Monthly Archives: January 2004

bang for the what?

A curiosity in “Whatever Happened to George Foster?”, an episode of Danger Man: Drake fans a handful of US currency, showing several tens and twenties and one single. The single (alone) is obviously fake: the cartouche in the visible corner … Continue reading

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fantasy astronomy

Funny blunder in Buffy, episode “What’s My Line” (2:9-10). Drusilla’s ritual needs to be at new moon; but as the sun is setting, she says, “The moon is rising.” (The new moon rises and sets with the sun.) [Later: In … Continue reading

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creaking computers

Argh. My Linux box’s HD has somehow gone too corrupt to boot (or reinstall). I guess I need to find data-recovery service. Meanwhile I’m using my old Mac – too old for MacOS X, and therefore too old for Mozilla. … Continue reading

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QotD

Quoth the ever provocative Brian Micklethwait: Evolutionary Biology is a bandwagon with too much momentum for a few clapped out Marxists to halt it, and if the Evolutionary Biologists decide that Hayek matters, he matters. Prediction: in twenty years time … Continue reading

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the grind

Had a job interview today. Filled out yet another tedious application, waited another ten minutes, and quickly learned that what they want ain’t me. I get so tired sometimes.

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my home away from home

As you may know, the .nu in this site’s address [before 2011 Mar 28] refers to Niue: one of a number of tiny states – most of them in the Pacific Ocean – that bring in the odd shilling by … Continue reading

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