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Take The Edge Off Your Web Browsing: WebCooler userscript

If you're like me, you care passionately about certain subjects; the natural flip side of this is being viscerally revulsed by certain things. As a matter of mental hygiene I'm…
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Admonishment To A Bad Poet
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I Can’t Believe It’s Not Poetry!: Admonishment To A Bad Poet

Bad poems give just cause to critics who revel in finding ways to rag on others' flaws.   When upon poorly set, is personal whose hearts cherish pride, and, gorging…
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Terminal-Notifier Bridge For Thunderbird Email Client
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Thunderbird Customization: Terminal-Notifier Bridge For Thunderbird Email Client

Hot off the presses. Direct from my Github, a MacOS BASH script to allow customized per-mailbox notifications in the Mozilla Thunderbird email client. Following is the README containing full information…
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A Young Person’s Guide To Common Time Signatures, and what they mean in real life
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Infrequently Asked Questions: A Young Person’s Guide To Common Time Signatures, and what they mean in real life

I have some time to kill so I thought I would write a brief overview of the concept of time signature in response to some questions that arose recently from…
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IAQs—Answers to Even More Infrequently Asked Questions
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Knowledg Is Poweh: IAQs—Answers to Even More Infrequently Asked Questions

1. What's the difference between a sauce and a condiment? - Susan W., Tallahassee, FLA condiment enhances the flavor of food and is used sparingly. A sauce adds an additional…
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Revisions of Johanna — AI-Assisted lyrical illumination
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Gallery: Revisions of Johanna — AI-Assisted lyrical illumination

I have to be honest. I don't know about this one. I set out to do another set of AI-assisted lyric illustrations, this time all of one song in its…
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A Lyrical Explication Upon Substantive Empirical Qualification of Authorial Poesy in Three Lines
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The Measure Of A Poet: A Lyrical Explication Upon Substantive Empirical Qualification of Authorial Poesy in Three Lines

What better a measure of man as a poet Is there, b'sides seeing some poems he's wroet? If better exists, I sure do not knoet.
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Pearl PCB20 Anarchy Cowbell review
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Amazon Product Review: Pearl PCB20 Anarchy Cowbell review

Link: http://www.amazon.com/review/RUISCK9IXTK6J/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B000OY5RKA&channel=detail-glance&nodeID=11091801&store=musical-instruments Rating: Review Title: Steal This Cowbell! Review: Submission to domination is enforced not solely, nor even most significantly, through blatant repression, but rather through subtle manipulations worked into…
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California Deep Dreaming: “Wild California” Studies

While working on a featured image for Field Report: Briefing On My Weekend, I had the idea of extending the theme to make a whole set of illustrations inspired by…
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Reflective Prose: Fascination, And Dangerous Weather

Springtime hits hard in some quarters. I call this 'dangerous weather'—like, you've got to watch out where you're going. You might trip and fall. Somehow this always coincides with the…
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Report On My Weekend
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Local Color—Point Reyes, Marin County: Report On My Weekend

(Sent via email to undisclosed parties) My god, if I knew how my little weekend of excursions was going to turn out, I would have made it an event and…
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The Funniest Man In The World
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These Are The People In My Neighborhood: The Funniest Man In The World

The other night I talked to my old friend Zigmo Parcheesi, the funniest man in the world. He told me he took his toddler son Max to his first movie.…
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This’ll Show ‘Em: Verse Upon Bank of America Holding My Checks And Angering My Cat

"These checks will be held for two weeks", they said, "because they are very large and from New Jersey" This much is true But I am now home and my…
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Investigative Journalism: “Elvis Is Everywhere”

In the Nov. 10, 1988 edition of Bard College school newspaper "The Bardian", for whom I occasionally wrote as a cub reporter, the Campus News section was led by my…
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Adding A Default Featured Image Or Thumbnail In WordPress
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Adding A Default Featured Image Or Thumbnail In WordPress

On this site, any post without a featured image specifically set (such as this one) displays the default floral 'K' insignia anywhere on the site where a thumbnail is displayed.…
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Serious Gear Geekery: Mosrite/Bakersfield Guitar Picks

I wonder how many of even my guitarist friends will appreciate the above photo. Maybe some of you Seattle musicians, or Ventures fans. I found a set of vintage Mosrite…
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Demo: The Ravine Houses Are Gone (A Song For Hume, And Wacks, And Dan, And You)

May 28, 2007 On May 27, Christopher Hume's parents met up with my friends Dan and Wacks at Bard College, and they went down to the on-campus waterfalls on the…
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Local Color—Manhattan: New York Stories, Which I Only Now Realize Are All About Petty Crimes

Originally posted on my old site. I'd have called this "New York After Dark", but the souvlaki guy story happened in the middle of the afternoon. Looking out for the…
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Question of the day: When was the first time you noticed someone cheating at something?

A few years back, my friend Al Katkowski was something of a success with his "Question Of The Day" iphone app and subsequent book. This was a question from the…
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Whom Rods Destroy: Speak To Me Not Of Picard, Nor Janeway — An Irascible Screed On Star Trek Fandom Fundamentals

Look; I'm a Star Trek fan. Don't talk to me about "Picard" or "Janeway" or "Archer" or whoever. Even the movies barely qualify as "Star Trek", and they have the…
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Temporal Moronomy: The Contents Of The Rest Of The World’s Dream Do Not Concern Me (or, Why I Didn’t Turn 40)

I originally wrote this essay shortly before my 40th birthday, after which I posted it on my blog and a number of other places. December, 2008 For the record, I…
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