Tuesday, May 29, 2007

At the concert

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One of the singers was a man with the general build of a Tolkien dwarf and a bald crown. Another was a pale thin hollow-cheeked woman who s...

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Conjugations Irregular verbs are the bane of language students, but the textbooks ignore some other important conjugations completely. Her...
Sunday, May 27, 2007

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I am the Messenger by Markus Zusak Youngest daughter was assigned this in school, so I read it. It is classed as a Young Adult book. Ed ...

Divided by Faith

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by Michael O Emerson and Christian Smith, Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America I put off assessing this book for quite a ...
Saturday, May 26, 2007

The Clash of Civilizations and the New World Order

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by Samuel Huntington I suppose I'm the last person to have gotten around to reading this. I can see why he's controversial. Telling...
Thursday, May 24, 2007

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Fury by Henry Kuttner A little light reading for a change. This is set in the same Venus as "Clash by Night," where the refugee...

Using radioactivity to grow

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No, not giant ants. There's a hint that radiation can make melanin structures process some chemicals faster . The study report discuss...
Saturday, May 19, 2007

Macbeth: Shakespeare Made Easy

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by Alan Durband. Edited and rendered into modern English Of course Shakespeare wrote in Modern English, but we can't let little facts g...
Tuesday, May 15, 2007

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WCRP Some proverbs we use to help us get through hard times; like "It's always darkest just before the dawn." These are copi...
Saturday, May 12, 2007

Tasteless

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I was at Borders this afternoon, and while waiting for Middle Daughter to finish finding a birthday gift for her friend I perused the scienc...
Monday, May 07, 2007

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WCRP A horse-whisperer who doesn't use reins but instead guides his horse with polite suggestions is a requestrian.
Monday, April 30, 2007

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WCRP I notice that when I use a pun it can introduce a slight LOL in the conversation.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007

Blood diseases

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Middle daughter came back from Liberia with some kind of blood parasite which acts a lot like malaria. Were I the doc I'd load her up w...
Friday, April 13, 2007

Rules of the Road in Liberia

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Drivers in Liberia must know certain important rules. If you have a breakdown, tear up large chunks of grass and associated clods and plant...
Tuesday, March 27, 2007

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Utter Insanity Hide your children from these people . They are teachers, indoctrinated so thoroughly that they are no longer capable of re...
Sunday, March 25, 2007

Tchaikowsky in the abstract

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I recommend the European Union Opera production of Tchaikowsky’s opera Eugene Onegin (1998, featuring Vladimir Glushchak in the title role)....
Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Waki Waki

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Juli Endee-Tarpeh, Liberia's Cultural Ambassador, gave a special seminar yesterday on "Waki! Waki! Peace Activism, Crusaders for Pe...
Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Dynamic is sexy

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Is anybody really surprised? The movie poster/Playboy/"Photograph my good side" women may be detail-perfect and airbrushed, but ...
Monday, March 12, 2007

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Can't they borrow an anteater from the zoo? Ang Hock Si vs the fire ants. Could it be "the will of the universe" that an an...
Sunday, March 11, 2007

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WCRP ”Try it Billy. I spent all afternoon making it.” ”Oooohkay.” Microscopic fragment conveyed to lips “Yuck, gack!” Cough choke and s...