church. She was a counter of funds, was in charge of the baptismal documents, nursery role, provided meals for multiple events and services and took advantage of many other opportunities to serve in various ways. Peggy was a true and faithful Christian servant, believing that Christ was her Lord and Savior.  Her Christian lifestyle set the supreme example for others.  She encouraged her family, friends and all others that she met to also follow this Christian path.  This legacy will live on and never be forgotten.

Peggy enjoyed gardening, cooking, sewing, dancing, bowling and caring for various dogs and cats over the years. She also loved spending time with her children, Grandchildren, and great grandchildren.

Peggy was preceded in death by her parents Nealy and Edna (Brownie) Rogers. She is survived by her children; Trina Adwendolyn Henderson (Frost), Benny Neal Ormson, and Gabrielle Jo Wackerly, grandchildren; William Neal Ashcraft, Teresa Dawn Ormson, Shiela Rene Robertson, John Edward Ashcraft, and Hannah Jo Cobb, great-grandchildren; Trentin Neal Alexander Flacy and Lennon Nykole Gossett; and brother Doyle Edward Rogers.

A public viewing will be held on Friday, September 30, 2016 from 3:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Matthews Funeral Home. Funeral services will be at 10:00 a.m., Saturday, October 1, 2016 at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church with burial to follow at Memorial Park Cemetery.

Memorial contributions may be made to: Holy Trinity Lutheran School Scholarship Fund.

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Presentism occurred to me as I was reading and responding to "Benatar on Annihilation and the Existence Requirement." There, I suggested the Relation Requirement. That would seem to work on Past-and-Presentism.

One apparent problem with Past-and-Presentism, though, is that it gives us a reality in which evil is never overcome. For example, take the unjust execution of Socrates. It's in the past, but it continues. As long as there is time, this injustice exists. It never goes away. This would seem to present difficulties in ethics.

Both Socrates and his execution are wholly past. The first a wholly past individual, the second a wholly past event. It would not be right to say that they continue, for that implies that they still exist.

Would the evil of the execution be overcome on a different theory of time? I don't think so. That there are past evils is a datum that any theory of time has to accommodate.

Probably worth flagging that not even the divine memory solution is open to believers in divine simplicity; an absolutely simple God is the exact same in every possible world, and therefore can't make contingent truths true in any of them.

Alan Rhoda is an evangelical who rejects the divine simplicity as most, but not all, of them do.

Hi Bill... Taking your cue to migrate over to the more serious arguments here :)... Quick question: Does existence simpliciter apply only to actual things, in your view? Seems you think it does. So we can't (truly) say that Schopenhauer's merely possible son exists simpliciter, but not actually?

Yes, existence simpliciter applies only to actual items. A merely possible item, whether past, present, or future, does not exist at all.

Dragons and dinosaurs strike me as very different. Dragons are merely possible; dinosaurs are actual, though not temporally present.

To say that dragons are merely possible is to say that the property of being a dragon -- which does actually exist -- is possibly instantiated. This makes me an ersatzer in D. Lewis' terminology.

The latter's extreme 'mad dog' modal realism is a brilliant but crazy construction.

In this post you consider:
"For something to be bad for somebody, he must exist at the time it is bad for him."

As I've just commented to your previous post, in that post you consider:
"In order for something to be bad for somebody, that being must actually exist at the time at which the bad occurs."

Those look like two different propositions. As I've suggested there, the time when my being dead is bad for me does not overlap with the time when my being dead obtains.

Now, something is bad for me when and only when I exist, obviously. If we disagree, perhaps we need to explore the meaning of 'something is bad for me'. When I exist, I am such that my valuable life (or my existence) will come to a halt. Which is bad for me. When? When I exist. Again, if you disagree, then try to clarify your meaning of 'something is bad for me (during the time I do not exist)'.

Perhaps my position implies presentism. Interesting point. One reply: If so, so much the worse for non-presentism. My position is simply a decisive reason for presentism. Another reply: Whether my position implies presentism depends on the meaning of 'something is bad for me'. Is it possible that the sides of the debate conceive the meaning differently and so are talking past each other?

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News Archive: Max 2005

Thu 22

Light My Fire

Max Finlay menaced by giant rabbitIt’s happened! I knew it was coming—the data made that clear—but still, it’s thrilling. Yes, for the first time, more people are visiting my site with Firefox than Internet Explorer.

Two years ago almost nine out of ten visitors were riding Internet Explorer. One year ago it was down to 64%, with Firefox roaring up the charts. Now Firefox sits on top with 46%, smacking Internet Explorer down to second with 42%.

Okay, it’s a little sad, but I really do find this exciting. I’ve grown into a total geek fanboy since I converted to Linux: once I saw a couple of GNOME developers blogging about Jennifer Government and got all giggly. Tell you what, if open source software coders did tours, I’d be in the front row trying to persuade them to sign a bunch of CDs.

In other news, it’s almost Christmas and I live in Australia, so you know what that means: it’s time for me to go somewhere sunny and do nothing for a couple of weeks. I’m going to Perth to show off my baby girl to Jen’s relatives, so until January, I wish you all the best. (After that, I may be more vindictive.)

And in closing, I have included the photo of Finlay being menaced by a giant rabbit because it amuses me.

Mon 05

I Was a Teenage Lawn Mower

Max I grew up in Stratford, a tiny town in Gippsland, Victoria, where there are ten cows for every human being. Stratford is known primarily for being just ten miles away from Sale, and Sale is known primarily for its maximum-security prison, so that was my youth: trudging ten miles to school every morning while watching carefully in case murderers were lurking behind cows, waiting to leap out and grab me.

I mention this because I was recently reminded of my lawnmower experience. In fact, every time I see my mother or stepfather, I get reminded of my lawnmower experience, because somehow a couple of tiny incidents in my teenage years have bloomed into legend. I am most unfairly portrayed in this legend, so I’m setting the record straight here, where members of my family are unable to respond.

Despite owning more acres of grass than Bob Marley, we didn’t have a ride-on mower. We had a push mower, one so ancient and temperamental that it wouldn’t start with less than ten minutes of gentle caresses and ego-stroking. Or, when that failed, judicious application of a hammer. I frequently complained about this, but my parents just thought I was whining. Which, clearly, I was. But with excellent reason.

