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Blog post: �� Tweets for the week of 11-24-2012
What do I have to do to get an IP unblocked from email? I've emailed customer care & used an online form with no response.
Thanks for responding. It's a different issue: I work for a web host & our IP is being blocked by Yahoo.
It was blocked b/c a client email account was hacked & sent spam. We fixed the problem, but Yahoo mail still blocks us.
That was the 1st thing I tried, probably Wed. last week. No reply. On Fri., I tried emailing [email protected]. No reply.
Because that's not a glamorous issue. Pick any hot-button issue that stars can get good press about, and Hollywood's liberal.
I love my Kindle Paperwhite. It's exactly what I want in an e-reader.
Thanks. I'm looking forward to reading everyone's essays.

Blog post: �� Tweets for the week of 11-17-2012
Be careful with that eliminationist rhetoric, Jay, lest it transform you into a conservative.
Study finds running faster than 8mph doesn't reduce mortality (unless an 8.1mph killer is chasing you, presumably.)
Lock them all in a room together and soon you'll have a smaller number of characters who are mass-murdering psychopaths.

Blog post: �� Tweets for the week of 11-10-2012
In case you haven't heard the news: Darci and I agreed to update our Facebook relationship statuses to show we're engaged to each other.
My post on the Assn. for Mormon Letters blog examines the SF entries in the 4 Centuries of Mormon Stories Contest

Well done.
Can I come watch the game tonight? I'll supply pizza.
Set up the permalinks in the settings, and WordPress will create an .htaccess file.
Hmm. That is strange. Have you tried just creating a blank .htaccess file?
I just got shot.
Correction: I just got a flu shot.
I'm getting a medium that's 1/2 pepperoni & mushrooms and 1/2 sausage & black olives. What do you want, up to 2 toppings/side?
No, you're fine. And that's exactly what I would have ordered for you if I hadn't heard back in time.
Blog post: �� Tweets for the week of 11-03-2012
With my fantasy football team, if I start Peyton Manning, Matt Ryan gets more points that week, and vice versa.
Glad you figured it out.
Wrong! Statistics show that the average Internet commenter is not as bad as Hitler.
RT : Clarkesworld subscriptions became more important today. (I just lost my day job.) Subscribe here:
Jindal's my current favorite for 2016 // Jindal: End 'dumbed-down conservatism':
From a news article: "The treatment is non-evasive��" Good, because I hate it when treatments try to evade me.
RT : Fun fact: If you paste a Dickens novel into Microsoft Word and then click "Widow/Orphan Control" all the words disappear.
Parole board finally came through for you, huh?
GOP Post-Election Sale! Everything 47% off!
A Doubleclick ad on your home page is redirecting me to a 404 page after a few seconds.
RT : I'm really enjoying Google's "search other people's emails" feature.
RT : I'm siding with Antonin Scalia on this one ��>
The film adaptation of the Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader, Princess Leia, Han Solo, R2-D2 & C-3PO toy figurines was pretty good.
I thought mermaids didn't go to college because they would find the lectures dry. dCollage
Not always. For example, killing in self-defense, which usually (but not always) involves killing guilty people.
Blog post: �� It's time to end the federal war on drugs
Don't make your club's first rule a restriction on talking about the club. (Exception: Go ahead & not talk about the Tired Cliche Club.)
What does Skyfall usually wear?
Anyone else mildly disturbed by the Aflac ad in which the happy worm cheerfully raps, then is devoured by baby birds?
Have you tried # or ***?
OK, how about: Seven years, three months, and eighteen days later��

Over the past couple of years, I’ve gradually come to the conclusion that the costs of drug prohibition are too high. In this, I’m lagging far behind some conservatives, who started opposing the war on drugs more than a decade ago �� National Review declared “The War on Drugs Is Lost�� back in 1996. The invasions on people’s liberty and privacy, the use of overwhelming force (sometimes against innocent people), the perverse incentives of asset forfeiture laws, the imprisonment of millions of people (disproportionately minorities) and the consequent impact on their families, not to mention the billions of taxpayer dollars spent (OK, I guess I did mention it) �� all of that seems to have done .�� All we seem to have accomplished is to grow the size and power of government, and at this point we can’t afford as much government as we have.

Two states have voted to legalize marijuana (in addition to the states that have legalized it for medical use.)�� Let’s turn the issue of “recreational�� drugs over to the states and let them decide what to legalize, under what regulations.�� If Nevada wants to legalize heroin while Utah keeps it illegal, so what?

