Monthly Archives: September 2003

anthropomorphize much?

Wasn’t there a movie in the Eighties whose tagline on the posters was “The most erotic thing in their world was money”? 2006: The Ananova story, if memory serves, was about a Russian newspaper being penalized(?) for a cartoon of … Continue reading

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spooky

visual illusions

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escalier à chat

At ten years, Fluffie considers herself too mature for the four-foot jump to a favorite perch; so I improvised a stairway from a couple of crates, and am gratified to see her merrily hopping up and down it.

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identity theft?

I hate when that happens!

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throw a pebble

I have long taken delight in how the Net lets me rub electrons informally with scholars such as John Conway and Larry Trask. On September 12, I wrote to Eric Weisstein of MathWorld: If the tetrahedral rotation group is isomorphic … Continue reading

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my aging infrastructure

I was not distressed to learn that this Power Mac 4400 (bought in 1997) is too old for MacOS X – until I found that Mozilla is not available for MacOS 8.

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a hurricane in the Atlantic can alter the flight of a butterfly on the Pacific

My housemate, uncharacteristically awake before dawn, complained that she could not reach her mailbox (which is on this site). Thinking quickly I guessed (accurately) that, being hosted in Virginia, ogre.nu was temporarily knocked out by the hurricane.

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