Posts by giovanni tiso
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This:
Heh, to be clear, Craig is talking about my love for Benjamin Disraeli, not the slash-fic.
Immediately followed by this:
Ben's break-up with Orcon was hilariously awkward to watch.
And presto, I am now wondering about what it was that made Benjamin Disraeli break up with Orcon.
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You used both of these handles on this forum, though, right? I'm not sure that making such connections is a breach of etiquette. Others may correct me on this.
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Yep; the Elder died trying to evacuate people by boat. There is, not incidentally, another great BBC docudrama about this.
Simulposted! But that docudrama was very liberal with the historical record and completely botches the scene of Pliny's death. Also, it's not at all clear that his was a rescue mission. A relative had sent for him but every other indication is that he was going there primarily to witness the event first hand.
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Pliny the Elder died in the eruption, and Pliny the younger (a boy at the time?) wrote about it, according to my recollection of one of the panels at the Te Papa exhibition.
Yes. As soon as he heard of the eruption, Pliny the Elder organised an expedition to see it up close, and asked the Younger, his nephew, who was a young man rather than a boy at the time, to come with, but he wanted to continue other work that his uncle had set for him. He did however observe the eruption from a certain distance, and described it, and told the story of his uncle's death as it was told to him by some survivors. The account wasn't believed at the time, but it's so vivid and accurate that volcanologists now call Vesuvius-type eruptions Plinian.
Those letters are a damn good read, there's a summary here.
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I don't think it's a coincidence that traffic to my PAR stuff goes up when I remember to TwitFace a link...
The powers that be could add a link to System...
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I have in front of me the latest Jaron Lanier book that seems to be largely about this very issue. There appears to be no faster means of uploading its contents than reading the bloody thing unfortunately. I'll report back.
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TTY = teletype. I would have thought you'd be all over those bad boys, although to be frank I don't exactly know why.
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And it'll sell minto juleps on the side.
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Discussion on teh wireless this morning with Dave Walden (sp?) Advertising guru saying it's going to be hard selling advertising because the audience size is going to be very difficult to predict without exclusivity of broadcast.
My heart is bleeding for the media buyers. Will nobody think of them?
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"In many parts of the world, the family is under siege. It is opposed by an anti-life mentality as is seen in contraception, abortion, infanticide, and euthanasia. It is scorned and banalized by pornography, desecrated by fornication and adultery, mocked by homosexuality, sabotaged by irregular unions and cut in two by divorce."
What will it take for homosexuals to stop mocking my family? I ask myself this on a daily basis.