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Continue reading →: The Government We Elected Versus the Government We GotPeople uninterested in politics, particularly Canadian politics, should pass this one by. I’m not going to get too detailed or bogged down into my understanding of how things work, but there are some opinions here. According to the Federal election results, on 28 April 2025, Canadians elected a Liberal Minority…
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Continue reading →: The Year of Re-ReadsI haven’t done a lot of re-reads in recent years. Okay, decades. There was a time that wasn’t true. As a teenager, I didn’t have a lot of extra money, so I was very picky about books I paid money for and made extensive use of libraries, both public and…
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Continue reading →: A Year of RemembranceI’m 55 now, which I have stated here recently is the beginning of the senior years for men where I live. The math is simple: average lifespan divided by three to give youth, middle age, and senior brackets. (This is the logic a lot of companies seem to use to…
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Continue reading →: Quick and Dirty Super Summary of the 2025 Writing YearThere may be a tiny bit of rounding here. I’m drafting this about a week before New Year’s Eve and trying to set it up so that I’ll just have to change the numbers because I’m not expecting any major changes otherwise. I won’t promise I won’t do any writing…
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Continue reading →: Happy Birthday to MeI’m 55 today. To be a bit depressing for a moment, where I live the average male life expectancy is 81 by current demographics. Dividing that into thirds for youth, middle age, and let’s call them senior years, we come up with 0-27, 28-54, and 55-81. So, if I’ve just…
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Continue reading →: A Joyous Yule to AllAn annual reminder that not everyone celebrates Christmas, and most of the folks who do celebrate it differently than most of the other folks. I’m a case in point. We started to migrate away from what’s become a traditional western Christmas at least a decade ago, making the season less…
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Continue reading →: An Overdue Update
Still older than Brahe and hope I’ll continue to advance in age for a few decades yet. Fall term is over and I’m now eight months into graduate studies. Lots of other life events going on lately and so my writing has suffered a bit. A familiar refrain in recent…
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Continue reading →: I’m Now Older than Tycho BraheIn addition to being the only scientist I’m aware of who lost a nose in a duel over a mathematical proof, Tycho Brahe can perhaps be credited with taking astronomy into the realm of modern science and is probably the greatest of the pre-telescope astronomers. Yes, there are some waffle…
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Continue reading →: Back To School 2025I’ve been having a hard time setting aside writing time this month. Trying to fix that today. Yes, this is a back-to-school post, but it’s related. I’m a graduate student now and have been since the first of May. Summer term is for research, though, and while I feel like…
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