"The tongue-tied blather was coming thick and fast"

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"Assistance for the Tongue-Tied in New
Reference Software"

"Assistance for the Tongue-Tied in New
Reference Software" 01/04/2004 09:35 AM

Assistance for the Tongue-Tied in New
Reference Software

Assistance for the Tongue-Tied in New
Reference Software 01/01/2004 03:24 AM
New York Times Jan 1 2004 2:16AM ET

"FOXNews.com - Views - Tongue Tied - New
Read on 'Rings,' Double Standard on
Slurs "

"FOXNews.com - Views - Tongue Tied - New
Read on 'Rings,' Double Standard on
Slurs " 12/30/2003 09:40 AM

RSS Advertising, Coming Fast

RSS Advertising, Coming Fast 04/08/2005 05:05 AM
RSS Advertising, Coming Fast .. Dave Morgan

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" RSS Advertising, Coming Fast"

" RSS Advertising, Coming Fast" 04/09/2005 03:03 PM

Coming Soon: Ultra-Fast, Interoperable
Wireless Routers

Coming Soon: Ultra-Fast, Interoperable
Wireless Routers 12/08/2003 07:17 PM
PC Magazine Dec 8 2003 5:57PM ET

Oh no. Not more bl0gger-journalist
blather!

Oh no. Not more bl0gger-journalist
blather! 03/31/2005 07:22 PM
Blog: Unfortunately this debate seems destined to last as long as the participants can pound away at their keyboards. So...

"condemns Michael Moore's latest idiotic
blather"

"condemns Michael Moore's latest idiotic
blather" 04/20/2004 03:29 PM

I believe we have officially reached the
point where nothing DAN BLATHER says can
be trusted -- including A and THE

I believe we have officially reached the
point where nothing DAN BLATHER says can
be trusted -- including A and THE 09/15/2004 03:40 PM
Morse: The First Rathergate .. Anne Morris

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Me And My Thick Skull

Me And My Thick Skull 06/14/2004 12:37 AM
I keep having to relearn the lesson of "never assume anything". I have to relearn this lesson again today. Fortunately, the undesired outcome that I have to deal with is, well, no big deal.

This thick excitement

This thick excitement 06/21/2004 07:35 AM
The town-hall dances in my tiny Irish village were the most exquisite, prolonged foreplay the world has ever known.

"Does it matter if he's thick?"

"Does it matter if he's thick?" 08/27/2004 09:00 PM

100GB, 9.5mm thick HD from Toshiba

100GB, 9.5mm thick HD from Toshiba 04/22/2004 04:11 PM

Behind the Thick Black Line

Behind the Thick Black Line 09/07/2004 12:40 PM
Previously we reported on how the ACLU was unable to report on a lawsuit they’d filed challenging how people couldn’t…

"It was surprising how thick the smoke
had become

"It was surprising how thick the smoke
had become 09/27/2004 03:14 AM

msnbc.msn.com/id/6099172/site/newsweek
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Developing a thick skin

Developing a thick skin 02/19/2003 02:34 AM
CNET Feb 19 2003 1:24AM ET

1.4mm Thick Gigabit Ethernet Cable

1.4mm Thick Gigabit Ethernet Cable 03/14/2005 06:03 PM

Flat network cables aren't anything new, but I'm pretty sure ones like this are. Japanese accessory king Elecom today announced the "LD-VAPF/SV05" network cabling, coming in at 1.4mm thick. With such a thin cable, you can run it pretty much anywhere you like; I guess it would work particularly well under carpet, in doorways, or as a new type of karate belt. The Cat5 standard cables support up to 1000BASE-T, and are reinforced with aluminium.

Press Release [Elecom]

Hypertensive Blacks May Have Thick
Hearts (AP)

Hypertensive Blacks May Have Thick
Hearts (AP) 05/03/2004 08:44 PM
AP - Researchers say they may have found a new clue as to why blacks are at greater risk of dying from heart disease than whites. In the largest study of its kind, blacks with high blood pressure were found to have thicker hearts than whites with high blood pressure. It's a condition called left ventricular hypertrophy, or enlarged heart.

