Monthly Archives: December 2004

Private Money

December 31, 2004 – 9:46 am

PBS is reporting a minor story that I’ve heard in a couple of other places, namely that the aid the US government has so far pledged to the areas affected by the Indian Ocean earthquake is less than what the Republlican party plans to spend on the upcoming presidential inauguration. Now unlike many residents of [...]

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Sudden realization

December 28, 2004 – 10:11 pm

Certain people who visit here will say the following is obvious. Others might think it’s not even English. But for me this was something that was sitting there to be realized, but I’d never quite noticed. I’m watching a program about string theory (a way of describing how the universe works at the most fundamental [...]

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In other news

December 28, 2004 – 3:38 pm

You may have worried that the terrible Asian earthquake was so serious an incident that even the American media couldn’t trivialize it. Worry no more: SI model survives tsunami (For foreign readers: SI is Sports Illustrated, a magazine. Apparently supermodelling is a sport.)

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Beer, Beer, Beer, Beer…

December 28, 2004 – 8:54 am

I used to live in Burton, home of many a fine hostelry. The area near my house was a flood plain, and to preserve the quality of the water used for brewing chemicals such as pesticides were banned from the plain. But I didn’t realize quite how important the water was. Until now.

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New Consumption

December 26, 2004 – 6:06 pm

One of the differences between the US and UK that I’m reminded of at this time of year is the use of sales. In the UK sales have two purposes. The major one is to shift merchandise that isn’t going to sell, whether it’s out of season, out of date, or just overstocked. Because of [...]

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