Monthly Archives: February 2008

We got some good news and some bad news…

By Frank Paynter | Published: February 29, 2008

Good news is… your 1958 calendars can now be recycled. Starting Saturday, March 1, 2008 the calendar is identical to 1958. Bad news? Well, it’s more of a nostalgia thing. The Oscar mayer Tuesday Night Men’s Bowling League had been going for a few years before anyone hung a 1958 calendar and dad was on [...]

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One in a Hundred American Adults Imprisoned

By Frank Paynter | Published: February 28, 2008

1.6 million Americans are in prison. But Cheney is on the outside. And George Bush is on the outside. And the Keating five are on the outside. That entire mafia of American upper class privilege strips the wealth of the nation, destroys lives around the globe, operates outside the law and gets away with it, [...]

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George Lakoff

By Frank Paynter | Published: February 27, 2008

Dave Winer interviews George Lakoff in a Morning Coffee Notes podcast. The interview brings out Lakoff’s message regarding framing our understanding through metaphor. His application of cognitive linguistics to progressive thought is also nicely detailed. The interview could have been tighter, the interviewee given a freer rein and the interviewer could have been less obtrusive, [...]

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.50 Caliber Sniper Rifle

By Frank Paynter | Published: February 27, 2008

Ben Paynter has a couple of pieces in Wired (Issue 16.03). In the first one he shares his experience firing a Goliath Sniper Rifle.  The second, “One Man Hi-Def Film Studio,” briefly describes Richard Welnowski’s mobile movie studio, and the benefits of the post production services Welnowski can provide.

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A Racoon Came By

By Frank Paynter | Published: February 27, 2008

There’s an old hackberry tree, maybe seventy feet tall, at the front of the house. Do we say “hackberry tree?” We don’t say “oak tree.” “Oak” suffices. There’s an old hackberry at the front of the house, stage right of the entrance. Perhaps I should say house left. The living room windows provide a view [...]

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Just Ducky!

By Frank Paynter | Published: February 26, 2008

Fresh from the wikipedia hotline, this just in… Cornelius Coot (1790-1880) was born in 1790 as an American citizen. His ancestors had been in America for quite some time and his roots are believed to reach to the colonization of Jamestown, Virginia (1607) and the voyage of the Mayflower (1620). But he is the first [...]

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What’s hep right now

By Frank Paynter | Published: February 26, 2008

Friend Feed. Don’t ask me for details. I just report the news. The jive is hip, don’t say hep That’s a slip of the lip, let me give you a tip Don’t you ever say hep it ain’t hip, NO IT AIN’T It ain’t hip to be loud and wrong Just because you’re feeling strong [...]

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Political Highlights of the Day

By Frank Paynter | Published: February 26, 2008

* * * And how about that consumer advocate! What’s his name, the guy who astounded the world forty or fifty years ago with the news that not all new cars built in Detroit were as safe as baby carriages, the guy who followed that paperback extravaganza with the news that not all baby carriages [...]

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