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Category Archives: LIFE
9:34 AM: Now I am superlatively, actually awake …
I remember, lucky me, seeing a documentary about a fellow who had completely lost the ability to lay down new memories and had been given a journal in which to write his thoughts and it consisted of line after line, … Continue reading
Posted in I AM FINALLY AWAKE, LIFE
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You are not connected to the internet …
Sad sad words followed by: posted from myPhone [I hope I just made that up] but posted from home sweet home of the freezing rain. Imagine, it was beautiful and sunny and 12 steaming Celsius degrees in Newfoundland: So it … Continue reading
Posted in LIFE, RANDOM
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Good boggy morning …
last day of escapism … well, let’s hope not! May your Monday be mundane, but in the best of ways.
Posted in LIFE
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A break from reality and a chance to prove Roz Chast right …
Now I didn’t make yummy apple butter last night but I did make some yummy herb butter which made me think of dill which made me remember that I am tasked with getting the salmon for my father-in-law’s gravalox for Saturnalia, … Continue reading
Posted in LIFE
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They say you shouldn’t judge someone before you have walked a mile in their shoes …
but as John Handey [who knew? not me!] points out, that “way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.” But I find as I get older I am much more able … Continue reading
Posted in LIFE
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Happy Birthday Nana! A miracle of genetics …
Eighty-three today, and not a vegetable or standing prescription in thirty years. Beautiful as always … and sorry for being such a pest … Who’s like us? Damn few, but we’re nay dead yet … and you made it to another year … Continue reading
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Happy American [by which I mean late and chilly] Thanksgiving!
And who wouldn’t like to think about Nasim Taleb on such a day, as one devours a relative of the black swan, a blackened or we hope brownened turkey. He told his parable of the Turkey and Confirmation Bias about … Continue reading
Posted in LIFE
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Don’t get yourself stuffed when you die …
This time Russ Roberts really nails it, in my personal books, by managing to find an economist who holds a degree in electrical engineering. I hold electrical engineering, or at least an electrical engineer, close to my heart and always … Continue reading
Posted in ECONOMICS, LIFE
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The Wheels on the Bus go Clop, Clop, Clop …
What is the matter with people? And how many posts could I begin that way? As many ways as roads Bob Dylan never lets you know there are, and dangers lurk at every corner. So my first thought was not … Continue reading
Posted in LIFE, RANTS
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25 years ago, starting last night, a misheard news conference and a nice man …
changed the lives of millions for the better: The Man Who Disobeyed His Boss And Opened The Berlin Wall The Berlin Wall fell on Nov. 9, 1989, 25 years ago this weekend. East Germans flooded into West Berlin after border … Continue reading
Posted in LIFE
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