The federal government’s role should be limited to making sure that recreational drugs in foreign and interstate commerce are only going to states that have legalized them.�� There will need to be regulations to cover things like flying from one state to another where the drugs you’re carrying are legal in both places but you change planes in a state where the drugs are illegal, and other situations that might arise.�� But that will not require nearly as much manpower and funding as the current war on drugs.

Blog post: �� Tweets for the week of 10-27-2012
This is pretty awesome: Ethiopian kids with no education learn on their own from tablets, hack them in 5 months:
RT : My Amazon reviews are still there. Should I be happy or insulted?
Folks, the past tense of "read" is "read," but the past tense of "lead" is "led," not "lead." If "lead" rhymes with "red" it's the metal.
Your Candidate is going to lose �� via
RT : One of these columns is longer than the other RT : The newspaper endorsements that switched party from 2008: htt ��
Longest line I've ever seen to vote in Eagle Mountain, Utah.
Fortunately, the L-Z line is considerably shorter than A-K.
Was proud to cast my vote for and .
RT : Don't think of it as an election. Think of it as the anniversary of when guys named Chad started to hate their name.
Short story collection "Eyes Like Sky And Coal And Moonlight" by is free on Kindle today:
RT : Romney could still win this if too many Dems accidentally write-in "Nate Silver" with little hearts around it.
RT : OUTRAGEOUS! A photo I took of a black panther at my polling station in TN:
My expert opinion as a computer programmer: Letting the voters SEE you've switched their votes is poorly designed vote-stealing software.
My point is that it's most likely a malfunction, not treachery.
Definitely. The voter did the right thing in calling attention to it so the machine could be taken out of service.
RT : NO ELECTION SPOILERS TONIGHT PLEASE I'm still on Debate 2
See my earlier tweet for my take on this being voting machine fraud:
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RT : Exit polls consistently over-represent people who are exiting.
RT : Proof exit polls are unreliable: 70% of voters say Star Wars prequels "much better than originals."
In 2000, I planned to stay up until the election was decided. I gave up on that plan at around 6am.
But the polls haven't closed here yet!
At this crucial juncture in our nation's history, I just have to say: This is my 2200th tweet.
Sorry, it was actually my 2201th tweet. Twitter was displaying an incorrect total.
Actually, I should have said 2201st, not 2201th, in my previous tweet. I apologize for the error.
Overheard at the office (people I don't know, talking about the election): "It takes 170 votes to win."
More overheard: "Why isn't Texas a battleground state? I swear it's like the biggest state ever."
Overheard: "What does incumbent mean? It says that under Barack's name."
Overheard: "I bet people are listening to us and saying, 'Those girls are so stupid.'"
CNN currently shows 33-3 EC vote in Romney's favor. If this trend continues, it will end up 489-49 for Romney. ue
Rather than obsess about election results, I'm going to 's signing in SLC. eSoIWillStillObsess
Eating a pint of Denali Extreme Moose Tracks ice cream as comfort food. (It's OK �� it's within my calorie budget for the day.)
Anyone who spread rumors about Romney controlling voting machines in OH is obviously not part of a "reality-based community."
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." �� Groucho Marx
RT : I love libertarian advice for the GOP, because if there is one thing libertarians know, it's winning elections.
RT : The country is pretty divided. How do we end that? Some sort of war with space aliens?
Warbling: expensive or flashy jewelry obtained through military action?

Blog post: �� Tweets for the week of 10-20-2012
RT : BOOK BOMB today! Space Eldritch!
RT : My biggest fear about hurricanes is with all those strong winds coming off the ocean you could get airborne pirates.
You should nickname the car "Vlad."
RT : Good tweet for Nate Silver on Nov. 7th: "What happened was a possible outcome according to my model."
My scuba certification card arrived in the mail. From now on, please refer to me as "Eric James Stone, Certified Open Water Diver."
RT : So you are now certified to ride the subway in New York. Excellent!
Or maybe they did, but decided helping people was more important than avoiding snarky comments.
Romney campaign found that South Jersey Red Cross was accepting canned good donations.
RT : LUCAS: "$4 billion if you want me to do another Star Wars movie."

DISNEY: "How much for you not to do one?"

