Powdered wombat guts and other sources of feelings of wellbeing
Posted in Misc on Dec 31st, 2007
The New York Times has a great article on airport security follies. I rather enjoyed this comment
Ninety years ago, H.L. Mencken made this observation: “Civilization, in fact, grows more and more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of practical politics is to [...]
Posted in Misc on Dec 27th, 2007
The cat summoned us in the night with a few distressed mews as he lay on the dining room floor. We turned on the light and stayed with him. The lady who hated cats when I met her shed a tear and stroked him as he died.
Yes, he knew we were there
I reassured her as [...]
Posted in Misc on Dec 26th, 2007
And so it is the day after.
Christmas has been and gone, as has the prodigal son. He brought a puppy. It peed, of course, but mostly on the newspaper put down for it, and stole slippers, and tried to dig to China under the table, and looked altogether pixilited with himself when allowed to watch [...]
Posted in Misc on Dec 20th, 2007
This story about the funeral of an old computer struck a chord.
My job once, well, part of it, was to shut down an old system whose departure was much anticipated. It was a WANG computer, the last of its kind sold in Europe. It took a lot longer than I expected. Years.
Oddly enough, we had [...]
Posted in Misc on Dec 16th, 2007
This blog post: Myths About Torture and the comments on it are worth a read.
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