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I disagree. It's a lot easier not to go to Nevada than it is to pick up and move someplace where you prefer the voting system.

There is an interesting chapter in _Excellence Without a Soul_ by Harry Lewis, suggesting that garde inflation is less a problem that widely believed. You could look it up.

1. Isn't this a repost? 2. Maybe the plumber didn't feel like chatting while he worked.

I worked with a programmer who was legally blind. He used speech-recognition software plus some sort of display software that blew each character up to about 10" x 6".

Many years ago a neighbor of ours, riding his son's motorcycle at something around walking pace, collided with his daughter's bicycle, and fell off on his head. He died, she got aw…

Certainly you can, but I find that bookstores generally don't, and I don't at home--force of habit.

You might want to Google for C.J. Date's essay on the problems with "intelligent keys".

I have written a certain amount of Javascript this year to run on Windows machines. This was because a) I needed the scripts to run on Windows, b) I did not wish to have to install…

You could change the NFL a great deal by changing the substitution rules, and making players play both ways as they commonly did before about 1960. You'd probably see the linemen c…

Elite runners can take enough out of themselves that the recovery is much longer. Recreational runners--well, I used to be able to do two or three every fall. Hell, I knew a guy wh…

I was a decent recreational runner in my late 20s. But pain tolerance is not "the difference", just "a difference". I do not have the classic marathoner's frame, and at above 60 mi…

Gee, I'm a 40+ Perl programmer. But Amsterdam is a few time zones away...

"There is one Phillips screwdriver in my house." How many screws do you strip by not having the right size of Phillips screw driver? How many more can you not engage? Or have you g…

Washn't this posted from the original blog already?

A fellow I know who works for Goodwill remarked on the folks with scanners some time back. My impression was that he thought it an odd way to spend one's time, but was glad to see …

Because, however popular he may be in Europe, he still has to run in the US.

Just say "strong as a Bull Moose" and run with it, eh?

American here. There are professors of English in the US who pride themselves on incomprehensibility. And let's not get started on the social scientists...

res ipsa loquitur, or does it?

Or maybe the laws aren't enforced. Using hand-held phones behind the wheel is outlawed in DC, but widely practiced. I doubt you can stand on a moderately busy street in Washington …

"two clicks away"?

I wonder whether the writer might take a hint from Johnson on "Cymbeline", that it is impossible to criticize unresisting imbecility. This is not to say that Ms. Sobon is an imbeci…

Not enough colors!

As I recall the P-80 never saw combat, at least in WW II. I remember it chiefly for killing Richard Bong, the USAAF leading ace.

I have seen drinking lunch and pretty blatant sexual harassment in the work place. (Drunk boss chases female subordinate around the room; bosses sleep with secretaries; computer op…