http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html Arrrrgh! Avast, ye bilge rats, I’m already shipshape. Call me Captain Bess Flint, me hearties! Additionally, I draw your attention to the Pirate Name site: http://www.piratequiz.com/ My pirate name is: Captain Bess Flint Even though there’s no legal rank on a pirate ship, everyone recognizes you’re the one in charge. Like the rock flint, […]
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A Bear of Very Little Brain
“When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain and you think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.” – AA Milne, “The House at Pooh Corner”
dDaylight/dt
The Autumnal equinox is in a couple of weeks, and during this time the days are getting shorter at the fastest rate they will all year, with the biggest change right on the day of the equinox. This graph is intended to compare the rate of change of the number of hours of daylight at […]
Old Folkies
Greetings from the Philadelphia Folk Festival. I picked Sunday this year because the lineup was lean on self-involved whiners errrrr hell, I’d better come up with another name for it. But if you’re my age you remember when the best folk music had a political edge or perhaps some biting social commentary. You didn’t hear […]
Blogthings: What English Speaking Country Do You Belong In?
You Belong in the UK Blimey! A little proper, a little saucy. You’re so witty and charming… No one notices your curry breath What English Speaking Country Do You Belong In?
Your Cheatin’ Heart?
Cheating Accusations in Mental Sports, Too – New York Times For some reason it never occurred to me that one might wish to cheat at chess. Eugene Varshavsky sent the NY Times article along to me and as soon as I run into him again I’m going to ask what the heck took 45 minutes […]
Windows Vista – Got Crack?
Hacker publicly cracks Windows Vista – vnunet.com For those of you who aren’t aware that the long-awaited Microsoft “Longhorn” OS has been released for Beta testing under the new name “Vista”… well, they have. Add more memory, clear 40G in your harddrive to run a virtual machine, and buy a new video card if you […]
Blogthings – What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Your Linguistic Profile: 40% General American English 30% Yankee 20% Dixie 0% Midwestern 0% Upper Midwestern What Kind of American English Do You Speak?
Dude, You Got A Dolt
Dell bollocksed up my account information and I’ve been trying for days to get them to correct it. They are very polite, but completely ineffectual. This latest in a string of ineffectual support people yelled a fax number at me in big red letters. I have no idea what I’m supposed to fax. I printed […]
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