Monthly Archive: November 2007

Nov
28

Noodly Synergy Drive

A humorous annotation on a car in the company parking lot. The FSM gets around and I didn’t realize the movement was this strong.

Nov
15

Kinderbag

My old friend John found this bag in a fashionable store in Vancouver. He noticed something about the bag that was a little bit more than “average”. I’ll tell you what it is! This is our kindergarten class photo from the mid 1970s! Egads! People are walking around Vancouver wearing ME (and John) as a …

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Nov
12

Remembrance Day : A moment of reflection

I realize that I am quite young in the big scheme of things. I am neither a post-war boomer, nor a veteran. However, I am old enough to remember the chilling effects of the cold-war on our collective psyche; and even to recall some duck-and-cover drills and debates about the Soviets from early grade school. …

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Nov
11

Amazing Opinions

Hold on, it gets better: However, these propagandists aren’t just targeting the young. Take for example Apple Computers, makers of the popular Macintosh line of computers. The real operating system hiding under the newest version of the Macintosh operating system (MacOS X) is called… Darwin! That’s right, new Macs are based on Darwinism! While they …

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Nov
03

Fonts for technical publishing nearing completion.

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The STIX Font creation project states the mission… … of the Scientific and Technical Information Exchange (STIX) font creation project is the preparation of a comprehensive set of fonts that serve the scientific and engineering community in the process from manuscript creation through final publication, both in electronic and print formats. Toward this purpose, the …

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