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  • Thanks, Mr. Pogue

    I am pleased to be able to report that I have joined the bandwagon and am on my way to encouraging you to use Nuance’s Dragon Dictation speech software on your phone. Thanks to David Pogue’s post, I learned about Nuance’s Dragon Dictation for the iPhone. I created the first paragraph [...]
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    Posted: December 10, 2009, 8:28pm EST
    by John Lloyd

  • Evolution’s alive and well

    Sylvia Atricapilla from Wikicommons via Wikipedia Gregor Rolshausen and colleagues have a forthcoming paper in Current Biology that shows rapid evolutionary changes in a European species of birds. It’s a good illustration of a phenomenon that fascinates me: Evolution happens on different time gradients, over periods, epochs, ages, and even centuries. [...]
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    Posted: December 10, 2009, 5:39am EST
    by John Lloyd

  • Barbash on Mexico

    Writing in City Journal, Shepard Barbash has published piece entitled, “Helping Mexico Help Itself: A more prosperous, democratic southern neighbor would reduce crime and illegal immigration,” that I found quite informative. It’s a story about education, drugs, immigration, economic disparities, political corruption, and lots more, and it’s a story that [...]
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    Posted: December 09, 2009, 3:05pm EST
    by John Lloyd

  • Remembering Bill 1

    Whenever I think of Virginia sports these days, I think about my brother Bill’s frequent telephone calls regarding the prospects and outcomes for U.Va. athletic events. Although Bill was a big fan of football and men’s basketball, he was interested in many other sports, too. I am very happy that my [...]
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    Posted: December 05, 2009, 8:10pm EST
    by John Lloyd

  • I miss my brother

    Some time between the end of August and the beginning of September, my brother Bill died. I think about him very often, and it has been something about which I’d like to record my observations and opinions. However, I am reluctant to make all of those opinions and observations public. [...]
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    Posted: December 05, 2009, 8:00pm EST
    by John Lloyd

  • NBA HoF candidates

    Karl Malone should be an obvious choice for induction into the (US) Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame this coming summer. He’s the 2nd most prolific scorer in NBA history for staters. After Michael Jordan’s induction in 2009, it’s fitting that one of his greatest rivals during their careers is [...]
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    Posted: December 01, 2009, 5:04am EST
    by John Lloyd

  • HB, Representative Chisholm

    On this day in 1924, Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm was born in Brooklyn (NY, US). Not just because she was one of those “firsts” (first Black woman elected to the US Congress), but because she was a strong advocate for many important groups (minorities, women, and children) and issues [...]
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    Posted: November 30, 2009, 12:24am EST
    by John Lloyd

  • HB Origin of the Species

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    Time for a reminder that today is the anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life. As noted in previous years (2006, 2007, 2008), one can get a copy for free for [...]
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    Posted: November 24, 2009, 12:10am EST
    by John Lloyd

  • Let’s talk about health care

    I am very glad that the US Senate has agreed to have a public discussion of a plan to provide health care coverage for the citizens of the United States. As do many of my fellow citizens, I do not agree with each and every aspect of the current bill, [...]
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    Posted: November 21, 2009, 8:38pm EST
    by John Lloyd

  • 71 jewel

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    On this day in 1960 Elgin Baylor of the Los Angeles Lakers scored 71 points in a National Basketball Association game against the New York Knicks, hitting 28 2-pointers and 15 free throws. The Lakers won 123-108 on the Knicks’ home floor, basketball mecca, Madison Square Garden. As a pre-adolescent [...]
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    Posted: November 15, 2009, 6:12am EST
    by John Lloyd

  • WordPress 4 iPhone

    So, I downloaded this WP app for managing a blog from the iPhone, and this is my first test of it. Although many reviews on the iTunes app store reported concerns about the app, I haven’t encountered them. I was able to connect on first try. I can navigate pretty readily. [...]
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    Posted: November 14, 2009, 10:37am EST
    by John Lloyd

  • Some Google fun

    Google suggests searches as one types in the search box. An apparently rapidly-developing community of folks are playing with the feature. A site called “Question Suggestion” by Justin Talbott has been aggregating examples of some pretty wacky results for the since the spring of 2009. Flash of the electrons to [...]
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    Posted: November 12, 2009, 11:27am EST
    by John Lloyd

