Monthly Archives: July 2005

expansion

Last night someone appealed on Freecycle to have a stray kitten taken off his hands. Our perennial talk of adding a kitten to our roster had recently become more serious; so, in short, we are the new guardians of a … Continue reading

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stylin’

I hope you like the new look, though I’m still tweaking it.

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back from Berkeley Bowl

“Why did you bring me thyme?” “Because you told me to get thyme.” “Did I say thyme? In future, if I ask for thyme, just get me basil.”

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cinema 1964

As I may have mentioned before, I arrange my Netflix queue mostly by date. Since I caught up to my own birth, the number of movies per year has grown sharply, so this may be my longest post yet.

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One Of These Things

I’m looking at a banner ad that says Q. Which is not like the others? 63 57 98 01 I saw quickly that none are prime (1 is usually not counted as prime, so that each integer’s prime factorization is … Continue reading

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backfire

Over in Volokhia, Jim Lindgren (cited by Tom W Bell) points out a presumably unintended consequence of the atrocious Kelo decision: if commercial activity is “public use”, then it’s not taxable. Hee hee.

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QotD

“I think the world has been run long enough by well-meaning professionals. We might give the amateurs a chance now.” —Carol Fisher in Hitchcock’s Foreign Correspondent (1940)

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