Monthly Archives: September 2002

This Old Palace

Much to my (and her) amusement, my housemate is hooked on a reality show: Country House [link updated 2006] follows Lord & Lady Tavistock (the future Duke & Duchess of Bedford) and their staff as they manage the Woburn Estate. … Continue reading

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hard stars

Vladimir Bulatov has made some awesome stellated polyhedra in wood. When I showed the small stellated dodecahedron to my housemate, she asked, “Did you make that in PoV-Ray?”

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“No Sugar”

Greg Egan eloquently denounces pointless cruelty toward refugees.

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a little Latin and less Greek

Today I started a course in medical terminology (aiming to make myself more marketable). I have to restrain myself from speaking up too often, as I know more Greek and Latin (and which is which) than the teacher does. Evidently … Continue reading

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bandages

Slashdot | Larry Wall On Perl, Religion, and . . . If you look at all the RFCs at dev.perl.org, you’ll find that most of the feature requests are bogus on some level or other because they tend to suggest bandaid solutions. … Continue reading

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11010011

It would appear that a significant number of netizens have taken to rejecting mail from 211.x.x.x, and that the Chinese spammers know it: I got several spams today that advertised a website in China (at least china-motion.com appeared in traceroute) … Continue reading

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naming is hard

My new title [“before i forget”] was suggested by Dori Smith’s Backup Brain (mentioned at Worldcon). I thought of “The Harp of —–” after Dunsany’s “The Cave of Kai”; but sadly that harper is unnamed.

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