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- In order to adfertote plus catuli, you had better facite plus catuli first. A number of very sharp people I know are working on this. Their feckless critics will doubtless help.
- September 12 was the annual peak in hurricane activity. Alas, there were no tropical depressions, tropical storms, or hurricanes anywhere on Earth. And as best I ( Read more... )
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- There's a useful overview of the latest Ubuntu release (9.10) here. Note the cautions about the 9.10 partitioner, especially if you have more than one SATA drive in a system destined for a clean install on a shared drive. I ran into some still-unresolved difficulties with the partitioner recently, but they seem to be machine-specific and may be due ( Read more... )
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- Yes, I've been lax on posting, but we've taken a short vacation with Carol's family, and I'm reading PDFs of the finished pages in my book, for reasons that I don't need to go into here. I have lots to post about, but little time or energy to do it. Bear with me.
- Our new puppy now weighs five pounds and is going on eleven weeks old. He still hasn't ( Read more... )
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- From the Words I Didn't Know Until Yesterday Department: Forcemeat is meat ground sufficiently fine to make it cohere with a fat base, and mixed with spices and sometimes other ingredients before incorporating in pates, stuffings, and sausages.
- The Weather Channel is running saturation-level advertising for a "3D chalk" product from Crayola, which ( Read more... )
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- For some years now I've been reading books, scratching my head, and suppressing the urge to complain that string theory is Emperor's Clothing, 0% cotton, 0% polyester, 0% science. It sounds more like the Supreme Fudge Factor to me, and popular because it's the only way we ( Read more... )
