Nigerian scam
I've been getting an awful lot of Nigerian scam spam email lately, with a surprising number of variants, but most...
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Uneventful flight home from SLC to SJC this evening. Am very very sleepy. Going to bed shortly. Mostly just wanted...
Mary Anne offline temporarily
Just a note to let folks know that Mary Anne's domain name expired; she's getting it renewed, but we don't...
Off!
I seem to have neglected to mention that I'm temporarily off work. Taking May off to catch up on all...
Floral sex
The titan aram (a.k.a. Amorphophallus titanum) at Kew Gardens has bloomed for the first time in six years: The huge...
More May Day antics
The Swarthmore Commune story gets better. The socialists (students from the "Socialism in Europe" poli sci class) held a May...
Remote-controlled rats
This isn't news to readers of Slashdot, but I thought it was interesting enough to be worth mentioning: scientists have...
Sordid past returns; film at 11
Back in high school, I was a big fan of The Prisoner, Patrick McGoohan's surreal 1960s TV series about identity...
Take Your Humanities Buddy to School Day
Cute article from Duke U's daily paper about Take Your Humanities Buddy to School Day. The event was designed to...
Arise, ye workers
Okay, so I guess that last entry wasn't really sufficient after a four-day absence. I'll try and post more soon,...
In passing
Drove down to Bryce Canyon and Zion with Mary Anne over the weekend. For photos, see Mary Anne's journal. No...
Still here
Huh—looks like it's been three days since I last posted. I guess I've run out of things to say. Okay,...