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Thursday open thread (from the road!)
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Posted by emilylhauser on November 29, 2012
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Nora Munro
/ November 29, 2012It is not possible that I am the first one here.
Who’s hiding under the sofa? Come out come out wherever you are!
koolaide
/ November 29, 2012(waves hello)
anibundel
/ November 29, 2012There’s an XFactor recap, Hobbit Posters and some Dr Who details. Plus a promo for Idol’s return.
http://anibundel.wordpress.com/
caoil
/ November 29, 2012I like those posters. I’d still like to have the large banner ones from the premiere the other day, even though I think I’d need taller ceilings to accommodate them.
SWNC
/ November 29, 2012We’re reading The Hobbit out loud in my house. Last night, we just read the scene where Smaug dies–which the sprout was downright gleeful about. I had forgotten how much more bad-ass Bilbo is compared with Frodo. (Frodo was very heroic, of course, but Bilbo is definitely more awesome.) We have already lined up babysitting for December 15.
koolaide
/ November 29, 2012I don’t know if Craig or Persia will post here but maybe people that aren’t family of hard of hearing people have and answer for me:
A kid at my sister’s old school is very hard of hearing. He needs hearing aids but his family has no money. It is going to take them a while to save up for hearing aids. (setting aside the ‘why didn’t they realize he couldn’t hear before teachers noticed at school’ questions) The school system has a loaner but for various reasons they are “for school only” and must be turned in at the end of the day–please note that the teachers HATE having to make him do that.
They’re trying to find some group that helps poor hard of hearing kids get hearing aids. Kinda like the Lions Club helps people that can’t afford glasses get glasses. Does anyone know of a non-profit or other group like that?
ididitforjohnny
/ November 29, 2012Long time lurker, but I had to jump in here.
Doesn’t the Lions Club also help with hearing aids?
koolaide
/ November 29, 2012Not according to the people the teachers talked to. But that person may have had bad info or the local group contact didn’t know enough details. I’ll tell her to double check.
ididitforjohnny
/ November 29, 2012Can’t hurt. Here’s a link: http://www.lions-sight-and-hearing-foundation.org/
Craig (@FuriousGiorge)
/ November 29, 2012Galludet collects resources.
http://www.gallaudet.edu/clerc_center/information_and_resources/info_to_go/hearing_and_communication_technology/hearing_technology/hearing_aids/hearing_aids_and_other_ass_dev_where_to_get_asst.html
If you scroll down to Hear Now, that’s their mission statement. I have no idea how eligibility works for any of this (my wife has a cochlear implant, so we haven’t dealt with hearing aids for a long time.)
koolaide
/ November 29, 2012Thank you.
Bookwoman
/ November 29, 2012Here’s a page with some resources: http://www.atnet.org/resources/hearing/hearing-aids-resources.php
koolaide
/ November 29, 2012Thank you.
doginajacket
/ November 29, 2012Work is making me work, but I’m kinda around.
Jordan Devereaux
/ November 29, 2012Today I put up a post reviewing David Wondrich’s book “Punch – Delights of the Flowing Bowl”. It’s a great history of the topic, ranging from the economic circumstances at the end of the 17th century that brought about its emergence to its ubiquity during the 18th century (George Washington had a large budget for bribing constituents with rum punch during his run for a position in the Virginia House of Burgesses). A highly recommended read.
http://cocktailchem.blogspot.com/2012/11/book-review-punch-delights-of-flowing.html
anibundel
/ November 29, 2012Emily, if/when you have time today, you should hit the FB group and find Stephen Matlock’s thread on gun ownership. Because of Cole’s amazing response:
“A million invisible societal threads are keeping your comfortable existence thriving… a gun cannot replace them if they go away.”
koolaide
/ November 29, 2012you’re doing your darndest to try and lure me into the fb group.
sigh.
efgoldman
/ November 29, 2012I will not be lured. Hell, we still have (dumb) flip phones, off most of the time.
I’ve been feeling a “When I Was Your Age” post coming on, but I’m too too tried today.
efgoldman
/ November 29, 2012too tired
dammit.
like my typing isn’t inaccurate enough.
Nora Munro
/ November 29, 2012I read “too tried” as in “it’s been a trying day” and it made perfect sense.
But then I’ve also had a trying day, so maybe I’m projecting.
Captain Button
/ November 29, 2012My dad had a ad he clipped from the paper on the wall. It is for a brooch saying “Try God”.
He wrote under it “On what charge?”
Nora Munro
/ November 29, 2012*snerk*
watson42
/ November 29, 2012My dad used to always add “and Gretzky scores on the rebound” to anything that said “Jesus saves.” I may have picked up the same habit….
koolaide
/ November 29, 2012I think I’m the last person in my age cohort who has a ‘dumb’ flip phone.
Kate Cox (@KCoxDC)
/ November 29, 2012My husband still has one. His age begins with “2″ for several more months.
koolaide
/ November 29, 2012Is this where I pretend people whose ages begin with a “2″ are in my age cohort? I will pretend he is in my age cohort in a couple of months when his age begins with a different number.
Kate Cox (@KCoxDC)
/ November 29, 2012My age cohort begins with “3.” I have a smartphone.
