Archive for the ‘rant’ Category
Friday, January 23rd, 2004
Someone ordered this at a coffee shop a couple of days ago. Hmm. Nothing like mixing skim milk and cream. I suppose this tastes better then a hot chocolate made with whole milk and no whipped cream?
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2004
If airlines were free to provide their own security, I wonder if they'd choose to train their pilots to use guns, and have them carry on the planes. John Lott wrote a good article about this. Lott concludes:
About 70 percent of the pilots at major American airlines have ...
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Tuesday, December 23rd, 2003
According to the New York Times Style Guide, the times chooses to use an apostrophe when making the plural of an acronym (see my Nov 30 entry) because not doing to would make their all-capital letter headlines confusing. So to avoid this, which rarely occurs compared to how often ...
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Wednesday, December 10th, 2003
People are killing each other over black-market cigarette sales. Surely some will respond to this by advocating stricter laws and taxes on cigarettes. Idiots.
The Salvation Army volunteers outside of supermarkets would do better, I suspect, if they did not constantly ring their bell. Instead, they should pause ...
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Sunday, November 30th, 2003
It's (=It is) about time I address a very serious issue: The use of the apostrophe in making a plural. The New York Times does this with acronyms and years, e.g., "DVD's" and "1980's," instead of what I consider correct, "DVDs" and "1980s." (I suppose the punctuation ...
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Thursday, May 22nd, 2003
From FoxNews: Most Democrats have objected to the tax cut ever since Bush proposed the idea early this year. "It gives away billions to those who need it least and does very little for those who need it most," said Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (search), D-S.D. Gives away. ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2003
Josef Stalin died 50 years ago, and, accoridng to this AP article, people still like him. "He was the best - as a chief, as a leader. He lifted the country out of the ruins,...We need a leader like him now." Um, for what, murdering millions of people? ...
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Thursday, February 20th, 2003
Last Friday a friend and I were looking for a place to shoot hoops. We walk in the freezing rain from the rec center to the field house. We get in, and these two retired-looking guys are sitting at the entrance. One asks what we want, and ...
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Thursday, January 16th, 2003
It happened again: I"m in the bathroom in the Engineering Center, and this guy sitting in the stall next to me is talking on his cell phone! As George Costanza has said: "We live in a society!" So I'm thinking "Is it rude to flush?". How ...
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Thursday, July 11th, 2002
It happened again. I walk into the bathroom in the Engineering Center, and in the first stall: an unflushed toilet with its golden glow. Lovely. Another grad student, electrical engineering, was there, washing has hands. So I ask him, in a non-accusatory tone, whether that was his, er, doing. He ...
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