- As far as I can tell, the Great Red Spot has existed for as long as astronomers have been looking, but its color changes slightly from time to time.
- It was Hilary Clinton, not Bill, who (apocryphally?) overdosed on fondue.
- The restaurant I was thinking of is called Helmand, not the Khyber Pass.
- The suicide rate in Alaska (and, for that matter, a variety of states that I would group together as 'lonely') have rates of suicide about the same as northern-European countries. However, suicide if often under-reported, or just generally mis-reported, so I wouldn't draw any conclusions about the 'livability' of these regions; it is not without the realm of possibility that a large part of the change could be due to Scandanavians keep better statistics, or that Alaska just had an unlucky couple of years.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
corrections
Sunday, June 21, 2009
How to decide where to eat.
Per Steve's advice, I have made a flow chart version of the previous post. The biggest hassle is keeping the three lists.
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
various
- Cisco owns Linksys, not D-Link.
- While the yellow (amber) light wasn't deployed until 1920 for auto traffic, about 50 years after the first traffic light appeared, it was in common usage on the crowded northeast rail lines for at least 20 years before that.
- NavyFCU did indeed have a loss last quarter, somewhat due to a 'stabilization' expense by NCUA, the FDIC equivalent for credit unions.
- Chickens don't require roosters to lay eggs, just to fertilize them.
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