Monthly Archives: September 2005

“Joss Whedon is my master now”

Posted on Wednesday, 2005 September 28 by Anton

Naturally, Serenity rawks. I’ll have to see it again with fewer noisy fans to drown out the jokes!

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a symptom of something or other

Posted on Tuesday, 2005 September 27 by Anton

Each member of the California State Bar Association (which is a state entity) has a number, and the Bar’s website lets you search by number or by name. Barrister No. 1 was William Harrison Waste, admitted in June 1894. The … Continue reading →

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my tiger ate my penguin!

Posted on Sunday, 2005 September 25 by Anton

Gratitude to Perry Metzger for a twenty-minute phone call: my Linux box is now transferring /home/anton to the new Mac Mini with scp. Later: Apparently /home/anton/.Trash contained a recursive link; the copy of my home directory ended up nine times … Continue reading →

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new toy

Posted on Saturday, 2005 September 24 by Anton

I bought a Mac Mini today. What’s recommended reading for someone coming back to the Mac universe after a long absence? (My other computers run Red Hat 9 and MacOS 8.1.) Monday: I bought David Pogue’s Missing Manual. It appears … Continue reading →

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a compassionate nation

Posted on Friday, 2005 September 23 by Anton

Larry Elder lists some policies that harm people of color, sometimes intentionally.

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the purloined telegram

Posted on Thursday, 2005 September 22 by Anton

Thirty-odd years ago I read Alvin’s Secret Code by Clifford B. Hicks (1963), which begins when a puzzling telegram falls into the hands of two boys. The only sentence in it that makes any kind of sense to them is … Continue reading →

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medical waste

Posted on Wednesday, 2005 September 21 by Anton

Because of Hugh Laurie, I watched the first episode of House, M.D., and that was enough: if the premiere is so formulaic (mysterious and scary illness, misdiagnosis, misdiagnosis, affirmation of the value of human life, intuitive leap, happy ending) there’s … Continue reading →

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