So long and thanks for all the fish...
Boarding the oosterschelde, sailing to London. Will be OFFL until thursday.
lørdag 30. august 2014
So long and thanks for all the fish...
So long and thanks for all the fish...
Boarding the oosterschelde, sailing to London. Will be OFFL until thursday.
tirsdag 26. august 2014
A foggy day in august. Hey. Google+ what are you doing? Staph! There was no snow today!
A foggy day in august. Hey. Google+ what are you doing? Staph! There was no snow today!
mandag 25. august 2014
søndag 24. august 2014
Please read this.
Please read this.
It is a very factual article, even if you sense the political slant of the web site.
It really highlights the complete lack of respect for the whole community that the police and the prosecutors are showing. For privileged people living in modern societies this is unbelievable. We need to see this. We need to wrap our minds around the fact that this really happens. That this is real if you are non-white in parts of the USA.
Remember that this is a primitive state. One with a death penalty for murder. The police are obviously doing everything they can to keep one of their own away from a proper trial that might send him to death row.
Originally shared by Sarah Jones
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/08/23/local-prosecutor-acts-darren-wilsons-defense-attorney.html
It is a very factual article, even if you sense the political slant of the web site.
It really highlights the complete lack of respect for the whole community that the police and the prosecutors are showing. For privileged people living in modern societies this is unbelievable. We need to see this. We need to wrap our minds around the fact that this really happens. That this is real if you are non-white in parts of the USA.
Remember that this is a primitive state. One with a death penalty for murder. The police are obviously doing everything they can to keep one of their own away from a proper trial that might send him to death row.
Originally shared by Sarah Jones
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/08/23/local-prosecutor-acts-darren-wilsons-defense-attorney.html
mandag 18. august 2014
White privilege. We need to wake up and see it. Understand that we live in a very privileged world.
White privilege. We need to wake up and see it. Understand that we live in a very privileged world.
Originally shared by Lisa “LJ” Cohen
From my blog today, reproduced here.
Once upon a time, I fooled myself into believing I could always keep my boys safe. It was simpler to suspend my disbelief about the real world when they were small. In those days, I could wrap them in safety gear, manage their experiences and interactions, and generally keep our lives controlled. (Of course I know - I even knew then - that this is a comfortable fiction.)
As they got older, I learned to pull back more and more, giving them longer and longer 'safety tethers' as they learned to negotiate the larger world. Suddenly, they are grown up. In two weeks, both boys will be off to college. The younger one starts as a Freshman, the older one as an upperclassmen.
It's ironic: I write stories with young teen and young adult protagonists in them. In much of my work, the characters have problematic relationships with parents and authority. And they face challenges and dangers, but none of the stories I have ever invented are as frightening to me as what I saw happen on the streets of Missouri this past week.
I certainly don't have to worry about either of my sons being abducted into the world of Faerie, having to cope with prescient visions of inner-city violence, or dealing with a space ship whose heavily damaged and paranoid AI is trying to get them killed. These are the dangers of my fictional worlds.
It's telling what I do worry about in the actual world my children inhabit: car accidents, painful relationships, disappointments. I don't worry about either of my sons getting shot by the police or considered a threat because of the way they look.
That is what white privilege looks like.
Let me tell you what has become an amusing story in our family. If we were African American or Latino, or any other non-white minority, it might very well have ended differently and not been amusing, but a tragedy.
When my older son was a high school senior, he participated in an independent study project that released him from classes for the latter half of his year. Instead, he commuted via the 'T' every day to an inner-city community farm. His commute required that he connect in a large urban train station. One morning, he noticed two men following him through the station. He sped up. They sped up. He thought for sure he was going to be mugged and tried to get away from them, but they shouted for him to stop and finally identified themselves as undercover transit cops.
My son stopped, quite confused, wondering what he might have done wrong.
They insisted he show them ID.
Ultimately, they hadn't believed him to be a student (my son is over 6' tall and had a thick beard) and assumed he was using a student transit pass illegally. They still didn't really seem to believe him, despite him showing them all 4 years of his HS photo ID's (identifying him as a student in a well regarded suburban district). But my son is (despite being large) softly spoken, polite, and has an air of innocence/naivety about him. They all laughed and he headed to his assignment.
I didn't think of it at the time, but now I look back in horror. What if we were not white? What if he'd been wearing a hoodie? Or his pants were sagging? My son is tall. He looks intimidating from a distance. He was wearing headphones and had music on. It had taken him some time to realize the men were shouting at him. I can imagine a narrative where two cops see a black man doing something they identify as illegal, and then rushing away from them when they tell him to stop.
