Saturday, January 31, 2009

On the lighter side

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For those familiar with Dilbert, a corporate version of "I am a gentle bunny" circulated Usenet some years back. Example: I am a...
Wednesday, January 28, 2009

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Believing in anything Berkeley's public library will face a showdown with the city's Peace and Justice Commission tonight over whet...

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I wonder Did Rapunzel braid her locks on a family heirloom?
Saturday, January 24, 2009

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NY Metropolitan Opera Broadcast This week's was a 1-act version of Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice . It sounded nice and melodious, but ...
Friday, January 23, 2009

Executive Orders

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So Obama is "closing" Gitmo. Except he isn't, really--just kicking the can down the road a year. And, incidentally, delaying...
Sunday, January 18, 2009

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True Love for a Lifetime Brain researchers claim that contrary to their expectations, married couples can in fact still be passionately in...

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401K From this morning's sermon "My 401 is now a 201" Beats being a 404 , though.
Saturday, January 17, 2009

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Mars Rovers They've been running for 5 years now: 20 times the design lifetime. Who says American manufacturers can't make long-la...
Thursday, January 15, 2009

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Shelling the UNRWA headquarters The news this morning says Israeli forces shelled the UNRWA headquarters in Gaza city. My first thought was...

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Riddle me this After running the car's heater to defrost the windows, why would I turn it off again and drive the last mile or two in -...
Saturday, January 10, 2009

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A new record: 4930.3 nb^{-1} What's the secret for recording a record luminosity for one shift? Easy. Inherit a new, hot beam store w...
Wednesday, January 07, 2009

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Andrew Jackson's Inauguration, Revisited Jackson invited the public to attend the White House ball celebrating his inauguration. The c...
Tuesday, January 06, 2009

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The Culture of Contentment by John Kenneth Galbraith Galbraith is a theorist. I mean that in a bad way. He analyzes economic, political,...
Sunday, January 04, 2009

Acedia and Me

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by Kathleen Norris Subtitled A Marriage, Monks, and A Writer’s Life It is telling that the spell-checker doesn’t recognize acedia . Norris...
Saturday, January 03, 2009

Sign Juxtaposition in Janesville

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On the way home a few signs by the highway in Janesville caught my eye. Appearing as though they were right next to each other were "H...

Gene Discovery!

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Are you a reader of the Dr. Boli web site yet? He has a great article on the discovery of a very special gene . I'll not deface his...
Thursday, January 01, 2009

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Guilty :-) I post a post into the air disparaging mocking, and of course I'd indulged in it myself a few posts earlier, making fun of I...
Monday, December 29, 2008

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Mystery Science Theater 3000 You may have forgotten this TV show (which I never saw): evil scientists try to punish a man by exiling him t...

"God, Do It My Way"

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Every now and then I overhear somebody at church talking about "setting out a fleece." I don't charge across the room and int...
Sunday, December 28, 2008

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Learning young At Sunday School this morning, a grandmother told of her three-year-old's visit to Santa. The old elf asked what he wan...