I look forward to the end of the aggressive gayness of MEH. That’s right I hate homosexuals as enshrined in el Constitution.

How about a transcript of

• 14m52s The Muslim thing

that we can read and discuss?

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Radio Derb January 10 2025

Contents
• 04m24s Not a disaster, a tragedy
• 10m21s Illegal aliens > U.S. citizens
• 14m52s The Muslim thing
• 23m48s Trump’s imperial dreams
• 26m18s An African in Greenland
• 33m26s Meet the norovirus
• 34m57s Unwelcome fame?
• 36m33s 2025 IYQST
• 38m51s Happy birthday to the King

Lighten up, Greta

MEH – Kudos! Z-Man has an occasional article on TBP.

I’m annoyed that nobody took my puzzle seriously, at least you did, at least in terms of permutations.

Allwing four as a base, as it is the second power of two, makes it a little dull. The most interesting one that are closest to A.D. year numbers are

2^4 x 5^3 = 2000, and the year of the now, 3^4 x 5^2 = 2025.

Some other numbers in the rule of excluing four as a base are interesting. The point is to do all calculations for it mentally, no paper, no calclator.

My main reason for travel to Belize (or the Caribbean generally) was birding (or “twitching” as the oft-encountered Brits on such trips would put it). The warm weather and occasional dip in the pool–or sea, if you can find a spot that doesn’t look impossibly polluted–is nice, but as with the cultural ruins and food, not sufficient reason to go. If you’re into that sort of thing, the birding can be challenging and delightful, as I imagine Derb finds math problems.

As with Sailer, I sense my days on Unz are numbered, but good to know Derb will still be posting on Chronicles. Sic Semper Gloria.

Hope Derb continues to post Diary type random comments in some form.

As for the brainteaser, there are 3 choices for the two bases and two choices for the assignment of powers to the bases, resulting in 6 numbers in the sequence. Adding 4 to the allowable bases means there are 6 choices for the bases so there are 12 possible numbers in the sequence.

Everybody is sad. How could he do this to us?

We shall miss your diaries, sir.

“Uxorious”. Mr. Shire praises with faint damn.

uxorious – I had to look that one up.
“one who is overly fond of his wife” and is labeled “a dated expression”

What I am seeing more often, are men who are overly fond of their dogs.

Its a White person trait.

So is he pulling out entirely here, like he inexplicably did for about six weeks a few months ago?

If so, where at TUR will the minion MEH 0910 be spamming?

I have a substitute.

Consider expressions of the form, a^b times c^d, where {a, b, c, d} are the integers from two to five. Only primes are allowed as the base numbers, so four is only allowed as a power, since it is the square of two. No repetition of a numeral is allowed. What is the sequence of numbers, and how many are there? Why?

How does that change if four is added as an allowed base? What is the sequence then?

Sad to see he’s hanging it up

Derb is ending the Monthly Diary, but he is still continuing Radio Derb, which is hosted at the Z-Man’s website, and also archived at Derb’s own website.

Thank you for reading across these many years, and for your emails and donations. Radio Derb podcast and transcript will continue to appear weekly as usual.

Sad to see he’s hanging it up, just when he needs to comment regularly on the new TDS he coined – Trump Disappointment Syndrome.

The H1B crapola is Step One of it. Perhaps Mr Sailer can pick up that mantle.

This sad news truly jolted me. You’re one of my favorites Derb, see you at Chronicles.

Noooo! This can’t be the last derb’s diary! It’s the end of a treasured American institution and one of my few pleasures in life. What, no more math corner? No more literary reflections? I’m in the denial stage of grief.

By the way, derb’s considerations are far above the usual pieces in new criterion. More of those would be welcome.

Smoking is forbidden on the Sabbath What foresight old Moses showed.

P.S. A short winter break: I can unreservedly recommend Madeira. We found that their prices drop as the Xmas/New Year revellers return home so we’d go for a week in the first half of January. We’ve found the Portuguese unusually pleasant people to be among. The holidaymakers were mainly North European – British, Dutch, German.

