MLK
A couple of quick notes on MLK Day before I run off to Santa Cruz: I realize that the man...
Author Archive
Polygamy?
Heard about this on the radio last night: a Utah triad is challenging the ban on polygamy. As Scalia (?)...
Earth vs. Mars, Bush vs. Hubble
Courtesy of Slashdot, the Mars Scorecard: Earth is currently the underdog in the solar system division in the Expensive Hardware...
Geocentric logarithmic map of the universe
Thanks to the web, you too can view a map of the universe in the comfort and privacy of your...
Dictionary typo
I confess to being inordinately proud of having found a typo in MW10: in the entry for Boudicca (a.k.a. Boadicea),...
Nixon, Quakerism, Hiss, and the Enemy
Garth points to an interesting article on Richard Nixon and the Quakers; it's perhaps a bit too glib and simplistic...
Data loss
Damn. Mary Anne lost all her data in a hard drive crash. So I decided it was long past time...
Updates
It's been pointed out that I haven't posted anything in the past couple days. No particular reason; just been busy....
Plurals
Joe pointed recently to a cool Straight Dope article on how to correctly form plurals of various words and various...
Reference
The last few stories I've edited have been without benefit of reference books. (Though of course I've used various online...
Lulls
Submission volume dropped very slightly yesterday ("only" 9 subs, which would normally be high but in this case was the...
Drain and drain! What is drain?
One of the things I hate most is going out specifically to do one particular errand that needs to be...