Having kids makes you thick: official

Having kids makes you thick: official 09/08/2004 06:40 AM
Shocking tabloid revelations rock parents

Sony launches 0.4in thick notebook

Sony launches 0.4in thick notebook 11/14/2003 12:38 PM
Reg Kit Watch Portable desktop too

Tip of the tongue

Tip of the tongue 02/12/2004 11:37 PM
USA Today Feb 13 2004 4:10AM GMT

The Web in Your Tongue: Translation with
PHP

The Web in Your Tongue: Translation with
PHP 11/08/2002 09:09 AM

W. Va. May Regulate Tongue-Splitting
(AP)

W. Va. May Regulate Tongue-Splitting
(AP) 02/16/2004 12:09 PM
AP - A House of Delegates leader has introduced a bill that would make it more difficult for people to speak with forked tongues.

Man Wakes Up With a Bullet in His Tongue
(AP)

Man Wakes Up With a Bullet in His Tongue
(AP) 06/22/2005 02:18 AM
AP - Police say a man who woke up with a serious headache walked 12 blocks to a hospital with a swollen lip and powder burns. Doctors discovered the problem. 47-year-old Wendell Coleman had a bullet lodged in his tongue.

i have spoke with the tongue of angels

i have spoke with the tongue of angels 02/01/2005 09:53 PM

They say that when you have an audition, you have to walk in there like you don't give a shit. You walk in there like you don't give a shit, and you walk out with the part, because if you don't give a shit, that's when they want you.

But you've read the script, and it is good. So good, in fact, you fall in love with it. You fall madly, passionately, crazy in love with the script, and you'll do anything to be one of the people chosen to bring the script to life.

You think about it all the time. You wake up in the middle of the night, imagining what it would be like to spend ten weeks on location or four seasons on the set. You get lost on your way to the post office, because you're wondering who your competition is. You can't eat, you can't sleep, you can't focus on anything else . . . you are in love, after all.

In the days before your audition, you do everything you can to be ready. First, you get to know your character. If you're lucky, he's a guy you know. Maybe he's even you. Not the current you, usually, but still You. A younger you, a more passionate you, a more idealistic you; the You who you were before you fell in love with too many scripts and had your heart broken too many times to count . . . the you who was incapable of walking in there like you didn't give a shit, because it felt so good to be in love. Then you learn your lines. You spend hours in your house or your apartment reading them out loud, scaring your dogs, worrying your neighbors, annoying your roommates who are sick to death of hearing about The Script. They've heard it all before, and you've made an unspoken pact among you: you don't tell them how crushed you are when you don't get the job, and they pretend not to notice how you wear the same clothes and drink heavily for five days after you get The Call.

The day of the audition finally comes. Your first date. Your big date. Your only date. You spend too much time putting yourself together. You carefully choose your clothes and style your hair a minimum of three different times. Maybe you spray on some cologne, because it makes you feel attractive. Maybe.

You drive to the studio, and hope your voice doesn't break when you tell the guard that you're going to Bungalow 15. You park, walk across the lot, and your palms sweat when you sign in. You wait for what seems like an eternity, surrounded by actors who are younger, taller, better looking than you. Actors who clearly don't give a shit because they don't have to. You know that they don't love The Script like you do, haven't put in the time that you have . . . but it doesn't matter. You've been here before and you'll be here again, long after they've left for location.

Your heart throbs in your chest when they call your name. You smile, take a deep breath, and stand up.

And then you walk into the room, and you're supposed to act like you don't give a shit.

Yeah. Right.

Tongue-controlled Game-Boy

Tongue-controlled Game-Boy 05/19/2004 05:47 PM
The Tongue-Boy SP is a tongue-based controller for use with the GameBoy targetted at people with quadroplegia.

The NewAbilities Systems TTK or Tongue Touch Wireless Keyboard Transmitter looks like an orthodontic retainer with nine membrane buttons

We add a new jack for the Tongue Boy SP TTK receiver input. We also add a second micro-controller computer chip inside the case to decode the TTK signals from the receiver and activate the Game Boy SP buttons.

Link (via /.)

Del. Lawmakers Limit Tongue Splitting
(AP)

Del. Lawmakers Limit Tongue Splitting
(AP) 06/29/2004 08:46 PM
AP - Body artists in Delaware who want to go beyond tattooing and piercing soon may risk a serious tongue lashing by a judge if they don't consult with their doctors first.

