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Things That Make You Say "Hmmmmm": Timeslip
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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Opinion: How the Section 174 Tax Code Changes Caused a White-Collar Job Crash
Note: I want to point something out: I've given no references here. This is my current understanding. I'm still researching it, and you should research it yourself, don't take my…
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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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The Infinity Razor
Draft - never published This is an old favorite of mine that I'm glad to see survives in some form on the web. Close to 20 years ago, The Economist…
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More than Coincidence? The Bushes, the CIA, an inexplicable disease cluster, and a TV show
Draft - never published Over the course of the persidency of George H. W. Bush, both he and first lady Barbara Bush developed Graves' disease, a form of lupus. Doctors…
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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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Online Petition Gets Murder Conviction Overturned
Originally posted on Misinformationvisualization.com on 12/9/2013. According to Change.org’s current homepage: “Family wins release of son from prison! Ryan Ferguson’s family fought for his release from prison for a murder they…
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How To Pick A Better Password
Originally posted on Misinformationvisualization.com on 12/2/2013 Buried in this interesting article about password security from the BBC is the tidbit that studies have found that red-haired women tend to pick…
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Election ’12 fact-finding: Has Obama Increased or Decreased Shark Attacks in the US?
Originally published on MisinformationVisualization.com on Aug 18, 2012 Here’s something Romney’s attack ads refuse to discuss. According to figures from the nonpartisan American Elasmobranch Society and the Florida Museum of…
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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.
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Just A Dab’ll Do Ya: Against Libertarianism, Almost
Foreword about "Against Libertarianism", 2023I wrote this, originally a blog post, about 10 years ago. Nowadays I have more to say about this, but for the moment this stands with…
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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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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…