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Re: Pacman Jones is Back[man Jones]

Cotton Yarn — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:57:14 -0000

For an entire year, Pacman sat idle, staying still in the corner, camping near the power pill, waiting for the ghosts to come after him so he could chomp the pill and devour them and send their eyeballs to purgatory.

Re: Idaho Removes Butt Logo, Breaks 11-Game Losing Streak

Cotton Yarn — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:56:58 -0000

This dude worked Tim Taylor out of every single one of his familial problems; don’t tell me you wouldn’t want him making play calls with seconds left on the clock. That whole can’t see his face thing would be a bit of a problem, but I’m sure he’d find a way around it.

Re: High School Coach: Who Ya Got?

Cotton Yarn — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:55:17 -0000

Re: Bears’ Wide Receiver Hunt Still In Progress

Cotton Yarn — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:54:49 -0000

Because of the market, the Bears feel it’s just better to go into camp with what they’ve got: an improved Devin Hester, a tight end in Greg Olsen that will get more catches because of his quarterback, and Earl Bennett, a target of Cutler’s back at Vanderbilt that could surprise this year.

Re: Bringing Montessori Home

Cotton Yarn — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:48:21 -0000

The above picture is a snack table in our class. Everyday, we cut up pieces of fruit and set up snacks that the children are allowed to have any time during class. The snack table is very low so the children do not have a hard time serving themselves.

Re: ‘Typical Mouse from Mumbai” a threat to the TOI?

Cotton Yarn — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:53:54 -0000

This is false. While the editor of the Times of India is faceless, Bajaj had no problems giving his name, address and number – although I think he ought to be more careful.

It also threatened legal action against him, God alone knows on what ground. But, while doing all this, it carefully avoided reproducing the letter or quoting from it. Isn’t that funny? Now you know why the country is in the state that it is.

All of you who were moved by Prakash Bajaj’s hastily drafted missive may want to look at what his friend Sudhir Badami has to say. If you agree with Sudhir, do write to the TOI and register your protest!

Re: Teaching two year olds prepositions…..

Cotton Yarn — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:53:34 -0000

Thank you for those preposition cards! You've saved us a lot of work. I have a 19 month old. I may try it with her, but I think I'll probably wait a bit - we're working hard on colours and shapes right now and I don't want to overwhelm her.

Re: Is your refrigerator running?

Cotton Yarn — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:45:58 -0000

You can observe when the monitored appliances turn on and off and see which are contributing the most to your electricity usage. Knowing, for example, that the PlayStation 3 uses the most power of any of your electronics is a good reason to make sure it is turned off when not in use!

Re: Experience and Adversity

Cotton Yarn — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:45:27 -0000

When nothing you do works (in part because of the market), you’re not getting any feedback as to your tactics. If you look at it in terms of A/B testing, if you try A you fail, try B you fail, try C you fail. That’s the bad part of a downturn.

Re: NASCAR writer and radio commentator David Poole died of a heart attack at age 50

Cotton Yarn — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:43:38 -0000

listen to the Morning Drive every morning on my way to work. I just loved to listen to David. He was a trowback from the old times. His knowledge and perspective on NASCAR was so reliable. I will miss listening to him. How irronic that I was hung up on the highway yesterday morning. Yes, I was late for work, but it gave me extra time to listen to The Morning Drive... Godspeed David Poole...

Re: A Short Puppet History, pt. 2: Cfengine

Cotton Yarn — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:41:43 -0000

This is a great job! Well done. Thank you sharing your ideas and knowledge.

Re: The Velocity of Ignorance, Social Media and “Citizen Journalism”

Cotton Yarn — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:40:32 -0000

Both in cleaning the story of unneeded grime and in giving actual "going forward" knowledge for the future, to deceive someone by tricking them into the right conception, bypassing your own defensive tendencies and touching the heart in another -- that is different from what I see. Sun Tzu would own every nation's infrastructure by direct imposition right now, and every institution now standing would be fallen cards.

Re: Parser Combinators, Scala, Haskell

Cotton Yarn — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:38:58 -0000

There’s another really nicely done one on Sunset near Sunset Junction. The colors matched really well and it just looked like it was dovetailing the image well.

Re: noodad » The Complete Science of Scrubbing Behind the Ears

Cotton Yarn — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:36:22 -0000

Again, a simple gloss over will not do the deed. The actual amount of pressure required depends on how long you have forgotten to wash behind the ears. If the answer to that question is between "over a week" and "never", you will need to lean towards the heavier pressure side. The pressure scale ranges from that of cleaning a ripe tomato to that of sanding off a couple of layers of paint off the windowsill. Only you know the pain tolerance and skin durability of your kid.

Re: noodad » Noodad Product Test Drive: Automoblox Toy Cars

Cotton Yarn — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:36:15 -0000

Automoblox (there are 6 models including a sports car, SUV, micro-car and pick-up) are an inspired blend of solid hardwood, translucent polycarbonate, metallic-look clear-coated plastic and colored rubber. Bodies are blonde lacquered wood. Roofs/windows are tinted plastic keyed to rubber tires that ride on wheels/rims that are brushed or chrome-look.

Re: If I Could Turn Back Time

Cotton Yarn — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:17:23 -0000

To be fair, Abrams isn’t entirely perfect - his action sequences suffer from overly fast edits, and sometimes key characters and incidents get lost in the melees.

Re: O Youth and Beauty

Cotton Yarn — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:16:55 -0000

He wasn’t writing about a purely imaginary world, but he was writing about a world transfigured by his imagination as if in dreams, and like dreams his stories are symbolic, oblique, and not to be understood in terms of simple correspondences. The characters and the things that happen to them are not themselves or not merely themselves.

Re: Apple Venus Anniversary

Cotton Yarn — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 04:16:45 -0000

It was a tough call, but I decided to pass. Although I was curious and desperate to hear new XTC, I knew that waiting for the official recordings would ultimately be a more satisfying experience

Re: Highland Jazz Festival: It’s going to … rock? Jam! Swing!

Cotton Yarn — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:13:35 -0000

Nice post.. Thanks

Re: Thoughts (gripes) on the new Yahoo! Web Messenger

Cotton Yarn — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 07:12:21 -0000

Was it very essential to put that ugly banner ad on the right, specially when a new product like this launches?