It’s true that it has a reputation for attracting holidaymakers who are “just wed or nearly dead” but that’s an amusing way of saying that you don’t have to put up with screaming children or noisy yahoos.

Anyway thanks for all the entertainment from your Diary. I wish you a happy, largely Biden-free, New Year.

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Radio Derb January 03 2025

Contents
• 01m06s Crazy people doing crazy things
• 06m47s Bracing for disappointment
• 14m29s Can Britain be saved?
• 23m00s Consanguinity Central
• 31m13s 9/11 plotters win again
• 32m51s Jimmy Carter, R.i.P.
• 36m21s Generation what?
• 37m46s Yoon defiant
• 39m45s Muhammad takes New York
• 41m22s Number notes
• 43m05s Signoff with Punta

It must have worn on Mr. Derbyshire to sustain a credible diary while ignoring the flailing of his adopted Uncle Sam. He couldn’t sign off, though, without tossing some hypocritical propaganda into his travelogue:

I guess the ChiComs don’t think it’s worth the trouble to bully or bribe Belize into the majority.

“Derb� for decades has looked the other way or cheered on the Establishment’s bullying and bribery, his perverse form of patriotism. (He even said a few years ago that “we� had agreed to the destruction of Afghanistan by electing politicians both Red + Blue who wrote that early chapter of GWOT.)

Do the announced change in format and new perch at Chronicles mean that he’s pulling out here at TUR, like he did for about six weeks a few months ago? If not, where will the minion MEH0910 be spamming?

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Radio Derb January 03 2025

Contents
• 01m06s Crazy people doing crazy things
• 06m47s Bracing for disappointment
• 14m29s Can Britain be saved?
• 23m00s Consanguinity Central
• 31m13s 9/11 plotters win again
• 32m51s Jimmy Carter, R.i.P.
• 36m21s Generation what?
• 37m46s Yoon defiant
• 39m45s Muhammad takes New York
• 41m22s Number notes
• 43m05s Signoff with Punta

https://www.johnderbyshire.com/Opinions/Diaries/2024-12.html

December 2024 Diary, by John Derbyshire –

Nothing WEIRD about Joe — One who understands — Tourists of the Caribbean — Belizian charms — The death of print media — Who’s taking snuff? — A valediction

Dude, be a homosexual on your own time son. Flouncing is not a good look for you. Have you sent your resume to Jodie Foster? Tell her the Hink sent ya.

I am reminded of one of the “Top Gun” movies, where the protagonists visit an asian monastery where all the priests took vows of celibacy, like their fathers and their fathers before them.

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Contents
• 01m28s America First, Americans First
• 06m50s End guest-worker visas
• 13m48s Does Trump remember his first term?
• 21m27s Importing an overclass (cont.)
• 29m18s Mass deportations are under way!
• 31m48s California makes theft a crime
• 33m13s Britain’s Blairite ambassador
• 36m22s Trump and Cleveland in sync on death penalty
• 38m30s Mangione hybristophilia
• 40m27s The Gaetz Report
• 42m02s goes AWOL, how could they tell?
• 43m04s The quick key to Congressional spending
• 45m54s Signoff with Peter Dawson

I thought my previous comment was frivolous, but I just finished scrolling through the thread, and I see it fits right in.

That’s only the second time I have seen the name “Fahrquahr� outside “The Incident at Owl’s Bridge�.

Fun facts: I use Peyton Fahrquahr as one of my pen names and Peyton Farcar as my Waze handle.

If the doily was over a GMC Gremlin, the work would make sense.

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Radio Derb December 20 2024

Contents
• 01m51s Drone panic
• 06m55s This land is their land
• 11m05s End student visas
• 16m28s Zero-based immigration policy
• 21m43s Chauvin gets a break
• 24m22s How they spend our money
• 26m14s VDARE’s Christmas message
• 26m58s Signoff: Not a Christmas song?

• 11m05s Syria is the new Libya

Transcript?