One time when I was about 16, I just could not start the thing. I’d tried whispering sweet nothings, touching its most intimate places, the hammer—all the seduction techniques popular in Gippsland—but couldn’t get a response. Finally, exhausted, I went inside to declare the impossibility of completing my assigned lawn-mowing duties. But rather than being sympathetically consoled as you might expect, my mother responded: “I don’t care! I don’t want to hear about it, Max, just mow the lawn!”

Already, I’m sure you’ll agree, there was enough unfairness here to keep a regular teenager moping for days. But being a dutiful son, I pondered upon my dilemma until I came up with an ingenious solution: I got out a pair of hedge clippers and began to slowly move across the vast expanse of our lawn, cutting approximately three blades of grass per snip. My mother saw this out the window, but—inexplicably—rather than marveling at what a plucky, dedicated lad she was raising, she interpreted the scene as some kind of surly teenage rebellion and yelled at me to go borrow the neighbor’s mower, if I couldn’t get ours started.

I was a little hurt at having my clever hedge-clipper idea rejected, but, being always happy to help, was willing to give this mower-borrowing idea a run. And run I did, because by now it was almost dark. I had to race over the neighbors—if I remember right, this was several miles away, around several cows and an escaped serial murderer—then race back and sprint around our lawn with the mower while the darkness closed in.

By now you, like me, no doubt have tears in your eyes at my incredible courage and determination. But somehow my family don’t see it that way: oh no, to them, me running around in the dark with the neighbor’s mower is a classic example of how I would do anything to get out of mowing lawns.

I guess what they say is true: you never understand your family. But I know this: as soon as I moved away to college, they bought a ride-on mower.

Fri 09

Who’s Your Daddy?

Max Ooh baby!Oh, I have got it bad.

I think she’s cute when she’s screaming in my ear. I think her poos are cute. I love her to death even when I’m getting out of bed for the fourth time that night.

Yes, I think I’m about done as a contributing member of society. It’s all about obsessing over my kids now.

Here’s what has surprised me so far about being a parent:

  • The amount of time I spend staring at her butt. I mean, not just from a distance. Up close and personal. Usually wiping things off it. And I realize that my parents must have spent plenty of time staring at my butt. That’s a little disconcerting.
  • When I’m carrying her down the street, I expect everyone I pass to drop to their knees and cry, “Dear God, that’s the most beautiful child I’ve ever seen! Please, tell me how I can join the religion that you must be founding to worship her!” If they don’t, I get a little miffed.
  • I’m suddenly saying things like, “No, I got a good sleep last night, six hours all up.” Previously, six hours sleep would have left me with barely enough energy to drool. Now I’m functional on four.
  • How fast I got used to being called “Daddy.” I knew it was coming, of course, but it felt completely weird. And then suddenly it didn’t.
  • Her smell. Why are companies not duplicating this and selling it as perfume or air freshener or something? It’s the most incredible thing.
  • The amazing frequency with which she waits until the split-second when there’s no bib/nappy/diaper and then spits up/poos/wees/all of the above. I mean, come on. This is way past coincidence. It has to be some kind of baby in-joke.
  • How scared I am that something might happen to her. Before she was born, I saw ads for products like the electronic monitoring sheet you put under baby’s mattress to sound an alarm if she seems to stop breathing, and thought they were just nasty attempts to turn parental fears into cash. I still think that, but now I also think I might buy their products.
  • How few photos I have of her when she’s awake. Because when she’s awake, I’m doing something with her. So I have about a hundred photos and they’re all of her sleeping.

Thanks so much for all your congratulations. I love being able to share this. More photos to come! I’ll even try to get some with her eyes open.

Update: Added one of my favorite pics. And I thought of two more things:

  • She didn’t look familiar. For some reason, I expected her to look like someone I already knew… I guess because by the time she was born I’d spent so much time talking to Jen’s belly and imagining what she’d be like, I felt I did know her. Instead she just looked like a totally real but completely unfamiliar baby.
  • How strong she is! If I had that kind of strength-to-body-weight ratio, I’d be out solving crimes in a leotard.

Tue 30

A Brand New Girl

Max Finlay BarryBack from the hospital for a few minutes to do some vital jobs, like announce that I am (at last) Daddy to a heartbreakingly beautiful baby girl, Finlay Jo Barry.

Here are her vital statistics: she is 3.36kg (7lb 7oz), was born at 9:19AM on August 27th, has the sweetest, most intoxicating smell ever, and likes it when you stroke her hair.

I am, genuinely, the luckiest guy in the world. I get to go back to her now.

Wed 24

Retrospective #6: Reviewing the Future

Max BabyWatch 2005: Still nothing! It’s incredible. It’s like waiting for a toaster to pop. Of course, the second I stop staring at Jen’s belly, she’ll have the kid.

Of blurbs and blogs: You’re right. You’re right! I shouldn’t give away Company’s first plot twist on the back of the book. I’ve written a new blurb that doesn’t, and I think it’s a big improvement. If it gets through the publisher, I’ll post it here. Thanks for the feedback. I think this is the first time I’ve altered a book based on what you guys told me. So it’s an occasion! Soon I’ll be putting up polls to choose between plots, and then it’s a short stop to accepting anonymous contributions and stapling them together while I sip margaritas on the deck of a Pacific cruise ship.

Syrup: I finished my Syrup screenplay draft! I think it rocks. Not that I’m biased or anything. I don’t know what the producers think yet.

A Chat with Max: There’s an interview with me up on Possibly of interest if you’re a writer, or I take my eyes off Jen’s belly and end up spending all my time feeding, bathing, and entertaining a newborn instead of posting new blogs.

Mon 11

And now a gratuitous plug

Max Now I don’t do this very often, do I? That should count for something. The thing is, the excellent Aussie comedian Wil Anderson is performing in New York (July 12 & 14) and Montreal (July 21-23, 25), and if at all possible you should go see him. Then you should hang around afterward and say, “Hey, Wil, I’m here because Max sent me, and boy am I glad he did,” because you will be.

Wil’s a big name in Australia. He’s also one of the people I trust with my early drafts, which is why you’ll see his name in the Jennifer Government acknowledgments. If you like my stuff, you’ll like Wil.

Wil’s tour dates: Here.

Thu 07

London bombed; citizens mildly annoyed

Max There is something very special about the Brits. I’ve always admired them, even though I can’t understand their decision to live somewhere with such bad weather and warm beer. Today I’m reminded why. After watching pictures of this horrendous terrorist attack on TV, I jumped on the net to get in touch with English people I know. And as I heard back from them, I realized they seemed… a little miffed. Maybe peeved. But even that might be too strong.

