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"Recently a 13 year old boy, Lawrence King, was shot in the head at point blank range, in school, by a 14 year old school mate. Normally you would think the press would be all over it, but there has been a conspicuous silence after a few short stories that omit a large portion of the facts. Lawrence was possibly gay and/or transgendered and was being bullied; one of the bullies finally killed him. Another school shooting, but this time it wasn't the 'freak' or 'outcast' that opened up a hail of bullets, it was the 'normal' one. This type of story just doesn't work--doesn't need to be told--as it doesn't support the theory that if you are different, if you don't conform to the accepted norms of society, you are more inclined to violent acts. So the press is either silent or censored." -- DoomTart, 2008-03-28

"Recently a 13 year old boy, Lawrence King, was shot in the head at point blank range, in school, by a 14 year old school mate. Normally you would think the press would be all over it, but there has been a conspicuous silence after a few short stories that omit a large portion of the facts. Lawrence was possibly gay and/or transgendered and was being bullied; one of the bullies finally killed him. Another school shooting, but this time it wasn't the 'freak' or 'outcast' that opened up a hail of bullets, it was the 'normal' one. This type of story just doesn't work--doesn't need to be told--as it doesn't support the theory that if you are different, if you don't conform to the accepted norms of society, you are more inclined to violent acts. So the press is either silent or censored." -- DoomTart, 2008-03-28

drip

drip

Damn.

It's only a tiny bit, but it shouldn't be any. Feh.

drip

drip

Damn.

It's only a tiny bit, but it shouldn't be any. Feh.

Poor sleep last night/this morning, pain this afternoon, didn't realize early enough how quickly pain was draining spoons and what pain meds I should've taken to get to 3LF tonight. Took meds late; may get there late, may not. Will see.

Roofer has not yet answered message I left at 5:40AM; will try again.

Not willing to work on my tab-reading skillz enough to get through a piece I need to learn, so am attempting to code a tab-to-abc converter to make standard-notation sheets out of it. Converter I ound on web lost too much info (like representing a tune with everything from whole notes to 32nds as a long string of quarter notes) and existing tab2abc converter I found looks like it's just for lute tab, not Usenet-style ASCII guitar tabs.

Two-dimensional parsing. Whee *mumble* hah.

Dayum, my muscles hurt. Don't want to even think of picking up bass to carry it out the door until meds start working.

Oops.

Poor sleep last night/this morning, pain this afternoon, didn't realize early enough how quickly pain was draining spoons and what pain meds I should've taken to get to 3LF tonight. Took meds late; may get there late, may not. Will see.

Roofer has not yet answered message I left at 5:40AM; will try again.

Not willing to work on my tab-reading skillz enough to get through a piece I need to learn, so am attempting to code a tab-to-abc converter to make standard-notation sheets out of it. Converter I ound on web lost too much info (like representing a tune with everything from whole notes to 32nds as a long string of quarter notes) and existing tab2abc converter I found looks like it's just for lute tab, not Usenet-style ASCII guitar tabs.

Two-dimensional parsing. Whee *mumble* hah.

Dayum, my muscles hurt. Don't want to even think of picking up bass to carry it out the door until meds start working.

Oops.