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Radio Derb December 13 2024

Contents
• 01m56s Make America Normal Again
• 06m09s Trump: harbinger of a new age
• 11m05s Syria is the new Libya
• 16m50s The West is best
• 21m48s Immigration roundup
• 28m39s Spared the Hitler comparison
• 30m10s Cliodynamics (not sci-fi)
• 31m30s Moore’s list
• 32m36s Signoff: An advertisement for Cultural Appropriation

I may not have good taste but I’m told I taste good.       Praise Pineapple!

It’s a play on an existing common enough English phrase, you might want to consider getting out more. Do you even cope bro?

https://www.quora.com/Whats-the-meaning-of-Do-you-even-lift-bro

Do you even English bro?

Doesn’t look like you English much.

Jesus effing Christ on a bicycle. … What if they die lying on their back, the way most cancer patients are stored in accordance with accepted best practices?

Good taste isn’t part of your skill set.

(In my feeble defense, it could be said that all fatal cancers are prostrate cancers.)

No offense meant, Pat. I was just having a bit of fun.

Can’t Cope troll alert.

(Have your handler teach you some manners, your {{{feeblicity}}} lends credence to the stereotypes.)

What is it with people here and Jews? Things that are gay in the way high schoolers used to use the word: the triple () tops the list, but there’s also

“Hasbara” (of course)
“pilpul” (a term which no one here uses correctly)
“City of London” (When was the City of London started? A lot of Jews in England then?)
“Synagogue of Satan”
“Sayanim”
“Judeo-Masonic”

and the list goes ever onward. These phrases are the refuge of him who is afraid of life, who dearie me just can’t cope.

It does seem that at this point coping is unfashionable. A man who can cope is an elitist, which is a very dreadful thing to be. If you can cope, you are better than other people, and those other people tend to hate you for it.

      – Col. Jeff Cooper

If you must know my time is fully occupied with my work as a Russian asset.

Hasbara Jew troll alert.

(Have your handler teach you some manners, your (((potty-mouthed hysteria))) lends credence to the stereotypes.)

(In my feeble defense, it could be said that all fatal cancers are prostrate cancers.)

Jesus effing Christ on a bicycle. Do you even English bro? “Feeble” is sugarcoating your deficiencies. What if they die lying on their back, the way most cancer patients are stored in accordance with accepted best practices? Feel free to PRESENT a reBUTTal.

I apologize. You are right and I am wrong. I was a fool to think I could challenge the Great Kittle.

The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) refers to a train crash as an “accident/incident”. This term is used to describe any event involving railroad equipment that results in reportable damage or injury.
The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) investigates accidents and incidents that meet certain criteria, including:
A collision, derailment, or passenger train incident that results in serious injury or death
Any fatality of a railroad employee
A highway-rail grade crossing collision that results in serious injury or death to a person in a commercial motor vehicle or school bus
A credible indication of a malfunction or failure of an active warning device that may have contributed to the accident
The FRA’s Accident Analysis Branch monitors train accidents 24/7 and dispatches staff to the scene of serious accidents.

Now g’won, suck it, suck it good. Not mine of course, find a hobo and get to suckin’.

I knew better, but I misspelled “prostate cancer” anyway.

(In my feeble defense, it could be said that all fatal cancers are prostrate cancers.)

From the same source:

A motor vehicle is a type of transportation that runs on an internal combustion engine or electric power….

You are the second recipient of the coveted Stupid Fucking Idiot designation today. I’m sure the SFI family will accept you.

If you’re standing on train tracks with no roads around and get hit, where is traffic?! Show me traffic! You are very very bad man.

A less patient teacher may not be as understanding of your limitations as I am, so let’s fill in your blanks together.

Our discussion follows Etruscan Film Star’s whimsical comment:

————————————————————————————————————
“What kind of fatal traffic accidents were there in 1875? Of course sometimes people riding horses were thrown and broke their necks, but that doesn’t seem to come under the heading of traffic accidents.

