Archive for February, 2005
Sunday, February 27th, 2005
Kathryn, inspired by enduring the dullness of the large number of secondary and tertiary award categories in this year's Oscars, created her own award subcategory:
"Best shoes in a short documentary about weevils."
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Monday, February 21st, 2005
I think Sean accidentally wrote a haiku in an email reporting a software problem:
It was slow before,
but it seemed OK.
And now the error appears.
It may not be quite the right format but it's close!
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Monday, February 21st, 2005
These guys were my heroes in the 80s:
Click their logo to see the museum!
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Friday, February 18th, 2005
Iris is now 19 months old and she's invented another new word. Kathryn was trying to tell her that adults wear underwear instead of diapers. In response, Iris says:
"Underpoos"
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Friday, February 18th, 2005
"Sugar nubs"
(Thanks, Jim!)
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Friday, February 11th, 2005
The Spam-O-Matic
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Friday, February 11th, 2005
"If the government truly wanted to 'defend my marriage' it would
hire us a maid and a cook and prevent another massively
multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) from ever working
on my husband's computer."
- Kelly Henley, in a letter to the editor of _Salon_.
[http://www.salon.com/opinion/letters/2003/11/22/dean_marriage_horowitz/index.html]
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Thursday, February 10th, 2005
Tom Baker of Doctor Who fame is still getting roles - most recently, doing a voiceover in a movie called "The Magic Roundabout". From a Doctor Who news blog comes this quote from a newspaper article:
Baker waxes on the role: "I mostly earn my living on my voice now, ...
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Thursday, February 3rd, 2005
Somebody please find out if this quote is inauthentic. I don't want to have to believe that such textbooks exist:
"If you are given the length of two sides and the angle measure
opposite one of those sides, you can use the law of sines to
solve the triangle. ...
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Thursday, February 3rd, 2005
This is a comment from a kuro5hin.org article about LASIK surgery:
I had LASIK done over a year ago, and the results have been great. Better than 20/20 with no side effects.
I was a tad nervous going in to the laser room. When they sat me down, I could see that ...
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