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Oatmeal á la K
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Go
Among my fascinations and frsutrations is go. This is going to be my page for organizing my thoughts on it as I learn. I get the sense that Go is…
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Word Salad: Vocabulary
As I run across words or phrases that I like, I add them here. Apotropaic magic (from Greek αποτρέπω, apotrépō 'to ward off') - protective magic, a type of magic…
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Is That A Kosher Dill In Your Pocket, Or Are You Just Happy To See Me?: On Not Voicing One’s Opinion Of Pickles In Deference To A Strange Sensitivity
Note: This was composted in response to a #thursdaypoetrysociety challenge on LinkedIn to compose a poem in response to the prompt "my opinion on pickles". My opinion of pickles is…
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Vocabulary
[could probably have a whole website section on words & language] This is a placeholder for a page suggested by captJamesG in the Indieweb writing group meeting at https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2025-02-04-writing :…
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Opinion: How the Section 174 Tax Code Changes Caused a White-Collar Job Crash
Note, Sep. 2024: I want to point something out: I've given few references here besides a couple of Google search results I happen to like. This page gives my current…
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Hair Of The Dog: Interlude Tonsorial
Exqueeze me whilst I sing the tale of facial hair gone tough as nails. When short, it chafes, when long it scares! Crepusculating facial hairs portend the chafed skin one…
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Insert Clever phrase here: Artificial Stupidity thoughts & references
I do a lot of writing on AI but have never gathered it into a cohesive essay or collection. This is the beginning of loosely collecting my thoughts and saved…
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“I Realized Something Disturbing This Morning” by Allison Rossi—Incidental Poetry
Originally revealed at https://www.linkedin.com/posts/allisonmarierossi_allisonwith2ls-copycats-plagiarismgoals-activity-7276604068976816129-tV7b?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop: Your browser does not support the video tag.
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Things That Make You Say "Hmmmmm": Timeslippin’ With Gene
This is a true thing that happened to me. And better, it happened to me and a friend together, so there's a corroborating witness. Back in high school, me and…
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These Are The People In My Neighborhood
Some assorted reminscences of characters I occasionally run across in my day.
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Dinner For Schmucks: The Five Ingredient Cookbook — Kitchen Survival for Schmoes
Mostly sticking this placeholder into the "works in progress" section to remind me to pull all my recipies together and work on my cookbook. At a certain point in my…
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You Are Hear: Music Reviews
As of this writing (March 2024) this is pretty sparse, I only just had the idea. Generally I've never written much about music—I don't need to, because music is just…
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Infrequently Asked Questions: What’s the best day of the week to take off if you work a four day, 10-hours-a-day work week?
What’s the best day of the week to take off if you work a four day, 10-hours-a-day work week? -Jeannie F, Marin County, CA Thursday. Trust me, being self-employed I’ve…
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Infrequently Asked Questions: Why do people respect George Carlin?
I have a serious question, and, dead serious, I’m not deliberately trying to provoke.
Why do people respect George Carlin? -Brett F., Alberta Carlin was the observational comic who set…
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Infrequently Asked Questions: Why are musical notes an octave apart considered to be the same note?
Q. Why are musical notes an octave apart considered to be the same note? -Charlotte V., Seattle, WA Notes an octave apart are the same note because of the mechanics…
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Infrequently Asked Questions: Do the odds of winning the lottery change if more people play? Is flipping tails more likely after four heads in a row?
A.) Do the odds of winning the lottery change if more people play? B.) What if 5 people each flipped a coin. If the first four all land on heads,…
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Local Color—Ghent, Belgium: How to Find Your Hotel If You’re Lost In Ghent
Back in my salad days I once tricked the Belgian government into paying to fly me & two friends to give an arts lecture in Ghent under assumed names (long…
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I Like To Listen: “Peaks Island Ferry” by Dan Sonenberg — album review
Finally giving a listen to the prerelease of old friend Dan Sonenberg’s return to solo singer-songwriting, "Peaks Island Ferry". Rather than set down & give him feedback after it’s over,…
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I Can’t Believe It’s Not Poetry!: “The Radish Is The Noisy’st Root…”
The radish is the noisy'st root, Its vocal tack beyond dispute, effusive in expounding truth— so talkative, this verbal fruit. In ages prior and aeons hence, have poets, lost in…
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Hey, You Got Your Social Awareness In My AI!: About Sexism In The AI Images On This Site
A number of the AI-generated images on this site contain artistic depictions of nudity, presented in a way that might seem to reasonably suggest some confusion between real artistic or…
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Watch Your Intelligence: Critical Reading of a Flawed Information Source
Oct. 7, 2023 I had an interesting talk with my father yesterday. He had a 2-for-1 subscription offer to Mother Jones, and we got into a discussion when I told…
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I Can’t Believe It’s Not Meta-Poetry!: Ode to “Ode To A Croaking Man”
O! Poem that spoke of a man who croaks, were you not my own, I would quote you! I would think that whomever composed you smokes dope, but I know…
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Fudging The Facts: Misinformation Visualization
Among my many inconsequential but fondly-remembered ideas was about 10 years ago, when for a brief time, I had a blog called "Misinformation Visualization" (subtitle: "Bringing a world of misinformation…
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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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Health & Lifestyle: How I Deal With Insomnia
I'm going to flesh this out at some point, but it was lost in a pile of old notes and I wanted it up on the site as a reminder,…
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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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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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Hoax ‘Em If You Got ‘Em: Anti-Plague Flyer
Waaaaay back during the dot-com boom in San Francisco, in my carefree 20s (a much different time of my life than my carefree '50s) I used to put this up…
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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.