  • KAJ deserves a statue

    Kareem Abdul-Jabbar—who played basketball, writes books, coaches basketball, and advocates for worthy public causes—has leukemia. Although Mr. Abdul-Jabbar has known he has chronic myeloid leukemia since December of 2008, he only revealed it publicly 9 November 2009. The diagnosis has apparently been confirmed by checking for the Philadelphia chromosome abnormality. [...]
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    Posted: November 11, 2009, 7:01am EST
    by John Lloyd

  • Majorities and minorities

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    Ice cream by eye color Yes No Blue 16 43 Brown 224 151 Suppose we asked a few more than 400 people whether they preferred strawberry ice cream over chocolate and, as they answered we also noted their eye color. If eye color was related to their preference, we’d see disproportionally more folks with one eye color saying “Yes.” [...]
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    Posted: November 08, 2009, 8:47am EST
    by John Lloyd

  • Rafman’s reflections on Google street view

    Thanks to my brother Frank, I got a chance to read “IMG MGMT: The Nine Eyes of Google Street View” by Jon Rafman over on Art Fag City. Mr. Rafman, whose new book entitled Sixteen Google Street Views probably contains images similar to those in this essay, has a marvelous [...]
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    Posted: October 21, 2009, 9:17pm EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Eye Glasses

    I need ‘em. I can see things at a distance quite easily but, when it comes to near vision, I carry 2.50 magnification reading glasses. In this context, because I’d read about Freeverse’s app, Eye Glasses, it was one of the first apps I acquired. The Eye Glasses app is [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2009, 12:00pm EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • apps series

    As a consequence of my recent acquisition of an iPhone (3GS, 32 gb, 3.1.2), I’m learning about apps. I thought I’d post irregularly about what I’ve found interesting among these products. I’ll have to see how the series evolves, but I expect that it’ll include both quick reviews, comments, observations [...]
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    Posted: October 20, 2009, 11:49am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Security blogger: Don’t bank on Windows

    According to Brian Krebs, who writes about computer security for the Washington Post, people—especially bankers—should not use computers that have a Windows operating system for banking transactions. He explained his reasoning in a blog entry entitled, “Avoid Windows Malware: Bank on a Live CD” that appeared 12 October 2009. Here’s [...]
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    Posted: October 13, 2009, 1:12pm EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Newsy

    Newsy seem like a worthwhile idea: Aggregate news coverage from multiple sources, leading to a meta-level understanding. One’s got to wonder, of course, what rules Newsy editors will follow in selecting sources to aggregate. For example, one could select only from a certain subset of sources and, thus, [...]
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    Posted: October 10, 2009, 6:29am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Voting ends soon

    Voting in Project 10100 (i.e., “Project 10 to the 100th”), Google’s effort to promote good-doing works, ends tomorrow. Time to get over there and do the duty. Posted in Amusements, Neighborhood, News, Notes and comments, Technology [...]
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    Posted: October 07, 2009, 5:22am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Lucinda Williams was here

    Lucinda Williams played the C’ville Pavillion 26 September, rocking the appreciative crowd and the rain. It was the third in Pat’s summer concert series, though summer’s officially ended now, and definitely worth the price of admission. Ms. Williams ordered the set of songs chronologically by album, starting with Rambling and progressing [...]
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    Posted: September 27, 2009, 7:15am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Talent at the beginning

    Emily Elbert’s talent is very impressive. I just stumbled on her because of a cover of Joni Mitchell’s “Help Me,” and I bought her debut album within minutes. Great guitar. Good lyrics. Fine singing. Sheesh! Here’s a link to her Web site, and here’s a video of her cover of [...]
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    Posted: September 26, 2009, 5:20pm EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • 10^100th Voting

    Project 10100 (i.e., “Project 10 to the 100th”) is an effort by Google to promote good-doing works. I mentioned it in Dec ‘08 when I commented on a a story by Meagan Ellis of Materials World Magazine about a project by Edward Sazonov demonstrating the use of vibrations generated by [...]
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    Posted: September 26, 2009, 7:07am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Mr Deity returns

    As one or two of the two or three regular readers know, I’m impressed by the Mr. Deity shorts. Well, after a delay following the second season, the third season is available. I recommend it. Posted in Amusements, Atheism, Civil rights, Eco-stuff, Equity, Free speech, Neighborhood, News, Non-violence, Notes and [...]
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    Posted: September 20, 2009, 9:32pm EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • WMRA on Books Behind Bars

