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You know what would be even better than having a recently-renovated stadium seating cinema right across the road from my apartment complex? If they’d included proper sound insulation in the renovations.

As soon as they get around to indexing either this year’s Congressus or the current JCMCC, I’ll have more publications on MathSciNet than Ahmad Chalabi. I’ve still got a couple to go before I can compete with Ted Kaczynski. OTOH, … Continue reading →

When it comes to gas prices, I’m torn. Speaking as a consumer, they’re rather high these days. On another level, they’re not high enough. In the interests of full disclosure, it should be said that I drive a lot. How … Continue reading →

I’m a fan of the post-modern propaganda posters that various people have been designing over the past few years (for instance, the ones in Bill Maher’s book). If you are too, then go check out The Diebold Variations.

I have joined the few, the proud, the innundated with automatic advertisements. I have a GMail account. I’m not sure what I think of the idea, actually, but it’s new and shiny so I figured I’d give it a try. … Continue reading →

Ponder with me for a moment: what does it mean to link to someone in a blog? An immediate and naive answer is that linking is an endorsement. One links to a site that says something cool, or something that … Continue reading →

A dear friend of mine writes a blog. That blog has recently been attacked by some random pseudonymous blogger. Let’s call that otherwise unnamed blogger U. One of U’s many (baseless, mostly incoherent) points of contention is that my friend’s … Continue reading →

I’ve been considering moving lately; I’ve had enough problems with the water in my current apt. that a change of venue seems like a good idea, and I’d really like to make walking to campus in under an hour a … Continue reading →

So people talk about Massachusetts liberals as though they’re the very worst kind, and by extension that there’s no place more liberal than Massachusetts. As a Canadian, I find this funny. Particularly when the (Republican) governor is now talking about … Continue reading →

Logging on to my pseudo-bank’s website, and I accidentally hit the caps-lock key when tabbing from “Account number” to “PIN”. I was vaguely aware of doing this — I do it fairly frequently, after all — but I wouldn’t have … Continue reading →