To all Brits: I’m thinking of you guys today. My heart goes out to those personally affected. But it’s also filled with admiration for this incredible British spirit that even a bomb attack can’t dent.

Sun 03

Baby, I love your name

Max Yes! It is only a month and a half until Baby Barry is due. Which means it’s really time for Jen and me to come up with a name.

You’d think this would be right up my alley—I mean, I name characters all the time. But is it really ethical to give a kid a name just because I find it amusing? This is the dilemma I face as I consider such favorites as “Binky,” “Fizz,” and “Alan.”

(Okay, that’s just a joke. The “Alan” doesn’t mean we’re having a boy. I need to be clear about this because we’re keeping the sex a secret, and we have a lot of relatives watching keenly for any slip-up. That would spoil the betting pool—which, incidentally, is currently running 2-to-1 in favor of a girl.)

I know some people say you should wait and see what they look like before naming them (“We were going to call him Sam, but when we saw him we just knew he was a Horatio!”), but I don’t know about this. I’ve seen pictures of newborns, and they all look like aliens. If I named our kid based on what he looked like after birth, I’d probably call him, “Krxz’ll Ak Ak Hrgggggg.”

My other problem is that “Barry” really sucks as a surname. I never realized this before; until now it’s been fine. But just try to put a first name in front of that thing! For boys, anything unusual sounds like we got the name backwards (my Dad went his whole life being called “Barry Hamilton”). Girl names sound ridiculous if they’re two syllables and end in an “ee” sound, and that’s practically all of them. Also, anything that starts with “B” is definitely out.

I tell you, “Barry” makes it tough. And the clock is ticking.

Incidentally, Jen has started referring to herself as “we.” As in, “We’re hungry,” or “We want to lie down now.” It’s little unsettling. She’s become a hive mind.

Wed 25

A Shade Less Perfect

Max I’ve been contacting all my friends with babies, pumping them for information on whether those three-wheeler strollers are really all they’re cracked up to be, and do you want a bassinet that also converts into a car seat or is it fine to have those things separate, and surely, surely, when the baby book says they go to the toilet 10 times a day, that has to be some kind of misprint, right?

In the midst of all this, I had an idea for a short story. So I wrote it. If you’re interested, here it is. It’s 3,000 words long.

Thanks so much for all the congratulations and well wishes! You guys rock.

Fri 20

She’s having a baby

Max Jen at 26 weeks Now, I know other people have had babies. I see them all the time. In fact, I have it on good authority that, at one time, I was a baby myself. So on the one hand, surely there should be nothing newsworthy about the impending arrival of yet another one. But on the other, OH MY GOD MY WIFE IS PREGNANT.

I know, I know. Deep breaths. Work through it. Okay. Here are the facts: The due date is August 22. We know the baby’s sex (my theory is the birth will be interesting enough without needing to build up any additional suspense), but are not telling anybody (because we’re cruel). It’s our first.

Phoooo. Phoooo.

Fri 13

Retrospective #5: Fear my vigilantes

Max Whoa! That blog about my newest arch-nemesis (why stop at one?), Todd Bunker, got quite a reaction. First a lot of people left comments supporting me, which was really nice and quite touching. I did notice a few said some pretty mean things about Todd… but no, you’re right, he deserved it. Then I saw a bunch of people had stampeded onto the site that hosted Todd’s article to rake him over the coals. And some copied me in on e-mails to Todd, pointing out (in some detail) glaring deficiencies in his character.

Now, I had been thinking about writing a blog about The Worst Review I Ever Got—one that makes Todd Bunker’s seem like drooling praise—but now I’m worried that if I do, people will hunt the guy down, smash his car windows, and kidnap his pets.

So, moving on. For a while there I had a metablog: in late March, a guy called Adam left the comment:

Max Barry has inspired me to start my own blog, and since I don’t have a website, I will start writing on the comments of max barry’s blogs. It will pobably be really boring and have a lot of grammatical errors because I am not a professional writer.

But it wasn’t! I was enthralled with whether Adam would ask Jennifer to the prom, and what would happen to his simmering rivalry with Eric, even if this was all clearly fictional. And damn, he made some good points: why isn’t 2% milk called 98% milk? Unfortunately, Adam seemed to lose enthusiasm in April, and then he stopped posting. So my metablog is no more: I’m back to just a regular blog.

Speaking of comments: a couple of people asked about the apparently redundant “A Novel” that appears on the cover of Company. Well, here’s the answer, straight from my editor:

That’s so bookstore clerks don’t throw the book in with WHO MOVED MY CHEESE?

So there you go. Apparently Doubleday is also debating how exactly to “glaze” the donut on the cover! Although:

the scratch n sniff idea was deemed too expensive

Oh well. You can probably get the same effect by purchasing a real donut and smearing it all over the book. If you really want to, I mean.

Tue 03

Love your work

Max Today I got some orthotic inserts for my sneakers, because I’d like to be able to keep running without having my feet collapse, or my knees implode, or whatever else is meant to happen to long-time runners. My podiatrist was an energetic young woman named Allison, and pretty soon she had my feet wrapped up in warm, wet bandages—which was really pleasant, although it was hard to relax due to the threat of tickling. Apparently Allison was making a mold, from which a plaster cast of my feet could be formed, and used to shape the orthotics.

“What happens to the casts afterward?” I asked.

“Oh, we keep them,” Allison said. “We have to. They’re considered medical records.”

I found the idea of a big warehouse somewhere full of white plaster feet a bit disconcerting. But Allison was enthusiastic. She was, in fact, remarkably perky for someone who had to smell other people’s feet all day. I quizzed her about this: “Don’t you get sick of dealing with feet all the time?”

“Oh no,” Allison said, as if I had said something deeply shocking. “Two people walk in, and they’ll be totally different. With feet, you never know what you’re going to get.”

Tue 19

Ride the Walrus

Max I’m always looking for new things to do in the shower, because I’m male and have no hair. There’s very little you can do in a shower when you have no hair; it’s basically “wash face, soap underarms, sing a little song.” I can’t get out after that; standing naked under running warm water is too nice. I want to stay there, but need entertainment—and yet, at this very moment, I have no pockets.

Sometimes I fill my mouth with water and spray it everywhere. The key is not to just blurt it out: you want to generate a fine mist, accompanied by a satisfyingly whale-like PFFFFFFF. That’s good fun. When I’m lacking in inspiration, I just stand there, swing my arms, and watch the water spray off my fingertips.