    Tom Graham of WMRA radio covered the Books Behind Bars story. The audio report is available here. Posted in News [...]
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    Posted: September 18, 2009, 7:42am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Books Behind Bars comes back

    Enclosure: [download]
    Last month after officials with the Virginia corrections department blocked Books Behind Bars, the Charlottesville non-profit organization that sends books to inmates, from conducting its activities in Virginia prisons, things looked pretty grim for the venerable program supported by local bookstore owner Kay Allison. Citing concerns about contraband (a CD [...]
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    Posted: September 17, 2009, 6:59am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • George Martin on recording the Beatles

    Thanks to Christopher Ave over at Music for Media, I learned of an interview with George Martin, the person who recorded the Beatles songs. Here’s a wonderful BBC radio piece that includes interviews with Beatles producer George Martin and an Abbey Road engineer who worked on the remastering project. It really [...]
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    Posted: September 15, 2009, 6:45am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Lacayo deconstructs Beck’s spins

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    Richard Lacayo, who writes about art and architecture over at Time, has a blog entry entitled “Glenn Beck: Crack(ed) Symbologist” in which he exposes the faulty thinking that sometimes passes as analysis in popular culture. In his entry, Mr. Lacayo explains how popular commentator Glenn Beck begins (warning: muddled metaphors [...]
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    Posted: September 06, 2009, 1:19pm EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • 2009 4-Miler

    I worked the Charlottesville Women’s 4-Miler yesterday, as I have pretty much every year for a long time. The setting at Foxfield is beautiful and the weather was very nice this year. The crowd was very large (I’d like to obtain a well-documented estimate of the number of spectators) and [...]
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    Posted: September 06, 2009, 12:09pm EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Texting, driving, dying, killing

    The accompanying video was created by Welsh filmmaker Peter Watkins-Hughes as a cautionary about the risks of texting and driving. As a warning, on YouTube viewers are supposed to attest to being 18 or older to see it, because of the graphic depiction of death and injury. I learned [...]
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    Posted: September 04, 2009, 10:36am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Imagine LA without TV

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    LA Times Of course, I hope that the Mt. Wilson structures do not burn in the “Station Fire,” but it is a fantastic irony that the LA basin might loose it’s access to air-based television if they do. This fire reminds me of one that burned some of the same area [...]
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    Posted: August 31, 2009, 8:49pm EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • My Fool Heart’s breaking out

    Jim Waive and the Young Divorcees When Jim Waive and the Young Divorcees played Fridays after Five on (surprise!) Friday, Mr. Waive announced that he and the band are featured in a soon-to-be-completed movie called, “My Fool Heart.” It’s billed as a comedy, though the story has a dark-sounding basis at [...]
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    Posted: August 29, 2009, 9:58am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Hug a Zephyr

    Our cat Zephyr, whom I sometimes called “Zepha-lump” because she was rarely very active and she would lie in my arms as if she was a pacifist protester, turned into a complete lump today. We had her euthanized. With Zeph, we had lots of good times. Sometimes she would run in [...]
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    Posted: August 27, 2009, 8:59pm EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Envying pjm

    I already wrote him a personal note, but I’m publicly admitting my envy for Parker being at the Worlds a-freakin’ ‘gain. Although he’s been very professional about it, he’s let slip about it in various venues. For example, he wrote that he finished ahead of Wilson Kipketer in an 800! [...]
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    Posted: August 23, 2009, 6:14pm EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Kenenisa Bekele

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    After claiming first in the 10,000 meter race at the 2009 World Championsips on 17 August, Kenenisa Bekele snagged the gold in the 5000 today. In doing so, the Ethiopian champion duplicated his own accomplishment one year ago at the Beijing Olympics. What an achievement! Bernard Lagat, a great champion [...]
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    Posted: August 23, 2009, 12:40pm EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Squandering time on wasting space

    If either of you readers is an academic, you might know that the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association—APA style—has recently appeared in its sixth edition. It came with a recommendation that people who submit manuscripts revert to typing two (count ‘em, two) spaces after sentence-ending punctuation (and colons). [...]
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    Posted: August 17, 2009, 8:33am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Bolting

