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Archive | February, 2007
Happy Anniversary! Wow. Everything's Different.
So March has arrived. Or, almost. It’s been about a year since weekly rob first came crawling into the world with a post called, “Ports!” A year’s gone by, and I’m sick of dot mac (my old hosting site), and sick of iWeb (my old blogging software), so I’m starting from scratch. I think that […]
Hello world!
Coming in March, this page will be the new home for weeklyrob. Get excited!
Chimps and Lies
Not long ago, in my world-famous Audio Post (link), I mentioned that humans often point to things we do that other animals don’t do. We’re special because of X. The Washington Post reports another chink in the “we’re special†argument (Link). Chimps are fashioning spears, then hunting and killing other animals with them. This goes […]
Sexualization
Via Seed (link to Seed on main weeklyrob page), I read recently about a review of academic literature on the response of girls and women to “sexualization†(Link). [Apparently, the link is gone from Seed, so here it is elsewhere.] Sexualization is never actually defined in this article, because the writer can’t seem to follow […]
NetNewsNot
I use NetNewsWire as my RSS reader. I like it. And I use iWeb as my blog-builder. I like parts of it, but hate a lot of it. I just haven’t found the time to switch. Anyway, something in the mix of these two programs creates an annoyance that I’m not sure how to fix. […]
Inflationary Lyrics
Songs referring to a dime in the jukebox or telephone are becoming quaint. Craig Conley brings them up-to-date. (Link) [End of Post]
Save the Semicolon!
So I get a text message from JB at Hogswallowing (link on right of main weeklyrob page). The gist of the message is that Kurt Vonnegut doesn’t like semicolons. Vonnegut’s latest book, “A Man Without a Country,” is apparently a collection of his articles over the last few years. The man can write (and he […]
Veggies
I’m not a vegetarian. My wife is. If you order a bloody steak, she won’t make a peep. If you have a dinner party and serve only meat, she won’t complain as she tries to make her parsley garnish last until we get home to the fridge. In other words, she doesn’t have an opinion […]
Like New vs. As New
This isn’t my normal blogging fare, but I’m annoyed and who else should share in my annoyance but you, a random reader? Here’s a little conversation I had with a seller on Amazon.com. This guy had listed his book as being “Like New.†It seemed cheap, and the book was fairly old, so I asked […]