for a chuckle on your way to hell

Posted on Monday, 2002 March 11 by Anton

Seen today at Dr Comics & Mr Games: 79 titles by Jack Chick in one convenient package for $19.99 !

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learn something new every day

Posted on Monday, 2002 March 11 by Anton

I check this site periodically: Howstuffworks “Articles of the Day”. Current articles: revolvers, amplifiers, fire extinguishers, slot machines, lithography, light bulbs, instant film, elevators, gasoline, organ translpants, LEDs, grenades, sewing machines.

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backward compatibility

Posted on Sunday, 2002 March 10 by Anton

BBC News | SCI/TECH | ‘Happy’ mice skew results

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the future is here

Posted on Sunday, 2002 March 10 by Anton

Dad, about to move from Pittsburgh to Raleigh, reports on a house-hunting trip:

We had done a lot of looking at houses through the Internet before going, and we were already quite attracted to the house we actually bought. Score yet another one for the Web.

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Libertarian Spank Inferno

Posted on Sunday, 2002 March 10 by Anton

(You know I’ve been itching for an occasion to use that phrase.)

I got mail today (on one of my many lists) that began:

SUPER EMERGENCY – MUST READ – PLEASE ACT NOW

I AM THE MODERATOR OF A YAHOO ANTI-IMMIGRATION EMAIL LIST

(Is there any other kind?)
I thanked the sender for saving me the time to continue reading, and got this reply:

I am a member of two Libertarian groups.

#1 – Libertarians for Life – Pro-Life group
#2 – Libertarians for Closed Borders – Anti-Immigration group.

Not all libertarians are libertines, just most of them,

– followed by a quotation in full of my campaign speech.

If anyone needs me, I’ll be in my study, scratching my head.

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there can be only one

Posted on Sunday, 2002 March 10 by Anton

What is the Latin plural of Elvis?
I’ve just seen Elvii, which is clearly wrong (the singular would then be Elvius).
The most obvious candidate is Elves, but of course one cannot count on one’s readers to pronounce it with two syllables.
On another hand, maybe it’s a consonantal stem, with a plural such as Elvires, Elvites or Elvides. The existence of the feminine form Elvira (no pun intended) suggests the first of these.
(In each of these the last /e/ is long.)

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don’t overdo it

Posted on Sunday, 2002 March 10 by Anton

Maybe your new CSS would look drop-dead spiffy in a browser newer than NS 4.76. But it seems a bit fishy that I’m forever reading that claim in either blue-on-black or white-on-white.

(I did manage to install NS 6.21 a few days ago. The Inbox refuses to update, and the Bookmarks won’t let me see the date columns.)

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