Monthly Archives: May 2006

Churchill

May 31, 2006 – 9:24 am

I love this letter from the reader page of the Economist: SIR – Please do not ever mention George Bush. And Winston Churchill in the same sentence again, even if you must break all the rules of grammar to do so. (HT: Aharef)

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Who’s the chimp?

May 26, 2006 – 7:38 am

Listening to a podcast talking about Bonobo chimps (you know, the ones that do the sex all the time). The researcher working with them told a story about collecting fecal samples from 4 female chimps. She started with just one, which quickly got the idea and started bringing her a sample each day so that [...]

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Taxing matters

May 25, 2006 – 6:00 pm

I’m not a huge fan of taxes, but as a good liberal I acknowledge that I like many of the things that they buy, so I understand the need for them (though a few less bridges to nowhere might increase my enthusiam). Now it appears that we’re going to get back some of that money, [...]

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A/C

May 24, 2006 – 10:33 am

After more than 6 years in our house we’re finally getting air conditioning as a condition of the sale. That means we’ll get to enjoy blessed climate control for two whole weeks before moving out. Capricious Gaia has arranged for temperatures to hit 94F on Sunday (before we get the A/C installed), which will probably [...]

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Rowlingosaurus

May 23, 2006 – 1:13 pm

A new dinosaur from the pachycephalosaur family has been announced, named Dracorex hogwartia in honour of the Harry Potter books. This led to the following IM conversation: Me: There’s a new dinosaur called Dracorex hogwartia Wife: Interesting – has it always had that name? Me: No, I think its mates called it Jeff

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