Friday, December 21, 2018

Happy Solstice

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Today is the Feast of Sol Invictus, the unconquered sun. Yes, there's plenty of winter ahead of us, cold and snow and darkness, but with...
Sunday, December 09, 2018

Snow

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Diego dropped some snow on us, not that much, an inch or so. (It was supposed to be rain, so they didn't treat the roads, which will mak...
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Friday, November 30, 2018

Where?

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Another antecedent problem ... You really have to be careful. No Jews were murdered at the Auschwitz Museum, guys. Yeah, I know: Auschwitz...

Fiona anniversary video

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I love Fiona! Watch her galloping around!
Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Arctocentric?

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If "arctocentric" was a word, Google would be displaying it, instead of just being provincial. Yo! Sometimes people actually are ...
Monday, November 26, 2018

They're letting him have this???

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They're going to let him have "What are Siamese twins?" for this (in Recent Nonfiction)??? Sheesh. That's like lettin...
Saturday, November 24, 2018

Borrowed and reversed

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There's an example of an interesting phenomenon in yesterday's NYT crossword: a word or term borrowed from a narrow field - in this...
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Friday, November 23, 2018

The waiting table

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Here's the table (the main one, we overflow onto a smaller table, with 14 eating!) just before we all sat down. We had a wonderful...
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Thursday, November 22, 2018

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Happy Thanksgiving to my American readers, and happy end of autumn (or spring) to the rest!
Sunday, September 30, 2018

Antecedents, Referents, Reflexives...

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So, in this sentence the lizard bit down on the snake and prevented it from being eaten what was not eaten? Nope! Here's the whol...
Saturday, September 29, 2018

Kavanaugh

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Here are several things re that train wreck... some funny stuff at the end! "It is possible that his accusers might have mistook him...
Friday, September 28, 2018

Jeopardy! moments

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Just a couple of little moments from this week... First, earlier Rob said he'd never been able to see Book of Mormon because they alw...
Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Before the Computer...

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Someone posted this on Facebook - Luke Skywalker on Ahch-To ... or rather, Mark Hamill on Skellig Michael, Ireland. All those puffins? They ...
Sunday, September 23, 2018

Puzzled

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Here is what I do not understand. They have a list of nominees. He can't be the only judge they've got who will rule like they ...
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Friday, September 21, 2018

Shaving in increments

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Alex Trebek this week, shaving the beard despite its overwhelming fan support - his wife disliked it. Monday he had the full beard. Tuesda...
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Friday, September 14, 2018

Pretty brown bird

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Here's a female House Finch. The first and third are the same bird, and probably the second is, too, as a pair breeds in the big box hol...
Thursday, September 13, 2018

Ukrainian, not Russian

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Oddly, the translation algorithm actually realized that this construction means "is four years old" - though not "is ONLY fou...

The "Resistance"

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Bolling notes* "the author claims to be part of the "Resistance."  The term seems a bit grandiose for someone who is enablin...
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Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Follow the leader, or, Contributing to the delinquincy of minors

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And here's why the feeders have to be put away at night. (I yelled at them, they left. If they stay on the ground and eat out of the tra...
Tuesday, September 11, 2018

Everybody loves peanuts

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