Proofreading, broadly defined

The latest query I sent the regular proofreading client was to do with anachronism, specifically to do with the premiere of R.U.R. and the career of Josef Stalin.

Proofreading, broadly defined

The latest query I sent the regular proofreading client was to do with anachronism, specifically to do with the premiere of R.U.R. and the career of Josef Stalin.

Sampling error

The overwhelming majority of "vote for me" stuff that I've seen in the last two months has been from candidates for Civil Court Judge.

This isn't because the candidates for governor, senate, and so on aren't campaigning. It's because those candidates have lots of money, and are buying television ads, and I don't have a television. (I'm following the campaigns, to some extent, in the newspaper, and trying to decide whether to vote for Alan Hevesi despite the corruption charges, or cast a protest vote for the Green or Socialist Worker candidate [1].)

Nonetheless, I'm vaguely surprised by the almost complete absence of posters for the senate and governor candidates, this close to Election Day.

[This post was prompted by supergee complaining about having gotten half a dozen spam phone calls today. I've been spared those, as well.)

[1] I went looking for a list of candidates for that office a couple of nights ago, found a Wikipedia article, and fixed it to remove a spurious link from the Libertarian candidate to an unrelated Australian politician with a very similar name.

Sampling error

The overwhelming majority of "vote for me" stuff that I've seen in the last two months has been from candidates for Civil Court Judge.

This isn't because the candidates for governor, senate, and so on aren't campaigning. It's because those candidates have lots of money, and are buying television ads, and I don't have a television. (I'm following the campaigns, to some extent, in the newspaper, and trying to decide whether to vote for Alan Hevesi despite the corruption charges, or cast a protest vote for the Green or Socialist Worker candidate [1].)

Nonetheless, I'm vaguely surprised by the almost complete absence of posters for the senate and governor candidates, this close to Election Day.

[This post was prompted by supergee complaining about having gotten half a dozen spam phone calls today. I've been spared those, as well.)

[1] I went looking for a list of candidates for that office a couple of nights ago, found a Wikipedia article, and fixed it to remove a spurious link from the Libertarian candidate to an unrelated Australian politician with a very similar name.

Roasted vegetables

I came home from the Greenmarket with a bunch of beets and a bundle of leeks. We already had an acorn squash.

Prepping the vegetables was enough to make me wish for a compost heap, as I threw out huge amounts of greenery, squash seeds, and the like.

Then I put them all in to roast. I misjudged the timing, so we had roasted squash (with maple syrup) and leeks, then forty-five minutes later had roasted beets. (They'd cooled down enough that they needed to be started almost from scratch).

I'm not surprised that julian_tiger likes roasted beets. He likes most things. I am surprised that he liked them enough to do the pop-up pussycat thing, head over the table, to tell us he wanted more. And the paws on my lap thing, with the same meaning, asking for yet more.

Roasted vegetables

I came home from the Greenmarket with a bunch of beets and a bundle of leeks. We already had an acorn squash.

Prepping the vegetables was enough to make me wish for a compost heap, as I threw out huge amounts of greenery, squash seeds, and the like.

Then I put them all in to roast. I misjudged the timing, so we had roasted squash (with maple syrup) and leeks, then forty-five minutes later had roasted beets. (They'd cooled down enough that they needed to be started almost from scratch).

I'm not surprised that julian_tiger likes roasted beets. He likes most things. I am surprised that he liked them enough to do the pop-up pussycat thing, head over the table, to tell us he wanted more. And the paws on my lap thing, with the same meaning, asking for yet more.