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Friday, 2003 June 20, 21:05 — general

obvious in hindsight

Wow, I’m amazed this joke isn’t already Out There. Overheard today: “You know Rick here” — the friendly fiftyish fellow who co-manages the mail-drop that I use — “was an X-rated star? It was a movie with an all-Philippine cast, called Pinoy’s Complaint.”

Friday, 2003 June 20, 20:38 — eye-candy, mathematics

Computer Graphics and Geometric Ornamental Design

Craig Kaplan writes:

Whenever possible, one’s thesis should be write-only. Nevertheless, I understand if once in a while a visitor to this page may choose to read what I’ve written.

Friday, 2003 June 20, 10:50 — blogdom

no title

Laurence Simon of Amish Tech Support, weary from the media attention brought on by his exposure of a scandal in Washington, returned briefly to his old form yesterday. Heh heh.
(2004 Oct 19: Those links have gone bad, but I have not given up tracking them down at another site.)

Hey, when will the folks behind Movable Type fix that bug that appends a useless #000000 to every permalink? (Or is that fix part of the paid version?) Luckily for you, your humble correspondent here goes that extra yard to strip out unnecessary fields from any links, probably saving you several Planck units of download time whenever you visit here. It’s just one way of saying thanks for helping to make me the world’s 8th 44th 42d 53d most famous “Sherwood”.

Here at Ogre Labs we care about every stray byte. Why, I remember the time – what? Oh.

2006: I’m now 34th.

Thursday, 2003 June 19, 19:24 — humanities

keep on saunterin’

Heard on the radio: June 19 is World Sauntering Day.

Thursday, 2003 June 19, 15:03 — politics

no honor among thieves

AlterNet: The Screwing of Cynthia McKinney. Greg Palast blames her dis-election on her being widely quoted for something she never said. But wasn’t she also slammed for race-baiting?

Tuesday, 2003 June 17, 23:05 — cartoons

. . and fish

Practical ontology

Tuesday, 2003 June 17, 22:10 — prose

not enough gamekeepers.

Amazon World is a blog made up of quotes from readers’ reviews.

Oh, yes, every day people wake up to find themselves turned into a cockroach and have to deal with living as one. I’m just real sure!

Cited (twice) by Doc Frank, whose Blogs of War recently moved.

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