Invokes the Code of the Woosters in a snark on Canadian attitudes. What more could one ask for?
Just because. (more…)
Digital clocks tell you the time. Analogue clocks suggest it.
— Thus James Lileks.
The original web site this came from is no longer there. I retrieved this from the Internet “Wayback Machine” at www.archive.org. I’m cross-posting to keep it alive a little longer.
http://www.janegalt.net/blog/archives/005244.html
Blog title: Asymmetrical Information.
April, 02, 2005.
From the desk of Jane Galt:
A really, really, really long post about gay marriage that does not, in the end, support one side or the other
Unlike most libertarians, I don’t have an opinion on gay marriage, and I’m not going to have an opinion no matter how much you bait me. However, I had an interesting discussion last night with another libertarian about it, which devolved into an argument about a certain kind of liberal/libertarian argument about gay marriage that I find really unconvincing.
Wow. 58 new missions. A 16% increase all at once.
I am reminded of the massive temple-building efforts just prior to 2000.
With the Chinese. It’s just that most of us aren’t aware of it yet.
His Majesty: “This time, the declaration of war was deliberately misplaced by government drones who refused to take it seriously. And the opposing army consists of considerably more than a seasick hereditary field marshal, three men-at-arms, and twenty longbowmen.”
Polar bear milk contains up to 46 percent fat and tastes like the chalky cream of a fishy cow. And how do we know what it tastes like? Well, because polar bear scientists like Andrew Derocher are absurdly dedicated dudes.
Journalists are known for getting things wrong whenever the subject is something outside of their area of expertise, i.e., anything other than journalism. (And even then I don’t trust them.) Recent media coverage of semi-automatic rifles and meteors illustrates this.
It’s a meteoroid when it’s in space.
It’s a meteor as it passes through the Earth’s atmosphere creating a streak of light and shedding glowing material in its wake.
It’s a meterorite after it hits the ground.