Sableagle

75 to 190cm by the end of the century?

Tue, 08 Dec 2009 15:53:10 GMT

http://environment.independentminds.livejournal.com/223284.html#cutid1

Note the use of the word "could". Still, that's fairly significant.

http://flood.firetree.net/?ll=53.4357,4.5593&z=10&m=2

http://flood.firetree.net/?ll=45.3521,12.4091&z=9&m=2

http://flood.firetree.net/?ll=30.8315,30.3113&z=9&m=2

http://flood.firetree.net/?ll=9.9797,105.7544&z=9&m=2

http://flood.firetree.net/?ll=32.3127,-80.7495&z=8&m=2

Leaked emails? What leaked emails?

Fri, 04 Dec 2009 17:53:08 GMT

As far as I can determine, there are no leaked emails published on the web anywhere ... but there are several billion pages of news and discussion on the subject of leaked emails.

In the absence of any evidence that anyone ever sent an email other than to or from one of my accounts, I'm assuming the whole story is an elaborate hoax.

River surface altitude

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:14:35 GMT

13.5m early last week, 13.75m late last week, 15.36m an hour ago. Parts of town are a little bit flooded, but there's still airspace under the bridge.
Current forecast: freezing tonight and Saturday night, and rain for the next fortnight.

Another pre-existing condition ...

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:58:11 GMT

... that'll make you ineligible for health insurance in the USA. It's the land of the free and easy street: it's the home of the damned.

Quote
Several women told the Investigative Fund that after being sexually assaulted they had been denied care or ruled ineligible for health insurance because of what were deemed pre-existing conditions stemming from their assaults -- particularly post traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD.

A 38-year-old woman in Ithaca, N.Y., said she was raped last year and then penalized by insurers because in giving her medical history she mentioned an assault she suffered in college 17 years earlier. The woman, Kimberly Fallon, told a nurse about the previous attack and months later, her doctor's office sent her a bill for treatment. She said she was informed by a nurse and, later, the hospital's billing department that her health insurance company, Blue Cross Blue Shield, not only had declined payment for the rape exam, but also would not pay for therapy or medication for trauma because she "had been raped before."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/21/insurance-companies-rape-_n_328708.html

Culprit identified!

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:56:30 GMT

It's the finch!

My birdfood has been thrown onto the ground a lot, and the one bit that's not on the ground is presumably the one bit getting eaten by the thing throwing the rest on the ground to get at that one bit.

It turns out to be a finch. Fortunately, I've now got sunflower seeds, the thing it's taking out of the mix, on their own, so I can fill that feeder with them and only them to reduce mess, and put the mix in the barrel-caged feeder for other birds.

There should be ground mix for finches in this order too. I presume it'll be ignoring that and continuing to raid for sunflower seeds.

Must shoot the squirrel.

Nuthatch

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:17:37 GMT

Something keeps drinking my tea.

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 19:21:11 GMT

Every time I get myself a cup of tea and bring it through here, I find within minutes that there's a warm mug with a little moisture at the bottom on my coaster and no tea available to drink. This is getting aggravating.

Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart for UltraStar

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:50:32 GMT

Edited version of the text file without the male soprano and choir lines because, really, trying to sing the standard version's a joke.

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#ARTIST:Bonnie Tyler
#LANGUAGE:English
#EDITION:SingStar Anthem
#GENRE:Pop
#YEAR:1983
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#COVER:Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart [CO].jpg
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#VIDEO:Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart [VD#0].avi
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Save it as Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart (solo).txt in the same directory as the version you already have.

Evanescence - Bring Me To Life for UltraStar

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:36:38 GMT

Edited version of text file not including male lines:

