Over at The Viscount LaCarte's place, I find a video of a guy I didn’t know -- Tom Russell -- singing a song I didn’t know -- Who’s gonna build your wall? No surprise in the fact that I didn’t know either. The surprises are that it seems to have escaped the vast mass of drawbridge-lifters that the...

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I opened an email one day about a month ago from someone I didn’t know. He said he thought I was in Rome, and could I do him a favour. Instead of telling me the whole story -- why reinvent the wheel? -- he just pointed me to a [discussion] http://discuss.joyent.com/viewtopic.php?id=18726¹ on a bu...

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It occurs to me, after the event, that this post’s title is also appropriate to Jessica Hagy’s indexed card I’ve copied. One of the hard parts of catching up after being away is deciding what to delete, unread, what to read now, and what to delay. Indexed is always a read now, not least because...

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I’ve always really liked Jonathan Meades’ work. But I completely missed this programme. Nothing new (to me), but brilliantly well packaged. (Like a hamburger?)

The War on Christmas folks object to the removal of Christ from Christmas. (If you’re going to be an etymological Feinschmecker, please note that Jesus is a name -- cf. Jehoshua, Joshua -- while Christ is a title or epithet. Which is to say that if you’re seriously into the Etymological...

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