The Herald-Times has published a leter to the editor that may well be the apex of the form (with apologies to Don Boudreaux of Cafe Hayek, who regularly writes cogent, pithy missives to our nations media dinosaurs). Inexplicably, today’s masterwork is only available online if you are a paid subscriber, so I will reproduce it [...]
I’ve been having problems typing with the keyboard built into my laptop (it irritates some nerves in my forearms, which causes pain in my thumbs and, to a lesser degree, my index and middle fingers), so I bought a Goldtouch adjustable ergonomic USB keyboard. It arrived today, so I thought I’d write about my first [...]
Where was I? Um. Oh, yes. Latex and Lyx. I’ll get back to that in a moment. In the meantime, here’s a nice illustration of the difference between competence and performance, interpretability and grammaticality, and the stem and stern of a banana: “My whole adult life, I never knew the right way to open a [...]