#TITLE:Bring Me To Life (solo)
#ARTIST:Evanescence
#LANGUAGE:
#EDITION:SingStar Pop 2
#GENRE:Pop
#YEAR:2003
#MP3:Evanescence - Bring Me To Life.mp3
#COVER:Evanescence - Bring Me To Life [CO].jpg
#BACKGROUND:Evanescence - Bring Me To Life [BG].jpg
#VIDEO:Evanescence - Bring Me To Life [VD#0].avi
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: 4144 12 69 from
: 4159 3 69 the
: 4162 6 71 ~
* 4170 3 67 dark
: 4173 4 66 ~
: 4177 11 64 ~
- 4190
: 4198 3 71 Bid
: 4205 5 71 my
: 4212 6 71 blood
: 4219 3 69 to
: 4227 14 69 run
- 4243
* 4251 2 67 Be
: 4255 5 71 fore
: 4262 3 71 I
: 4270 7 71 come
: 4277 3 69 un
: 4284 15 69 done
- 4301 4302
: 4313 8 72 Save
: 4321 5 71 me
: 4328 8 69 from
: 4337 5 67 the
: 4345 10 72 no
: 4359 12 71 thing
- 4372
: 4374 10 69 I've
: 4388 9 71 be
: 4402 24 72 come
- 4428
: 4431 29 67 Bring
: 4460 25 66 me
: 4488 27 62 to
: 4517 4 62 life
: 4521 15 64 ~
- 4653
: 4661 27 67 Bring
: 4689 28 69 me
: 4717 29 72 to
* 4746 214 71 life
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Save it with a different title (like Evanescence - Bring Me To Life (solo).txt) in the same directory as the standard one, and you'll be offered both versions in-game.

Tue, 15 Sep 2009 20:18:19 GMT

When Getting Beaten By Your Husband Is A Pre-Existing Condition

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Rural Health Response to Domestic Violence: Policy and Practice Issues

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So, er, can I start shooting all the guys with "(R)" after their names now?

UltraStar scores

Fri, 04 Sep 2009 17:11:14 GMT

My 8000+ scores achieved so far on easy:

Evanescence - Bring Me To Life (Solo): ~~8970~~ ~~9150~~ 9160

Meatloaf - I'd do anything for love (male only): 8870

ABBA - Mamma Mia: 8740

Meatloaf - I'd do anything for love: 8630

The Scorpions - Wind of Change: 8470

Dido - White Flag: 8370

Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama: 8370

ABBA - Chiquitita: 8320

ABBA - Fernando: 8320

Duran Duran - Hungry like the Wolf: 8250

ABBA - I Do, I Do, I Do, I Do: 8210

Nilsson - Without You: 8190

Duran Duran - Ordinary World: 8170

Evanescence - Bring Me To Life: 8150

ABBA - SOS: 8140

Pet Shop Boys - Always On My Mind: 8080

Wham! - Club Tropicana: 8040

7000+ on medium:

Evanescence - Bring Me To Life: 8220

Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf: 7950

The Scorpions - Wind Of Change: 7810

ABBA - Chiquitita: 7380

Wham! - Club Tropicana: 7240

Duran Duran - Ordinary World: 7120

Meat Loaf - Anything For Love: 7090

Is it okay for a liberal type ...

Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:38:51 GMT

... to like a Country song?

He's an obnoxious bastard with no manners, but still ...

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 21:06:19 GMT

... good shot!

The presenter interrupts people a lot, cuts them off all the time, talks over them and doesn't let them answer his questions. It's starting to get like Fox. He also says we're going to hear about something and then doesn't even ask.

In this case, though, he was talking to David Milliband, who's an oily bastard of a despicable type generally known as "career politician", so I rather enjoyed this one.

Skip to 2:10:00 or thereabouts for the story.

"Good morning to you."
"Good morning."
"What's your view?"
"Well obviously the sight of a mass murderer getting a hero's welcome in Tripoli is deeply upsetting, deeply distressing, above all for the 270 families who grieve every day for the loss of their loved ones 21 years ago, but also for anyone who's got an ounce of humanity in them, and I think that that is the over-riding emotion that people will be feeling today."
"That is the over-riding emotion that people will be feeling. What is your view?"
"I find it deeply ..... " {continues}

"[It] is deeply upsetting, deeply distressing, ... for anyone who's got an ounce of humanity in them."
"What is your view?"

I love the implication!

I remember being fifteen

Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:51:29 GMT

... and I don't think I've ever known a 15-yr-old who liked women who wouldn't have been very keen on this, apart from the publicity and legal entanglement parts of it.