But now I’ve discovered a thrilling new activity. (No, not that.) It’s terrific fun, and I’m sharing it so you can try it at home yourself.

Now this may require some adjustment of your bathroom facilities—last week I was traveling around and it didn’t work in all the hotel room showers I tried. What you want is a medium-sized shower rose (not a horrible little needly one) with strong pressure (which, unfortunately, counts out all of you living in England). Position it as close to the top of your head as possible.

Then close your eyes and throw your head right back. If you’ve got it right, the shower jets water directly on your closed eyelids. This sensation may be accompanied by a flaring white kaleidoscope or visions of God. And not only that: water streams directly into your ears, making an adrenalin-pumping roar, like you’re standing under a waterfall, or, now that I think about it, hearing the voice of God. Maybe they should choose the Pope this way. But anyway, it’s pure excitement! I’m telling you, you have to try this yourself, before it becomes a Disney ride.

Thu 14

Annnd we’re back

Max I just got home from a week’s vacation to find that my web host decided that was a good time to kill my site. Mmm, helpful. This is a periodic thing: once every few months, they go, “Hmm, this site seems to be generating load on our server, let’s disable it.” They don’t notify me; they just go ahead and do it. When I notice my site is down, I fix it and send them an abusive e-mail. They apologize profusely, say the tech didn’t follow proper processes, and promise it’ll never happen again. A few months later, it happens again.

This is the fourth time. I’m an idiot for staying with them, right? It’s just that they’re a great host in all other respects. They give me everything I need. They’re practically perfect. It’s just, from time to time, they get violent. But it’s not their fault. They don’t know what they’re doing. They just lose control sometimes. I shouldn’t provoke them with all that traffic. It’s really my fault. I know they really love me.

I’m an idiot, right?

Wed 23

Why I Blog (Part 2)

Max Max's supercool web traffic graph I first put up this web site in early 1999, and oh, what a beauty it was. It had a picture of the Syrup cover, and little blue bubbles, and funny hand icons next to the links, and you could only get to it via “,” with the two Xs. I wish I’d kept a copy somewhere, but, alas, all that’s left is this carcass courtesy of the Internet Archive project.

I was very proud of my site, because in 1999 not everyone had one. It often received as many as 8 visitors a day, spiraling up to a heady 13 visits per day in July when Syrup was released. Thirteen! Just imagine, if 13 people visited me in person each day, I’d be exhausted. Clearly this web site thing was a good idea.

I also started getting e-mails from people who liked my book—not many e-mails, but a few—which was very exciting and made me feel famous in a way that the watching my first novel sink without a trace hadn’t. I decided that I would get more serious about the web for my second novel, Jennifer Government. In March 2002 I redesigned the site. In September I added pages for Jennifer Government and my bio, and got to work on an online game called NationStates (which in late 2002 looked like this).

Thanks to NationStates and the US publication of Jennifer Government, my web traffic took off: in January 2003 received almost 50,000 visitors. But over the next year, it steadily dropped. If a new edition of Jennifer Government came out somewhere I would see a little blip, but clearly people weren’t visiting my site so much. And why should they? I didn’t post to it. It was just the same old site, week after week.

I started to worry that by the time my next book came out, nobody would remember who I was. It could be Syrup all over again: a couple of weeks on the “New Releases” shelves, then gone before anybody realized it was there. Then I would start getting e-mails from my publisher saying things like “not as well as we hoped” and I would have to crawl back to Hewlett-Packard for a real job.

I’d discovered weblogs via Wil Wheaton and thought they were a pretty cool idea. I wasn’t sure how exciting my blog would be, since my day generally goes (1) Wake up (2) Type (3) Sleep, but on the other hand I did have a lot of obnoxious opinions and wasn’t afraid to share them. Surely that was enough.

Apparently the first rule of blogging is… wow, have you ever Googled for “the first rule of blogging”? Seriously, there’s like a hundred different first rules. So I guess the real first rule is: “Everybody’s got an opinion.” Or maybe: “People post all kinds of crap on blogs and nobody checks anything so you can’t trust a damn thing they say.” But the one I had in mind when I started this paragraph was: “You must blog every day.” This sounded like a lot of work, though, so I decided I would just post whenever I thought I had something worth saying. I would create a semi-blog.

In March 2004 I rewrote the site into the sleek, attractive, standards-compliant form you see before you, and started posting to it. At first I floundered around, not really sure what to write about, but then I found my groove and discovered Newlyweds and Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen and I was away.

I think I get three things out of blogging. First, I get to stay in touch with people who enjoy my writing, and tell them when I have a new novel out that they must immediately purchase because my cocaine habit doesn’t pay for itself, you know. (Since I started blogging, site traffic has steadily risen and is now back to where it was when Jennifer Government was first published. Look, I even made a graph.) This is a two-way thing; via e-mail and comments, I also get to hear back from people, which is just about the best thing ever. Writing is a solitary business, and it’s continually thrilling to hear that a novel I once printed out and mailed in a box to my publisher has become a small part of someone else’s life. Without that, publishing books would feel very odd—like having a child move out of home and never hearing from him again.

Second, it’s good writing practice. The more you write, the better you get at it, and when I’m working on a novel it’s a nice break to write something different. Third, it’s like a diary: I end up with a permanent record of what was important at this time in my life. I can look back on it in ten years time, or show it to my kids. Imagine their sweet little voices: “lol omg dad u r so 1337”.

Fri 18

Happy Birthday to me!

Max Have I been hanging around computers too much? I’m all excited because today I’m 25.

Tue 08

Why I Blog (Part 1)

How are you? I know you get fan mails all the time so I’ll keep this short. I am currently doing an undergraduate thesis paper on blogs and I was wondering if I can ask you one question: Why have you decided to use the blog format for your website?

The short answer is because I thought it was good way to keep in touch with people in the long, empty years between novels. The long answer has graphs, and I’ll write that in the blog after this one. Because you need some backstory: the fact is, I wouldn’t have even known what a blog was if it hadn’t been for that little punk Wil Wheaton.

