Monthly Archives: August 2007

the flickering image

Bela Lugosi was more interesting in a supporting role in The Black Camel (Warner Oland’s second Charlie Chan picture) than in Dracula, made the same year. Also recently watched: the first disc of season 10 of South Park. The first … Continue reading

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spam trends

For a while there, nearly all the comments submitted to this blog linked to files in an obscure directory on a minor university’s server, which in turn redirected to a porn site. After I reported it to the webmasters of … Continue reading

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C(52,5)

Played poker last night – for the second time in my life, if I haven’t miscounted – with some Stanfordites; I think I was the only one there over thirty. Won $2.50.

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what’s it called again?

I’m watching Dexter. In a flashback, teen Dexter says, “Jesus, Dad, it’s called being on time, did you ever hear of it?” The actors playing Dexter in the present and in the past were born in 1971 and 1987, so … Continue reading

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links

Charity finds that U.S. food aid for Africa hurts instead of helps. Oh dear, CARE has been taken over by evil selfish libertarians. What else could explain such a conclusion? What American accent do you have? I got Philadelphia on … Continue reading

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classifying is hard

I decided to rearrange my books by broad subject rather than by author. So far I have: biology, medicine, psychology computing mathematics, physics, chemistry language arts those included in this classification fiction history, geography, ecology, heraldry Does religion belong with … Continue reading

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pot is bad for your health after all

A woman volunteered to donate an organ to her mother, but mom’s pee tested positive for marijuana, so no go. I could understand disqualifying the disobedient from receiving an organ from the limited pool of dead strangers, but how does … Continue reading

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