Still waiting for snow here, maybe tomorrow. Greetings everyone.

“His heart; some long word at the heart. He is dying of a long word.” — Brideshead Revisited

Yes Obamacare is political sausage making, but there is no other plan offered to insure 30-40 million. Universal healthcare is a moral AND financial imperative for this country.

ooo! a treasure hunt! ;)

these are the trade offs.

Also the buzz there is trying to make a global directory first. So you can find someone on red d gs, whatever.

@lnxw48 @mcnalu I’m half way through, reading it in chunks to digest.

Actually, redmatrix is fully interoperable with diaspora now. cross posting, commenting, likes, private messages, forums…

@aqeeliz the sport – gentoo & cricket both have long periods of lull between lightning action.

@chalkahlom I’ve reached the point where I need my glasses to find my glasses.

You may be on to something there @ladyj

I’ve said before #gentoo is the #cricket of the Linux world.

The complete works on Gutenberg: http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/808

Streaming video of Iolanthe on Archive.org: https://archive.org/details/csfpal_000017

Neil Gaiman taking a G & S quiz: http://www.npr.org/2014/11/13/363546485/neil-gamin-the-author-gets-quizzed-on-gilbert-sullivan

@lohang Installing a new OS is my favorite thing to do when a deadline is approaching :)

POTD: Dane-Geld by Rudyard Kipling:
It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation
  To call upon a neighbour and to say: —
“We invaded you last night—we are quite prepared to fight,
  Unless you pay us cash to go away.”

And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
  And the people who ask it explain
That you’ve only to pay ‘em the Dane-geld
  And then  you’ll get rid of the Dane!

It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation,
  To puff and look important and to say: —
“Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you.
  We will therefore pay you cash to go away.”

And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
  But we’ve  proved it again and  again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
  You never get rid of the Dane.

It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
  For fear they should succumb and go astray;
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
  You will find it… http://ur1.ca/itly9

As we approach the 2016 election season (scheduled to begin 1 January 2015), I’m getting ready for the launch of #Heptarchy2016.

Since the economy is so important, I will start by focusing on #danegeld, and the effectiveness of the Heptarchy in stopping it.

The public TT-RSS site news.parlementum.net has been updated to v 1.14. #Cheers

I like the idea of cooking approximately.

I keep hoping for snow, but in the weather forecast it’s always 2 days away. #movingtarget

My next big “read” via @LibriVox https://librivox.org/the-autobiography-of-goethe-volume-1-by-johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/