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Let me explain the new and rather half-baked look. It's been well over a year since I moved this blog to TypePad. I did it in a hurry, because Blogger was making it impossible to continue what I'd been doing. I picked a canned design which I didn't care much for but which at least…
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Some time back–almost five years ago, actually, which is a little disturbing–I tried to figure out why I don't have much interest in contemporary fiction. (The post is here.) One reason is that I didn't, and don't, care much for the static gloom that seems to pervade most of it, or at least most of what…
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15 Minutes of Exercise Every Day Reduces Risk of Death. I was about to say WebMD needs a better headline writer, but that's what the first sentence says, too: "A study published by The Lancet shows that if inactive people increased their physical activity by just 15 minutes per day, they could reduce their risk of death by 14%…
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Well, I'm mentioning it now. That's three hours of my life wasted, digging a hole and filling it back up again. In general I hate working with software for which I don't have the source code. Since that's just about everything, I'm doomed to frustration.
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Mr. Bean Wrecks His Car
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Discussion on the previous post led to mention of the phenomenon in which those of us who grew up reading a lot pick up words that aren't used by the people around us, so that we invent our own pronunciations, which are not always correct. I experienced a slight variation of this: in at least…
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I don't know when I've seen a more perfect harmony of title and art on an album cover. I wonder if I should make it my Facebook profile picture. If this link works, you can hear samples.
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Janet mentioned this several days ago, but I didn't have time to read it then, and then forgot about it until this morning. I'm very sympathetic, but, as Hart seems to suspect, that way madness lies. Or at least a grave social difficulty: you'll become a person everyone hates if you insist on correcting these…
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Lucky me, huh? *** postscript, afterwards: …and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
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A 15-pound (6.8kg) hamburger. Your horror should be tempered by the knowledge that it's meant to feed ten to fifteen people, but still…. And of course there must be a contest to see if anyone can eat the whole thing by himself. Note the word "Mallett" on the guy's t-shirt. That surely is a reference…
Light On Dark Water 