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Author Archives: ksedinger
Tone Poem Tuesday
Returning to the Ukrainian composer Aleksandr Shymko, I’ll bet you didn’t think an accordion would be a natural instrument to pair with a string orchestra, did you? Why, no, you didn’t. Luckily, Mr. Shymko did.
WHAT IS TAKING SO LONG!!!
The very first alignment images from the James Webb Space Telescope are coming back: From the Marshall Space Flight Center’s Flickr page: On March 11, the Webb team completed the stage of alignment known as “fine phasing.” At this key … Continue reading
A deeply mundane post
(Revised and greatly extended below.) I am currently sitting in the vestibule of a restaurant waiting to be seated. The wait is 45 minutes, and we’ve been here 15. We’ve never been here before, so here’s hoping! The fact that … Continue reading
Fog, by lamplight
It was very foggy this morning, which made for some interesting visuals with the new LED lightposts at work. I took a photo, naturally: And as an experiment in impressionist mood, I trimmed it and ran it through a Prisma … Continue reading
Tone Poem Tuesday
I’ve never been a big fan of composer Reinhold Gliere. I don’t know how fair that is, given my small sample size of his work with which I’m familiar, but he usually doesn’t really do a whole lot for me. … Continue reading
Happy Pi Day!!!
Today is March 14, otherwise known as 3/14, or, Pi Day! Enjoy some circle-related calculations today, or failing that, just enjoy some pie. And there’s no reason you can’t do both!
Posted in On Pies In Faces, On Science and the Cosmos
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An item of local geography
A good marker of being an adult is when you find yourself regretting the lack of attention you paid in one class or another in grade school. In my case, sometimes it’s Earth Science, and I really did pay quite … Continue reading
Posted in On Buffalo and The 716, On Science and the Cosmos
Tagged Science
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F*** You, Daylight Savings (but REALLY f*** you, clock changes)
Oh fer f***’s sake, here we go again. At this point I’m willing to join the growing chorus of Americans (who are always completely ignored because a constant disconnect between public opinion and actual public policy is a weird but … Continue reading
“They’re called ‘quotation marks’.”
Diving a bit deep into the weeds of the writer brain, I’m always thinking about…quotation marks. Because my way of using them is, for most Americans, incorrect. This drives my poor friend and editor, Jason Bennion, to distraction each and … Continue reading →