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4 months ago

in "At this time, the bird stops struggling and will typically not put up a fuss until the final few beats of its heart." | Abolitionist Vegans on VegPage
I see your weblog now has comments. Good for you/it!

As I said in response on the post you link to before you had such comments:

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Your claim that I somehow harvested this turkey as a means of proving or improving my manhood is just complete jackassery.

That turkey died for exactly one purpose; to put food on my table. I decided to slaughter the thanksgiving bird myself because I feel it is damned important to be willing to harvest whatever I consume.

Taking a couple of photos and quotes out of context for your weblog, preceding it by false claims about the character of an individual you have never met, [and at the time] not allowing anyone to respond directly on your site, and then following it with an invitation to post drivel over here “in the name of the cause” is just flat out cowardly and, frankly, rude.

Worse, it does nothing good for your “cause”. Your actions leave me with the impression that your site is just another hate-based organization. Too many of those in the world, no need for another.
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And, again, thanks to JonBen for providing evidence that VegPage.com is not entirely about perpetuating hate.

I thought I remembered that vegpage.com had a useful collection of recipes. Couldn't find it, though. Bummer, too. I lived with a near-vegan [vegetarian + cheese, occasional farmed egg] family for a while and found that eating vegan/vegetarian was quite easy to do when the food didn't suck. Cooking vegan isn't actually that hard, it is just quite a bit different than how most folks were taught to cook.

1 year ago

in Laughing Squid Circuit Board by Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories on Laughing Squid
Awesome.

Now, to make it *do* something. Convenient that there are 8 arms as the tiniest of AVR controllers has 8 pins...

Hmmm...

1 year ago

in A new reason to hate Comcast (Scripting News) on Scripting News
bruce -- you are not making sense.

The equivalent analogy would be if a car company sold you a car with a promise that you could rive it at 60mph, but, in reality, you could only drive it at 60mph at 5am... the rest of the time, it might be limited to 30mph.

If it runs at all.

Bottom line: Comcast is selling a bill of goods that they fail to deliver.
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dave And they don't post speed limits, and there is no manual from the DMV that says what the limit is, and no law that says what the limit is.

There's no need for analogies, they don't work anyway, we all understand how the net works, and that it's only fair if you know what the rules are. They keep dodging the question, what are the rules?

Yeah I know their user agreement says they don't have to say. Great. Some nice way to treat a well-meaning customer. Customer, not slave, not criminal. Someone who pays to use the service.

2 years ago

in iSight Trick NOT a Security Flaw on toxicsoftware.com
The MacDevCenter article was written in response to a WebLog post I made on 5/19/2005 (coincidentally, my third anniversary as an Apple employee). My QC composition was a slightly modified version of one of Sam Kass's rather amazing collection.

See this post for details: http://www.friday.com/bbum/2005/05/19/take-on-me-2

2 years ago

in Scary iSight Trick | Joseph Crawford on Joseph Crawford
Yeah -- this has been around for a while. No -- no video is sent back to the server. Here is a version I did last year that stylizes the video to look like aHa's 'Take On me...'. No -- I'm not smart enough to write the original patch. Sam Kass did that.

http://www.friday.com/bbum/2005/05/19/take-on-me-2
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