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Posted on entry Either a heart attack, or a Greek of the same name ::: September 14, 2008, 10:08 AM:
Best wishes to you both, and get well soon, Teresa.
Posted on entry Life at Home with Nielsen Haydens ::: May 18, 2008, 01:08 PM:
We should totally do a concept album.
Posted on entry Heavy weather? ::: January 05, 2008, 08:31 AM:
The tubes seem clear here in the desert.
Posted on entry Jon Singer's Turkey Algorithm, 2007 ::: November 22, 2007, 02:01 PM:
The figure, while well executed, would probably have several elements eliminated if Tufte had a hand in it.

True enough. But while Tufte is inspiring, I tend to follow Bill Cleveland for practical details. The light gridlines and all-round tickmarks are there deliberately, given the purpose of the figure -- you explicitly want to read from one axis to the other. Although, looking at it now, if I hadn't been in a rush this morning I would've remembered to have the y-axis read "Cooking Time in Hours at 325F" instead of just "Cooking Time in Hours."
Posted on entry Have you ever wondered… ::: October 23, 2007, 11:50 PM:
what if the makers of 300 made a movie about the American Revolutionary War?

This is SPARTANBURG!
Posted on entry Wedding apparel, never worn ::: August 19, 2007, 09:24 PM:
Little stories that put the hem in Hemingway.
Posted on entry And their heptalogies are just noise ::: July 21, 2007, 06:46 PM:
Tolkien began in minuscule when Gandhi was still a lawyer, and didn't end til the wastebasket was finally cleaned out after the millennium -- a enormously long delay that caused substantial embarrassment, trumped only by that Publisher's Weekly occurrence when a wired Asimov connoisseur couldn't be accommodated in the fan hierarchy: with a deity like Asimov at the top, etiquette demanded Pharaonic treatment be enforced by someone; maybe Teresa, or perhaps it's Macdonald, no its that Nielsen-Hayden guy.
Posted on entry Conventional unwisdom on publishing ::: October 19, 2006, 07:41 PM:
A lot of university press ... titles get distributed to a handful of bookstores. Are they trade books? Those authors and those publishers would say yes, and I can't see any good reason to contradict them, at least not to their faces.

Ow, I flinch. I wince. If you prick us, do we not bleed, etc. :-)
Posted on entry MSWord: I love it less each year ::: October 05, 2006, 08:15 PM:
I like it that the first four comments offered four different solutions, each of which would work.

I need to find the menu option that bans people from writing 1-page announcements or fliers in Word and then emailing them as attachments to hundreds of people.
Posted on entry Sign your organ donor card ::: September 27, 2006, 08:23 PM:
I study this stuff in my non-blogging spare time ... Just to echo what several people have said, it's very important to talk explicitly to your next-of-kin about your wishes. Next-of-kin effectively have a veto in cadaveric donation, signed donor card or not.
Posted on entry Summer storm ::: June 24, 2006, 11:06 PM:
Here in Tucson, it's pretty goddamn hot.
Posted on entry Where the feckless pundit class comes from ::: June 07, 2006, 10:41 PM:
Just to pile on:

Webb, though, is in an advantageous position since he has both the grassroots and D.C. Democratic establishment firmly behind him.

If the grassroots are firmly behind him, does that mean Webb is flat on his back?
Posted on entry The post with the most ::: March 09, 2006, 09:16 PM:
Ah, my green'n'lovely homeland. Have a grand time, but be sure not to take any shite from the locals -- especially about literary Ireland. The "Great Irish Writers" poster you will inevitably see hanging in a pub somewhere is notable mainly for the fact that more or less all of the writers on it left Ireland voluntarily never to return, were driven out by their fellow countrymen, or stayed and roundly despised the place while on their way to an early death.
Posted on entry Opting out of education ::: February 24, 2006, 08:02 AM:
When correctly viewed
Everything is rude
I could tell you things about Peter Pan
Or the Wizard of Oz --
There's a dirty old man.
Posted on entry Opting out of education ::: February 23, 2006, 10:56 PM:
I wrote about this the other day. I'm here at the University of Arizona, and have been wondering what it would be like to teach in an environment where this law was in effect. I mean, it's prime facie insane, so it will be interesting to see if it passes.
Posted on entry Duffer's Drift ::: November 18, 2005, 04:59 PM:
That was fun. I imagine the reference to "shite sandbags" in the last dream should really read "white sandbags," but I am not a military man.
Posted on entry Dives and Lazarus ::: September 13, 2005, 11:26 PM:
Some say that hell is filled with tires
Some say with mice
The bards I think have crossed their wires
I hold with those who favor pliers
But if I had to sing it twice
I think I too might go astray
And say that for damnation mice
Are also grey
And would suffice.
Posted on entry Dives and Lazarus ::: September 13, 2005, 10:52 PM:
Might Hell be full of vice?

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