Ensconced in in my warren within academe, I emerge from my lair once in a while to see if those are shadows of real prey on the wall or if my colleagues are just playing with the flame-throwers again.
The Dog has developed a habit of kidnapping The Girl’s stuffed animals. We
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The m...
Last year, Congress defunded the historic DC Opportunity Scholarship
Program, which offered scholarships for kids in underperforming public
schools to at...
I’ve been hanging on by a thin thread all quarter, getting most things done
just on time and letting other non-essential stuff languish, but I’ve
finally d...
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Huffy lady at store: "How am I supposed to get past you?"
Me: "Um, you say 'excuse me' and I move?"
Ooh, she was SO rude. As if my pausing to take a second...
I just returned from a very hectic travel schedule for Christmas. Living up
here in the hinterlands makes it difficult to get out of town. Add, on top
of t...
I'm not sure what reaction I'm looking for when I tell people that my mom
has been recently diagnosed with early stage breast cancer.
I can tell you that w...
Not only in real life space but apparently in cyberspace as well. I may do
an actual farewell post over here, or this may be it. Who knows. Anyhoodle,
you ...
Oh, my bloggy friends. I am so sorry to have been checked out over the
past week from the blog. Especially after so many people left such great
comments ...
(This will be the second-to-last Who-related visual rhetoric posts for a
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has recentl...
… when asbestos companies could sponsor industry-friendly research at some
of our best universities! A letter signed by dozens of prominent
scientists, inc...
First test - is the Northern Lights really magic or some science-type
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To test this theory then I will be trying to recreate it by pa...
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Thursday, November 10, 2011
Seriously ?
A benevolent creator ? I suppose I mean well. But after manipulating all the little slides to indicate that I am rebellious and have an inordinate lack of trust in institutions or the idea that people get what they deserve, I expected a different, er, cube. Times in Backwater have been trying; Bigbrightland still beckons. Cranky lives.
More of substance anon from that land called The Weekend.
Silly test. An advocating designer?? Not quite me.
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