Monthly Archives: September 2003

my drug habit

Having (it seems) developed a tolerance to Wellbutrin, I decided yesterday to stop taking it for a couple of weeks and see whether I get any worse. Update: In fact I improved for at least a few months.

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an interruption

If I have not answered your mail in the past week, it is because my own computer’s monitor is broken.

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spot the monster

Führer or Faker? Sixteen snaps of the creep of the century – or is he? [Link updated 2006]

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can’t beat the title

Black Man With A Gun — Firearm Activist of Color

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the brief fame of 2003 QO104

Current asteroid impact risk. These tables interested me less for of the warning they carry than for the way they present data. I had wondered how astronomers reckon impact probabilities, and these tables present it neatly. (Explanations at the foot … Continue reading

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Jack, Jack, Jack

I see that IMDB has accepted my correction that John Holbrook Vance is the same as one of the three Jacks previously listed; though it has not added his year of birth which I also provided.

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six-string orchestra

Got out my guitar today – the one I gave myself for my birthday in 1999 – and picked out, by ear, two bars of Mussorgsky. Woo hoo!

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