Category Archives: Random

Plague

Posted on July 11, 2006 by WorldWideWeber

Every once in a while I check the spam filter here in the Basement, just to be sure a legitimate comment hasn’t been trapped. (It hasn’t happened yet.) Today, out of twelve bits of spam, only one was in English. … Continue reading →

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Unjinxed

Posted on July 10, 2006 by WorldWideWeber

The kid is home for the summer and she has been attending my Sunday softball games, thereby doubling our cheering section. She was beginning to get a little spooked, though. After starting the season 5-0 before she came home, we dropped … Continue reading →

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Weltschmerz

Posted on July 8, 2006 by WorldWideWeber

The mood evident in a previous post has not lifted, and a phrase has started rattling around in my head: “The world is too much with us …” Where is that from? Not Shakespeare. Shelley? Coleridge? Keats? No need to … Continue reading →

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………

Posted on June 30, 2006 by WorldWideWeber

[The world continues to roil around him, and yet he remains mum. Rainfall of Biblical proportions for eight days straight, a seemingly momentous Supreme Court ruling purportedly putting a vagrant administration in its place, ludicrous Congressional gassing about flag burning (almost … Continue reading →

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Lingua

Posted on June 19, 2006 by WorldWideWeber

A Russian friend would periodically make the case that his native language is more expressive than English and, I have to admit, when he rolled out his examples, I was impressed. They were masterpieces of concision and wit. But in … Continue reading →

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Blockage

Posted on June 13, 2006 by WorldWideWeber

If you like M.C. Escher (and, really, who doesn’t?), you may or may not like the Lego version. And here’s a link to works by Rob Gonsalves. Some people invoke Escher when describing his stuff; some call it kitsch. What say you?

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Diacritic

Posted on May 28, 2006 by WorldWideWeber

Gmork is a fictional villain, while Gmörk is a decent white wine from Austria. What a difference an umlaut makes.

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Beer

Posted on May 20, 2006 by WorldWideWeber

Make that “water filtered through a horse”: [German soccer fans] are furious that Budweiser will be the official tipple for the World Cup, which starts next month. The American lager has secured a near-monopoly of beer sales inside World Cup … Continue reading →

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Hummer

Posted on May 18, 2006 by WorldWideWeber

H1 down, H2 and H3 to go. Katrina vanden Heuvel over at The Nation isn’t optimistic: The good news out of Detroit is that the largest version of the Hummer—the 10,000 pound, less than 10 mpg, $150,000 Hummer H1—is being … Continue reading →

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Blogology

Posted on May 12, 2006 by WorldWideWeber

I have this funny urge to do a taxonomy of blogs. Some of the distinguishing characteristics would be: Single author | multiple authors Multiple posts per day | multiple days between posts Blogger does | does not already have an … Continue reading →

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