    Bolt! Sub 9.6. This is incredible! Mr. Gay runs a 9.7 and finishes second. I envy Parker getting to see this live. PJM, do you think Bolt ran all the way through the tape? The videos show him looking around while still racing. Did he cruise a bit at the end? Posted [...]
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    Posted: August 16, 2009, 8:48pm EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • {CLAW} did it again

    The fund-raisers at Charlottesville Lady Arm Wrestlers raised funds for Light House Studio in the Thrilla in C’villa. It’s been a couple of weeks and I still don’t know the total raised, but I know there’s a video of the finals at the event. Posted in Amusements, Neighborhood, News [...][...]
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    Posted: August 16, 2009, 7:21am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • HB, J. Child

    It’s Julia Child’s birthday again. Had she lived, she’d be turning 98 today. Ms. Child’s mother, Julia Carolyn McWilliams, who lived with John McWilliam in Pasadena (CA, US), named her daughter after herself. The younger Julia later married Paul Child in 1946 and took his last name. When Mr. Child [...]
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    Posted: August 15, 2009, 6:59am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Fiore on health-care reform

    Reform Madness is a hoot. So was Beerplomocy. Jump on over to Mr. Fiore’s place! Posted in Amusements, Politics [...]
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    Posted: August 14, 2009, 6:45am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Coverage of Perriello’s C’ville session

    Hundreds of people met with Representative Tom Perriello in Martin Luther King, Jr., Performing Arts Center at Charlottesville High School Tuesday 11 August. Among those attending were representatives of the local press, including Brian McNeil (Charlottesville Daily Progress), a crew with Jennifer Black from Charlottesville CBS television affiliate, one accompanying [...]
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    Posted: August 12, 2009, 7:50am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Julie&JuliatheMovie

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    In a packed theater, we saw Julie & Julia yesterday afternoon. As probably most people in the US with access to popular media have heard, this is Nora Ephron’s movie based on a combination of Julie Powell’s book Julie & Julia (following her blog, The Julie/Julia Project) and Julia Child’s [...]
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    Posted: August 08, 2009, 6:29am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Hire an expert

    If one makes, say, the average salary of a player in major league sports (say, between $1 and $5 million in the NBA, MLB, NHL, or NFL), couldn’t you pay some one a few $10K a year to review every prescribed and over-the-counter drug, supplement, or alternative medicine you considered [...]
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    Posted: August 06, 2009, 8:46pm EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • JB was here

    Jackson Browne and his band played for the better part of three hours in Charlottesvile’s Pavilion 4 Aug 2009, bringing “Time The Conqueror” to our little burg before moving on to a bigger venue in Atlanta. Pat, Kim, Tim, Amanda, Jim, and I had excellent seats, just a few rows [...]
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    Posted: August 05, 2009, 6:44am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • ATMs can steal your $$

    Writing for Computerworld under the headline “Security analyst: Las Vegas ATMs may have malware: The U.S. Secret Service is looking into the situation,” Jeremy Kirk reports a story that I bet will become more and more common in the near future. Cash-dispensing banking machines can be equipped so that they [...]
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    Posted: August 04, 2009, 12:00pm EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Birthers’ record

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    I started this post 31 July, but then I stopped working on it to do something more important. About then, though, Bill Maher published an editorial in the Los Angeles Times that was much better than where I was going. Here’s my start: One of the marvels of the US Constitution’s [...]
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    Posted: August 03, 2009, 6:15am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Food Inc and then?

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    This afternoon we’re off to see Food Inc and the burning question is, “Where will we eat afterwards?” Posted in News [...]
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    Posted: August 01, 2009, 3:25pm EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Minding &s and @s?

    It’s important to check one’s text carefully. I know I’ve let too many typos and grammatical missteps stay in my own writing. In the case of Microsoft, though, it’s apparently a much more costly mistake. Extra ‘&’ in Microsoft development code gave hackers IE exploit Company’s security development expert [...]
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    Posted: July 31, 2009, 6:49am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Pogue says ‘beep the cell carriers’

    And he’s right. Who hasn’t drummed her fingers waiting for the annoying message to end so that one can leave a message on someone’s phone? The Mandatory 15-Second Voicemail InstructionsBy DAVID POGUE Last week, in The Times and on my blog, I’ve been ranting about one particularly blatant money-grab by U.S. [...]
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    Posted: July 30, 2009, 2:30pm EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Robots running amok?

