beardic.us
Technical writer living in the apple orchards outside of Rochester, NY. In my free time I noodle with cooking, JavaScript, and robots that draw.
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Wut? No. More “Anarchist’s Cookbook” less “How to Lick Boots”, plz.
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Ok I'll wrap up with this for now. At 3:05:18 CNN Health Week covers "A Decade of AIDS”, interviewing Dr. Anthony Fauci of the NIH.
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At 3:02:39 "A British health agency says it will stop offering an artificial insemination service known as 'virgin birth'"... "[the service] was criticized because it was offered to single women".
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At 3:02:05 we cover "anti-government protests" in Seoul, South Korea. "An estimated 10,000 students threw bricks and firebombs and battled with riot police near the city's great south gate".
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At 2:21:10–2:26:54 we seem to recap the entire parade. Nice job cutting together a 5 minute package so quick. Next up is Newsmaker Saturday, where Senator Mitch Fucking McConnell repeatedly states that Saddam Hussein is "no longer a threat to his neighbors".
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This thing wraps up around 2:14:20 with some explosions and flag waving and music. We cut to commercial and Joy and Regis Philbin sell us crackers.
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Everybody sings "God Bless America" at 2:11:32. There is a float from the troops thanking folks for sending letters while they were deployed. I don't remember sending my Dad letters (I'm sure I did) but I definitely remember Mom sending Dad booze in Listerine bottles.
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Bunch of flybys and paraded planes starting around 1:51:30. Wolf says 82 aircraft doing flybys.
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At 1:45:40 Wolf talks about the Pioneer UAV "What they used to call a drone [...] and it has a uhh... camera". Wolf then talks about its capabilities, and John wishes CNN could afford such a thing for I guess journalism.
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Wolf clearly has a lookbook of funnily-shaped military vehicles. He names and describes each species as it rolls by. At 1:34:47 Wolf comments on how well Constitution Ave is holding up to the 68 ton M1A1 tanks.
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Genny commercial @ 1:28:57 ... had to yoink this one for #RochesterNY #ROC
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Whatever happened to this guy? @ 1:24:37
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2.5 mile long parade route to the Pentagon. John Holliman claims 100k people in attendance. 8800 troops. $12 million cost.
Patriot missile launchers around 1:18:11.
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Schwarzkopf comin @ 56:30. Later on in the broadcast there's an airline ad that parodies his famous press conference. As you do.
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At 55:17 Molly McCoy tells us things have finally begun... and the first shot is this tank literally SQUEAKIN' ON BY the grandstands... it sounds like a Jetsons Cinematic Universe vehicle.
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Christ, now (31:50) Hannah Storm puts on her shoulder pads to bring us BASEBALL '91! Can you answer the Lipton Iced Tea BAFFLER question?
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Still waiting for things to pop off at 29:23...
And an excerpt from Bush Senior's speech at Arlington starts at 30:36...
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(I swear there's some parade coverage in here too...)
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SPOILER ALERT: the otter story (22:12) is that a Corpus Christi aquarium bought an old washed-up female otter and it turns out it was pregnant with triplets ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Also they were pretty jazzed about using camcorders to record scientific observations.
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At 5:00 we start "Science and Technology Week" w/ stories about a satellite-launching rail gun, "brown-tides" in Texas (gross), otters, and Tom Hanks promoting new animal-friendly breakaway six-pack rings in Santa Monica.
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(PS: thanks to @archive.org for being the only place on the internet where you can upload four hours of a 34 year old cable newscast... plz support them if you can: archive.org/donate)
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One might ask "why on earth do you have a VHS recording of CNN's coverage of the 1991 National Victory Celebration parade" and the answer is that my Dad was in it. At about 2:03:45 in the video, as the entire crowd is looking up at some dumb planes flying over, my Dad's Coast Guard unit marches by.
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you don't actually have to believe everything you read. you could choose to use your brain.
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you could've lived between a video game museum and a waterfall w/ a brewery on top. FOOL.
(jk california sounds wonderful i'm so tired of apples)
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pretty much every morning – after the kids get on the bus – i settle into my overpriced office chair in front of my old-person computing device (non-smartphone, basically), clack out a post into this stupid little box, then delete it.
i am quite tempted to do it right now, actually.
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15 miles is a pretty extreme bike commute here in rochester. i used to do it in my 20s (out to chili)... a quick sponge-ing and change of clothes was sufficient. hopefully your friend is helping pave the way for "normal" shorter bike commuters!
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you're telling me "lonsberry pie" isn't a poop joke? for shame.
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the tiniest loofahs.
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i'm not terribly hip with the gaming memes, but might this be the new "LEEROY JENKINS!"?
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ok i'll buy that... but the folks who _started_ it definitely knew!
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folks know what "skeet" means. it's a goof, not an oops.
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jesus glow.
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pet gun shop in 3… 2…
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what the actual… ?
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odd, i don't remember seeing any pre-registered randomized and double-blinded baby stroller efficacy trials when i was making that particular decision. oh well i'm sure the leathery man knows what he's talking about.
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i would run fiber, obviously 😀 i think i'd want some basic isolation in place, but yeah i would do this, mainly to share the burden of redundant ISP service between two or more households.
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No surprise but also good to have it in writing.