“It’s hard to imagine anyone being killed when carriages or stage coaches bumped into one another, which was probably rare anyway.�

— ( https://www.unz.com/jderbyshire/november-2024-diary/#comment-6888277 )
————————————————————————————————————

My reply is casually based on his/her casual conjecture that traffic accidents, however rare, could involve stage coaches.

M’kay?

(Knowing now how sensitive you are, please instruct us regarding your preferred pronouns.)

Having said that, I seem to recall John having an ominous medical condition (prostrate cancer?) ..

.

Stop cancer in its tracks. Make sure it is “stretched out with face on the ground in adoration or submission
also : lying flat.” (Merriam Webster)

John, take heed.

From the same source:

A motor vehicle is a type of transportation that runs on an internal combustion engine or electric power. This includes cars, trucks, vans, buses, and other vehicles designed to carry passengers or cargo over roads, highways, or streets.

The term road refers to a paved or surfaced route, typically following a natural path or a clear direction, that is designed for use by vehicles or pedestrians. It is a thoroughfare, way or path providing access between two points. In a more general sense, it can also refer to any path or route taken, as in the phrase “the road to success.”

You are the second recipient of the coveted Stupid Fucking Idiot designation today. I’m sure the SFI family will accept you.

If you’re standing on train tracks with no roads around and get hit, where is traffic?! Show me traffic! You are very very bad man.

None of which refutes #20.

You continue to obscure that Derbyshire (i) was published here – albeit briefly – after the VDARE shutdown, (ii) pulled out for about six weeks, but (iii) has since decided to return.

Why?

You don’t seem to understand the Venn Diagram of “always� and “also�. If you’re on a stagecoach you’re on a road you stupid idiot. If you’re standing on train tracks with no roads around and get hit, where is traffic?! Show me traffic! You are very very bad man.

Here’s another case for you to fuck up: If you drive a car into an abutment, traffic accident. If a train derails, according to you that’s a traffic accident.

It doesn’t take much to light your fuse, does it?

Let me help you with that. No need to thank me, glad to help:

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“Definition of «traffic accident»

“A traffic accident, also known as a car crash or motor vehicle collision, is an incident that occurs when two or more vehicles collide with each other or with another object such as a tree, pedestrian, or animal. The term can also refer to accidents involving only one vehicle, for example if it collides with road debris or rolls over….”

— ( https://wordtools.ai/definition/traffic+accident )

Immigrants from India are better than from South of the border, because INdians dont think that Texas and all South of USA belong to INdia, while Mexican government has always intended to convince Mexicans that they are the legal owners of those States, in schools they teach that “USA stole those territories from Mexico” so 70% of Mexicans believe they MUST recover “Mexican terrorities stolen”. For that reason they are much more dangerous than all other migrants.

assuming Bantu iron tech was developed indigenously

That is a strong point: anything anywhere in the Old World could conceivably have been introduced from somewhere else in the Old World. At one time people thought that bronze working in China was introduced from outside China – from Central Asia, I suppose. I don’t know whether that’s still thought to be true.

The megaliths in Western Europe were assumed to have been introduced from Egypt but they have turned out to be older than the ruins that they were thought to have been copies of. Agriculture in Egypt is thought to have been an introduction from Mesopotamia (= Iraq). Agriculture in Europe was introduced from Anatolia (= Turkey).

The taming and use of horses everywhere in the Old World is believed to have been introduced from the steppe north of the Black Sea and Caspian Sea i.e. from south Russia and the Ukraine.

Having said that, I seem to recall John having an ominous medical condition

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Derbyshire#Personal_life

In early 2012, he underwent treatment for chronic lymphocytic leukaemia.[30]

Derb was laid up during last year’s holiday season with a broken ankle that got infected, but I haven’t read about anything similar happening to Derb this year.

https://www.johnderbyshire.com/Opinions/page.html

• The diaries I have contributed to various outlets from 2001 onwards.

