Monthly Archives: May 2002

missing energy

Got a spam (three or four times now) from a Christian kook. In the middle of the prophecies about nuclear war and the biochip of the beast is a paragraph about Creation, including: THE LATEST RESEARCH IN MOLECULAR PHYSICS HAS … Continue reading

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having a Lilecious day

. . . in the slow moments of my temp job. Lileks watches 9/11 documentary: It says something about America that you can’t blow up an average skyscraper without killing people of every race and creed on the planet. It says something … Continue reading

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stupid computers

Save me from software that tries to outsmart me!

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QotD

Eric Raymond: Why Python? Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they’re much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is intimately related to our ability to process and understand complexity. A … Continue reading

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successful turns of phrase

The phrase “Iron Curtain” was coined by Churchill in a speech in Missouri, if memory serves. Is there a known source for “Cold War”? Update: Dan Kohn did the legwork and got the goods: Cold War This term for a … Continue reading

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yes, I’m bigger than you; so?

Lately the panhandlers (and nobody else) keep addressing me as “big guy”. They did not always, or so it seems. I suppose I could reply, “What do you want, little guy?”

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to keep and bear lightning

David Kopel: Does God Believe in Gun Control?

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