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Shows from the 2010 NPC Web site have been added to the searchable database.

I added new fields added to the database, including start/stop dates (for shows covering multiple days) and Florida region. Should be able to get the region listed as a sort condition in the next few days.

Insert the usual caveats about the NPC site being the OFFICIAL source, always double-check with the promoter, and so on. Stuff happens. Be alert.

On this red-letter day, I managed to survive rush hour on the 826, the (in)famous Palmetto Expressway in Miami.

Churning relentlessly southward, driving lights fading to the horizon both fore and aft, I felt humbled yet thrilled to be part of such a dramatically large surge of humanity.

This, I thought, must be akin to the primal thrill someone feels the first time they run with the bulls at Pamplona.

I can see
a workable argument
for removing the concept of
“body image”
permanently.

If you eat well
go to the gym regularly
maybe get a little coaching to identify your strengths
and weaknesses
in a short time
you will look
exactly
like someone who is you
who is in good shape
would look.

In a perfect world
that should have
been your
goal
from the very start.

Turns out that “fruit on the bottom” yogurt isn’t at all what I thought it was.

It sounded uncomfortable at best.

Mangled is the bit
Kernel panic screams failure
So free, so happy

If something is “technically possible”
there is little doubt
that someone will be foolish or greedy enough to try to actually try to do it.

On rare occasion, they will actually succeed.

Even more rarely will their success prove to be a good thing for humanity as a whole.

Almost never will the ramifications of success be considered before the attempt is made.

A few reactions the 2010 State of the Union address….

• A person with no history or intention of being “transparent” and “open” can, ironically, speak very passionately on the subject of being “transparent” and “open”.


• It’s not easy to speak compellingly on a topic when you have a clear record of ignoring what you proposed.


• Lots of “boob bait for the bubbas” in this speech. Santa Claus can be as generous as he needs to be when he’s giving us back our own money. It’s all about inserting government control into processes which run best without it.


• Add “grit”, “determination”, and “stubborn resilience” to “hope” and “change” on the List Of Things That Obama Thinks Make America Great But You Still Can’t Use To Buy Food.


• Were proposals taken from the conservative agenda made because they were concessions to the Republicans, or does Obama really understand why we need them? In the end, does it matter?


• If the claim not to have raised taxes is at all true, it’s because they’ve shouldered that cash onto the national debt. The claim is thus modified to “we haven’t raised taxes yet“.


• “Bi-partisan” to Obama apparently means “forget what you believe and do it my way”. When disagreement on direction is snarkily reduced to Republicans, and I quote, “just saying no to everything”, then you cannot trust that the leadership has set the interests of the American people ahead of the interest of the person or the party.


• “The nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy”… which is great until about the second generation of the technology, when everyone has all the free clean energy they could ever use. Then what? The current leadership is looking ahead ten years when it should be looking ahead fifty– or more. Can we break the cycle of plague and war by spreading out? If so, where might we go? The Democrats have all but scuttled the space program.


• Everyone can agree with patriotic sentiments but most don’t see it as a valid rationale for further robbing of the wage-earners… or further increase in Federal bureaucracy or control.

Here also is an interesting AP fact check.