• Radio Derb, a half-hour program of spoken commentary on the passing scene, broadcast weekly on National Review Online from mid-2004 to March 2012, then at Taki’s Magazine to July 11th 2015, then at VDARE.com until August 25th 2024, thereafter at the Z-man’s website.

Unz Review stopped republishing Radio Derb and his Monthly Diaries from VDARE after VDARE suspended operations. Unz Review has since restarted republishing the Monthly Diaries, but so far it hasn’t restarted republishing Radio Derb.

You don’t seem to understand the Venn Diagram of “always” and “also”. If you’re on a stagecoach you’re on a road you stupid idiot. ����� If you’re standing on train tracks with no roads around and get hit, where is traffic?! Show me traffic! You are very very bad man.

Here’s another case for you to fuck up: ������ If you drive a car into an abutment, traffic accident. If a train derails, according to you that’s a traffic accident.

I said:
“I’m guessing getting hit by a train has always qualified as a traffic accident.”

You replied:
“… you can get hit by a train without an actual road in sight.”

Me:
Do I really need to explain this — you can also get hit by a train while on a road.

I’ll give you an example.

One time when I was riding shotgun for Wells Fargo, bandits on horseback ambushed us and were chasing our stage. We barely made it over the tracks before the train forced the bandits to give up the chase.

We were lucky.

The Bantu were iron-age cultivators. It seems you may be even more stupid than they are.

Thanks for setting me straight, assuming Bantu iron tech was developed indigenously.

I’m guessing getting hit by a train has always qualified as a traffic accident.

I know they’re called “railROADs” but you can get hit by a train without an actual road in sight. The proper term seems to be “railroad accident”. �� Guess in one hand and spit in the other.

Trimming trailing spaces after a period is a sort of forced typographical circumcision. Not cool. ���������������� Fortunately we have &nbspee;.

No, as can be confirmed by the spam comments of his MEH 0910 minion, Derbyshire has been writing all along on his own website since the demise of VDARE. One such was cross-published here before he went AWOL; MEH 0910 attempted to obscure this to use the VDARE demise as the explanation for the absence.

All called and laid out in my comments under the last several in Derbyshire’s TUR archive.

The refusal to own up is typical of the Diffident Right generally, but especially the imported apologist for Uncle Sam and much else of the Establishment.

The Bantu were iron-age cultivators. It seems you may be even more stupid than they are.

As noted under the two preceding articles, Mr. Derbyshire decided not to have his work published here at TUR, but then changed his mind after a couple months.

Why?

Perhaps no contributor to the Unz Review is more deferential to the Israel lobby than is Mr. Derbyshire.

Most such contributors of that persuasion avoid the JQ altogether.

But here we have Derbyshire (by default) endorsing the Jew coup that put the corrupt war criminal Jew Zelensky in power — a Jew who is quite happy getting Christian Ukrainians massacred, while criminalizing their Orthodox Christianity.

Having said that, I seem to recall John having an ominous medical condition (prostrate cancer?) which he does not invoke. Maybe that accounts for his leave of absence (and not his aversion to the JQ).

In any case, John, I’ve enjoyed your good-natured insights since the VDARE days.

I wish you well.

Were the Tibetans enslaved by the Chinese or were they liberated from the Lama tyranny?

Were the Bantus enslaved by Muslims & Europeans or were they liberated from the Stone Age?

What kind of fatal traffic accidents were there in 1875? Of course sometimes people riding horses were thrown and broke their necks, but that doesn’t seem to come under the heading of traffic accidents.

I’m guessing getting hit by a train has always qualified as a traffic accident.

Twenty-first century websites accuse Cleveland of being a “date rapist,” a concept that didn’t exist at the time. I don’t know if that’s true, but I never quite trusted Grover. He entered the White House as a batchelor but married after he was elected. And who did he marry? Frank Folsom, a.k.a. Frances Folsom. She wasn’t trans, but she was the (legitimate) daughter of the same Oscar Folsom you mentioned. As Cleveland was something of a surrogate* father to her, it’s a little Woody Allenish.

