View from the Porch, on Zumbo

Oooohhh ... that's gotta smart, Jimbo.  A particularly choice extract:

Listen, you gun-banning cretin:  An argument could be made (and has been, by the Supreme Court in the [US vs.] Miller decision) that your hunting guns are not Constitutionally protected at all, except those that meet the requirements for militia service.  In other words, if you have any scoped bolt guns in a service caliber, such as 5.56mm or 7.62 NATO, those are golden, but the .17 Remington 'chuck-popper you were fawning over in your name-dropping opening paragraph is a toy that is completely irrelevent to the spirit and intent of the Second Amendment.

Your attempt to throw me out of the sleigh, hoping that the wolves would be satisfied with my AR and would leave your precious bambi-zapper alone, is the most craven act of contemptible cowardice I've seen in a while.

Astronomy humor (calling dr_nebula)

Astronomy-geek humor that dr_nebula would probably appreciate:

<Alaric>  hmm, new unaided-eye-visible nova in Scorpius

<Alaric>  but James Nicoll appears to be confusing novae with type A supernovae

<chrispypa>  type A are the overachievers?

<tocotox>  what's the fixer-upper type?

<Alaric>  Cepheid variables  :)

Ouch

From Yahoo Finance:

Only a small percentage of communication involves actual words: 7%, to be exact.  In fact, 55% of communication is visual (body language, eye contact) and 38% is vocal (pitch, speed, volume, tone of voice).  The world's best business communicators have strong body language: a commanding presence that reflects confidence, competence, and charisma.

So we Aspies can count on getting across the 7% that is verbal, plus probably some varying fraction of the 38% that is vocal. The somatic 55%, we can mostly write off as lost. If we assume that on average we're getting half of the vocal content, we're getting about 26% of the total communication bandwidth ... barely more than a quarter of the total gestalt.  Even if we get all of the vocal and some fraction of the somatic, we still don't get much over 50% of the total stream.

No wonder we have trouble communicating.

I'm going to hell (or maybe to lumberjack school)

Someone posted an offer on the Manchester, NH Freecycle list, "Offer - Women's clothes...", and the first thought that went through my mind was:

I dress in women's clothing
And hang around in bars....