Author Archives: ksedinger

Ohhh, let’s get rid of some open tabs, shall we?

Time to clear out the open tabs! Yay! ::  Yes, changing the clocks is bad for you. ::  If you’re like me, you see all the reports of business closing locations and locking down security measures due to massive increases … Continue reading

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Something for Thursday (St. Paddy’s Day on a Sunday edition)

Some Irish music, because…Irish music. And I have no idea if John Williams has any Irish ancestry in him at all, but his score to Far and Away is so good that I am officially declaring him a Temporary Honorary Irish … Continue reading

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The trains don’t run anymore….

Photos from a short walk at the Orchard Park Railroad Depot yesterday. The Depot, you may remember, has been lovingly restored after years of neglect after the trains stopped running, and the tracks are now a rail trail. These weren’t … Continue reading

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Streaming Killed the Cinema Star

This is a topic that just keeps coming up, and up, and up on social media: seeing movies in the theater versus waiting to stream at home. The latest go-round of this topic came up just in the last day … Continue reading

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Pi Day 2024!!!

Another year, another Pi Day that I didn’t observe with anything new…sigh…but here’s a repost of an earlier celebration! It’s Pi Day, everyone! It is also Albert Einstein’s birthday and, sadly, this year’s edition marks the passing of Stephen Hawking, … Continue reading

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Whoa….

I’ll have more to say later at some point, but I’ve just read one of the earliest Star Trek novels, a 1974 book called Spock, Messiah!. And it is both super weird and not weird enough. I need to think … Continue reading

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Tone Poem Tuesday

Today, a rarity: or something that felt to me like a rarity many years ago, when I was still playing the trumpet (and, I might add, at a pretty high level!). The evolution of the trumpet as an instrument meant … Continue reading

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Sunday Thievery

I haven’t done one of these quiz-things in a while, so why not? Roger did this one, and now I’m going to appropriate it. (The quiz is from a blog called Sunday Stealing, so the fact that I’m doing this … Continue reading

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Completion!!!

Yesterday I finally completed the first round of The Song of Forgotten Stars, Book Five: Embers of Future Flames. This book has taken a lot longer than I expected, but this phase is finally done. Also, even though there is … Continue reading

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For International Women’s Day…women!

I should really update this once in a while, but here is an incomplete photographic roster of women I admire. Happy International Women’s Day!  

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