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Sappho's Hymn to Aphrodite
Here's me being pretentious, as usual....
I misspoke in the line αι δε μη φιλει ταχεως φιλησει ("Ai de maa filei, takheos filaasei," translated here as "and if she does not love, she shall presently love"). I said φιλεις ("fileis") where it should have been φιλει ("filei"). I guess I was unconsciously conjugating in English, where the third person ( Read more... ) -
assassination
The following came through on my twitter just now:
cnn Clinton: RFK reference unrelated to Obama
Phew! So she isn't planning to have him assassinated. That's good to hear.
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Redundancy; Isobel
When I added “redundancy” to my list of interests, I was joking about the fact that I listed several of my interests more than once (e.g. “beatles” and “the beatles”). But I am an economist with an interest in macroeconomic labor market issues. So I really am interested in redundancy. Only since I’m an American economist, it took me a while to ( Read more... ) -
Am I becoming too emotional?
A couple of things have brought me to the point of tears in the last couple of days. The first was learning that London Andrews’ boyfriend broke up with her. The second was reading in The Wall Street Journal that five million people have been left homeless by the Chinese earthquake.
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Rants about HPV
Isobel Wren has cervical cancer, as she discusses in this video. From the comments it appears that London Andrews also has it. And Fedora El Morro had a suspected cervical cancer that turned out to be benign. So that’s at least three out of the four remaining fivenakedmodels that have had cervical neoplasms. Let’s see if we hear from Samantha ( Read more... ) -
The costumes were delicious
I went to see Cardenio at the ART today. (Guess the reviews weren’t very good, because my wife and I had a whole row to ourselves.) I think it may have more to do with my state of mind than with the production itself, but I had an interesting experience watching the opening scene.
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Why do banking services cost more than porn?
I think I might have had something to say here, but I forgot what it was. I did have something to say about banking and porn on the Nerdfighters Ning Network today. -
What is the retronym for non-digital photography?
Before they invented electric guitars, guitars were just guitars. There were no “acoustic guitars,” because the concept wasn’t necessary. When electric guitars were invented, they needed a name for the non-electric guitars, and people started calling them “acoustic guitars.”
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Fetishcon Congratulations
I’m not going to Fetishcon, and unless both my sexual preferences and my marriage change dramatically, chances are I will never go to Fetishcon. But I would like to congratulate Isobel Wren (
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