Monthly Archives: November 2007

non c’è più religione

Tsk. A current radio spot gives the web address “wachovia dot com backslash new”. Meanwhile, what’s new with me? I’m reading Coxeter’s Non-Euclidean Geometry in the hope that it will give me the stuff I’ve sought in vain in other … Continue reading

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I suspected as much

Roderick Long (1993): How Government Solved the Health Care Crisis: Medical Insurance that Worked – Until Government “Fixed” It Hey, I’m a fictional character! Dr. Anton Sherwood, “an older man in a tweed suit”, appears in The Secret Hour by … Continue reading

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still perceivin’

Eye exam this morning: almost no change in four years. I mentioned that I’m thinking of surgery. Before I brought up my more specific idea of having one eye adjusted for distance and one for arm’s length, the optometrist did: … Continue reading

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sometimes there are no good possibilities

Years ago, in a Usenet thread about Lincoln’s unconstitutional reconquest of the South, someone asked me (I paraphrase): “As a descendant of slaves, why should I prefer to live in that alternate history where the CSA continued to keep slaves … Continue reading

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the cake is taken

I don’t suppose this is really a novelty, but it hasn’t happened to me before . . at least not recently: I got a penis spam addressed to newyorkgirl711@pobox.com. Come to think of it, there used to be breast-enhancing spams too, … Continue reading

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military strategy for dummies

When they say “we’re fighting them in Iraq so that we don’t have to fight them at home,” what do they mean? I’m imagining wannabe-terrorists throughout the Moslem world moaning, “I’d like to go to the Great Satan and blow … Continue reading

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still burning?

Four years ago I posted a link to satellite images of the forest fires then burning in California. In the past month that post has attracted well over a thousand searches!

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