Being right's not all it's cracked up to be.


Also, International Association of Time Travelers: Members' Forum Subforum: Europe – Twentieth Century – Second World War:

At 14:52:28, FreedomFighter69 wrote:
Reporting my first temporal excursion since joining IATT: have just returned from 1936 Berlin, having taken the place of one of Leni Riefenstahl's cameramen and assassinated Adolf Hitler during the opening of the Olympic Games. Let a free world rejoice!

At 14:57:44, SilverFox316 wrote:
Back from 1936 Berlin; incapacitated FreedomFighter69 before he could pull his little stunt. Freedomfighter69, as you are a new member, please read IATT Bulletin 1147 regarding the killing of Hitler before your next excursion. Failure to do so may result in your expulsion per Bylaw 223.

At 18:06:59, BigChill wrote:
Take it easy on the kid, SilverFox316; everybody kills Hitler on their first trip. I did. It always gets fixed within a few minutes, what's the harm?

At 18:33:10, SilverFox316 wrote:
Easy for you to say, BigChill, since to my recollection you've never volunteered to go back and fix it. You think I've got nothing better to do?

Besides, it's really a win-win for me. Either the Oilers make the playoffs, or I'm right (which, as we all know, is just as riot-inducing.)

Wait, how did this turn into a lose-lose for me? A team that has one defenseman born before 1983, that can't even form an entire forward line of players older than 25, that won't have a single 30-goal scorer, and probably won't have more than 4 20-goal scorers -- is it pessimistic to think this team cannot finish the season going 18-2? It's not my fault they're too young and naïve to know they aren't supposed to be doing this well.

Which isn't to say I'm not going to relish the optimism positive thinking surrounding this team now. I know how fleeting it can be; I'm going to enjoy it while it lasts.

Hell, the Oilers bloggers have busted out Stan Weir! How can you not have fun?

Well now I'm torn... I don't really want to watch playoffs, but I would have the satisfaction of telling Paras that he is, after all, the pessimist.

I guess either way, I win. Go Oilers (or not)!

No game yesterday, odds of making the playoffs up 0.5% to 17.9%

Edmonton Oilers Playoff Race

This seems like it's straight out of the Onion: Aspiring Pol Changes Name To Pro-Life:

A Senate candidate has legally changed his name to Pro-Life and will appear on the ballot that way this year, state election officials say.

As Marvin Pro-Life Richardson, the organic strawberry farmer from Letha, 30 miles northwest of Boise, was denied the use of his middle name when he ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2006 because the state's policy bars the use of slogans on the ballot.

. . .

"I think it's just and I think it's proper to have Pro-Life on the ballot," he told the Idaho Press-Tribune of Nampa. "If I save one baby's life, it's worth it."

Pro-Life, 66, says he hopes to get 5 percent of the vote as an independent running for the seat held by Sen. Larry Craig, R-Idaho, but not everyone who shares his views is thrilled about his campaign.

CBC-TV first in North America to release TV show on BitTorrent:

CBC Television plans to release its Sunday episode of Canada's Next Great Prime Minister on BitTorrent, a file-sharing service that would allow users to copy and share the show.

The release, free and without ads or digital rights management (DRM) software, is believed to be the first release of a prime-time show in North America.

Hey music guys they got acoustic foam on tradio today. It's that crazy cone shaped foam you see on recording studio walls.

15 sheets, dimensions: 2' x 4'

$200 bucks or OBO.

Phone number: 553-3857

AHHHHH!!! MY EYES THEY BURN! THEY BURN!

Beck: Yes, I forgot to add that trigger. As soon as I get access to a command-line terminal, I can fix that.

Tay: Yeah, please do let me know if that continues to be a problem. I've trusted prototype and scriptaculous to provide relatively bug-free code. I hope I don't have to go and change that.

Jess: Tony was emailing me about a similar issue that we resolved by clearing his browser cache. (Or, holding "shift" while clicking refresh.) I hope that's the problem. The alternative is that it doesn't like that I'm loading two stylesheets, which is an easy enough fix. Let me know if that continues.

Overall the transition seems to have gone over pretty smoothly, though. Which is most convenient, seeing as my macbook seems to have chosen this week to decide to have its heat sensors go chicken little on me. So it'll be a couple of weeks before I get that back.

The palpable anxiety I went through when I thought I couldn't start it up anymore, though, was not very pleasant. Fortunately I was able to back everything up. Still, it's strange to go through the process of diagnosing one's own mental status, not to mention actually consciously figure out how to calm oneself down. (Don't worry, I'm not self-prescribing ativan just yet...)