In March 2003 I started finding odd bits in people’s e-mails, like, “By the way, congrats on the Wil Wheaton rave!” I had no idea what this meant or who Wil Wheaton was. But after I got enough of them, I decided to find out—because I’m very curious, if you prod me repeatedly. I did an internet search and discovered that Wil Wheaton had a web site, and in passing he’d said:

I just finished a great book called “Jennifer Government.” I bought it on a Saturday, and finished it by the following Tuesday. I think it’s the fastest I’ve ever read a book. It’s that good.

This was pretty great, but who was this guy? I clicked around a little more and was struck numb with horror: Wil Wheaton was my high school arch-nemesis.

(Well, one of them. I had a few. Don’t think I’ve forgotten you, Berryman!)

See, one night in the late 1980s a bunch of us teenagers went out to the movies and saw Stand By Me. It was a great movie, and I enjoyed it even though it was hard to concentrate with Jen, the girl I was lusting after, sitting so close by. We came out of the theater and started to talk about the actors in it and Jen said something like, “Ohhh, that Wil Wheaton, he’s so dreamy!”

Well, naturally enough, I was immediately struck with the urge to hunt down Mr. Wheaton and beat him into a bloody mess.

I resisted, because that was illegal and I didn’t have the plane fare to go to L.A. Instead I settled for less extreme but, alas, no more successful methods of pursuing Jen for the next few years, until one day she cracked under the unrelenting strain and agreed to marry me. Ten years of wedded bliss later (I speak for myself here), and suddenly Wil Wheaton is on the scene trying to mess things up again. I could feel my temples throb with the old rage, and hear the voices whispering, “Now he’s not such a big-shot actor, his house probably doesn’t even have that good security.”

But no! I was a grown man, now (I told myself). That stuff was ancient history. And this site of Wil’s, called a “blog,” was clearly something of a phenomenon: he would write about whatever the hell he was up to that day, and an astounding number of people would drop by to read it. It was an intriguing idea, and Wil an excellent writer; I quickly became engrossed reading about his trials and tribulations as an actor, writer, stepfather, and human being.

I wrote to Wil to thank him:

Hey, you liked my novel! And then you told hundreds of thousands of people about it. Boy do you rock. Thanks a lot.

Wil wrote right back:

Right on. :)

You rock for writing it. It’s the first novel I’ve read in years that was so compelling I only put it down to sleep and drive. Yeah I read it while I ate. Best 4 days in recent memory.

He also put my e-mail to him on his web site, which was an unexpected introduction to the custom of bloggers to make just about anything public, along with a complete fabrication about how he e-mailed me first. But this was surely just a harmless mistake, and it was quite thrilling to get a reply. “Hey, Jen!” I called. “You’ll never guess who I just got an e-mail from. It’s that guy, Wil Wheaton, who you —”

“Wil Wheaton!” Jen exclaimed, her eyes lighting up. “He’s dreamy!

Damn you, Wil Wheaton. I’ll get you one of these days.

Tue 22

We’re not in Redmond any more, Toto

Max About nine months ago I switched from Microsoft Windows to Gentoo Linux. I wasn’t unhappy with Windows, but Linux is very handy when you’re designing a web site, and I got sick of rebooting all the time to switch from one to the other. So I decided to suck it up and go all the way.

This turned out to be a lot like moving to another country, both in the sense that I didn’t know where anything was or understand the local language, and because I realized things about the place I’d left. So here’s what I learned.

(Note: There are several different types of Linux, and they each do some things better than the others. Not all my comments apply to all Linux distributions. But I’m still going to just say “Linux.”)

  1. Linux is a religion. When you first hear about Linux, it’s from slightly creepy people whose eyes shine with a born-again fervor while they rattle on about all kinds of things you don’t understand. I have become one of those people. There really needs to be some kind of warning sticker on the CD: “May cause you to blog about the philosophies of operating systems.” I mention this up front because it helps to explain everything else.

  2. Windows thinks you’re an idiot; Linux thinks you’re a genius. What I love about Windows is that no matter what it asks you to do, you can choose the default and it works. You can actually install software by inserting the CD, closing your eyes, and hitting ENTER over and over again. You have no idea what you’re doing, but you don’t care.

    Linux, on the other hand, wouldn’t dare to assume it knows what you want. There’s hardly a default setting on anything, anywhere. Naturally you will want to do some in-depth reading about horizontal frequency rates before leaping into anything as advanced as displaying a picture on the screen, right? The first time you do anything in Linux, you come away with an education.

    Each approach is handy at different times. It’s very handy being treated as an idiot, until you want to do something smart. Then it’s annoying.

  3. Windows plays soccer; Linux plays rugby. In soccer (sorry, to me this is football), whenever one player makes the slightest contact with another, he collapses to ground, writhing in agony and clutching at his ankle. Everyone gathers around and looks very worried until the referee holds up a yellow card and then—amazing!—the player springs up again, completely cured. So too Windows: as soon as anything goes wrong with any program, the whole thing collapses in a screaming heap, and requires a reboot. Linux, on the other hand, shrugs off application failures like a rugby player ignores broken fingers. Programs crash, but Linux keeps going.

  4. Linux marketing sucks. Microsoft is a corporation with an overriding financial interest in persuading people to buy Windows. The people who make Linux, on the other hand, are mostly volunteers who simply love building good code. So while there are plenty of Microsoft advertisements and salespeople and lobbyists to tell the government that you can’t trust Linux, there is practically nobody on the other side. It’s always a bit creepy when you have a big corporation up against a non-profit or non-entity; you end up being told that sugared drinks are better for you than water, you wouldn’t dare breast-feed your baby when good old manufactured formula is available, and there’s no such thing as global warming. Linux people don’t merely lack the funding to match Microsoft’s marketing; they also don’t really want to. The Linux attitude is that they have built a magnificent operating system and if you can’t see that, well, that’s your problem. So Microsoft’s aim is to sell operating systems while Linux people focus on building them.

  1. Windows lets you, Linux unleashes you. Occasionally I see the phrase “lets you” in discussions of Windows software—as in, “This software lets you press C to get a preview.” The idea that you are not allowed to do anything to your computer unless it “lets you” is, I realized, very Microsoftian. Because in Linux, you can do whatever the hell you want to pretty much any piece of code: improve it, change it, or break it. Not that you need to, because everything is incredibly customizable already, but you can. If you complain about any piece of software in Linux, you stand a good chance of being told, “Well go make it better, then.” By comparison, Microsoft asks, “Where do you want to go today?” but then strongly recommends you select: “Default.”

