Saturday, August 29, 2015

Drying

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We were silly enough to get a low-noise dishwasher, and found the hard way that grinding up stuff makes noise: no noise means little grindi...
Friday, August 28, 2015

MacDonald

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C.S. Lewis credited George MacDonald with "baptizing" his imagination; that when he read Phantastes it aroused a special sense of...
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Thursday, August 27, 2015

Illumined faces

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I boarded the bus early Wednesday morning (nobody showed up for the 6:00 Bible study) and sat across from a young lady whose rapt face was ...

Livelier baseball

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My Better Half is the baseball fan. I think the game would be much livelier and more interesting if so many innings weren't pitchers...
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Saturday, August 22, 2015

Sorrows

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Pack up your sorrows by Richard Farina and Pauline Baez Marden was covered by some big names--the link is Johnny Cash. A duo at the Corn F...
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Friday, August 21, 2015

Thunderstorms

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We still don't know quite a few things about thunderstorms , such as why one sometimes gets the red sprites shown in the linked picture....

Gossip

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The Ashley Madison crew are extraordinarily revolting specimens of fallen humanity, and their (mostly male? surprise, surprise ...) customer...
Thursday, August 20, 2015

Asymmetry

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"Big data" analysis, facial recognition (they'd probably do better to use two cameras to get stereo and avoid the problems rec...
Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Diets

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So now we learn that the Paleo Diet may not be all it is cracked up to be. Or so says Yet Another Diet Study. Kenneth Roberts decided to...
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Monday, August 17, 2015

Ads against the enemy

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Some years ago I posted an essay on the war we’re engaged in and on approaches to countering enemy propaganda. I still judge the war to be...
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Thursday, August 13, 2015

Wisdom is as wisdom does

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Years ago my parents bought the Great Books series and the study guides for it. I ignored the guides and read those books that looked inter...
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Thursday, August 06, 2015

Kids

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Is it fair to say that kids drive you crazy, but they're good for your mental health?
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Sunday, August 02, 2015

Watering the plants

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The back porch has a number of plants in various types of pots, and these tend to need more water than plants in the ground--the dirt gets h...
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Followup on the library sign

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Two years ago I worried about how the local library sign would be used, including the probability that the homeless would nestle behind the...
Friday, July 31, 2015

Like Tolkien's elves?

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Set aside for the moment the flawed assumption underlying this study : namely that one would want to eat less chocolate. They claim that ...
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Slow down

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The radio show on the drive to work this morning encouraged observing sabbaths and taking time to slow down now and then. We all know that...
Thursday, July 30, 2015

Ballard

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I picked up a copy of the “Best Short Stories of J.G. Ballard.” It had been a long time since I read anything by him. A couple of excellen...
Wednesday, July 29, 2015

So now I'm 10

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(in the Babylonian number system, of course. Try doing your times tables in that! ) Milestones are a bit arbitrary, of course, but they...
Sunday, July 26, 2015

Crime and benefits

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Are Jefferson and Jackson unpersons now? I link an approving article, but I smell rank self-righteousness. If you measure worth by how mu...
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Kitchen paint?

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I was talking with a professor from India about cooking, and he told me that in cold climates (e.g. Wisconsin) where one couldn't alway...
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