That's not what happened. And I hadn't even imagined any other scenario. That is what white privilege looks like.
I have the luxury of worrying about my sons' grades and if they will get enough sleep and make it to their morning classes. I worry about alcohol, not gun violence. And I don't ever even consider that either of them might get shot in the street.
We live in a community where our biggest brush with crime was a stolen bicycle. My younger son, who does not yet have his driver's license, often walks home from friends' houses late at night and I have no concern that he will be questioned by police or be the victim of crime. I have every reasonable expectation that my sons will live to graduate college. That is what white privilege looks like.
This is what we need to be talking about, in painful, frank conversations both within our own communities and outside them. We will be a 'post-racial' society only when no mother has to worry about her child making it home alive at the end of every day.
Originally shared by Lisa “LJ” Cohen
From my blog today, reproduced here.
Once upon a time, I fooled myself into believing I could always keep my boys safe. It was simpler to suspend my disbelief about the real world when they were small. In those days, I could wrap them in safety gear, manage their experiences and interactions, and generally keep our lives controlled. (Of course I know - I even knew then - that this is a comfortable fiction.)
As they got older, I learned to pull back more and more, giving them longer and longer 'safety tethers' as they learned to negotiate the larger world. Suddenly, they are grown up. In two weeks, both boys will be off to college. The younger one starts as a Freshman, the older one as an upperclassmen.
It's ironic: I write stories with young teen and young adult protagonists in them. In much of my work, the characters have problematic relationships with parents and authority. And they face challenges and dangers, but none of the stories I have ever invented are as frightening to me as what I saw happen on the streets of Missouri this past week.
I certainly don't have to worry about either of my sons being abducted into the world of Faerie, having to cope with prescient visions of inner-city violence, or dealing with a space ship whose heavily damaged and paranoid AI is trying to get them killed. These are the dangers of my fictional worlds.
It's telling what I do worry about in the actual world my children inhabit: car accidents, painful relationships, disappointments. I don't worry about either of my sons getting shot by the police or considered a threat because of the way they look.
That is what white privilege looks like.
Let me tell you what has become an amusing story in our family. If we were African American or Latino, or any other non-white minority, it might very well have ended differently and not been amusing, but a tragedy.
When my older son was a high school senior, he participated in an independent study project that released him from classes for the latter half of his year. Instead, he commuted via the 'T' every day to an inner-city community farm. His commute required that he connect in a large urban train station. One morning, he noticed two men following him through the station. He sped up. They sped up. He thought for sure he was going to be mugged and tried to get away from them, but they shouted for him to stop and finally identified themselves as undercover transit cops.
My son stopped, quite confused, wondering what he might have done wrong.
They insisted he show them ID.
Ultimately, they hadn't believed him to be a student (my son is over 6' tall and had a thick beard) and assumed he was using a student transit pass illegally. They still didn't really seem to believe him, despite him showing them all 4 years of his HS photo ID's (identifying him as a student in a well regarded suburban district). But my son is (despite being large) softly spoken, polite, and has an air of innocence/naivety about him. They all laughed and he headed to his assignment.
I didn't think of it at the time, but now I look back in horror. What if we were not white? What if he'd been wearing a hoodie? Or his pants were sagging? My son is tall. He looks intimidating from a distance. He was wearing headphones and had music on. It had taken him some time to realize the men were shouting at him. I can imagine a narrative where two cops see a black man doing something they identify as illegal, and then rushing away from them when they tell him to stop.
That's not what happened. And I hadn't even imagined any other scenario. That is what white privilege looks like.
I have the luxury of worrying about my sons' grades and if they will get enough sleep and make it to their morning classes. I worry about alcohol, not gun violence. And I don't ever even consider that either of them might get shot in the street.
We live in a community where our biggest brush with crime was a stolen bicycle. My younger son, who does not yet have his driver's license, often walks home from friends' houses late at night and I have no concern that he will be questioned by police or be the victim of crime. I have every reasonable expectation that my sons will live to graduate college. That is what white privilege looks like.
This is what we need to be talking about, in painful, frank conversations both within our own communities and outside them. We will be a 'post-racial' society only when no mother has to worry about her child making it home alive at the end of every day.
For Jane Satan Rakali and all other #cthulhu fans
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fredag 15. august 2014
Finally there is a voice for the non-extremist christians in the US.
Finally there is a voice for the non-extremist christians in the US. Just when we thought there was nothing but christian terrorist organizations over there.
