Monthly Archives: May 2008

Reminders of Death

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 31, 2008

My mom’s brother Don died this week. He was 76, and in a lot of pain for the last year or so. The funeral was today in a Methodist Church out in the country near the eponymous town of Black Earth. He’ll be buried not far from where he was born, at home on the [...]

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538.com — Nate Silver comes out

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 30, 2008

Today Nate Silver, a writer at the baseball and baseball stats site Baseball Prospectus, revealed himself as the anonymous author of FiveThirtyEight.com, an ongoing detailed compilation and statistical analysis of poll results in the US Presidential election contests. The data that Silver presents are not encouraging for Obama backers. He shows Hillary clobbering Mccain, and [...]

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Ten Minutes That Could Change Your Life!!!

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 29, 2008

[tags]eek the cat, sharky[/tags]

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IETF P2P Infrastructure Workshop

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 28, 2008

Stanislav Shalunov, Director of Engineeering for BitTorrent, Inc. presented a paper at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Infrastructure Workshop in Boston today (PDF) calling for IETF support in resolving user performance and ISP congestion problems by standardizing a mechanism improving cache discovery for Peer to Peer (P2P) applications. That’s a mouthful. People using BitTorrent [...]

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Longwood Grove Dr. Resto

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 28, 2008

Back in the day, before twitter, before blogging, before Google and before Gopher, even before the very Innernecks themselves, Charles-Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu thought deep thoughts about government and the human condition. A republic, he thought, would be founded on virtue, despotism on fear. It was Montesquieu’s philosophy that [...]

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Meeting at Heart Attack and Vine

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 26, 2008

(A post in which we discover that the title has nothing to do with the content, even though there may have been a dim connection at some conceptual stage.) * * * I hate to disagree with Rage Boy, but I don’t get it. I don’t get why Jill Bolte Taylor’s schtick is so egregious. [...]

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Mars

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 25, 2008

Thanks NASA [tags]Lockheed Martin, NASA, if we wreck up the earth maybe we can all move to mars and eat red dirt[/tags]

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Elder Blogging

By Frank Paynter | Published: May 22, 2008

I’m about to put an “Elder Blogger” badge in my sidebar, and I just got this from an old, yes — a VERY old friend… [tags]that’s not funny[/tags]

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