Pope Gives Bush A Tongue Lashing

Pope Gives Bush A Tongue Lashing 06/05/2004 06:03 AM
Free Internet Press Jun 5 2004 10:14AM GMT

Indian tongue thrives in Paraguay
(Reuters)

Indian tongue thrives in Paraguay
(Reuters) 08/16/2004 08:41 AM
Reuters - A ring in the Guarani language translates literally as "a companion of the finger," while an airplane is "a bird with hard wings that flies" and a telephone is "a line that permits one to speak from afar."

Tongue-Controlled Gameboy Advance SP
Launched

Tongue-Controlled Gameboy Advance SP
Launched 05/19/2004 11:59 AM

Woman Bites Off Part of Boyfriend's
Tongue (AP)

Woman Bites Off Part of Boyfriend's
Tongue (AP) 06/16/2004 10:58 PM
AP - A little too much passion, perhaps. A St. Paul woman who became frightened Wednesday morning when her boyfriend squeezed her too tightly while they kissed bit off part of his tongue, police said. "I guess I bit down too hard," the woman told officers, explaining that she has been victimized by men.

Offshore analysts speak with forked
tongue

Offshore analysts speak with forked
tongue 04/14/2004 04:56 AM
Rightshore, bestshore, anyshore...

Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG: It Just Rolls
Off the Tongue

Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG: It Just Rolls
Off the Tongue 01/16/2004 11:01 AM
Intel releases its 802.11g Centrino module: The fully standards complaint, Wi-Fi certified 802.11g (and thus backwards compatible to 802.11b) mini-PCI module sells for $25 in quantities of 10,000 or more, according to the press release, and will appear in upcoming revisions to laptops from major makers. It supports WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access); current Centrino B adapters only support WPA for manufacturers who have integrated updated drivers. What I was told last year during the Intel launch was that businesses of a certain scale work on a three-year purchasing cycle. Dell offered their own Broadcom-based 802.11g adapter to remain competitive because companies that had decided to go with 802.11g during 2003 wouldn't be coming back to the trough to buy more machines until 2006, and Dell would have left that business on the table. Intel is finally able to belly up to the bar, but they really did leave a market moment open for Broadcom and others. Companies that have standardized on Broadcom's solution, even indirectly via Dell or others, won't now switch in their 2004 cycle for new machines to Intel's module because that would mean that they would have heterogenous hardware to support. The flip side is that many companies waited on 802.11g: the enterprise versions of G access points didn't start shipping until long after the first consumer wave, and thus there was no benefit to having G....

St. Paul woman bites off man's tongue
during kiss

St. Paul woman bites off man's tongue
during kiss 06/18/2004 03:19 AM
Woman bites off part of man's tongue during passionate kiss .. Ooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!! .. Passion Turned to Agony

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eBay’s Global Transformation: Fast, but
Not Fast Enough

eBay’s Global Transformation: Fast, but
Not Fast Enough 03/17/2005 03:02 AM
Byte Level Research publishes a global analysis of eBay’s business strategy and Web site. By 2006, more than half of eBay's revenues will come from outside the US. However, to maintain mementum, eBay must expand its pace of expansion and improve its Web globalization navigation. [PRWEB Mar 16, 2005]

Fast Internet turns a fast buck

Fast Internet turns a fast buck 12/23/2003 08:07 PM
Haaretz Dec 23 2003 7:26PM ET

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports |
Bush takes a tongue-lashing from the
Pope over Iraq

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports |
Bush takes a tongue-lashing from the
Pope over Iraq 06/06/2004 08:33 PM
the Pope subjected George Bush to a very public, relentlessly critical assessment of Iraq .. got his ass handed to him .. Guardian

guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1232050,00.html
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Bob Evans Still Hog-tied

Bob Evans Still Hog-tied 06/08/2004 12:21 PM
Can the family restaurateur recover from a difficult last six weeks?

On putting 'I'm gay' on a
tongue-in-cheek mock-up of a business
card (and all the bloody grief it's
causing)...

On putting 'I'm gay' on a
tongue-in-cheek mock-up of a business
card (and all the bloody grief it's
causing)... 12/24/2004 01:02 PM

So I've been trying to respond to the thread about my apparent obsession with going on about my sexuality (note - they're talking about this) that's manifested over at NSLog(); except now all my comments are getting bounced for 'questionable content'. I've tried removing all the rude words from what I write, but god knows it's hard, and it doesn't appear to be doing any good. Before anyone goes running at his head suggesting that he's blocking comments like this to avoid debate, I should point out that I've been having problems with the MTBlacklist questionable content filters recently, so I'm not implying anything. Instead I thought I'd just post it here, with all the rude words back in... Feel free to post your own thoughts about this stuff either here or over on his site... But be nice, eh?