  2. Windows gets in your face. Like an annoying four-year-old, Windows can’t go two minutes without attention. You boot, start to do something, and suddenly there windows are flying at your face. Everything is checking for updates or activating or deactivating or switching channels and IT HAS TO TELL YOU THIS RIGHT NOW. Linux puts its messages in the log, and you read them when and if you feel like it.

  3. Windows fails silently. Oh my God. Before, I never even noticed this. But now every time I have to use Windows I end up bug-eyed and yelling at the screen, “Just tell me what’s wrong!” When something goes wrong in Linux, it spews messages into the system log, which you can read through to see what it was doing. Then you copy a phrase or two into Google, click Search, and choose from a list of pages competing to tell you exactly what the problem is and how to fix it.

    Windows doesn’t do this. Windows doesn’t even have a system log, as far as I know. When things go wrong, they do so mysteriously and without complaint: you click buttons and nothing happens, or you try to run a program and it just vanishes. There’s no way to discover what the actual problem is. If you Google for the symptoms, you find endless pages complaining about the same thing, but no solutions. Or you do find solutions, but they all come down to the same thing: (1) Reboot (2) Reinstall. They should issue a Microsoft Support Manual that contains nothing except these two words, because that’s the solution to every single Windows problem. Even if you manage to fix it, you never find out what exactly the problem is; you just grope around blindly reinstalling things until suddenly and just as mysteriously things start working again. The other day I e-mailed a company’s tech support and their semi-automated advice was to reinstall their program and Windows XP. If that didn’t work, I was to e-mail again to get help from a human. That’s right, wiping my hard drive was the first step in their diagnoses process. This is like having to get a heart transplant before the doctor will see you about your hiccups.

    The end result is that even though Windows is simpler to get to grips with, I never felt really confident with it, because I couldn’t tell what it’s doing. Linux requires more understanding, but when you’ve got that, you’re more assured.

  4. Linux people rock. One day my Windows PC choked on an automatic security update, and thereafter every time it tried to update itself, it failed. Having an unpatched Windows computer connected to the internet is like walking through a bad neighborhood tossing your BMW car keys from hand to hand, so I wanted to do something about this. There was no error message, of course, aside from the gloriously unhelpful, “The update failed to install.” I ended up going through the maze of Microsoft’s technical support to send in a problem report. I received an automated e-mail back saying my report had been received, then nothing. Weeks went by. I tried again. Same thing. Then one day, it just started working again.

    Of course, this is not specific to Microsoft. Pretty much every company treats a support customer like something they just stepped in: their aim is to get rid of you with as little touching as possible. I can’t remember the last time I e-mailed a company for support and it didn’t go like this:
    1. Receive automated response suggesting I look in FAQs
    2. Receive response from alleged human being that consists of copy-and-pasted text from FAQ
    3. I write back thanking them for the information and expressing regret that none of it is remotely relevant to the problem I described
    4. Human being actually reads my e-mail starts being helpful.
    By which time I figure out the problem myself.

    The other day I had some trouble getting a piece of hardware working on my Linux machine, and found a web site by
    a guy who had written Linux drivers for it. Not because it was his job; he just felt like it. The hardware was Australian-specific and Google wasn’t helping much, so I e-mailed him a question, not really expecting a reply—because it’s a bit like e-mailing Bill Gates to ask what that DOS command is that displays all the directories. (Or would be if Gates actually wrote DOS. Bada boom! Sorry. I’m sorry. See point #1.) He wrote right back with the answer.

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Retrospective #4: Comments, e-mails, Ellis, and Arjun

Max This is the bit when I look back at—ah, forget it, I can’t hand-hold you new people forever.

No sooner had I posted the blog about getting the Syrup screenwriting gig when I received an e-mail back. “Ah!” I thought. “Already the congratulations are rolling in!” This is what it said:

you only write about your scripts, and that too few and far between. youre ignoring your loyal website readers such as me. you stopped writing funny stuff long ago. im upset. :(

you need to get back to the old days when you wrote a post every other day, and incredibly funny ones too.

This evoked several competing thoughts. First was, “Kiss my butt, Arjun!” Second was, “Maybe he’s got a point. I haven’t done so many comedy blogs lately. And he is quite flattering about my older stuff.” The third was, “Kiss my butt, Arjun! What do you want, a refund?”

I know artists have to put up with people saying, “I like your old albums/books/films better than your new ones,” but geez, I didn’t think I’d get that about my web site. I searched through my e-mail and discovered that Arjun had written to me a couple of times before. If I were petty enough, I might observe that his earlier e-mails were much more entertaining than this one. And I am, so I have.

I finally changed my e-mail page to announce that I can no longer reply to all letters. I cringed as I did it, because I knew some people would take this as proof that I am an out-of-touch egomaniac with no time for his fans, and I’d prefer to keep that a secret. I also worried I would get fewer e-mails, since people might not bother writing if there wasn’t much chance of a reply. Instead, my e-mail inflow practically doubled. It’s like everyone was looking at that pathetic line, “I will try to reply in 19 weeks,” and thought, “Poor bastard, I’ll leave him be.”

Or maybe it was because of my interview with Ellis. This blog clearly encouraged a lot of people to e-mail me crazy comments in the hope that I would interview them for the site, too. Either that or a lot of genuinely crazy people suddenly all wrote to me at once. Hmm. That’s a more disturbing idea. But anyway, Ellis has his own web site now, which promises to reveal more of the enigma wrapped inside a riddle that is Ellis. Compulsory reading.

In December I added the ability for site members to post comments in response to my blogs, which, to my surprise, turned out great. If I post a funny blog, people post a bunch of funny follow-ups; if I post a serious blog, people post lots of thought-provoking comments. I have to admit, the reason it took me so long to add this was because I was sure it would get spammed into the ground by idiots. And I guess this will happen sooner or later, since this is the internet. But so far, so good!

I received many long, thoughtful e-mails in reply to my “On Capitalism and Corporatism” blog. I took the time to read them and mull them over and think how lucky it was I didn’t have to write equally thoughtful replies. Amongst them was a one-sentence letter that, possibly inadvertently, made the most persuasive argument for the ascendancy of capitalism of all. After digesting my opinions on political economics, globalization, and corporatism, Joseph had this to say:

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Boys Tennis Repeat CIC Champs

Story by Brooks Holloway, MCSC Media Director

Boys Tennis traveled to Frankton tonight to battle out a CIC title. The Indians won 4-1 against the Eagles clinching a repeat of the title.

