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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 UpdateStill 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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Continue reading →: Poems by the Writer as a Young ChildI spent part of my childhood on the west coast and in Grade 5 was part of an experimental 5/6/7 split. Lessons and assignments were more fluid and open than was typical in any other classroom I was in while growing up. Based on a handful of things I found…
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Continue reading →: Too Many T-Shirts?Is that even possible? Too many is probably a relative term. I accumulate t-shirts regularly. From events, academic pursuits, martial arts gatherings, random stops in stores where I don’t expect to find anything interesting but do, and periodic orders from geek shopping sites. About once a year for that last…
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Continue reading →: The Full Scope of the Memory ProjectJust in case anyone is curious, but this is rather longer than my typical post, probably pushing close to 2,000 words by the time you get to the end. TLDR: 10 volumes of my memories, a slim volume of family stories I’ve managed to collect, a photo album with commentary…
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Continue reading →: Fri-ku for 15 August 2025
Crackle underfoot Each step a crisp reminder: Ground starved for raindrops We did finally have a short rainstorm on Wednesday, but it wasn’t enough for more than a taste for the plants.
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Continue reading →: Fri-ku for 08 August 2025
Life isn’t easy: We don’t get what we deserve, We get what we get This may seem a little fatalistic, but I try to recognize that there are quite a large number of things beyond my control. Sometimes it may look like fatalism on the surface, but if you’ve ever…
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