Monthly Archives: June 2004

top films checklist

From TexasBestGrok: Take this list of the 100 top-grossing movies of all time and bold the titles of the ones you have seen. I am following the lead of others and bolding the ones I remember mainly from having seen … Continue reading

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up where it’s cold

from Astronomy Picture of the Day, an amazing shot of Phoebe. Guess it’s time to pay some attention to the Cassini mission. (Cited on The Eternal Golden Braid)

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foul weather

My host was down for awhile this morning, because of latency problems upstream.

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you can’t permanently take the sky from me

Hee hee. Some Browncoat has put up a clock counting down to the scheduled release of Serenity, Joss Whedon’s big-screen sequel to Firefly.

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the transcendental dope

The Straight Dope currently has a column about the golden ratio and a staff report about Fibonacci numbers. These have prompted a thread on the Straight Dope Message Board which raises a couple of mathematical questions to which I’d like … Continue reading

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new on the [former] masthead

Russell approves of my latest choice of portrait [which may reappear on the masthead if I ever learn how]. It was taken on Halloween like these two. I didn’t have any digital pix of myself in left profile, or holding … Continue reading

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those libertarians, always so negative

Declan McCullough: Why the FCC should die (cited by Travis)

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