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
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
So Lea called me right after lunch today to tell me she had collected Aaron from the school nurse’s office, and he was the eighth pupil with identical gastrointestinal symptoms she’d sent home today. He was too ill to ride round-trip again for the other boy, so I came home from work early to stay … Read more