Friday, February 09, 2007

Requiescat.

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Isonomist's son (see here ) died yesterday afternoon. May light eternal shine upon him, O Lord, in the company of Thy saints forever, f...
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Thursday, February 08, 2007

Continental collision zone.

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Kudos to Twiffer for referring me to another NASA site, Visible Earth , which features images of earth made by satellites or by astronauts o...
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Wednesday, February 07, 2007

Angry Sol?

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This image, made by the SOHO observatory (see here ), which orbits the Sun at a point inside the earth's orbit, shows a coronal mass eje...
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A warming thought on a chilly day.

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Only ten days until Mets pitchers and catchers report for training. Addendum: Sorry, Twiffer . You have to wait an extra day. Red Sox pit...
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Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Two oranges.

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On a clear morning, a Coast Guard helicopter banks into a turn over the Hudson River, in front of New Jersey's tallest building. On a ha...
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Sunday, February 04, 2007

Bears or Colts?

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I don't need to decide. I could just watch The Game as a purely aesthetic propositon. In any event, I was leaning toward the Bears, fo...
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Friday, February 02, 2007

"Where is Lady Lake?", I asked myself.

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Yesterday evening my sitemeter showed a visit from someone in Lady Lake, Florida. Since I spent much of my childhood and youth in the Suns...
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Thursday, February 01, 2007

To Fray friends.

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Demos called me the night before last with the news about Isonomist's son. I sent Iso an e-mail yesterday; as usual, words couldn't...

Meet my maker, Maddy Martini.

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As I suspect is true of most mediocre bloggers , I've installed a site meter that keeps track of the visits to my blog, and, in some in...
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Rant of the day.

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I'm getting sick unto death of the word "edgy" .
Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Goodbye, Molly.

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I recently had occasion to quote from an article by Molly Ivins. Today, she lost her fight with breast cancer. Texas has now lost two gr...
Saturday, January 27, 2007

Upper West Side horror.

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This afternoon I took my daughter to a friend's place for a sleepover. On my way back to the subway, I spotted this nearly completed b...
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Friday, January 26, 2007

Wretched refuse.

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The caption is, of course, from Emma Lazarus' poem, The New Colossus (see here ), but this isn't a screed about immigration. Inste...
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Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Sunset on Mars.

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It's blue. Photo by the "Spirit" Mars rover, from NASA/JPL's Mars exploration rover site , thanks to a link from Cosmic L...
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Saturday, January 20, 2007

The Bridge, again.

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O Sleepless as the river under thee, Vaulting the sea, the prairies' dreaming sod, Unto us lowliest sometime sweep, descend And of the c...
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The hits just keep on coming.

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This blog has alredy set records this month for both visits and page views (see here ), and it's only the 20th. Thank you, my loyal rea...
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Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Concerning the provenance of hits.

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Dawn Coyote (click on "View Full Size" under her eyes for a vision that, if you're attracted to women, will make your heart p...
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A sad note to follow a great season.

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As those of you who've read my posts on college football know, this has been a really good season for me, despite my premonitions of dis...
Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Are unions evil?

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It seems that even Mickey Kaus thinks not (but you have to wait until the end of the discussion to find out). Am I alone in thinking that ...
Monday, January 15, 2007

The romance of asphalt.

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A few days ago, I was sitting here at the computer when the blast of a ship's whistle from the East River made me grab my camera and rus...
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My small contribution to blogger knowledge.

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If you want to attract visits to your blog, posting about a celebrity will spike your hit count for a short period, but blogging about a tr...
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Friday, January 12, 2007

A turning point in the climate change controversy?

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Am I naive to think that this is a significant development? Update: As of now, it doesn't seem to have had much effect on Exxon Mobil...
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Thursday, January 11, 2007

Was someone trying to tell me something?

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(Click on image to enlarge.)
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An offer that should not be misunderestimated.

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Henry Blodget in today's Slate .
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Possibly the greatest legislative speech ever made.

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Every time I despair of the mess in Albany (and right now I'm skeptical of Spitzer's ability to make good on his promised reforms, a...
Monday, January 08, 2007

College football Wow! Gators win by palindromic score.

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Florida 41, Ohio State 14. Eat crow, all you play-it-safe pundits, all you believers in Big Ten supremacy, all you worshippers of Tra-DI-sh...
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Wednesday, January 03, 2007

The Dark Side revealed!

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What you see above is an image, made by Chandra, of two colliding clusters of galaxies. The red areas at the center of the image are norma...
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Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Farewell to the H-Bomb.

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No, not the weapon. On New Year's eve, we had some friends over for dinner and to watch the fireworks from our roof. My wife suggested...
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Thursday, December 28, 2006

Put a laurel crown over Exit Nine.

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As I've noted here before , Rutgers played in, and won, the first college football game ever. But it's taken them 137 years to get ...
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Wednesday, December 27, 2006

A white post-Christmas

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On Christmas day, there was no snow to be seen in far northern New York State, where we were visiting for the holiday. On the morning of th...
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