cross-pollination

Posted on Monday, 2007 October 15 by Anton

After watching a murder mystery involving a medium, I dreamt that Maurice Minnifield wanted to hire a medium for one of his promotional schemes.

At least it wasn’t vampires this time.

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pent-up demand

Posted on Tuesday, 2007 October 09 by Anton

It occurs to me that, assuming Cuban Communism does not long outlive Fidel, a lot of gringos are going to buy nostalgic cars there.

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distinguishing traits

Posted on Sunday, 2007 October 07 by Anton

Watching Jericho, I wondered why Skeet Ulrich looks vaguely familiar; nothing in his previous credits rings a bell. Eventually I decided that his mouth sometimes looks like Johnny Depp‘s. That’s what I notice most about faces; how about you?

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sacrifice

Posted on Monday, 2007 October 01 by Anton

Assuming that the next President is unlikely to be a Republican, it occurs to me that the Republican establishment could give Ron Paul the nomination in order to let him, and by extension the noninterventionist cause, take the blame for losing the election. But I’m not convinced that They are devious enough and organized enough to pull that off.

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tunnel vision

Posted on Wednesday, 2007 September 26 by Anton

Sunday my monitor gave an emphatic death-rattle; at this point repair makes less sense than buying a new flat one – when I have the dosh available. Meanwhile I’m using the spare, which has about 4/7 as many pixels (1024×768 vs 1344×1008). It feels so cramped!

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legibility

Posted on Tuesday, 2007 September 25 by Anton

Fellow WordPress users! If you find that bits of Unicode in your archives have recently (=in version 2.2 or later) become illegible, comment out these lines in wp-config.php:

define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
define('DB_COLLATE', '');
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just don’t throw it indoors

Posted on Saturday, 2007 September 22 by Anton

Vladimir Bulatov makes and sells pretty things in metal, wood and stained glass. I haven’t bought any of them — yet!

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