you two are obviously meant for each other

elisp! That's why Paul and I decided to fork emacs.

frighteningly, perl can do static scoping by request with the local keyword.

local is for dynamic scoping. my is for lexical scoping.

you're right. My typo.

Scheme can do dynamic scoping by request with fluid-let! *small shudder*

Fail. You should really know who interviewed Sarah Palin, considering that she's given like a total of two (2) televised interviews.

I don't know tv people because I don't watch tv... *shrugs*

Maybe I should consider working it back in, but I fell out of the habit years ago. I hear there's some worthwhile stuff on sometimes.

DVDs. I don't ever just tune into something on the TV, but occasionally I'll replace reading time with "watch the Wire on DVD" time. This also means that I get to wait until the series is done until I decide whether I'm going to spend time with it.

This works better if you have A/V culture obsessive friends to borrow these things from.

At first I was (no offense intended, Alex) dismayed that a smart person wouldn't recognize Couric. Then I realized that "there's this woman who interviewed Sarah Palin, and it's all over YouTube -- Palin totally falls apart!" is actually EXACTLY the attitude I would want people to have about a good piece of journalism.

As long as information is perceived as useful and trustworthy, I don't give a shit how it got out there, and I don't think anybody else needs to, either.

Michael
reporter

Absolutely. Fie on celebrity journalism.

I would like to credit you for your useful and trustworthy insights, but because they were made in a LiveJournal comment, they clearly must be worthless. Darn!