Last time my father was in town, we went to the Fearrington House. It was, as always, truly awesome. WE'd been thir twice before, for anniversaries. We go to their far-less-fancy restaurant semi-frequently, and went there for Wife's birthday earlier this month. We've been to a few of their summertime Saturday evening concerts for beers.
The Fearrington Village complex may actually be the closest place for us to eat (besides the Grill n Go). I think it's 5 miles from our house.
James Jameson, heir to the Jameson Irish Whiskey company, once bought a 10-year-old slave girl for six handkerchiefs because he wanted to sketch the event as cannibals killed, mutilated, and finally, ate her
According to a report from The New York Times, Jameson had a fascination with cannibalism and wanted to experience the act firsthand.
Jameson was on a trip in Africa in 1890 when an opportunity to fulfill his sick fantasy presented itself because he and his translator happened upon a cannibalistic tribe. Jameson consulted the tribe’s chiefs who told him if he wanted to witness the event, he’d have to buy a slave girl to be killed.
The fewer idle rich in the world, the better.
h/t FB Modesto
Went back the to Dr. to have them look at my BP again. And today it's all fine.
Thanks for the scare, though, universe. Made the weekend kindof tense.
... because the answer to my question was "high blood pressure".
He is credibly credited with being actuated by lofty, unselfish patriotism. He probably does not know himself just what he wants to accomplish. The keynote of his propaganda in speaking and writing is violent anti-Semitism. His followers are nicknamed the "Hakenkreuzler." So violent are Hitler's fulminations against the Jews that a number of prominent Jewish citizens are reported to have sought safe asylums in the Bavarian highlands, easily reached by fast motor cars, whence they could hurry their women and children when forewarned of an anti-Semitic St. Bartholomew's night.
But several reliable, well-informed sources confirmed the idea that Hitler's anti-Semitism was not so genuine or violent as it sounded, and that he was merely using anti-Semitic propaganda as a bait to catch masses of followers and keep them aroused, enthusiastic, and in line for the time when his organization is perfected and sufficiently powerful to be employed effectively for political purposes.
A sophisticated politician credited Hitler with peculiar political cleverness for laying emphasis and over-emphasis on anti-Semitism, saying: "You can't expect the masses to understand or appreciate your finer real aims. You must feed the masses with cruder morsels and ideas like anti-Semitism. It would be politically all wrong to tell them the truth about where you really are leading them."
Same as it ever was.
Holy crap. Look at these things!
OK, I'll take one of those. Bring it on, shitty universe.
What else you got?
Your coding style can give you away:
If you’ve been programming for any length of time, no doubt you’ve developed your own coding style. Every developer has preferences not only for things like spacing (e.g,, spaces vs tabs), naming styles (e.g., CamelCase vs. snake_case) and commenting, but also how he or she implements certain types of functionality. New research now shows that a developer’s coding style is a type of fingerprint, which can be used to identify who wrote an anonymous piece of code with a high degree of accuracy.
Sixty-nine percent of Americans believed that Saddam Hussein was personally responsible for 9/11 when we invaded Iraq. That is the biggest failure of the media I have ever seen. Has anyone apologized for that yet? Has anyone been fired for that yet? If you want to fire all of the executives and editors who let that lie be sold to the American people through their media outlets, then I’m a 100% with you. Then we can also fire Brian Williams.
Let’s start: The musicians you don’t know will bore you to death. Maybe you’ve been dragged to the show of a random band and were totally blown away. It’s happened to me! Maybe three whole times, across my entire life. But from a probability standpoint, any given stage will contain far more charisma-deficit oafs capably playing songs you have no emotional connection to, with harmonies that make you pinch your own arm for fun, and with sound run by a guy who is probably preoccupied by a flamewar he started on the local sound-guy messageboard. And you will watch all of this while having a stranger’s entire beer spilled on you. There is no target audience for Dude In Hat Spilling An Entire Beer On You, and yet that’s what we built this entire discipline of art upon.