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    In “Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart Man,” John Markoff reports on concerns about whether machines might overrun their human creators. It’s the stuff of science fiction, no? Reminds me of the endgame in Sim Earth. A robot that can open doors and find electrical outlets to recharge itself. Computer viruses that [...]
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    Posted: July 26, 2009, 7:30am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • D. Attenborough natural history pieces

    The BBC has an audio feature entitled David Attenborough’s Life Stories in which David Attenborough reports about sundry natural history topics. I heard one on local radio about Komodo Dragons and found another on the Web about Archaeopteryx. As usual, Mr. Attenborough’s writing and speaking command attention. Fascinating stuff. It [...]
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    Posted: July 26, 2009, 7:08am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Hits happened

    On Bob Edward’s Weekend, Mr. Edwards interviews Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, who wrote and produced many of the songs of my childhood. I know the show is broadcast at many different times around the country (I heard it several times last weekend when driving back and forth across ~30% [...]
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    Posted: July 25, 2009, 7:06am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Fiore on health care

    Doctor Decline. Posted in Amusements, Equity, News, Politics [...]
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    Posted: July 23, 2009, 9:50pm EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • George’s Big Necessity

    In The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Wast and Why it Matters, Rose George reports about excrement and the importance of addressing how we treat it. The topic is obviously a critical one for humankind, as it involves something that’s common (we all excrete) and poses a substantial [...]
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    Posted: July 23, 2009, 9:46am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • CLAWing its way

    {CLAW} returns this Saturday. CLAW Revives for THRILLA IN CVILLA on July 25th, 2009 !!! (The exclamation points were put there by CLAW’s author; they are not mine.) Posted in Amusements, Neighborhood, News [...]
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    Posted: July 22, 2009, 6:41am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Ratings

    O.K. I’ve enabled the ratings feature of WP. This is a very (underline, bold, italic) risky step for me. If both readers rate items as having one star…well, I’m in trouble. Maybe I don’t want to know how happy people are with these posts. To rate a post, one must [...]
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    Posted: July 21, 2009, 8:42pm EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • What I did on summer vacation

    As Peter H. and Mary C., my friends in high school, would know, I like playing electro-magnetic pinball machines. John C. (Mary’s elder brother), Mary, Peter, and I played regularly on a Hi-Diver machine in the entryway to the C. house. We even talked about forming a team, having shirts [...]
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    Posted: July 21, 2009, 6:11am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Moon walk

    Today’s the 40th anniversary of humans’ first walk on Earth’s Moon. For folks who were alive and able to learn about news events in the late 1960s, this was a signal event. To be sure, there were many terrific (as in terrible) things happening at that time, but humankind seemed [...]
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    Posted: July 20, 2009, 7:08am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Stupid me

    A few months ago, I thought that the anniversary of the Apollo mission would be a good reason for a post. So, I drafted one and scheduled it for the day 2009/07/20 when people first stepped onto an extra-terrestrial object. Of course, as anyone who follows the news knows, there [...]
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    Posted: July 16, 2009, 8:29pm EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Brandeis on freedom

    I came upon a quotation that I remember admiring previously. Because I thought it timely given some current events in the US, I thought I’d post it here. In his dissent in the case of Olmstead v. United States (277 U.S. 479, 1928) Mr. Justice Louis D. Brandeis wrote this. The [...]
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    Posted: July 15, 2009, 1:20pm EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • We Choose the Moon

    The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum has launched (ahem) “We Choose The Moon,” a Web site devoted to the historic flight of Apollo 11 that landed humans on Earth’s Moon just about 40 years ago. At 9:32 AM on 16 July the site is set to commemorate the [...]
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    Posted: July 14, 2009, 1:57pm EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • HB, H. D. Thoreau

    Henry David Thoreau On this day in 1817, Henry David Thoreau drew his first breath in Concord (MA, US). Among his many accomplishments, one that I especially admire was his essay entitled “Resistance to Civil Government,” which was published in 1849 as “Civil Disobedience” in Aesthetic Papers. In his venerated discussion [...]
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    Posted: July 12, 2009, 7:54am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • PoI: R. Hyman

    Over on Point of Inquiry, D. J. Grothe has an interview with Ray Hyman, author of The Elusive Quarry: A Scientific Appraisal of Psychical Research. Ray Hyman is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Oregon and one of the leading figures of modern skepticism. He was a founding [...]
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    Posted: July 10, 2009, 6:20am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Books Behind Bars coverage

