Author: Louis-Dominique


Posted on: 31st January 2006

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Category: General

Last Christmas, my wife bought me a Pampered Chef rice cooker for the microwave. I was a little concerned at first that it might not work all that well. Cooking rice in the microwave seemed a bit dubious to me. Anyway, I tried it and was quite pleasantly surprised at how amazingly well it [...]

Author: Louis-Dominique


Posted on: 27th January 2006

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Category: General

Thoughts regarding the passing away of our cat, Green Ice.

Author: Louis-Dominique


Posted on: 18th January 2006

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Category: Media

Pamela Walden-Landry écrit:
Il paraît qu’une grenouille placée dans de l’eau froide qu’on fait doucement chauffer reste là et meurt ébouillantée faute d’avoir perçu le changement progressif.

Malheureusement, cette croyance populaire est fausse. Il ne s’agit que d’une image-choc popularisée par des consultants de pacotille. Snopes a un article là-dessus.
C’est bien malheureux car le message de [...]

Author: Louis-Dominique


Posted on: 17th January 2006

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Category: Nonsense

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Author: Louis-Dominique


Posted on: 12th January 2006

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Category: General

It’s all over the place: Apple is now shipping Macs with Intel hardware. If this results in competitive pricing, my next laptop may well be a Mac.
“But wait! Aren’t you a free software (as in “free speech”) believer?”
Yes I am. I’m also a believer in software that works out of the box [...]

Author: Louis-Dominique


Posted on: 10th January 2006

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Category: Media

Actual headline:
S. Korean scientists faked two papers but cloned dog (Reuters)

I think if I submitted a cloned dog as term work, that would be considered plagiarism.

Author: Louis-Dominique


Posted on: 5th January 2006

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Category: Nonsense

News just released after the close. Tomorrow is the watch

But now is the delete.
Please observe this instruction

I have observed it and I still don’t understand!
good riddins to thighs

And good riddins to you, sir! Good riddins to everyone!
It doesn’t hurt to check Philip

Nor Laura, nor John, nor Steve… You can check them all.
URGENT [...]