Man, sometimes I just can’t do it. Something goes wrong, and I search the forums, and get hints like: “look at the sticky in this forum”. Big help. Or else, “What’s your configuration? Are you running linux?”. Always good to answer a question with another question. Usuallly the problems are pretty arcane. I had an [...]
We attended a funeral today. I swear, I will never attend another funeral in South Carolina–unless it’s an RC mass (which might last for 20 minutes–and has nice-smelling incense). For over an hour we were harangued and preached at by two, count’em two, baptist preachers. “I’m sure everyone here is a Christian,” said one of [...]
Tags on pillows, on mattresses, on anything withf a fabric or stuffing that needs to be identified. You need to know what’s in the thing you bought, because there may be llergies involved. Okay, I get that. But that tag, that’s so ugly–why is it sewn into the seam? Sure, you don’t want it easily [...]
Why do we need ear plugs? To give ourselves a few moments of rest. To retreat from the hurley-burly of the day. To go to sleep. To meditate. To drown the roar of an airplane’s engines. To escape that most annoying noise from the TV down the hall. In short, for what we think of [...]
Avis and I went to see the HD showing of the Met’s production of Sigfried yesterday at a movie theater here in South Carolina. It was a small theater, with a posted capacity of 159. We arrived 10 minutes early, and were alone in the room, so we got to choose good seats, row high [...]
Via Krugman, this great comment from Rortyomb on Bloomberg’s Awful Comment; What Can We Say For Certain Regarding the GSEs? And then this: Peter Wallison Discusses Fannie and Freddie for the American Spectator, or: Where are the Fact Checkers?
Honestly, I don’t know why, and resent, the change in usage from “from …to”, (which seems to me a reasonable formulation), to “to…from”. For instance, “Usage rates have gone to 45% from 39%.” This is just backwards. You go from somewhere to somewhere. If you reverse the order, it requires the reader (or listener) to [...]
Pre-Socratic philosopher Empedocles: But he was equal on every side and quite without end, spherical and round, rejoicing in his circular solitude. How he know about Chris Christie?
From Mother Jones: Does this tornado look gay? Fadil Basymeleh/Flickr