    It’s good to see additional coverage of Kay Allison’s Books Behind Bars popping up around the Internet: Local TV reporter Jennifer Black had a segment in her Jennifer’s Heroes series called “Kay Allison and Books Behind Bars“; Shelf Awareness ran a segment called “Cool Idea of the Day: Books Behind Bars” [...]
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    Posted: July 09, 2009, 6:13am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Google maps oopsie

    Google Maps street view has a little mistake in labeling. It’s got the eastern end of Market Street in C’ville labeled as “Scottsville.” The image for 1938 E. Market is “Charlottesville” but just another click along the road to 1946 E. Market is “Scottsville.” Just click along the path on [...]
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    Posted: July 06, 2009, 10:41am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Marvin Gaye’s anthem

    For the 1983 all-star game of the National Basketball Association, Marvin Gaye sang the US national anthem, the “Star Spangled Banner.” At that time, the anthem had rarely been sung in any way but quite straightly, one exception being the rendition by Jose Feliciano. Mr. Gaye, an artist with a [...]
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    Posted: July 04, 2009, 5:52am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Anthropomorphism explained

    That guilty look that the pet gives you? It’s a reaction to you, not an expression felt by the dog. Just another example of human’s theory of mind run amuck. Condition Owner told dog obeyed Owner told dog disobeyed Dog was given treat Should be guilty;human behavior conveys “not guilty” Should be guilty;human behavior conveys [...]
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    Posted: July 03, 2009, 6:41am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Help with a quote

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    I’m hoping a literate (or even an illiterate) person somewhere can tell me who said something like this: We need more talk about poems and less talk about poets and poetry. I may not have the quote exactly right, but that’s the sense of it. I’ve searched extensively, but unsuccessfully. I remember [...]
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    Posted: July 02, 2009, 2:48pm EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Fav SSB?

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    Given that it’s the run-up to the US celebration of its nationhood, I have a question for you: What is your favorite version of the US national anthem, the “Star Spangled Banner?” I consider patriotism a modest virtue. I’d prefer loyalty to human kindness over loyalty to a geographic region [...]
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    Posted: July 02, 2009, 5:04am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Books Behind Bars on TV

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    Wowzie! Books Behind Bars will apparently be the subject of a local (i.e., Hook City) television news feature on 2 Jul 2009. Pat sez that Kay sez that there was a CBS TV crew at Quest today at 11. They were filming a segment that is ’sposed to air at [...]
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    Posted: July 01, 2009, 6:53pm EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Ritter’s Earth on line

    Professor Michael Ritter publishes a host of resources that help visitors understand earth sciences (e.g., physical geography). The materials illustrate the use of technology in teaching about geography. They are pretty nifty. The Physical Environment: an Introduction to Physical Geography (course Web site). The Physical Environment (blog for a class). Earth Online: [...]
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    Posted: July 01, 2009, 5:48am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • USATF 09

    I hustled home from work early today (yes, it was a Sunday) to catch a bit of the USA Track & Field (USATF) championships on TV. Beyond my own running (going poorly, but thanks for asking), there are several reasons for my interest. But mostly, it was just good to [...]
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    Posted: June 28, 2009, 9:31pm EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Gladwell’s Outliers

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    In the introduction to Outliers, Malcom Gladwell wrote that he hoped to explain why atypically successful individuals are, in fact, successful. For examples he draws from a wide range of times, places, and individuals. Why are some youth hockey players so much more advanced than others? Why did some people [...]
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    Posted: June 24, 2009, 8:01pm EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Sacagawea promoted

    After many years of questioning her depiction in a statue of the Corps of Discovery, people in Charlottesville got a chance to recognize Sacagawea’s contribution to US history on 19 June 2009. Accompanied by descendants of Sacagawea and local Native American’s who hosted their visit, dignitaries of the local government [...]
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    Posted: June 20, 2009, 10:16pm EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Kon-Tiki, Columbus, or Chinese?

    With apologies to Ozomatli, “Who discovered America?” There are many explorations worthy of mention. Not just “discovering” the lands of the Western Hemisphere. Lot’s of possibilities. But, as I understand it, there’s work on colonization of Earth’s moon. That’s a bit different. What a concept! See the story as told by [...]
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    Posted: June 18, 2009, 9:28pm EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Gandhi Summer Camp

    Here’s one that’d be interesting to follow: The second annual JMU Gandhi Center Children’s Global Nonviolence Summer Camp will be held August 17 – 21, 2009 at James Madison University, Harrisonburg. The camp will prepare children ages 8 to 12 to appreciate - the value of nonviolence, - the potential of nonviolent action to [...]
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    Posted: June 16, 2009, 7:45am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Point of Inquiry provides a free public ...