And how can you mention Diana Dors without the famous anecdote about her? She was born Diana Mary Fluck. When she returned to Britain the local mayor or councillor was presenting her with an award and wanted to be very careful about her name, so (according to the anecdote) he stumbled and called her “Diana Clunt.”

According to film critic David Thomson, “Dors represented that period between the end of the war and the coming of Lady Chatterley in paperback, a time when sexuality was naughty, repressed, and fit to burst.” So she was sex before there was sex.

* I think I used that word correctly. It may not mean what it did in past years.

President Grant got a traffic summons for reckless driving of his horse drawn carriage about 1875…which he totally ignored….Maybe he ran down someone….

The maths problem is a problem in Ramsey Theory and is the same I believe as the problem of putting the positive integers in different lists so that no list contains a three term arithmetic progression.

I see. Thanks for helping satisfy my curiosity.

The loss of César Franck is particularly sad. He is still underappreciated as a composer — his Belgian, “dark” romanticism has perhaps never been as popular as the sweetness of works by French contemporaries like Saint-Saëns. Maybe Franck’s demise in a traffic accident is one reason for his relatively scanty output.

Your kids rolled their eyes? Didn’t know Ching Chongs could do that, and how could you see it?

Armand Couperin was run over by a horse-drawn carriage and killed. César Franck was hit by a horse-drawn omnibus and died of his injuries. Those are two deaths in pre-automobile traffic accidents I can think of off the top of my head. I’m sure there are many others. Oh, Felix Mendelssohn was badly injured in a carriage accident. It took him two months to recover and he walked with a limp ever after.

It is a pleasure to see the “We are doomed” button featuring the flag of the ill-fated SFR Yugoslavia, with its red star replaced by an angry man’s face.

Overcoming her early blonde bombshell sexpot image, Diana Dors developed into a rather good actress. Her second husband, who went on to join the cast of the long-running TV comedy Hogan’s Heroes and later hosted the popular TV game show Family Feud, was Richard Dawson by whom Dors bore two children.

In all likelihood, Cleveland accepted responsibility because of his affection for Folsom, who was killed in a traffic accident in 1875.

What kind of fatal traffic accidents were there in 1875? Of course sometimes people riding horses were thrown and broke their necks, but that doesn’t seem to come under the heading of traffic accidents.

It’s hard to imagine anyone being killed when carriages or stage coaches bumped into one another, which was probably rare anyway.

An artist whose work exploring her Scottish-Sikh identity includes a vintage Ford car draped in a crocheted doily won the UK’s prestigious Turner Prize on Tuesday.

Jasleen Kaur was awarded the £25,000 (US$32,000) prize by actor James Norton during a ceremony at the Tate Britain gallery in London, where works by the four finalists are on display until February.

A jury led by Tate Britain director Alex Farquhar praised the way 38-year-old Kaur “weaves together the personal, political and spiritual� through “unexpected and playful combinations of material�.

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3289231/jasleen-kaur-wins-turner-prize-art-exploring-her-scottish-sikh-identity

I have become so cynical that whenever a woman or a gay man attached to a powerful politician dies from an accident or a suicide, I immediately suspect a convenient murder. Grover Cleveland “a first class American gentleman” has his troublesome woman die in a traffic accident. In about the same era, Lord Rosebery, the British Prime Minister sent flowers to the funeral of a son of the Marquis of Queensbury, rumoured to be his lover. Yes. That Marquis of Queensbury. I can think of three women’s convenient deaths in the Kennedy family. Then there is Stalin and Hitler’s list of dead women.

As regards Chinese imperialism. I considered denying my stepson a holiday in Tibet. Then I conveniently concluded the Chinese occupation of Tibet was murky. Were the Tibetans enslaved by the Chinese or were they liberated from the Lama tyranny?

