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You people had better start laughing at what passes for humor around here or we'll go back to me whining about the localized incompetence of the greengrocers in my world instead of making with the mockery of (a) pornish Restoration poetry and (b) romance novels and (c) only be sure always to call it please "research". If those greengrocer posts of yore somehow became your halcyon days of wonder through the vaseline'd lens of memory, well, far be it from me to keep you from such happy thoughts. Go get lost in the archives. The rest of you, we're currently doing Restoration porn, romance novels, and soft-science research papers. Try to keep up and also, laugh at the jokes -- it makes me feel better about myself.

( How's that research coming, then? )

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What goes in each data slot on the data sheet for A Longitudinal Study of Idealized Heteronormative Sexual Experiences, as Limned By Romance Novels, 1980-2008

( Final draft of instructions for the data collection sheet. Printable form maybe available later. )

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On an entirely different tack (I hate the spacebar on this fucking keyboard), the NYT Magazine has a nice big article on Ben Bernanke and our current economic woes. It's here.

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Man, I'm just chock-full of helpful information things. If, in your world, you have a somewhat less-than-acceptable audio track from an illicit download of a dvd, perhaps the problem is your fucking player. (Not that I have ever had this problem myself. I just... hear of it from other people.) May I suggest VLC Media Player, the little orange cone that makes so many damn things right? And it's free? Yes. The little orange cone. Get that one. You'll like it a lot.