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The Unplanned Host Swap
On the evening of September 7, 2009, the cjcs.com domain was taken offline–without warning–by its web host. September 8 saw me sign on with a different web host.
Posted in Announcements
Tagged change, cjcs, customer service, domain, site, suspend, TIB, web, web host
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Updating English (again)
Strict grammarians aside, I like to think that many people understand that English is a vibrant and adaptive language. We’ve entered into an amazing era of linguistic experimentation and adaptation. To that end, I’d like to once again throw in my 2¢ worth
Posted in Musings
Tagged alphabet, alphanumeric, capitalization, change, crosses, dots, eir, em, english, ey, forms of address, gender, grammar, letters, linguistics, numbers, pronoun, punctuation, quotation, schwa, slashes, titles
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A New Movie Rating System
Since 1968, the U.S. has had a rating system for theatrical movies. These ratings are of dubious value as they are vague and often tainted by politics or studio pressure. Given the forty years of experience we now have, I think it’s time that we re-examine how we rate our movies.
Posted in Gripes
Tagged age, appropriate, change, film, motion picture, movies, mpaa, ratings, release, studio, system, theatrical
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Season 3 For Terminator – The Sarah Connor Chronicles
Can Terminator – The Sarah Connor Chronicles avoid the cancellation block and get renewed for a third season? Despite what some of the knee-jerk naysayers are naysaying, I believe that FOX still has reason to stick with the show provided a few small changes are made.
Posted in TSCC
Tagged cancel, change, chronicles, connor, creative, friday, josh friedman, network, producer, renew, science fiction, scifi, television, terminator, ttscc, tv
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Genderless Pronouns – Ey, Em, and Eir
Living In The Science Fiction World
When I sit back and look around our world at all of the mundane stuff we take for granted, I can’t help but be amazed. So many things were only in the wild imaginations of science fiction writers—not centuries ago, but within my own lifetime. What a wonder it all is.
Posted in Musings
Tagged cell phone, change, communication, computer, cybernetics, cyborg, flight, future, hope, phone, robot, science fiction, scifi, sf, space, station, technology, telephone, travel
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President Obama, Give Us a Yard and We’ll Take a Meter
For all intents and purposes, the United States stands alone in relying on an inefficient and antiquated measurement system. For decades the cry has been that it will be too expensive or too inconvenient or too confusing to change to the worldwide metric standard. With the current economy in dire straits, can we really afford this ridiculous policy? Not only does it makes us look like provincial boobs, but (and this will get people’s attention) it costs us money. If ever there was a golden time to attack the problem with a bold mandate for change, this is it.
Posted in Gov't and Politics
Tagged america, avoirdupois, change, construction, conversion, expense, gallons, inch-pound, kilo, kilogram, liter, litre, meter, metre, metric, metrication, metrification, money, obama, odometer, policy, profit, sae, SI, signs, united states, us, usa, yes we can
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When is Judgment Day?
When exploring the world of Terminator, specifically Terminator – The Sarah Connor Chronicles (TTSCC), you have to bump your head against the elephant in the room: Judgment Day (JD). But…if it’s averted, how will anyone know?
Posted in TSCC
Tagged change, future, judgment day, science fiction, scifi, television, terminator, time travel, ttscc, tv
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Tears and Pride For America
Fixing America’s Health-care System
The time has come with health care reform to take a step back, look at the expectations and how we can use what is already in place to get us to our goals, and then get all “mavericky” and get the job done right. It might hurt for an instant, just a little pinch, but we’ll be happy we did it years down the road.
Posted in Musings
Tagged bean counter, care, change, doctors, drugs, health, healthcare, hospital, insurance, lawsuits, malpractice, medicaid, medicare, medicine, nurses, prescription, reform, socialized, system
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