Category: Everyday Stories
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What you don't want to see as you pass under Spaghetti Junction
One thing you really don’t want to see when you are getting on Spaghetti Junction are cars on the overpass above you backing up–backing up on those high high spaghetti junction overpasses–to avoid what they can see just beyond that you can’t, and it’s too late now for you to do anything but sit in…
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I'm glad for the person this didn't prove embarrassing
This is hysterical. Marty was supposed to fly out this weekend for a Blues Festival but has been ill and needed to cancel. So this AM he gets several calls in a row. It’s one of the friends who was on their way out to the gig, the phone in pocket and something was hitting…
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Two of Frank Baum’s descendants apologize for his racism
Not many people are aware of the racism of Frank Baum, author of the much beloved “The Wizard of Oz”. I felt it important and devoted a few pages to it in Unending Wonders of a Subatomic World or In Search of the Great Penguin. As Marty says, it’s refreshing news that a couple of…
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Answer me why…
Everyone else can write about the important stuff. My blog is for asking pointless questions that no one either bothers to answer or simply can’t answer. (Oh, wait, I was informed the aloe vera was dying because it was getting too much water. I stopped watering it except when the soil was completely dry and,…
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My parental duty for the evening
My parental duty for the day has been locating old pipe organ music on the net for H.o.p. He wanted to hear and we don’t have a turntable to play the several albums of Italian, German and English renaissance organ music that we used to have which got all scratched up and are either in…
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OK, so I've read up on Netflix and throttling…
H.o.p. woke up sick and has been down for the count all day. Marty’s out being filmed for a BBC documentary (I’ll describe later). Oh, here comes H.o.p. now. And I’ve been reading about Netflix and throttling. Will we end up being disappointed in Netflix as well? Probably. Because I’m a new customer may be…
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Well, we shall see how this works
Despite some of the things I’ve read, I went ahead and got a Netflix subscription. We don’t have cable, the movie rental places closest to us are very slim on anything but current flicks, and I wanted to make available to H.o.p. documentaries/educational DVDs without having to purchase them. We must be very dull people…
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Just getting new materials for H.o.p. in line for the year, that's all I'm doing
Books, books and more books. That’s what I’ve been up to. Ordering books for H.o.p. for this coming year. Math books and history books and science books. Books, books and more books. And plenty of books now waiting in the Wish List for ordering later. I never know what’s going to catch H.o.p.’s interest. Unexpectedly,…
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Fernbank Science Center – What we learned at the Planetarium today (3 views)
Pond at the Fernbank Science Center It’s a fairly nice small pond to sit beside for a little while. In this case after viewing the show at the Planetarium today which was on the stars of summer in our hemisphere (difficult to follow via just a sometimes too quickly moving pointer) with some information also…
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The paper skeleton that is actually essential text in some college courses–well, at least one
Re my post the other day on putting together this paper skeleton for H.o.p., an exercise in frustration, and then finding that the same book, “Cut and Make a Human Skeleton” is an essential textbook for Anatomy and Physiology I at Ol Miss in the class of a Dr. Denis Goulet and being floored by…
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The strange small things in life
The world is a funny place. A few days ago, for the first time in two decades, it occurred to me to try to recollect what my kindergarten teacher’s name was. I hadn’t thought about it in nearly twenty years and at first I thought oh I’ll never remember, then after a few minutes it…
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I spent my day stitching paper bones together with artificial sinew
The world is falling apart and here I am performing the essential duty of stitching paper bones together. However did that come to pass? Yesterday we’d planned another excursion to North Georgia, but H.o.p. was slow slow slow to get going, so slow that by the time we instead arrived at the Fernbank Science Center…