Monthly Archives: August 2002

The Boring Part

I need to vent, and welcome any advice, on several matters which are somewhat entangled with each other.

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vote with your tectonic plate

GPS sparks boundary wars. New measurements tell Rhode Islanders that they live in Connecticut, and so on. (Thanks to Monty Solomon for the link.) If it were a question of private property, I believe the rule of adverse possession would … Continue reading

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if it’s Thursday, this must be a blog item

No fair! This list of blogs ranked by number of links (each way) omits me, though I’ve been linked (at least in passing) by about fifteen of those on the list. I must have forgotten to turn off the Romulan … Continue reading

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was it the voices?

“Oh my God, it’s Chianti! And from a year when the grapes died and they used foo instead!” Who the heck said that, and what was foo?

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something for everyone

You already know about the peculiar poetry of the Arcata Eye police log, right? How about Ed Pegg’s Mathpuzzle? It’s a dense log of matters Gardneresque, with new material about once a week.

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