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Re: How to run Django without a database

Phlip — Fri, 15 Aug 2014 19:32:45 -0000

now, how do you connect to a preexisting database? just for kicks

Re: Bonus Quote of the Day

Phlip — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 17:05:02 -0000

Ooh that's a good one; tx:

Breaking News: TeaParty supports Canadian Ted Cruz's run for president, "So long as he doesn't come from the part that speaks French."

Re: Bonus Quote of the Day

Phlip — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 14:37:25 -0000

Oh, the fun is just starting. A teabagger has already claimed that Canada is "hardly foreign soil." Should we remind him that people speak FRENCH there?

Re: Bonus Quote of the Day

Phlip — Fri, 23 Aug 2013 12:52:59 -0000

May we liberals run with that? The way the far right nutto-sphere ran with "Bill Ayers ghost wrote Obama's /Dreams of my Father/" after Bill teased a reporter?

Re: Inside the GOP's big new plan to take down ObamaCare - The Week

Phlip — Thu, 15 Aug 2013 09:58:55 -0000

Anything to write the headline "ObamaCare raised the Debt!"

Re: 12 cruel anti-suffragette cartoons - The Week

Phlip — Sat, 10 Aug 2013 11:48:50 -0000

Gee, I'm sure we can't find anything as crass as this in the modern conversation...

Re: Huckabee: Muslims are ‘uncorked animals’ after praying to Allah

Phlip — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 07:22:43 -0000

Breaking News: Huckabee thinks "Allah" is real, and has magical powers over humans

Re: How I hand-rolled MVC for a JavaScript game (and it was awesome)

Phlip — Thu, 18 Jul 2013 02:10:00 -0000

Mightn't the Rails side also test - oops I mean 'specify' - the JavaScript - oops I mean CoffeeScript?

Re: Republican State Senator wants to end compulsory education for children in Utah because derp

Phlip — Tue, 16 Jul 2013 19:43:00 -0000

Healthy, empowered, educated workers make the Koch Bros cry

Re: Quimps, Plewds, And Grawlixes: The Secret Language Of Comic Strips

Phlip — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 11:41:02 -0000

See also Lancelot Hogben's 1949 book "From Cave Paintings to Comic Strips"

Re: Rails Composer · RailsApps

Phlip — Sat, 29 Jun 2013 12:17:44 -0000

Does each feature it adds come with exactly matching tests? Just curious...

Re: How To Configure Your “$ Rails New” Defaults

Phlip — Sat, 29 Jun 2013 12:08:15 -0000

uh - don't set a bad example of erasing the unit test!

Re: Quickie- Gallup: U.S. Job Creation Best in Five Years

Phlip — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 19:39:33 -0000

We're hiring one entry-level engineer and a couple summer interns. Does that count?

Re: Cartoonists angry, defensive after inane Miranda strip subverted

Phlip — Thu, 25 Apr 2013 13:56:47 -0000

Christ, what an asshole.

Re: Weird 1972 experiment in marijuana use

Phlip — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 19:27:31 -0000

In like '63, IIRC, the military experimented with people on unspecified "drugs" - doubtless LSD - while playing Avalon Hill hex-and-chit wargames.

They tended to play poorly...

Re: Republicans on Twitter, including Malkin’s site Twitchy, outraged over Google’s nonexistent tribute to Hugo Chavez

Phlip — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 21:38:35 -0000

"There is no honor in preying upon the weak" --Lt Worf

Re: Assyrian Dalek, ca. 865 BCE

Phlip — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 21:51:30 -0000

Cute, but the original "Trojan Horse", that helped win the Trojan War, was probably a siege tower exactly like that. It allowed men to get close enough to the wall - essentially piled rocks mortared with dirt - to use that ram to dig through them.

Re: UFO memo the FBI's most viewed

Phlip — Sat, 30 Mar 2013 11:25:13 -0000

From the top:

After WWII, the USA continued its various aerospace and super-weapon projects. These projects experimented with various flying shapes, such as ceramic frisbees.

Sometimes witness near test sites would report various strange things in the skies.

To confuse the Russians, US gov't officials forged paperwork of eyewitness accounts of extraterrestrial UFOs. Then, they forged paperwork of coverups, and they leaked all this paperwork.

UFOlogy is essentially an emergent religion. So the devout got so noisy, they helped make sure the Russians would not be able to figure out what our aerospace projects were really up to.

Re: Trippy mandala optical illusions

Phlip — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:19:22 -0000

Is it a "Penrose Tile"?

Re: CPAC racism panel derailed by audience member who suggests slaves should have been grateful for food, shelter & clothing

Phlip — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 14:15:18 -0000

We need to drag this guy to Darkest Africa, put him to work on a farm, and then magnanimously give him food & shelter

Re: Are cats fooled by optical illusions?

Phlip — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 18:54:28 -0000

inb4 Monty Python's Confuse-a-Cat episode! http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Re: Journalists took secret money for critical pieces about Malaysian opposition candidate

Phlip — Sat, 02 Mar 2013 15:56:01 -0000

What''s the big deal? Our right-wing journalists take bribes routinely to oppose Democracy in Muslim countries. Starting with Saudi Arabia...

Re: Sergey Brin: Smartphones are "emasculating"

Phlip — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 14:37:25 -0000

Oh, to be a fly on the wall when this gets to Google's internal "Meme" forum...

Re: Graphene supercapacitors could make batteries obsolete

Phlip — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:26:03 -0000

good point about using a Graphene supercapacitor to avoid peak energy hours...

Re: Graphene supercapacitors could make batteries obsolete

Phlip — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 13:24:54 -0000

Look up anything about Graphene. No, it's not Cold Fusion (which, BTW, is still under _very_ quiet research, to determine exactly what effect Ponds & Fleischmann actually discovered).