    Point of Inquiry provides a free public outreach service of the Center for Inquiry. It’s associated with Committee for Skeptical Inquiry (publisher of Skeptical Inquirer), Council for Secular Humanism, Commission for Scientific Medicine and Mental Health, and the Committee for the Scientific Examination of Religion. Here’s a blurb about Point [...]
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    Posted: June 15, 2009, 6:57am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Five Segways

    Here’s one of those fun images from Google maps. The scene is just off the mall in Washington (DC, US). (There may be a sixth behind the utility box, between the leftmost and the next rider.) View Larger Map Posted in Amusements [...]
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    Posted: June 14, 2009, 12:00pm EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Sacagawea recognized

    Lewis-Clark-Sacagawea statue A celebration commemorating the unveiling of a historic marker honoring Sacajawea, the Lemhi Shoshone woman who made important contributions to the success of the exploration by M. Lewis and W. Clark (and their “corps of discovery”), will be held 19 June 2009 in Charlottesville. The event, which will be [...]
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    Posted: June 13, 2009, 9:37am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • DB rocked the place

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    David Byrne and company rocked the Pavillion (local venue) 10 June. It was quite a production. Lots of the material came from the new album Everything that happens, but there was plenty for the faithful, too. (Some of the download purchases from that site benefit Amnesty International.) The band and dancers [...]
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    Posted: June 11, 2009, 7:13am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Envy is mine

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    Kurt Streeter reported about attending the Prefontaine Classic. Along the way, he took the opportunity to wonder why track doesn’t have the following it once did in the US. But, his appreciation of the meet was the main thing. Here’s his lead: Reporting from Eugene, Ore. — Speaking with running legend [...]
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    Posted: June 08, 2009, 7:55am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Cameron Davidson on the Chesapeake

    The Washington Post has a narrated slide show featuring photographer Cameron Davidson’s marvelous images of the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The bay is a magnificent bit of Earth that is threatened by humans’ activities (including those of mine and my neighbors). It’s worth saving, even if one doesn’t eat the oysters. [...]
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    Posted: June 07, 2009, 7:12am EDT
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  • Oxford town, Oxford town

    I don’t recall whether William Faulkner’s books reveal an interest in baseball, but I have to guess that John Grisham will find this connection a source of some pleasure: In Oxford (MS, US) U.Va. will play Ol’ Miss in a series of three baseball games to determine which team advances [...]
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    Posted: June 02, 2009, 1:26pm EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Dick Cheney did something right

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    Although I disagree with him about many issues, I applaud former Vice President Richard Cheney’s answer at a National Press Club appearance 1 June 2009. As the following clip shows, Mr. Cheney said that “people ought to be free to enter into any kind of union they wish, any kind [...]
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    Posted: June 02, 2009, 6:43am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Pogue reports on participating in Improv Everywhere event

    David Pogue (whom I don’t have to introduce), has a post at the New York Times about his (and his son’s) participation in one of the Improv Everywhere events. Here’s his lead: Most people consider me a gadget reviewer. But in my heart, I consider my specialty to be the intersection [...]
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    Posted: May 31, 2009, 7:43am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Where have all the thoughtful folks gone?

    What sometimes passes for discourse these days (witness the ersatz discussion of Judge Sotomayor’s nomination) is not much compared to what one used to be able to hear. Witness, for example, Dick Cavett’s conversation with Jonathan Miller, which one may watch by jumping over to Mr. Cavett’s blog entry, Why [...]
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    Posted: May 30, 2009, 8:01am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Oh sure!