Starting from the maximum numbers that can be included in only two lists

L1 = {1, 2, 4, 8}
L2 = {3, 5, 6, 7}

we continue adding numbers in sequence

L1 = {1, 2, 4, 8}
L2 = {3, 5, 6, 7}
L3 = {9, 10}

At this point since 9+10=19 all numbers between 11 and 18 inclusive can be accommodated by the three lists (specifically L3) no matter what happens in L1 and L2.

On the Japanese wooden satellite:

A year or two ago I commented somewhere on this website that, as a lad, I had taken part in boat-building. Further I have studied maths, physics, chemistry, engineering …

So, I joked, if my island nation had ever wanted to use wooden rockets for space exploration I was the perfect chap to work on the project.

Many a true word ….

As noted under the two preceding articles, Mr. Derbyshire decided not to have his work published here at TUR, but then changed his mind after a couple months.

Why?

Yep, those early Presidents were true paragons of marital fidelity, just ask the descendants of their slave concubines.

Right the area should be 8. You can get this by using the area formula for each of the two subtriangles on either side of the vertical from the top apex and then eliminating one of the unknowns. Details were given here https://www.unz.com/jderbyshire/august-diary/ in comment 33.

“Fox-tossing” and “pig-sticking”? The mind reels…I have heard of the latter, thanks mainly to Mr. Coward:

Have you had any word
Of that bloke in the ‘Third’,
Was it Southerby, Sedgwick or Sim?

They had him thrown out of the club in Bombay
For, apart from his mess bills exceeding his pay,
He took to pig-sticking in quite the wrong way.
I wonder what happened to him!

Also:

…”Sir Joshua observed to me the extraordinary promptitude with which Johnson flew upon an argument. “Yes, (said I,) he has no formal preparation, no flourishing with his sword; he is through your body in an instant.â€�

Puts me in mind of my favorite SJ anecdote.

The painter William Hogarth visited his friend, the writer Samuel Richardson, at home one day in London when Johnson also happened to be there.

At that time, Richardson was friends with SJ; Hogarth didn’t know him at all (this was when SJ was young and poor).

Hogarth was let into the house by a maid. Richardson was upstairs, and SJ was standing alone in the living room, looking out a window. He paid no mind at all to Hogarth. Johnson’s odd gestures and manner, even alone at the window, caused Hogarth to think SJ was a poor “ideot” (sic) whom the kindly Richardson was helping.

Richardson came down a few minutes later and greeted Hogarth. They started to talk to each other, with the non-introduced SJ still silently looking out the window with his back toward them.

As the conversation between Hogarth and Richardson turned political, SJ suddenly “stalked over”, and without any preamble at all, forcefully delivered such a powerful and cogent argument on the topic at hand that the stunned Hogarth, in Boswell’s telling of the story, stared at SJ in astonishment and “actually imagined that this ideot had been at the moment inspired.”

I was in Nova Scotia for most of October, at a program on the site of an old farm. There were old trees with smaller apples ripening, and it was wonderful to have the kind of apples right off the tree I remembered from my youth, much more balanced between sweet and sour than anything in grocery stores today. “Pie apples” was the only term I heard then.

Fall is sad but also a time of remembrance. Remember the smell of burning leaves? Nothing like it.

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Radio Derb November 29 2024

Contents
• 01m28s Trump’s Labor Secretary
• 13m08s Killing Hong Kong
• 19m56s The late-Biden Rush
• 26m18s Andreessen on Rogan
• 33m40s War, what is it good for?
• 35m15s An ocean of loneliness
• 37m41s Problems with reincarnation
• 40m56s Feeling Seeing the Earth move
• 43m28s Signoff with Black Metal

Thinking about your solution, it’s prob the case that was what Derb was looking for. Simply guess integer solutions and verify. Looking at it that way works and is quick.

And 29 = 2^2 + 5^2

So

13 = 2^2 + 3^2
20 = 2^2 + 4^2
29 = 2^2 + 5^2

The answer’s gotta lie in this relation somewhere.

Of course 3^2 + 4^2 = 5^2 as well (3,4,5 triangle).

