Comments on: Hello world!

By: mark

mark — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:12:48 +0000

@colin
Thought I’d jump on in and see if I can swim ;-)

By: mark

mark — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 07:11:53 +0000

@harrisment
Rooowwwwwrrrrrrrr

By: Colin Jackson

Colin Jackson — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:20:04 +0000

Hey Mark

Welcome!

Colin

By: harrismint

harrismint — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:44:18 +0000

Hello!

I gotta hand it to you, that’s quite a grip you’ve got there…

Speaking of herds, best of luck being a tiger for a day than a sheep for a thousand years!

By: mark

mark — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:26:36 +0000

I don’t want to be one of the herd, but one of the heard

By: Jason Ryan

Jason Ryan — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:22:17 +0000

Congratulations Mark, your arrival in the blogosphere is both welcome and – given the proliferation of punditry out here – inexplicably overdue…

Subscribed.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:49:52 +0000

And, yes, I have seen that letter. Also the one from the DoJ that said “we don’t want this!” to the Senate, about the criminalizing aspect. Fascinating the way the wheels turn…

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:48:31 +0000

And you could have found that in the About page ;-)

By: Hamish.MacEwan

Hamish.MacEwan — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:33:48 +0000

Congratulations Mark,

Have you seen the letter from Specter & Leahy to the USTR?

And for the benefit of others like me who were puzzled by the blog’s name:

“In the science fiction novels The Mote in God’s Eye and The Gripping Hand by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, the gripping hand is used literally to refer to the strongest of the three asymmetrical arms of the alien “Moties”, some species of which have two weaker arms with better fine control on one side and a single much stronger arm on the other side.

It is used figuratively when presenting a third choice or fact after two others, usually after the second is presented with the phrase “on the other hand”. (For the third choice, one could say “on the third hand”, but the point here is, humans don’t *have* a third hand.)”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gripping_hand

True, we don’t, but often hear things third hand…