    Hey, folx. Check this! I just inherited $2.8 million! Posted in Amusements, News, Skepticism, Technology [...]
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    Posted: May 27, 2009, 1:36am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Protecting babies from terrible diseases

    News sources are reporting a story about the terrific consequences of parents’ decisions to refuse vaccinations for their young children. The story is predicated on a study in Pediatrics that was released this morning. Vaccines protect individuals from contracting such diseases as measles, mumps, rubella, diphtheria, tetanus, and pertussis and, [...]
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    Posted: May 26, 2009, 8:48am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Beard face off

    Writing for the Los Angeles Times, Adam Tschorn posted an entry to a blog that had a title that made me smile: “Bearded & Tschorn: USA dominates World Beard and Moustache Championships.” Actually, as one who used to wear a beard that sometimes got longish (~6-7 cm), I was interested [...]
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    Posted: May 26, 2009, 6:43am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Wolfram|Alpha looks nifty

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    Wolfram, the company that developed and sells Mathematica, released a product that permits Web users to explore data about diverse topics. Wolfram|Alpha, as it is called, permits one to interrogate human knowledge. It’s dead simple and terrifically powerful. The accompanying image shows the results of one of my queries. Recently I [...]
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    Posted: May 19, 2009, 6:39am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Headless chicken stories

    There apparently is some truth to what I thought was cartoon hyperbole. At least one chicken apparently survived beheading and lived for a long time, supposedly with a little brain stem and esophagus. In animated short videos that I saw as a child, I remember watching illustrations of the concept. [...]
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    Posted: May 16, 2009, 7:02am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Building with beak and talons

    Creating a nest when one doesn’t have an opposable thumb must be a serious job. Over on Peace, Caffeine, Linux Scott Fraser posted video of a Coopers Hawk working on a nest. Check it by following this link to Mr. Fraser’s blog entry. While you’re there, poke around a bit; [...]
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    Posted: May 11, 2009, 1:31pm EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Two weeks plus

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    We’ve been in the new digs for a bit longer than two weeks now. It’s nice to begin settling into the place. It was also nice to have the people who actually built the place, along with some friends, visit on Friday afternoon. Thanks to Advanced Concrete Foundations Albemarle Countertops Alberene Soapstone Buckingham Slate Greer [...]
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    Posted: May 03, 2009, 7:44am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Publicdata from Google

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    Variation in unemployment in Virginia (US) over time from Google’s public data project One or the other reader of this blog will nod when she reads this statement: “John ‘likes’ graphs.” Google’s launched a service that will engage me for many hours in the future, I’m sure. I’ve just tossed 15-20 [...]
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    Posted: April 30, 2009, 6:18am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Idiocy unleashed

    The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Numerology (2nd ed.) by Kay Lagerquist, Ph.D., and Lisa Lenard This book is dedicated to all of you who long for meaning and want to understand how to live your life with consciousness and move with the flow. As our greatest spiritual journey is to “Know [...]
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    Posted: April 10, 2009, 12:57pm EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Fractally wrong

    What a great turn of phrase! fractal wrongness The state of being wrong at every conceivable scale of resolution. That is, from a distance, a fractally wrong person’s worldview is incorrect; and furthermore, if you zoom in on any small part of that person’s worldview, that part is just as wrong as [...]
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    Posted: April 09, 2009, 7:04pm EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Baseball openers

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    With the opening of the baseball season, I was probably already vulnerable for being taken by a post evoking some history of the diamond. When my brother Frank sent me a link to a post by Nancy Cantwell about a baseball outing in the 1950s to Polo Grounds, I jumped [...]
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    Posted: April 06, 2009, 8:37pm EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Humanist!

    The American Humanist Association has selected the one and only Pharyngula, old squid, P. Z. Myers as Humanist of the Year Paul “PZ” Myers Professor of Biology Humanist of the Year PZ Myers is an associate professor of biology at the University of Minnesota-Morris and author of the popular science blog, Pharyngula, which [...]
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    Posted: March 28, 2009, 4:58pm EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • Seeger’s b’day show

    There’s to be a celebration for Pete Seeger’s 90th birdthay in New York at Madison Square Garden. It promises to be quite a show. Posted in Amusements, Birthdays, Civil rights, Eco-stuff, Equity, Free speech, News, Non-violence, Notes and comments, Peace, Politics, Tunes [...]
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    Posted: March 27, 2009, 6:43am EDT
    by John Lloyd

  • EDAR covered

    Market Place, a widely heard radio program for American Public Radio, ran a brief piece about the EDAR, which I covered here (and here, though only secondarily). Cool! Once the story is posted (probably tomorrow), it will be available here. Posted in Equity, News, Notes and comments [...]
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    Posted: March 26, 2009, 6:04am EDT
    by John Lloyd
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