Dad, about to move from Pittsburgh to Raleigh, reports on a house-hunting trip:
We had done a lot of looking at houses through the Internet before going, and we were already quite attracted to the house we actually bought. Score yet another one for the Web.
(You know I’ve been itching for an occasion to use that phrase.)
I got mail today (on one of my many lists) that began:
SUPER EMERGENCY – MUST READ – PLEASE ACT NOW
I AM THE MODERATOR OF A YAHOO ANTI-IMMIGRATION EMAIL LIST
(Is there any other kind?)
I thanked the sender for saving me the time to continue reading, and got this reply:
I am a member of two Libertarian groups.
#1 – Libertarians for Life – Pro-Life group
#2 – Libertarians for Closed Borders – Anti-Immigration group.Not all libertarians are libertines, just most of them,
– followed by a quotation in full of my campaign speech.
If anyone needs me, I’ll be in my study, scratching my head.
What is the Latin plural of Elvis?
I’ve just seen Elvii, which is clearly wrong (the singular would then be Elvius).
The most obvious candidate is Elves, but of course one cannot count on one’s readers to pronounce it with two syllables.
On another hand, maybe it’s a consonantal stem, with a plural such as Elvires, Elvites or Elvides. The existence of the feminine form Elvira (no pun intended) suggests the first of these.
(In each of these the last /e/ is long.)
Maybe your new CSS would look drop-dead spiffy in a browser newer than NS 4.76. But it seems a bit fishy that I’m forever reading that claim in either blue-on-black or white-on-white.
(I did manage to install NS 6.21 a few days ago. The Inbox refuses to update, and the Bookmarks won’t let me see the date columns.)
The physicists at Los Alamos sometimes had trouble interfacing with local government, and so a new small county was carved for them out of Sandoval County. But a small bit was left over, so now Sandoval has an exclave of about 3 km2 between Los Alamos and Santa Fe counties. I found a map [old link removed] that shows the fragment, and also the reason for its existence: it is part of San Ildefonso Indian Reservation. (The rest of the Reservation is in Santa Fe County; and the map also suggests that the eastern part of the new county was taken from Santa Fe.)
Later: Another map (click Topo and zoom in).
Zegnatronic Man has a new sign! He has given up his impeachment campaigns, and now wants the world to know this:
Most cities do prohibit property owners from storing their cars in an unsightly manner (say, on cinder blocks in the front yard), or from parking too many cars on the public street in front of their homes. Fair enough. Gun owners will have to accept laws against leaving nonfunctional guns strewn about their front yard, and they will not be allowed to leave excessive numbers of guns on the street. (Anti-gun groups frequently complain that there are “too many guns on the street.”)