The University of Utah marching band is supposed to be there. They got the invite a week ago and went on a mad flurry of fund raising to make the trip.
Funny thing about black and white. You mix it together and you get gray. And it doesn't matter how much white you try and put back in, you're never gonna get anything but gray.
Lilah ,'Destiny'
Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Connie Neil - Jan 20, 2009 12:24:16 pm PST #2596 of 30000
brillig
JenP - Jan 20, 2009 12:26:03 pm PST #2597 of 30000
I think that might be them... blue and gold, look young enough... I think that's my Tiger band.
ETA: Yes, just confirmed. Hi, Tigers! ::waves::
tommyrot - Jan 20, 2009 12:26:59 pm PST #2598 of 30000
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
OK, this is from the Slate article on body armor:
No soft material can provide complete security against all types of bullets or multiple hits in the same place (which is why the term "bulletproof" is out of vogue), but the National Institute of Justice (the Department of Justice's research agency) has developed standards for determining to what extent a product is "resistant." Type IIA armor, for example, should protect against a 9 mm-caliber, full-metal-jacketed, round-nose bullet travelling at 373 miles per second. Type IIIA (the highest standard for a flexible, as opposed to hard material) protects against a 357 SIG flat nose bullet fired at a velocity of 448 miles per second.
Anyone notice anything wrong with this paragraph?
brenda m - Jan 20, 2009 12:27:08 pm PST #2599 of 30000
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Jesse White Tumbling Team!
Is that some kind of Blagojevich joke?
quester - Jan 20, 2009 12:27:48 pm PST #2600 of 30000
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
How many bands did Delaware get? Doesn't it seem like there were a bunch? How come they get to bogart the parade?
Dana - Jan 20, 2009 12:28:18 pm PST #2601 of 30000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Is Ray Nagin a Mayor? Because there's some big Mayors meeting/delegation in DC right now.
Yeah, he's the mayor of New Orleans.
Cashmere - Jan 20, 2009 12:28:25 pm PST #2602 of 30000
Now tagless for your comfort.
I didn't know Hodgman was on Twitter!
Gudanov - Jan 20, 2009 12:29:39 pm PST #2603 of 30000
Coding and Sleeping
Anyone notice anything wrong with this paragraph?
I assume they got their units wrong.
sumi - Jan 20, 2009 12:29:58 pm PST #2604 of 30000
Art Crawl!!!
I knew about the Mayor thing because I saw the SF Mayor on MSNBC this morning.
Topic!Cindy - Jan 20, 2009 12:30:49 pm PST #2605 of 30000
What is even happening?
But I disagree with many of you about his statement. "I hope he fails" isn't evil. It's not laudable. It's not respectable. But it's honest. I believe, deep down, Rush hopes Barack and any vestige of what he derisively terms, liberalism, fails. I won't condemn him for saying it aloud.
When we invaded Iraq, some part of me hoped we wouldn't find WMD. The evidence was so flimsy, the reasons for invasion so questionable, that I didn't want W to be right. I just didn't. Yes, it cost numerous innocent lives, and had they found WMD those lives wouldn't have been lost in vain, yet part of me still hoped they'd fail.
I don't want to say it's evil or not, but I can say I think it's wrong-headed. We're in a mess. I want something and healthy and right to fix it. If I have been attracted to and/or holding onto the wrong ideologies, and someone tries something I'm against in theory and it works and it's good, I'll be glad of it -- not mad that it worked -- and not hoping against hope that it fails.
And I was the same way when we invaded Iraq in 2003. I thought we were wrong to do so, but I hoped that we would be proven right. I love my country more than I hate Republican ideology.