Yeah I was quite hungover when I wrote those posts and not thinking straight. I still suspect the answer lies along the lines of my noticing that 13 = 2^2 + 3^2 and 20 = 2^2 + 4^2 though.

One has to go through:

a + b = sqrt(29)

a*a + h*h = 20

b*b + h*h = 13

The solutions should be:

a = 18/sqrt(29)

b = 11/sqrt(29)

h = 16/sqrt(29)

Easy to verify the solution, but how do you find it? What condition applies to the numbers 13, 20, and 29 that guarantees that such cancellations occur and there is a rational answer?

The area should be 8. Along the base you will have 18/sqrt(29) followed by 11/sqrt(29), making up a total base length of sqrt(29). Then the height is 16/sqrt(29).

I think I miswrote that. The area would 1/2 base times height. And therefore the area would be

I think I have the solution you’re looking for in that math problem:

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Radio Derb November 22 2024

Contents
• 02m01s Musk, Friedman, and Milei
• 06m44s The Uniparty strikes back
• 13m56s Masculinity past, present, east, and west
• 20m24s Report from Jim Snow America
• 24m03s The Penny Trial
• 27m29s Jussie off the hook?
• 29m13s Nations of the mind
• 31m47s Advice from the Duke
• 34m45s Signoff with the King

football, drinking, junk food and machismo

All signs of low-life culture, especially machismo and misogyny — sure markers of the refuse of society.

I never really got into maths and those schools were a bad experience – although there were one or two friendly teachers.

I have to say that I’ve mostly learnt from private reading and there’s a lot of good stuff on UNZ.

This backfilled article, despite its date, didn’t appear at TUR until November 23, 2024.

It’s apparent that Mr. Derbyshire decided not to have his work published here, but then changed his mind after a couple months.

Why?

the public libraries were truly excellent. Same for me; particularly important because the library in my secondary school was pathetic.

The idea of the libraries was to uplift the working class but I only ever saw middle class people there. Metaphorically that was my mother and me.

A favourite memory was borrowing Russell’s History of Western Philosophy when I was about fifteen. Here’s a point for Derb: in a footnote I found a proof that the square root of 2 is irrational. It’s so elementary and so elegant that I could write it down now.

I was outraged – outraged, I tell you – that we hadn’t done that proof at school.

It was the most beautiful thing I’d seen until I was sixteen and at school we were shown Euler’s result e^(i * pi) = -1.
The teacher was startled when I applauded.

Twenty-six years later at a school reunion I found that he could remember the episode. I infer that maths teachers don’t receive enough applause over a career. Here’s to the memory of Gordon Kinloch!

Lived in the Western NC Mtns. from 1987-2018. October is “leaf” season, and it was very enjoyable. To me, November & April were tough. Both were Mud Seasons.

Perhaps we isolationists

Don’t be fooled by some timely tacking on Ukraine.

Mr. Derbyshire for decades has looked the other way when not mongering wars for Uncle Sam.

“October in the northern hemisphere is, let’s face it, a melancholy month.� Speak for yourself, I loved it as a schoolboy. Lotsa rugby with the pitches not yet turned into bogs. Halloween – in the civilised Scots version not the vulgar American. Guy Fawkes night just around the corner. And Apples – remember the huge range of excellent apples you could eat in your British youth?

Derb is talking about Northampton (East Midlands).

Speaking for myself – it was Sheffield, North of England (school late 1950’s – 1973). It was a depressed industrial area of half abandoned factories run by an ideological socialist dictatorship with Soviet envy ( Arthur Scargill hailed as the real deal visiting Moscow). Some interesting facts are that the socialist school meals were awful (mostly offal and boiled to sludge potatoes and cabbage), the buses arrived two at a time (bus driver solidarity) and the public libraries were truly excellent. The idea of the libraries was to uplift the working class but I only ever saw middle class people there. Very professionally run – fiction and reference and a refuge from working class Sheffield “culture” – football, drinking, junk food and machismo. Apparently now the North of England is one of the poorest regions in Europe – and that’s saying something. So it’s still a dump.