LUCAS: "You could ��
RT : 9-Billion-Pixel Photo of Milky Way’s Center ��
RT : "I wonder if there is another side to this political story. I should research it further" �� no one on Facebook
RT : Does anybody else store their thumb drives with the USB port facing up? You know, to keep data from leaking out? Just w ��
George Lucas is selfishly putting money from the sale of Lucasfilm into an educational charity instead of paying taxes on it.
If I'm not convinced that human-caused global warming is a threat requiring immediate economy-wrecking action, am I stupid?
Change to "economically painful action." Better? Or do you think we can painlessly reduce net human carbon emissions to 0?
Meanwhile, "It's global warming, stupid!" doesn't get any criticism for rhetorical slanting. Instead, it's "brilliant."
Seriously, I'm curious as to what was slanted. "Human-caused?" If we're just talking natural warming, the cover's pointless.
"Threat?" If global warming's not a threat, then why be concerned about it?
You're right, I missed that.
I don't see it as a separate topic. "Global warming" is generally shorthand for human-caused global warming.
Oh, OK. Then I'm not stupid. Because I believe the globe has warmed since the Little Ice Age in the 1800s.
But if you think that cover was aimed at people who deny the world has warmed since the Little Ice Age, try thinking harder.
I apologize for poorly constructing my question within the 140 character limit.
I think this conversation just jumped the shark there.
I wondered the same. There's a From link in the address field. (Click on the address field if the From link isn't there.)
RT : Is It Legal to Kill a Zombie? ��
RT : Never make the mistake of assuming people you disagree with politically can't be extremely intelligent.
I've made a prediction for the election here: (I reserve the right to change my prediction before the polls close.)
Fancy resumes don't want to rid the world of greed.
According to a (now defunct) conspiracy website, LDS stands for Lizard-Dinosaur-Snake.

Ran (and walked) 6 non-treadmill miles today in 59 minutes 30 seconds, and boy are my legs tired. imshot
Blog post: �� Tweets for the week of 10-13-2012
How about FULL OF WHOLES? ;-)
RT : What did people do in the weeks leading into a presidential election before polls existed? Churn butter?
1781, maybe?
I think the makers of the Mini Cooper should make a car called the Mini iPad and dare Apple to sue them.
Only the fourth since 1976.
If I were Obama, I'd release the records to make Trump pay up & show he's a buffoon. (Unless I was hiding something really bad.)
To be clear, I think Trump is a buffoon, but $5 million for charity is nothing to sneeze at.
If we're putting Italian scientists in prison, how about we imprison the ones who failed to give us faster than light neutrinos?
Blog post: �� Four Centuries of Mormon Stories Contest Discussion: Release

So, I take it that the mere HINT of in-person voter fraud is enough to get you to support voter ID laws?
Yes, if you use a charity's trademarks to sell your work w/o permission, you may run into trouble.
Except the capability of controlling the whole ballot box exists only in the fevered imagination of a lefty journalist.
Didn't you hear? Round corners are the intellectual property of Apple, Inc.
RT : Get it right, people. Frankenstorm was the name of the meteorologist, not the storm.
After Penguin/Random House merger there will be query letters like: "Dear Pen-house, I never thought I would write a book, but��"
The story-behind-the-story for my story "Write What You Want" is now up on the Sideshow Freaks blog:

I’ve mentioned the Four Centuries of Mormon Stories Contest a few times.�� Everyday Mormon Writer has just posted the first of the 22nd-Century finalists, . I’ve been asked to host a discussion of the story. It’s short, so you can go read it there.

For the most part, I tend to be an optimist about the future of humanity and the gospel.�� My story “That Leviathan, Whom Thou Hast Made�� posits a future in which Mormonism has literally spread to the stars in a high-tech society where people are basically free to worship as they please.�� So it was an interesting contrast to read “Release,�� set in an extreme totalitarian future society under which everything is well-organized and everyone is monitored via implants. Religion has apparently been banned, but the Church has found an imaginative way to continue its service below the threshold of detection.

Feel free to discuss the story below.

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I was going to offer to bring pizza for the game, but then realized you're in NYC.
No problem. I can watch the game online.
RT : How come every time plays against a backup QB starting his first game, he has a career game?
Blog post: �� Tweets for the week of 10-06-2012
Read about how many people it takes to change a light bulb (and have a self-sustaining colony on another world):
About to do my second open water scuba session. Good outcome: I'll become a certified diver. There's a range of bad outcomes.
: Anyone who says, "I'm conservative, but I'm voting for Obama because Romney is too conservative" is lying about being conservative.
Bizarre Coincidence: Democrats Get More Time in All Three Debates SeeHere
RT : Obama is helping income inequality since a woman without a job earns a 100% the same as a man without a job.
My post at the Association for Mormon Letters blog is an interview with bestselling YA fantasy author
RT : *BLAM!* Take that, baby Hitler!
Hemingway story sale: 16.7% off!
Asteroid approaches. Dinosaur spaceship fails.
…loop. Stuck in a time��