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• The intelligent corals of Betathon 5

  January 10, 2014

  Everything has to be broken away from;everything has to be come back to.There must be a failing under the strain, and a growing back.There must be new failures and new mismatches (surprises),as when something that does not make one smell/taste bad to oneself makes one smell/taste bad to another; ...

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• Zoey

  January 7, 2014

  When I find the little cable to connect the digital camera to my computer, I'll put up the one "good" picture I have managed to take of our new cat Zoey. Zoey goes through about twenty "good" photographable instants per minute, but she does not stop at any of them, so it has taken me…

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• Of course you do.

  October 6, 2013

  It so happens that if you cut up between sixty and a hundred habanero peppers...(Which you do. You've got a red savina habanero you grew in the garden this year, and you've also got a fatali pepper [fataali, fatalii], also basically a habanero in taste and power, that you've been wintering over i...

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• The milestones

  June 12, 2013

  My mom keeps a diary to record garden-related events. Yesterday - yesterday last year - Mom and I and my sister Catherine drove out to Heirloom Roses.  Gwen didn't go with us because she wasn't feeling well - nonspecific tummy ows. I was sorry she wasn't along. I found something in the displ...

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• Brain spill

  March 23, 2013

   That was very nice, and was hell on my schedule. After grocery shopping today, Mom thought we should drop in on Belmont Station to stock up on a few good beers for the pantry from their amazing selection, and then she unexpectedly decided we should try eating lunch in the little side taproo...

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• Pacific Rim

  March 20, 2013

   Yes, I am on Elance.   And in LinkedIn, for what it's worth.  Is LinkedIn pure magical-thinking nonsense? I am over half convinced that it is. Does anyone ever get a job via this "Facebook for resumes" - I mean, does anyone fill positions that way? It's as if you would g...

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• The downside of having reached a better position

  February 3, 2013

  My brain is being vampirized (vampirised? forget it, I don't like either spelling) by the problem of finding editing work. Whether I am paying attention to the problem or am for the moment ignoring it, I cannot be going full-tilt into any thinking topic.  There is an oppression of not doing ...

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• Gypsy Christmas, firearms, and kamikaze starships

  December 29, 2012

  I can't remember if I've written in here about the Gypsy district of the Rose City cemetery; I mean, about my discovery of the long-running cultural battle between the Gypsies and the management... (Here is a news snippet I found about it.)  Anyway, as I write this, there are - in direct con...

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• And there was a massacre today.

  December 13, 2012

  In an elementary school in Connecticut. Twenty little kids dead. I didn't know untiI I got home in the evening after going to see The Hobbit. That is all. What else can I say?  Have we made guns hammering away such a mark of heroic story that someone who is on the edge would reach…

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