Sunday, May 31, 2020

"Clerics"

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I was introduced to D&D back in college. Some friends played regularly and invited us, and once circumstances converged to allow it. T...
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Friday, May 29, 2020

A little reminder

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When you read about tests for the Wuhan virus, and grand conclusions about them, bear in mind what Beveridge said : No one believes an hypo...
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Fees

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I chuckled when I read about the Visions decision , but on reflection I wonder: are the rules so byzantine that you can overlook fees for a...
Saturday, May 23, 2020

Anything you want to be

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It's an article of faith in our new religion that you have no necessary nature; you can be anything you want to be. Quite a few of the ...
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Love

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In the half-asleep time an odd question came to me. We all know the song "Oh how I love Jesus". Would we recognize Him if we met...
Friday, May 22, 2020

Turandot

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We watched Met's Turandot this afternoon; the version Zeffirelli designed the set for. Being able to see what's going on makes a hu...

Fool or Physician: The Memoirs of a Sceptical Doctor by Anthony Daniels

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You may know him under his pen name of Theodore Dalrymple. He wasn't keen on becoming a doctor; he wanted to be a philosopher. He star...
Thursday, May 21, 2020

"undisciplined"

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The BBC has a story on Covid in Dagestan . Tests are short, equipment is scarce, and the disease hit hard. He says seven colleagues in his...
Wednesday, May 20, 2020

Not-so-deep-thoughts

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NOTES TOWARDS THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE BY ELMO, GUM, HEATHER, HOLLY, MISTLETOE & ROWAN
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Parallel universes

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No. The story is all garbled, IceCube has nothing to do with it, and the ANITA people are probably tearing their hair out. One of our peop...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2020

Debugging and emigration

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What was wrong with the SM-1800? That was a Soviet clone of the PDP-11 (Yes, I remember the PDP-11: we used it and a smaller LSI-11 for da...
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Uninformed/misinformed

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A recent post of AVI's--The Truths We Use to Lie With brought to mind the "Twain" quote: "If you don’t read the newspap...
Monday, May 18, 2020

Hope from Warren

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"An optimist expects things to turn out well; a pessimist merely hopes to be wrong, for a change."
Saturday, May 16, 2020

Lutes

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I was looking up Hungarian composers, and got distracted by Bakfark "While Bakfark almost certainly wrote an enormous amount of music...

Poetry with a purpose

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In the comments to AVI's post on poetry at ChicagoBoyz , I read a reference to "rollicking stanzas about judgement day by Wiggleswo...
Friday, May 15, 2020

Virus question

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I know that some bacteria present very different diseases if they enter through the lungs, intestines, or into the blood directly. What abo...
Tuesday, May 12, 2020

"Backed by science"

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I don't remember ever hearing a scientist use that phrase. I think I've heard "the science shows", but far far more often...
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Sunday, May 10, 2020

Ah, yes, that's why

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I watched a video of a whale breaching, and heard it was to help get rid of whale lice. OK, whales don't have hands to groom the way mo...
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Cats and chickens and words

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I figured cats were introduced to the Americas by Europeans, and so it was. A post here discusses names for cat in different Amerindian lan...
Saturday, May 09, 2020

Trireme question

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When I see pictures of a trireme (and most other similar boats) I see a sharply up-peaked stern--and usually it curved back over the body of...
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