The Lady Indians matched up with Elwood tonight for another CIC volleyball event. Mississinewa won in straight sets in both the JV and Varsity contests (Varsity: 25-19, 25-23, 25-22).

Halle Planck 13 kills, 5 blocks
Erika Foy 10 kills, 3 digs, 1 block
Madison Stanley 9 digs, 1 ace
Kenzie Skeens 36 assists

Tonight’s Events

  • RJB Tennis vs. Eastern . 5:00pm
  • MHS Boys Soccer at North Miami . 5:30pm
  • RJB Volleyball vs. Blackford . 6:00pm

REMINDER: Mississinewa Community Schools will not hold classes on Friday, September 22.

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Noam Chomsky: Russian Interference Isn’t Influencing US Elections—But Israel Definitely Is | The Daily Sheeple

Posted by M. C. Fox on August 3, 2018

Last month, The Free Thought Project reported that South Carolina passed a law to legally define criticism of Israel as “anti-Semitism,” showing a concerted effort to stifle criticism of a government that is indiscriminately killing innocent people, and keeping an entire population in poverty and constant terror.

World-renowned author and lecturer Noam Chomsky pointed out in a recent interview that Israel has actually had far more influence in the United States political system than Russia ever has, in the wake of mass media hysteria about alleged “collusion” in the 2016 election.

In an interview with Amy Goodman of Democracy Now, Chomsky said:

So, take, say, the huge issue of interference in our pristine elections. Did the Russians interfere in our elections? An issue of overwhelming concern in the media. I mean, in most of the world, that’s almost a joke. First of all, if you’re interested in foreign interference in our elections, whatever the Russians may have done barely counts or weighs in the balance as compared with what another state does, openly, brazenly and with enormous support. Israeli intervention in U.S. elections vastly overwhelms anything the Russians may have done, I mean, even to the point where the prime minister of Israel, Netanyahu, goes directly to Congress, without even informing the president, and speaks to Congress, with overwhelming applause, to try to undermine the president’s policies—what happened with Obama and Netanyahu in 2015. Did Putin come to give an address to the joint sessions of Congress trying to—calling on them to reverse U.S. policy, without even informing the president? And that’s just a tiny bit of this overwhelming influence. So if you happen to be interested in influence of—foreign influence on elections, there are places to look. But even that is a joke.

Chomsky went on to point out that:

That’s only one part of it. Lobbyists practically write legislation in congressional offices. In massive ways, the concentrated private capital, corporate russector, super wealth, intervene in our elections, massively, overwhelmingly, to the extent that the most elementary principles of democracy are undermined. Now, of course, all that is technically legal, but that tells you something about the way the society functions. So, if you’re concerned with our elections and how they operate and how they relate to what would happen in a democratic society, taking a look at Russian hacking is absolutely the wrong place to look. Well, you see occasionally some attention to these matters in the media, but very minor as compared with the extremely marginal question of Russian hacking…

Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters, another outspoken critic of Israel, said in a 2016 interview that anyone who speaks out about the apartheid state is labeled as anti-semitic…

Journalist Max Blumenthal, who was featured in the interview, suggested that pro-Israel lobbyists have major tech companies on their payroll:

My comments were based entirely on my extensive journalistic experience in the region and my analysis was clinical in nature. At no point did I denigrate anyone based on their faith or ethnicity. The trend of censoring material that presents Israel in a less than favorable light has only intensified as establishment attacks on critical voices expands. This latest episode confirms my view that the pro-Israel lobby and its willing accomplices in Silicon Valley present one of the greatest threats to free speech in the West.”

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Gazpacho Madrileno with Garlic Croutons

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Gazpacho Madrileno with Garlic Croutons
Gazpacho Madrileno with Garlic Croutons
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  • Gazpacho:
  • 6 fresh plump tomatoes, cut into 1-inch chunks
  • 2 red bell peppers, cut into 1-inch dice
  • 1 large English or Persian cucumber, cut into 1-inch dice
  • 2 carrots, cut into 1-inch dice
  • 1 fresh poblano chile pepper, cut into 1-inch dice
  • 1 shallot, chopped
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • ¼ cup sherry vinegar
  • ⅓ cup olive oil
  • salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
  • Garlic Croutons:
  • ½ loaf day-old crusty bread, cut into 1-inch cubes
  • ¼ cup olive oil
  • 2 cloves garlic, smashed
  • flaky sea salt, to taste
  • 2 tablespoons chopped fresh basil, or to taste

For best results, we recommend using:

  1. Mix tomatoes, bell peppers, cucumbers, carrots, chile pepper, shallot, and minced garlic together in a mixing bowl. Drizzle sherry vinegar and olive oil over the vegetables and stir gently to coat. Season liberally with salt and pepper.
  2. Cover bowl with a kitchen towel and let vegetables marinate in a cool spot for 1 to 2 hours.
  3. While the vegetables marinate, heat olive oil in a skillet over medium until shimmering. Cook smashed garlic cloves in oil until golden brown, about 1 minute. Remove garlic to a plate with a slotted spoon. Add bread cubes to the skillet and stir to coat in oil. If you have more bread than will cover the bottom of the skillet in one layer, save the rest for a second batch, adding more olive oil if bread seems dry. Cook bread, stirring frequently with a wooden spoon, until golden brown and toasted on all sides, 3 to 5 minutes. Remove from heat, add reserved garlic, and season liberally with flaky salt.
  4. Blend the vegetable mixture in a blender until smooth; serve topped with warm croutons and fresh basil. Alternately, blend vegetable mixture directly in the pan with an immersion blender until smooth.
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The croutons may be prepared a day or so in advance. To dry out fresh bread, spread cut bread cubes on a baking sheet and bake in the oven at 200° for an hour or two. Avoiding bread? Garnish the soup with a handful of reserved, diced vegetables instead.

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Find yourself really good tomatoes for this delicious gazpacho. I usually drink mine out of an ice cold frosted glass, rather than bowl, but I used a bowl this time to accommodate the croutons. Overall it was very refreshing. Also, the flaky salt is the perfect touch to round it out, perfection.

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Katie Hason says:

I love gazpacho and this version is so mouthwatering! The garlic croutons are also a favorite! They go great in this soup and also on a salad. My favorite part of this recipe is the poblano pepper.