I know, I know, illegal, position of trust, immoral, et cetera, but really, maybe she was really wonderful and kind and gentle and a kindred spirit despite the age gap and they really loved each other then and still do and the girl felt better about herself for having her sexuality and attractiveness validated and confirmed and she probably has quite slender fingers and it's not like they probably did much that two 15-yr-olds wouldn't have done together under (largely) similar circumstances. Hardly Josef Fritzl or Ian Huntley territory, is it? All the fuss and official action might be the only thing causing any harm.

There was a story somewhere a while ago about a heterosexual 18-15 couple, saying the man couldn't be prosecuted for it because it was all done in private and the girl was old enough to have to make the complaint herself before they could act ... and wasn't complaining at all.

Seems a bit wrong, somehow, in the same week as reading that the Lockerbie bomber has left Scotland on board a plane bound for Libya after being freed from prison on compassionate grounds.

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Yeah, yeah. Sexy lesbian music teachers are a dream come true and I hate to see one locked away. I'm male. Sue me.

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Shame we can't do anything about dogshit on the pavements.

Spatula more offensive than bread knife?

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:51:57 GMT

Torquay police think so!

A PARTIALLY disabled man who uses a spatula-type knife to open his mail was flabbergasted when police surrounded him on a Torquay street and ordered him to hand over his 'offensive weapon'.

Furious Steve Gardner, who was waiting outside his St Marks Road home for some post, claimed after his surprise confrontation with the law: "It was just a spatula. It's something you use to ice a cake.

"It's not an offensive weapon. I don't have full use of my hands so I need it to open my letters, put on my shoes and scratch my back."

Insp Jon Perry said: "But we did confiscate the item, which we considered to be a bread knife with the serrated edges removed and sharpened."

Flies

Sun, 02 Aug 2009 14:30:25 GMT

I was a nice kid who wouldn't have done it, but now I'm getting very tempted to pull the wings and legs off this fly.

Filthy blasted damnable little object.

"You mad bugger."

Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:34:21 GMT

It is not clear from the youtube video whom he was calling that, or why.

Iron Maiden, Monsters of Rock, Donnington, 1992, The Clairvoyant.

NSFW SFW JRPG footage

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:45:55 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/v/JoODv8LVib8

SFW in context, I suppose, but passing bosses overhearing it might not be happy. >

This week's experimental baking ...

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:07:30 GMT

... is a variation on last week's, which turned out tasty but dense.

I have mixed my "harvest flour" (strong white aka bread flour with mixed grains) about half-and-half with plain aka cake flour, used half the amount of butter in one batch, used a lot less milk in another and added an extra 50% oatmeal in the third batch that I made up when I realised I'd misjudged the quantities.

Then I went out and bought a third baking sheet.

Each batch has been used for three buns and nine buns with something. The reduced butter batch has chilli and lime. The reduced milk batch has apricots. The extra oatmeal batch has dates, cinnamon and nutmeg. They are currently in the oven, presumably rising. It's going to be a bit of a tricky job to get them all baked without burning the ones at the top, because it's really not a very big oven.

Update: fail. They're pretty much brick.

There is no good reason to be thinking ...

Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:16:03 GMT

... of "Bride of the Living Resident of Monkey Island Alone in the Dark Castle" but I am doing so.

If you can't stand the heat ...

Fri, 03 Jul 2009 20:59:51 GMT

... why the **** are you baking in this weather?

I ask myself the same question.

The Sundance Lich, a contradiction in plants.

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 13:50:50 GMT

Choisya ternata Sundance ('Lich')

"A slow growing golden-leaved shrub capable of lighting up deep shade under overhanging trees - with strident young rosettes of leaf"

# Position: full sun or partial shade
# Soil: fertile, well-drained soil
# Rate of growth: fast-growing

This dome-shaped shrub is ideal for a mixed or shrub border in light shade, where the leaves become a more subtle yellow-green. It is vigorous, and will fill a dark corner in a couple of seasons.

*****

Make up your minds, eh, Crocus?

Wow

Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:55:49 GMT

Image warning. Awesome.

Random words

Mon, 18 May 2009 20:26:27 GMT

Tell us what you like about this.

They bring sexiness to all their songs.

Enter the two words shown so we'll know you're not a bot.

Midgets too.

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... Wait. What?

Where's the third?

Mon, 11 May 2009 18:58:25 GMT

Today's Bunny and XKCD both feature cars going off cliffs left-to-right.

Aren't these things supposed to happen in threes?