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You know, my life would be a lot more fun if I got more enjoyment out of seeing confusion on the faces of others. Because it seems to me that significant parts of my job result in the confounding of … Continue reading →

Normally I try and arrange matters so that if there’s a long weekend, I’m off doing something with it. The way things have fallen out, though, has left me in the Midwest for this one. And if I had anything … Continue reading →

So suppose that you’re the leadership of a political party. Your party has done fairly well for itself in recent years, to the extent that you control not just the executive, but both branches of the legislature of your country. … Continue reading →

Apple has unveiled their new G5 iMac. The page headline is, Where did the computer go? And that was pretty much my first impression from the photo. Sweet.

I wonder: when the sign says Automatic toll lane — coins only, does it take an act of supreme deviousness to interpret this as meaning: Toll must be paid; Toll must be paid in coins; Bills will do you no … Continue reading →

Today’s choice bit of weirdness: I’m sitting out my office hour for the afternoon flipping through the internet, and the Dean of the college I work in stops outside my door, glances in, and says to whoever he’s talking to: … Continue reading →

So classes have officially started hereabouts. On my way to my first class yesterday, one of the department secretaries pulled me into the office and let me know that there’s a room conflict, and that my class — yes, the … Continue reading →

I’d like to thank Kevin Drum of Political Animal for clearing up a bit of the nonsense around the phrase statistical tie. Essentially: if in a two-candidate race you have people’s preferences within the margin of error — say, 48% … Continue reading →

When I was enumerating (in the Java, not the combinatorial sense) the comforts of being back in my Midwestern Industrial Hub, one that I’d neglected to talk about was the public library. Usually my library visits involve a lot of … Continue reading →

While beginning the Great Apartment Cleanup that is one of my main goals this weekend, I found and revived my old Handspring Visor Neo. I picked it up back in my grad student days, and have come back to it … Continue reading →