Monthly Archives: July 2004

$2.56 and counting

Subject: The Concept of a Meta-Font Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 03:18:42 -0700 From: Anton Sherwood To: knuth-bug Digital Typography page 312, near the middle of note [11] 759,499,667,966,482 [ = 2 * 19 * 3717809 * 5375971 ] should … Continue reading

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better than average as unelected rulers go

Will Wilkinson on State Autonomy and Electoral Triviality I once went on a date with an EPA lawyer. I said to her, more or less, this is my guess about what you do . . . A new environmental law is passed. … Continue reading

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gummint culture

Christopher Westley: Why Be Proud of Government Work? Recently, when walking home from work, I was passed by one of those red monster pick-up trucks with an oversized bumper sticker on the back window that announced: FORMER MARINE. It made … Continue reading

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the price of pot

Educated Guesswork relays graphs – purporting to be from the ONDCP, no less – showing that the retail prices of heroin, cocaïne and methamphetamine (as adjusted for purity as well as currency inflation) declined fairly steadily between 1981 and 2001, … Continue reading

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why he calls it “Twinkie Defense” is beyond me

Friend Perry Metzger begins the bloguine.

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casting

“I wonder how often Angela Lansbury has played somebody evil” (as in The Manchurian Candidate which is on KQED now). “Not nearly often enough.”

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at the pictures, 1951

I’ve just seen An American in Paris, whose supporting cast includes the pianist Oscar Levant, who also said: My psychiatrist once said to me, “Maybe life isn’t for everyone.” Happiness isn’t something you experience; it’s something you remember. I envy … Continue reading

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