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Comment on Attention, Mr. Saha: You are in a spy movie by Kenn Jepka

Kenn Jepka — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:38:27 +0000

Or shouldn’t you get some kind of reward for telling them? Say, 1% if you notice and report the error within 24 hours, with a declining interest for every day after that?

Comment on Attention, Mr. Saha: You are in a spy movie by Roby

Roby — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:36:41 +0000

Kenn Jepka? No one would ever know. Or maybe Bonnie Madison. Because why not?

I wonder if, when a bank makes this mistake and the money goes into an interest bearing account, if you get to keep the interest for the time it’s in that account. With that amount of money, the interest earned in a day would be substantial. It should work that way, but it doesn’t.

Comment on Next time on Downton Abbey (Mild Spoilers) by Kristen Brouhard

Kristen Brouhard — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:05:24 +0000

I love you. Seriously.

Comment on A faint stirring of political interest by Jenn Kepka

Jenn Kepka — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:59:03 +0000

Sure, I’m game! I seem to dump all my reading commentary into G+, so it’d be a good idea to do that somewhere that has a chance of more than 30 readers. Heh.

Comment on A faint stirring of political interest by Kristen Brouhard

Kristen Brouhard — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:21:38 +0000

We should reboot Recycled Contents. I miss you.

Comment on New Year, new book: Madeline Dare #1 by Jenn Kepka

Jenn Kepka — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:58:45 +0000

Ahh, right. Sigh.

Comment on New Year, new book: Madeline Dare #1 by Roby

Roby — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 02:10:33 +0000

It’s like Nancy Drew because it’s a chick solving a mystery. Duh.

Comment on New Jersey Emergency Text Seems Like Next Wave for Warfare by Jenn

Jenn — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 18:19:12 +0000

I hadn’t heard about that from the ’70s. Fascinating. (I was going to say it sounds like the inspiration for a movie, and then I remembered they did make one — the awful Brendan Fraser Blast from the Past — about a similar situation).

I often wonder about the Emergency Broadcast System; I’m not sure anyone takes it that seriously, even if the stations now do. Even the times when I haven’t heard the robot voice saying “this is a test,” I’ve considered it a test, which doesn’t bode well for my attention or survival in a real emergency, I guess.

Comment on New Jersey Emergency Text Seems Like Next Wave for Warfare by punterjoe

punterjoe — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:23:33 +0000

Maybe you have been reading too many spy novels, but that doesn’t mean that bad guys haven’t also been reading them. How many real things first surfaced as fanciful ideas of fiction writers?
I found it interesting that Verizon claimed the incident was a “test” that leaked out. It reminds me of the time in the 1970s where a routine test of the emergency broadcast system actually sent out a National Emergency message – the kind you would expect if the missiles were on route. The protocol was for all broadcasters to go off the air (so towers couldn’t be used as homing beacons) and only designated primary emergency stations to remain on & cease programming, repeating the message that people were to standby for emergency instructions. This happened on a Saturday morning. The result was that nearly every broadcaster’s reaction was, “this can’t be right”, so they never followed procedure. NORAD claimed later it was all a mixup when someone put on the wrong computer tape. Still, the FCC fined thousands of stations, and the powers that be learned a lot about effectiveness of the alert system. Something they could never have discovered if not for the “mistake”.
I wonder if we’ll ever learn the real story about what happened in NJ …and why.

Comment on Reading and Enjoying Stephen King’s 11/22/63, But: by Kristen Brouhard

Kristen Brouhard — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 23:43:02 +0000

That is one wickedly clunky excerpt. (See what I did there?)