Steve Kubby, Libertarian candidate for governor of California in 1998, has just been denied asylum in Canada. He will appeal. (Cited by Rational Review News Digest)
September 2005: Not deported yet!
years of low-maintenance operation
Cat User’s Manual (cited by JoAnne Schmitz)
Do not operate the CAT above water. This may lead to user damage.
Seen among another blog’s comments:
Unusual ideas can make enemies.
Posted by: Thomas Jennifer at December 9, 2003 06:33 PMCultivated people foster what is good in others, not what is bad. Petty people do the opposite.
Posted by: Sakano Jennifer Goldsborough at December 20, 2003 01:47 PM
Since neither observation has any obvious relation to the history of the kilogram, I am not particularly amazed to find that each contains a p*n*s enl*rgem*nt link.
2004 Oct 30: Now that I have comments, similar fortune-cookies have been submitted here.
According to the BBC,
More than 50 other gun control bills have come before [Brazil’s] Congress over the years and failed to be passed.
In other words, they were defeated. You don’t suppose the Beeb has some ulterior motive in using the longer phrase?
Russell Whitaker (Survival Arts) reports:
Yesterday was the 100th anniversary of the Wright Brothers’ pioneering flight. On the same day that a hobb[yi]st at Kill Devil Hills was trying unsuccessfully to replicate that flight, the real news of the day went mostly unnoticed:
Today, a significant milestone was achieved by Scaled Composites: The first manned supersonic flight by an aircraft developed by a small company’s private, non-government effort.
“He was left-handed, but the gun was found in his right hand. This is no suicide!”
I turned to my One True Ex and said, “If I ever decide to kill myself and frame someone for it—”
“I’ll remind you to use your other hand.”
you are in a maze of twisty passages filled with books, all different
Spent an hour browsing at Grey Wolf Books in San Leandro, a great barn of a place. Bought a small heap of sf/fantasy paperbacks, concentrating on the top shelf that only we freaks can reach unassisted.
I also found a copy of Thomas’s Calculus and Analytic Geometry at a price low enough that I need no longer refer to my old purple one. (My sister had used it after me, returned it to me with the spine ruined, and got herself a fresh copy.) How many of you remember the purple book? How many still have it?
My most curious find was a dictionary of Latin medical terms – for Estonians. One has to wonder: do such things ever move, or did the shop’s buyer take a wild gamble? If the latter, at how much of a discount?