If the IRS had discovered the quadratic formula…
Monthly Archives: April 2005
Town without pity, Part 3
April 28, 2005 – 10:07 am
Dunster reports:
Article 4 - Assistant Moderator. The first speech was from Rich Carreiro who cited his knowledge of procedure, communication skills, and attention to meeting and detail. The second was from John Leone who described his attendance record, his knowledge of town officials through his law practice, his chairmanship of the Zoning Bylaw Review Committee, [...]
Now that’s what I call excellent
April 27, 2005 – 9:08 pm
You can now download the set from The Fun Years’ great MassArt show.
It’s 31 mins / 36mb of cool sounds, the sort of thing I love listening to when I’m working or doing something else requiring creativity*. Even better than the set (in my opinion, anyway) is their CD now that’s what i call droning, [...]
B-24 Liberators
April 27, 2005 – 3:20 pm
Worked this up from a photo scanned from my Grandfather’s book on the 449th Bomb Group (although not the book this review is from):
The 449th — equipped with B-24 Liberator bombers — operated as a part of the 15th Air Force from their base at Grottaglie in southern Italy from January 1944 through May 1945. [...]
Deep Mysteries of the Universe…
April 26, 2005 – 10:16 am
Why is the snooze alarm interval nine minutes on virtually all alarm clocks?
The end of the town as we know it, and I feel fine
April 25, 2005 – 5:09 pm
In the Herald, we read (though with difficulty, as the Herald writers, they are apparently not so good with the Ingleesh):
“We’ve asked the town manager and the superintendent of schools to prepare two budgets, one will be based on our existing projected funding and the other based on a successful override,” Arlington Selectman John Hurd [...]
Yeah Baby!!
April 25, 2005 – 11:44 am
I WILL LIVE FOREVER!!
David Brooks, NYT:
The release of a report in The Journal of the American Medical Association indicating that overweight people actually live longer than normal-weight people represents an important moment in the history of world civilization. It is the moment when we realize that Mother Nature - unlike Ivy League admissions committees - [...]
Continuity Porn!
April 24, 2005 – 11:49 pm
Even if you don’t watch Enterprise (and if you don’t, I can’t blame you that much), try to catch one of the re-broadcasts of “Into a Mirror, Darkly (Part 1)” and then “Into a Mirror, Darkly (Part 2)” next Saturday (or whenever your TiVo grabs it).
A great shout-out to fans of the One, True Series.
Ah [...]
Just what I needed!
April 24, 2005 – 2:42 pm
Some nonsense words and a link to a bunch of HMC math tutorials.
Not only will I leave this odd bit of comment spam up, I might check out some tutorials - in case doing so might result in my making fewer embarrassing math errors on future poker nights…
Thanks, aetdzlutbxu!
Ass-kicking mixes
April 23, 2005 – 10:22 pm
Via Warren (wanker!) Ellis: this.mix.kicks-ass.net. I’ve grabbed several hundred MBs of nice chill-out stuff. There appear to be some other sorts of music for those whose tastes don’t run in that direction.
C is for Cretinous Idiots…
April 23, 2005 – 6:16 pm
or, New Socialist Muppets
Another reason to chop CTW off at the knees…
Idle scribbling, first in an occasional series
April 23, 2005 – 3:08 pm
Chatting on the phone when I did this one. All gothic-y and shit.
The world is getting bigger
April 23, 2005 – 11:56 am
This is just begging to be made into a funny animation.
UPDATE: Suggestion to Google - add France last.
Tim Hecker: outstanding!
April 23, 2005 – 1:22 am
I dragged JMD to a nonevent at MassArt tonite: The Fun Years (some MP3s there), Geoff Mullen, and Tim Hecker. It was excellent, and I’m extremely glad I mustered the willpower to get out of the house and actually do something. JMD reported that he was glad he went, and that when his eyes [...]
Better not tell Rick Santorum about that!
April 22, 2005 – 9:09 pm
Turns out there is a federal Leaking Underground Storage Tanks program.
[see here, which mentions it in passing]
RC Lite
April 20, 2005 – 4:40 pm
From Scrappleface:
Vatican Spins Off U.S. Catholic Church
by Scott Ott
(2004-04-20) — In one of his first official moves, Pope Benedict XVI today announced that the Vatican would “spin off” the U.S. division of the Roman Catholic church, but retain a 49-percent stake in the new entity, called R.C. Lite.
The partial divestiture of its holy-owned subsidiary comes [...]
Houston, we have a solution
April 18, 2005 – 2:51 pm
A fascinating article about Apollo 13, from the IEEE Spectrum.
[via Instapundit]