Author Archives: ksedinger

An observation, for no particular reason

Posted on January 4, 2025 by ksedinger

It shouldn’t be as easy as it is to really damage the bejeezus out of one’s side-view mirror. Moving on….

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From the Burchfield Penney

Posted on January 3, 2025 by ksedinger

Across the street from the Buffalo AKG Museum stands the Burchfield Penney Art Center. This is a museum dedicated to the works of Charles Burchfield and the WNY art community in general. We finally visited this lovely museum for the … Continue reading →

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Something for Thursday

Posted on January 2, 2025 by ksedinger

This feature was hibernating through December, what with the Daily Dose of Christmas, but we’re back now! We’ll start with observing the bicentennial of German composer Anton Bruckner, who was born in 1824. So yeah, we missed it. Oops. I … Continue reading →

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“Returning feet and voices at the door”

Posted on January 1, 2025 by ksedinger

A poem by JRR Tolkien. This appears in The Fellowship of the Ring, recited by Bilbo just after he has given Frodo his old sword and his old shirt of mithril. Remember that when Bilbo left The Shire, early in the book, … Continue reading →

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2024: The area between the dumpster fire and the tire fire

Posted on December 31, 2024 by ksedinger

It’s the end of 2024 (or even the beginning of 2025, depending on when I get this finished; I’m starting to write it on the 29th, but this thing often takes me a few days to cobble together. To sum … Continue reading →

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“They say a good man can’t get elected President. I don’t believe that. Do you?”

Posted on December 31, 2024 by ksedinger

The quote in the title of this post is from the West Wing episode “In the Shadow of Two Gunmen”, the second season premiere, in which the present-day Bartlet White House is reeling from the assassination attempt on the President, … Continue reading →

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The One and Only True Method of Cooking a Proper Pot of Chili. (a repost)

Posted on December 30, 2024 by ksedinger

I’ve shared my method of preparing chili several times in the past, but it’s been more than two years since I reposted it here, so it’s time to bring it around again! As I am preparing this post it’s Sunday … Continue reading →

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What is “value”?

Posted on December 29, 2024 by ksedinger

I rarely write about sport on this site anymore, but I’m going to broach the topic here just for a few minutes because there’s an interesting debate raging across social media right now regarding the NFL MVP award, and which … Continue reading →

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Keeping up with the Joneses, and keeping ahead of the Smiths (a repost)

Posted on December 28, 2024 by ksedinger

This is a repost of something I wrote nine years ago, occasioned by someone on social media opining how terrible it is for the burger-flippers of the world to be getting a raise someplace while the “first responders” aren’t paid … Continue reading →

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Ummm….

Posted on December 27, 2024 by ksedinger

I, like many, worry about the rise of AI and the effects it’s going to have on jobs and human productivity. But maybe I can worry just a little less….

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