If what you're doing here is warning me that by having my sexuality on a card I might give out to people might stop me getting jobs, then thank you very much. Clearly by my age I wouldn't have figured that out already.

Figures suggest that people who don't meet their partners at school or university tend to meet them through work. Clearly this happens by complete coincidence - two people (let's say they're straight) are so conscious that they must not be flagrant about their heterosexuality that they avoid all mention of it for years until they happen to bump into each other at some kind of 'straight bar', recognise their attraction suddenly and fall into each other's arms. Clearly there's absolutely no assumption that it's okay to flirt with each other at a Christmas party or whatever. Clearly no one talks about what they did at the weekend if it could possibly be construed as to make any reference (direct or indirectly) to whether they're gay or straight or not. So they wouldn't say that they'd cooked a meal for their girlfriend, or go to see a film with their boyfriend. Clearly they wouldn't say out loud that they'd had a birthday party for their 3-year old son. I mean all of these things would be shouting from the rooftops about their sexuality. They may as well be standing outside your house with placards or rutting like Bonobo monkeys on the photocopier.

And quite right, I think, they should be ashamed of themselves - fornicating with their partners at home! Giving birth to children! Socialising with their family! Getting married! The shame. They make me sick.

I can honestly say that I'm stunned by your statement that you cannot see the difference between someone feeling the need to make it clear they were gay to avoid discomfort and awkwardness for themselves and their colleagues, and the fact that straight people simply don't need to do that stuff. Straight sexuality comes up in conversation a dozen times a day - by association, by reference, however.

At no point during my piece over on plasticbag.org or here have I said that a gay person should 'go on about' their sexuality. In fact quite the opposite. As far as I'm concerned, getting it out of the way early means that the whole thing becomes less of an issue - not more. It's about everyone knowing where they stand, so that they don't say something crass in the office like, "Oh that photocopier is so gay" while someone over the other side of the room feels it like a kick in the head. It's so that the gay individual concerned doesn't have to go through this whole long drawn-out tentative process with each member of staff as issues of boyfriends/girlfriends, what you did at the weekend, what you think about some piece of the news, whether you fancy that bird in accounting come up in idle conversation. Because that stuff is bloody difficult and infuriating and frankly I'm not prepared to go back to a time where I have to go through all that bollocks every time I happen to meet a new human being.

All of which misses the point. I don't make a secret of my sexuality, but nor do I tend to make a big deal about it. Most people who read my site have no idea that I'm gay. They find it a 'surprise' when they find out. I wish that wasn't the case. I wish that they weren't assuming that I was straight. I wish it wasn't an issue at all, but it remains one I'm afraid. I could bring my sexuality into my site all the bloody time if I wanted to, but I don't. I think I've struck a good balance between making my sexuality clear and then getting it off the table to talk about other stuff. And if you don't like that balance, well frankly tough. I don't care whether you like it or not. I'll be damned if I'm going to treat the rest of my life like my teenage years and live in fear of 'being found out'.

I should also point out that you've missed a hell of a lot of qualifying language from my post as well. I mean the very title includes, "In a happier world...". The text itself calls it a "Tongue-in-cheek-ish slightly-bored early-evening version of what I would kind of like my business card to be like." I stand by it - if anything your reaction makes me want to use it more - but it was never meant to be anything but a throwaway offhand happy and less formal card that I felt represented me accurately. It's true that I don't think that the normal separation of life and work is a reasonable one - that I think that we should act according to our principles in both, that we should care about our work all the time, that it should ideally be a passion and as much of our personality as things like your sexuality or nationality or political beliefs or whatever. I really care about my work and don't just see it as something that pays the bills, any more than I think my sexuality is just about something that happens in bed with a friend. But just because I'm not as willing to distinguish between the things I get paid to do and the things I do because I think it's the right and proper way of operating in the world, doesn't make it reasonable for you to conflate two words on a mock-up of a business card with a form of big swinging-dick sex-obsessed radical queer activism!

Oh and somewhere along the line you also make some comment about how I seem to have a lot of respect for myself, and I'm beginning to think that's really where a lot of this stuff is coming from. If you find me personally annoying or offensive then just say so and we can talk about that like grown-ups. Seems at the moment that the only person fixating on my sexuality is you.

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