{"id":1066,"date":"2007-12-21T01:38:47","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T05:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/21\/a-miscellany-for-a-friday\/"},"modified":"2007-12-27T10:00:31","modified_gmt":"2007-12-27T14:00:31","slug":"a-miscellany-for-a-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/21\/a-miscellany-for-a-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"A miscellany for a Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s absolutely no theme here, just a bunch of stuff that caught my interest.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why did I not know there was a new <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/GrimJack\">Grimjack<\/a> comic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicmix.com\/title\/grimjack-the-manx-cat\/\">being serialized to the web at ComicMix.com<\/a>? There&#8217;s like 60 pages there already. I hope this is web-to-trade serialization. And look, there&#8217;s also a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicmix.com\/title\/jon-sable-freelance-ashes-of-eden\/\">Jon Sable<\/a>, and what&#8217;s this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.comicmix.com\/title\/bar-sinister\/\">Bar Sinister<\/a>?<\/li>\n<li>The good folks over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.velcro-city.co.uk\/\">VCTB<\/a> have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.velcro-city.co.uk\/the-great-shark-hunt-redux-two-brits-on-the-us-election-campaign-trail\/\">turned me on<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myfellowamericans2008.com\/\">My Fellow Americans<\/a>, which is essentially &#8220;two Brits try to pull a HST on the 2008 US elections&#8221;. Yes, I think this will be part of my election season reading.<\/li>\n<li>Who would drink an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drinksmixer.com\/drink7774.html\">Irish car bomb<\/a>, really? That&#8217;s a waste of Guinness. It&#8217;s one thing to do a curdling penalty shot, and there&#8217;s nothing wrong with using that noxious concoction, Bailey&#8217;s, as part of it&#8211;witness the old engineering standby of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drinksmixer.com\/drink469.html\">Cement Mixer<\/a>&#8211;but don&#8217;t wreck a perfectly good stout while doing it.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2007\/12\/Pine_Ridge_Flag.svg\" title=\"Lakota Flag\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2007\/12\/Pine_Ridge_Flag.gif\" title=\"Lakota Flag\" alt=\"Lakota Flag\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a>I wish <a href=\"http:\/\/afp.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5iVC1KMTOgwiSoMQyT2LwZc9HyAgA\">the Lakota Nation<\/a> nothing but luck. I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re going to get it, though. It sure would create an interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2007\/12\/lakotanation.jpg\" title=\"hole in middle america\">hole in the middle of America<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>If <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/view_listing.php?listing_id=7258819\">this thing<\/a> hadn&#8217;t been sold out, I swear I would have sent one to <a href=\"http:\/\/christopherrowe.typepad.com\/uncommonwealth\/\">The Colonel<\/a> for the holidays.<\/li>\n<li>Since I&#8217;m not an American I can&#8217;t wear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.headlineshirts.net\/hs\/product_info.php?products_id=156&#038;osCsid=864782218a35addf1ad86250b169d192\">this t-shirt<\/a>. But I would wear <a href=\"http:\/\/www.headlineshirts.net\/hs\/product_info.php?products_id=175&#038;osCsid=e400ebd55019f62f6516839ebf0b4f2b\">this one<\/a>. Well, I would if I still wore t-shirts with stuff written on them. Maybe I need to stop pretending to be grown up and go back to that.<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/producten.hema.nl\/\">catalogue<\/a>. It&#8217;s a Rube Goldberg machine. It&#8217;s art. Well, OK, it&#8217;s really just a very, very good advertisement. Just check it out. Especially Eric Miller.<\/li>\n<li>I think I actually had the physics-themed-porno-movie conversation in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.questionablecontent.net\/view.php?comic=978\">this webcomic<\/a>, or a close facsimile, with Greg, Sarah (not that one&#8211;the one I went to school with, duh), and Christina when I was in university. Without, of course, the Hawking bit&#8211;we didn&#8217;t know that he knew how to party back then.<\/li>\n<li>Wow, after reading this insightful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jayssite.com\/stuff\/childhacker\/childhacker.html\">Is Your Child A Computer Hacker<\/a> article, I&#8217;m going to have to watch out for the signs in Sarah. Especially signs of Lunix.<\/li>\n<li>Yes, I am just the sort of nerd who would love to hear a law professor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.concurringopinions.com\/archives\/2007\/12\/law_talk_george_1.html\">interview George R. R. Martin<\/a> about law in the created societies of genre fiction.<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracynow.org\/2007\/12\/17\/harvey_wasserman_on_new_ohio_voting\">Basically what she says was, you could have manipulated the 2004 election results with a Blackberry.&#8221;<\/a> I&#8217;m shocked. Shocked, I tell you. &lt;\/Renault&gt;<\/li>\n<li>Would I like an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonathanlevinegallery.com\/?method=Artist.ArtistDetail&#038;ArtistID=EED2F4E9-115B-5562-AA8B85B721777481&#038;GalleryID=82C33C59-3048-28EB-92DB386C8C733405\">octopus chandelier<\/a>? Yes, yes I would. Is there any chance my wife would let me have one anywhere except in my office\/library? No, no there is not. (via <a href=\"http:\/\/jwz.livejournal.com\/825052.html\">jwz<\/a>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">There&#8217;s absolutely no theme here, just a bunch of stuff that caught my interest. Why did I not know there was a new Grimjack comic being serialized to the web at ComicMix.com? There&#8217;s like 60 pages there already. I hope this is web-to-trade serialization. And look, there&#8217;s also a Jon Sable, and what&#8217;s this Bar Sinister? The good folks over&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/21\/a-miscellany-for-a-friday\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,6,2],"tags":[96,151,150,152,156,153,154,122,155],"class_list":["post-1066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-food-and-drink","category-political","tag-booze","tag-election","tag-grimjack","tag-lakota","tag-sculpture","tag-secession","tag-t-shirts","tag-usa","tag-webcomics","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-hc","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}