Saturday, April 26, 2014

Dinner and a movie

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Isn't technology wonderful? You can combine dinner and a movie, using a tablet and netflix. Be sure to crank the volume up loud enough...
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Facebook

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People have posted movies of Liberia as it was 50 years ago and as it is now, and I'm very grateful. I can learn of what relatives are ...
Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Noah

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I won’t be bothering with the movie Noah. They didn’t succeed in interesting me enough to part with my time and money. Even worse, reports...
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Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Political insinuation: plus ca change

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Senator Prince Y. Johnson , hearing "President Sirleaf saying in an interview that if she were to seek a third term, her preferred cand...

A piano study

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"The First Quarter-­Second of the Chopin G-­minor Ballade" by Matt Grayson, a commenter on Dorigo's site . If you...
Monday, April 21, 2014

Private armies

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I do not know if Cliven Bundy is in the right, though it is trivially obvious that the BLM indulged in horrifying overkill. That this sort ...
Saturday, April 19, 2014

Repost: Between Good Friday and Easter comes the Sabbath

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I don't usually re-post things, but this one struck me again. On Good Friday we have the sacrifice and the dereliction. On Easter Sunda...
Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Platonic?

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I'm a little puzzled. There are ancient Platonist threads in Christianity, in which the physical, though created good, must be left beh...

Microcracks to prevent cracking?

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With a hat tip to the CERN Courier , look at a story about making glass less brittle by micro-grooving the glass and filling in the grooves ...
Tuesday, April 15, 2014

Uniforms

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When I first put this uniform on, I said, as I looked in the glass, "It's one to a million That any civilian My figure and form...
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Monday, April 14, 2014

When the big one goes off

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--which it will, eventually, somewhere--what should you do? Back when I was in 6'th grade the school library had The Effects of Nuclear...
Saturday, April 12, 2014

San Francisco protests

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You've read of the protests against Google buses and of the tipping of smart cars. Assume the second is related to the first, though m...
Wednesday, April 09, 2014

Through the Looking Glass

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I interpret the stories about Al Sharpton a little differently from the way his fan base does. If it is true that he worked as an FBI info...
Monday, April 07, 2014

Bits from non mainstream news

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In an article explaining how the Liberian embassy's bank is closing their account, this bit: The closure of the account has arisen fear...

Is it my imagination

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Or does the Fleur-de-lis look like the end of a pike? Maybe I've an overactive imagination, or maybe the symbols were overloaded . Wh...
Friday, April 04, 2014

Crud. Too late

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I postponed making a phaser pointer too long. This one is ridiculously small, though. (The price of models was off-putting: that's m...
Wednesday, April 02, 2014

A few exercises...

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Tall and tan and young and lovely, The girl who looks so Swedish goes jogging, And as she passes each one she passes goes "Ow" ...
Tuesday, April 01, 2014

Grail hunters

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The two researchers, Margarita Torres and Jose Manuel Ortega del Rio, authors of the book, "Kings of the Grail," believe they foun...
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Saturday, March 29, 2014

The flip side of exotic

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I wrote of the enjoyment of the exotic , and how stretching the imagination can enrich the knowledge of what we have. But, as with the sto...
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Advantage to not being famous

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I have trouble remembering names. When people greet me on the street, I like to be able to remember who they are in time to reply. If ever...