Name the mystery people!

While walking to lunch in downtown Huntsville today, a colleague noticed an SD card on the sidewalk at the southern corner of Clinton and Washington.  It contains 279 photographs, taken with a Sony DSC-T99, between March 7 and 17 inclusive.  It includes pictures of Mardi Gras in Mobile.  Here is one of the “stars”: (Photos … Read more

Thursday miscellanea #131

A question for my fellow bloggers:  anyone else seeing unusual increases in traffic from Romania this week?  It appears legitimate—different IPs, reasonable distribution throughout the day, and so forth—but that’s pretty odd, don’t you think?  Monday was the biggest day, and it’s been falling off since. I’ve seen a little rationalization and a lot of … Read more

Gears, motors, and affiliation

There is strength in affiliation. I suspect there are enough reasonable exceptions to keep that from being axiomatic.  But it’s probably true most of the time, else why would affiliations exist? Some affiliations are simple, and therefore largely uncontroversial.  But affiliations concerned with complex constructs—like, oh, those of politics or religion—tend to be complex themselves.  … Read more

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