In which my old buddy Michael Fumento (see also more from Fumento) gains an ally in yet his latest blubbering discussion with Tim Lambert. Seems a character called “Tracy Spenser” started posting comments in Lambert’s blogs extolling the intellectual brilliance of Fumento and Lambert’s relative lack thereof. Spenser also seemed to be posting from the …
My favorite painting showed up amidst a fascinating package on human creativity in the Oct. 29 New Scientist (sub. req.) Historian and philosopher of science Arthur Miller says this: Marcel Duchamp had read some works on relativity and the influence is obvious in his Nude Descending a Staircase. I want to believe this. I’m not …
Dave points me to this: Anyone in the audience speak German?
By popular demand*, the Easy-Do Parties lady has been returned to my blog rail. Her tip for the day: “Stay within the limitations of your home – don’t invite more guests than you can serve comfortably. Several small parties are usually more successful than one big whing ding. And remember – men are more at …
As I’ve written before, my grasp on global economics is a bit uneven, but here’s another data point: The geometry of my neigbhorhood requires me, when riding my bike homeward from the northwest, to either brave ugly traffic, go the long way ’round, or cut through a network of alleys behind Wal-Mart and the furniture …
I’ve been listening to Lowell George off and on lately, and I keep flipping around to Willin’, which has always been an anthem of sorts to me. But of what? If anthems are defining sacred texts, then Willin’ must be about as far from my life as a text could be, the words of a …
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My new favorite search string, in the logs this morning: “article on t.v. reports on october 31 about bedbugs”.
Via Luis, a trail of bread crumbs leads to Paul Graham: Actually, the fad is the word “blog,” at least the way the print media now use it. What they mean by “blogger” is not someone who publishes in a weblog format, but anyone who publishes online. That’s going to become a problem as the …
This morning I donated blood. Most of the the staff at United Blood Services was in Halloween costume. For some reason, there were a disproportionate number of vampires. Wonder why.
While doing the blog software transition, a trail of crumbs in my old archives led me to Dan York’s blog, one of my old Advogato blog buddies. Turns out he’s a collector of old globes, and has just launched This Old Globe, a blog about globe collecting.