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Baked Arugula Lemon Chicken with Goat Cheese

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Baked Arugula Lemon Chicken with Goat Cheese
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  • 4 boneless, skinless chicken breast halves
  • 1 (4 ounce) log goat cheese with herbs
  • ½ cup torn arugula leaves
  • 4 teaspoons lemon zest, or more to taste
  • salt and ground black pepper to taste

  1. Preheat oven to 350°F (180°C). Line a baking sheet with aluminum foil.
  2. Lay a chicken breast flat onto a cutting board. Holding your knife parallel to the cutting board and use the tip of the knife to cut a slit into the thickest part of the breast. Move knife tip back and forth to form a pocket. Repeat with remaining breasts.
  3. Mix goat cheese, arugula, and lemon zest together in a bowl. Roll the mixture into a ball and divide into four equal portions.
  4. Stuff one of the goat cheese portions into the pocket cut into each chicken breast; arrange onto the prepared baking sheet.
  5. Bake in preheated oven until the chicken is slightly brown on the outside and no longer pink on the inside and the cheese is melted; about 30 minutes.
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Add chopped green onion, parsley, or cilantro to the cheese mixture for extra flavor. For a Thanksgiving flavor, mix dried cranberries in with the goat cheese. Want a different flavor profile? Use blue cheese and baby kale instead of the goat cheese and arugula. Or add a slice of ham to the filling for a nice savory addition.

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This was a winner with my friends. Personally, I'm not an arugula fan, but the chicken and goat cheese was dynamite. I ended up removing the arugula off my plate and eating the chicken by itself, but it was still fulfilling.

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Chicken with goat cheese and peppery arugula is a natural pairing. I like to use the zest of a preserved lemon to really kick up the flavor. Delicious.


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Sheri R. Colberg, PhD, FACSM, is a Professor Emerita of Exercise Science at Old Dominion University and a former Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine at Eastern Virginia Medical School. A graduate of Stanford, University of California, Davis, and Cal Berkeley, she is an internationally recognized authority on diabetes and exercise. She has led the way in shaping physical activity guidelines for many professional organizations, including the American Diabetes Association, American College of Sports Medicine, and American Association of Diabetes Educators.

Dr. Colberg has been a successfully funded research and is the author of 10 books, 18 book chapters, and close to 300 articles (more info at She is best known for Diabetic Athlete’s Handbook, the only book of its kind for active insulin users, as well as Exercise and Diabetes: A Clinician’s Guide to Prescribing Physical Activity, published by the American Diabetes Association. In the past two decades, she has dedicated her career to providing education and guidance to help people with diabetes exercise safely and effectively.

Frequently quoted by the media in a variety of venues, she is also the founder of Diabetes Motion
(, a web site dedicated to helping educate people with diabetes about physical activity, and Diabetes Motion Academy (, which provides continuing education programs for fitness and other health professionals. She recently was the recipient of a national award from the American Diabetes Association, the 2016 Outstanding Educator in Diabetes Award, which recognizes a distinguished health professional who has made outstanding educational efforts in diabetes and demonstrated significant contributions to the understanding of diabetes education.


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We present Mirage OS, a modular library operating system developed from scratch in the functional programming language OCaml. Each service, called unikernel, is an OCaml application using libraries such as a TCP/IP stack, DNS. It is either compiled to a Xen virtual machine image or to a Unix binary (for development). State in 2014 is that it runs on x86 and arm, we implemented a clean-slate TLS (1.0, 1.1, 1.2), X.509, ASN.1 stack, crypto primitives, Off-the-record. We also have TCP/IP, HTTP, a persistent branchable store (similar to git) - all implemented in OCaml. A virtual machine serving data via https is roughly 2MB in size - no libc inside :)


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“Ace Reporter,” Kurtis Ming

The ace “consumer affairs” reporter of CBS Sacramento has scored another coup. After three years of bimonthly updates of the “maimed,” “butchered,” and “murdered” patients of Doctor Brian West, Kurtis Ming can now add “conviction” to his adjective list. Administrative Law Judge Ann Sarli recently found Doctor West guilty of delivering a patient matching “C” cup reconstructed breasts rather than the patient’s hoped for “D” cups. Kurtis was relentless in his search for damaged patients funding the dissemination of over 2,000 “wanted posters” of the doctor, setting up an incriminating web site to alert and alarm the world, and tirelessly pursuing the doctor throughout California in search of the Truth. His breathless broadcasts of Doctor West’s career progress and rumors were scintillating television and contributed mightily to Channel 13 Sacramento’s consistent third place finish in the ratings race. And the Truth is in. Matching “C” cup breasts are “gross negligence.” That’s it. No dead bodies. No disfigured patients. No walking wounded. Doctor Brian West is the most investigated physician in the history of the Medical Board of California. Nine years of inquisitions, seven formal accusations filed over five years, nine years after patient JM was operated upon, a gap of six years from surgery to actual complaint by patient JM, over 200 real and contrived complaints submitted, hundreds of exposes from ABC to Fox with every news station and radio show in between, and we have a conclusion. Doctor West was “unclear” in his presentation of mastopexy versus mammaplasty in the case of JM. Wow. Hundreds of thousands of dollars were spent, countless hours of time and energy were consumed by California government employees, patients were terrorized, Doctor West was demonized and his family threatened, but Kurtis Ming got his Emmy. Thank you for your service, ace reporter Ming. Mike Wallace is unconcerned.

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Travel with bitcoins

In 2009 Bitcoin was introduced to the public for the first time. This cryptocurrency has left an ambiguous impression — some claimed that bitcoin is the currency of tomorrow, while other predicted currency the sudden decrease. However, after eight years, bitcoin is gaining popularity, growing in price, and extending the sphere of influence.

If at the early days of this currency only a couple of merchants were ready to work with it, today there are hundreds of services and companies globally that are happy to provide their goods and services for bitcoins.

For instance, it is no longer an impossible idea to go on vacation having nothing but cryptocurrency on your hands. From airplane ticket to a dinner in a foreign restaurant — you can pay for it with bitcoins. Need a place to stay? Cryptocurrency is accepted not only by large hotel networks but also by hostels and homestay networks. Want to stay flexible on your trip? Rent a car and pay for it with the digital currency. There is no need to calculate all expenses in foreign currency, keep track of exchange rate, or to get foreign cash. Just pay with bitcoins — it is accepted around the world and the exchange rate stays the same no matter where you are.

How do you like to pay in foreign countries?

  • I exchange some cash
  • I pay with bank card
  • I use cryptocurrency