I hope sane christians dare stand behind this movement and show clearly where the majority is. Dare show that the aggressive, condemning, threatening crowd is a minority and that their leaders are false prophets.
At least that would be a society of christians the rest of us don't have to see as a severe threat to our freedom.
Originally shared by Politicus USA
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/08/14/movement-growing-religious-organization-condemns-religious-extremists.html
I hope sane christians dare stand behind this movement and show clearly where the majority is. Dare show that the aggressive, condemning, threatening crowd is a minority and that their leaders are false prophets.
At least that would be a society of christians the rest of us don't have to see as a severe threat to our freedom.
Originally shared by Politicus USA
http://www.politicususa.com/2014/08/14/movement-growing-religious-organization-condemns-religious-extremists.html
torsdag 14. august 2014
mandag 11. august 2014
A short, concise and understandable explanation :-D
A short, concise and understandable explanation :-D
Originally shared by Kevin Moriarty
søndag 10. august 2014
Works with chrome 38 'unstable' on wayland in fedora 21 forked (pre-alpha). Yay!
Works with chrome 38 'unstable' on wayland in fedora 21 forked (pre-alpha). Yay!
Originally shared by ****
y'all ready for this?
TRUELY NATIVE NETFLIX VIEWING IS NOW AVAILABLE
(granted, there are a couple hoops to jump through).
Step 1: Get Chrome. I'm using the v38 beta, but I assume it works on v37 (I use Firefox mainly, but chrome is the only browser aside from IE that has what is needed)
Step 2: Get the User-Agent Switcher for chrome
( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/user-agent-switcher-for-c/djflhoibgkdhkhhcedjiklpkjnoahfmg )
Step 3: add a custom Chrome agent for v37 Windows x86_64
( Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/37.0.2049.0 Safari/537.36 )
Step 4: Switch your user-agent to the new custom one, and go to netflix
Step 5: enjoy!
Why this works: Chrome (and IE) devs have been working closely with Netflix to get the needed DRM code required for HTML5 streaming, and recently Netflix unveiled that both IE and Chrome on Windows supports HTML5 streaming now.
I figured that the Linux version of Chrome is close enough to the Windows version to ALSO contain this code, so I decided to try it out. And I was right!
Proof that it works on my system: http://i.imgur.com/YVcrvCN.png
Originally shared by ****
y'all ready for this?
TRUELY NATIVE NETFLIX VIEWING IS NOW AVAILABLE
(granted, there are a couple hoops to jump through).
Step 1: Get Chrome. I'm using the v38 beta, but I assume it works on v37 (I use Firefox mainly, but chrome is the only browser aside from IE that has what is needed)
Step 2: Get the User-Agent Switcher for chrome
( https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/user-agent-switcher-for-c/djflhoibgkdhkhhcedjiklpkjnoahfmg )
Step 3: add a custom Chrome agent for v37 Windows x86_64
( Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/37.0.2049.0 Safari/537.36 )
Step 4: Switch your user-agent to the new custom one, and go to netflix
Step 5: enjoy!
Why this works: Chrome (and IE) devs have been working closely with Netflix to get the needed DRM code required for HTML5 streaming, and recently Netflix unveiled that both IE and Chrome on Windows supports HTML5 streaming now.
I figured that the Linux version of Chrome is close enough to the Windows version to ALSO contain this code, so I decided to try it out. And I was right!
Proof that it works on my system: http://i.imgur.com/YVcrvCN.png
fredag 8. august 2014
Autogenerated storybook. Thanks, google. :-)
Autogenerated storybook. Thanks, google. :-)
Looking forward to a trip on the Oosterschelde in 3 weeks.
RotterdamSailingShip
https://plus.google.com/113308741660805522664/stories/32781528-cfba-32ac-8ad6-cd2669670d1814794d0a54e
Looking forward to a trip on the Oosterschelde in 3 weeks.
RotterdamSailingShip
https://plus.google.com/113308741660805522664/stories/32781528-cfba-32ac-8ad6-cd2669670d1814794d0a54e
Listen carefully. I will only say this once.
Listen carefully. I will only say this once.
Originally shared by Adam Kenigsberg
Ariella Brown Jeremy Hodges Lindsey Clements and all the other grammarians out there: sing along.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc&feature=share
Originally shared by Adam Kenigsberg
Ariella Brown Jeremy Hodges Lindsey Clements and all the other grammarians out there: sing along.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Gv0H-vPoDc&feature=share
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