In the northern hemisphere, the official seasons are as follows: winter goes from the winter solstice (December 21) to March 19 (the day before the spring equinox on March 20), spring from March 20 until June 19 (the day before the summer solstice on June 20), summer from June 20 until September 21 (the day before the fall equinox on September 22), and [Read more…]
When I moved to this site in January, I had to transfer my nearly seven years worth of posts from my old site. I was technically incompetent to do this but Jason Thibeault at Lousy Canuck has the skills and worked tirelessly to make the transfer. Since the data file was huge, it required [Read more…]
A member of the custodial staff in a Berlin art museum came across what looked like a water stain on the floor and after diligent efforts managed to scrub it away. Unfortunately, it turned out that the ‘stain’ was part of an exhibit by artist Martin Kippenberger titled When it Starts Dripping from the Ceiling, valued at $1.1 million.
Oops.
In order to reduce spam, I have a policy that the very first comment that is submitted must be approved by me. Once approved, that commenter is free to comment without prior approval.
This means, however, that I must judge if the first comment is genuine or not. So people who are commenting for the first time should make sure that it is relevant to the post that they are commenting on and does not look like it could be misjudged to have been generated by a spambot.
I have had to turn down some comments because they were too generic. If yours was one that was turned down by mistake, I apologize and urge you to resubmit with the above in mind.
Thanks.
I have written before that men under the age of around 25 tend to do really stupid things.
Further evidence in support of this comes from a recent story in a Cleveland suburb where three students sent in phony [Read more…]
You just have to know what buttons to push.
I almost forgot to mark the occasion of the seventh anniversary of this blog. Well, technically not at this particular location which I moved to on January 9th of this year. But I started blogging on January 26, 2005 and never thought I’d last this long.
So onward and upward to year #8!
I have decided to take up the offer to move to Freethought Blogs. The change will take effect immediately and my new site is already up here. I reposted yesterday’s Santorum post over there to get a feel of how to use the new platform. I will continue to maintain this site with all its archives and will monitor it to clear up the spam and respond to any questions and comments that warrant them but new posts will only appear over at the new site.
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