Monthly Archives: July 2002

are there still girls in apartment 3-G?

Today I spent a pleasant while browsing Don Markstein’s Toonopedia, a growing database of cartoons of all types.

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freeze-frame

Where the asteroids are. I did not know that the inner edge of the Belt is so close to Mars. This chart also shows diffuse extensions of the main Belt toward both Trojan clusters, and toward Anti-Jupiter: perhaps these are … Continue reading

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dinosaurs safe for now

Asteroid 2002NT7 won’t hit us in 2019, but may hit us in 2060. (Later: Nor then.) I’ve been hearing (on the Foresight Exchange lists) that minor impacts like Tunguska probably happen about once a century, going unnoticed without modern communications.

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a vignette of daily life in the transhuman age

Multi-Tasking, by Mike Treder. (Dead link replaced by live link, thanks to Randall Randall, 2005 May 21)

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how unhip?

I don’t know who jaguaro.org might be, or on what authority they decree One Hundred Albums You Should Remove from Your Collection Immediately [new link], but what the hell. I went through the list and found five that I own … Continue reading

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mint and the cats who nip it

Catnip’s little flowers, I find on closer inspection, are not plain white: they have little pink freckles. They are somewhat orchidlike in shape. Yesterday I caught Fluffie washing its leaves. You may ask why a member of such an edumacated … Continue reading

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A Wellmeaning Oaf

The List of Possible Bandnames, for those who have musical talent or a knack for names, but not both.

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