Monthly Archives: December 2002

bleak, with scattered hail

Posted on Friday, 2002 December 06 by Anton

In the shower this morning I was reflecting that the temp agencies haven’t called me in ages, and wondering what I ought to do. And I thought, if they’d just tell me “Go away already, you’re a fuckup and we’re … Continue reading →

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not black enough II

Posted on Friday, 2002 December 06 by Anton

Natalie Solent looks at pusillanimity.

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was it a blur for you too?

Posted on Friday, 2002 December 06 by Anton

Eighties Trivia – without looking, I’m sure of the answers to 27 of the 106 questions. It might help if I had watched television.

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not black enough

Posted on Thursday, 2002 December 05 by Anton

PermagrinGirl, whom I just found by way of Clayton Cramer, gets off a zinger: I’m still wondering, though, if it’s always ‘blackface’ to dress up as a black person, even if you’re costumed as an actual person (like Venus Williams), … Continue reading →

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weather

Posted on Thursday, 2002 December 05 by Anton

Dad rang from Raleigh this evening to report that he is among half a million who found themselves in the dark after an ice-storm. He says the cats seem most disturbed by the quiet: no television, no whirring computers, no … Continue reading →

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pay no attention . . .

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 December 04 by Anton

A correspondent asks: Anyone else starting to wonder if the IAO isn’t a sacrificial Day-Glo “rabbit” intended to draw eyes away from the real danger buried somewhere in, say, the Department of Agriculture?

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from YAWL

Posted on Wednesday, 2002 December 04 by Anton

Vicki Rosenzweig, one of those who first got me thinking about starting a weblog, relays a couple of science treats: Fresh evidence of ‘eclipse wind’. Chaotic orbits of shepherd moons. (The rotation of Hyperion was already known to be chaotic, … Continue reading →

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