Cancer

Huskies barely winning has been much of their season. Now, they have played a slug of ranked-at-the-time teams, but they have not been as consistent as one might hope.

Voted

A cure for ovarian cancer. Someone else please make the new theme.

(Unless, like me, they're more into indirect fire.)

Stunned silent surprise is my experience.

Didn't try to shop today, but we did need to catch a ferry across the Sound. Rather than try the Kingston-Edmonds route we drove an extra 20 miles or so and caught the Bainbridge-Seattle boat. I think we got home half an hour before when the boat we would have been able to get on in Kingston left the dock. (This has nothing to do with shopping; it has to do with a third of the Washington ferry fleet being out of service.)

2015 Tianjin explosions video Just over 90 seconds long. Much profanity (audio is in English).

George Best

I concur, after this.

I think I was voter #3, and I think no one I voted for is going to make it in.

I also, as someone who was living in West Berlin when he gave the Ich bin ein Berliner speech there, and a few months later when he was assassinated.

Q: Did you know I violated half the Geneva conventions, and a quarter of the people in Geneva, while standing on my head? A: Rejoice in knowing that everyone just wants you for your body.

"Many animal species feed their young with regurgitated food. Humans do not do this. However, humans do make casseroles."

EDIT: Hope he had the decency to reply

We're spending Thanksgiving up at my sister-in-law's place, about an hour's drive + half-hour ferry ride + waiting in ferry line for an unknowably long time, heading out tomorrow. Made two loaves of gingerbread this morning. Waiting for the glass pans to cool off so I can wash everything and make other baked goods we're taking up.

I think they have missed something important: systematic plundering of very specific mineral resources from really old geologic provinces. As a specific example: modern era iron-ore mining focuses on the banded iron formations laid down as Earth's atmosphere was becoming oxygen-rich, 2 +/- 0.5 Gyr ago. Those formations cannot be regenerated by the planet (unless we humans succeed in deoxygenating the atmosphere, which the fossil fuel companies seem bent upon doing). There are big holes in the crust now where those formations have been mined out. I think those will be apparent to any successors of ours. On a smaller scale because it dates to pre-industrial times, Europe has been more or less completely mined out of precious metal deposits (gold and silver). You can tell where they were because of the tracking of current sediments into much older geologic deposits, stuff left behind by the miners as they dug out the metals. That kind of selective pocket intrusion from above is hard to understand via natural processes. (Generating gold deposits is not well understood, but probably involves fractional crystallization out of magma intruding from below.) Continental crust is not being generated now, except very slowly at the leading edges of continental plates. (Oceanic crust is being continuously recycled at impressive rates; I think all the oceanic crust is no older than 100 million years, as it is subducted under the continents.) So the small but highly selective scars we have left in the continental crust seem likely to last for as long Earth remains habitable, which is estimated to be about another billion years.

That is exactly the initial comment about that image at the place I stole it from.

It's part of being proudly tasteless.

In what is one of the few developments in college football that I actually approve of ... The Apple Cup will continue to be played for at least the next five years

Trolling the fanbases ....

Cheap shots... The best kind.