I pointed out that he’s a twentysomething, though, because NONE of them have dumbphones. Except him.
SWNC
/ November 29, 2012No, I’ve got one, too. We don’t get cell phone reception at my house, so I don’t see the point in paying a lot for a cool phone.
Carlos
/ November 29, 2012The water is nice, wade on in… you can hit up just the horde and ignore most of the rest of the FB junk…
SWNC
/ November 29, 2012Yes, yes, we are.
koolaide
/ November 29, 2012I just have this desire to keep my secret identity secret. That way my irl stupid stuff doesn’t hurt my pseudonym’s Horde cred.
watson42
/ November 29, 2012I refuse to be lured as well. If only because I have a (literally) psychotic ex who is even stalking me on LinkedIn. I can’t see joining Facebook ending well….
efgoldman
/ November 29, 2012Well you have a really good reason. I’m just a grumpy old man.
watson42
/ November 29, 2012Don’t get me wrong, I am a grumpy old lady. The stalker is just extra incentive to continue being a Luddite.
Nora Munro
/ November 29, 2012Stalking someone on LinkedIn sounds like the definition of psychotic behavior
emilylhauser
/ November 29, 2012So glad this worked! My Droid and its WordPress app are still a little bit of a mystery to me. I can’t see my own front page, for instance. I’m sure I’ll figure that out any minute now!
Other than that, I’m on deadline with a contract piece involving international labor and safety, and am having to pay attention to the Palestine vote at the UNGA (Abbas starts his speech in like five minutes), so I’ll just wave hello and go back to it all.
Hello! :: waves ::
Captain Button
/ November 29, 2012Maybe you would know, then. At the recent factory fire tragedy/atrocity in Bangladesh; were they making ladies’ blouses for extra historical irony?
emilylhauser
/ November 29, 2012Actually, to make it all the more awful, it looks to me like it was kids clothes – Disney was among their clients…. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=166045699
scone
/ November 29, 2012Ugh – I read just one report about it. It is so fucking similar to Triangle that it made my heart hurt.
emilylhauser
/ November 29, 2012PS 3:06 EST and no Abbas yet. Very hard to do anything but scoot around the internet waiting. One would think the pressure of A DEADLINE might inspire me.
emilylhauser
/ November 29, 2012I’ve just put up a post with a few sources on the Palestine UNGA vote for anyone interested, and will add to it as I find more. BUT NOW I’M GOING BACK TO WRITING.
CitizenE
/ November 29, 2012I may post this again, because the artist featured in this video deserves it, but this is a vid of a show of work by my dear friend, Marsha Klein, a marvellous, marvellous artist. The stills of her work were done by her spectacularly talented husband, C.M. Illgen. For as long as I have known these two, whose children are a green architect living in upstate NY and a popular underground dj in San Francisco, they have lived on a shoestring the uncompromising lives of artists. I cannot say enough about Marsha’s artwork, other than I have several pieces in my own home. As long as I have known her, her work has always been just ahead of the curve:
Nora Munro
/ November 29, 2012Really neat stuff. Thanks for passing that along!
watson42
/ November 29, 2012The power just went out here at work, but the internet is still up so I am “working” from my laptop. There’s some sort of snarky comment to be made about working in the dark…. All this makes me think about how much I hate being on contract/paid hourly. Plus I am way more productive when I’m not watching the clock wondering if I’ve worked enough.
My nephew is reading The Hobbit. I’ve promised him I will take him to go see it over Christmas if he’s finished the book. One topic of Thanksgiving conversation was how the hell is Jackson splitting this into three movies. No good consensus was reached.
Which reminds me of the awesomeness of my nephew: He’s eleven and quite his own person. At Thanksgiving he was wearing an old belt of his mother’s. His older sister made fun of him a bit for it and asked him if he’d wear a woman’s shirt, not just a belt. His answer was, “If I liked the style and it looked good, of course i would.” I love that kid.
Kate Cox (@KCoxDC)
/ November 29, 2012Are you in Cambridge MA, by any chance? My half-Boston-based Twitter just exploded with commentary about that blackout.
watson42
/ November 29, 2012Yes, as a matter of fact. Crap, does that mean that all of Cambridge is out? Possibly more? That means likely no power at home. At least we have emergency power here at work….
caoil
/ November 29, 2012Honestly I think it depends if he’s doing 3 movies of 3+ hours each, then yeah, it will definitely feel too stretched. If it’s 3 movies of 90 minutes each…then that’d be different. I can’t find a running time listed anywhere yet, so we’ll see, I guess!
koolaide
/ November 29, 2012I, too, remain highly concerned about how Jackson is stretching The Hobbit into 3 movies.
emilylhauser
/ November 29, 2012I, three.
caoil
/ November 29, 2012Crossing my fingers that my sewing machine will behave itself tonight, so that I can finish off my shirt cuffs & buttonholes, and maybe, just maybe, FINALLY move on to sewing hobbit pants!
Also I think I am getting the hang of serging. Slowly, mind you. It ‘helps’ that I’ve had to rethread a couple of times so I’m getting a better sense of what goes where.
emilylhauser
/ November 29, 2012“helps” – heh.
My sister always says she has to do something the opposite way first to figure out how to do it the right way.