Author Archives: ksedinger

The trains don’t run anymore….

Posted on March 17, 2024 by ksedinger

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

Posted on March 16, 2024 by ksedinger

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!!!

Posted on March 14, 2024 by ksedinger

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….

Posted on March 13, 2024 by ksedinger

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

Posted on March 12, 2024 by ksedinger

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

Posted on March 11, 2024 by ksedinger

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!!!

Posted on March 10, 2024 by ksedinger

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!

Posted on March 8, 2024 by ksedinger

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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From the Books, for International Women’s Day

Posted on March 8, 2024 by ksedinger

This is a repost from a couple of years ago. I chose to repost this, about a book by astronomer Sara Seager, because it has lodged in my brain since I read it. I generally try to avoid reading grief … Continue reading →

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Something for Roger (on Thursday!)

Posted on March 7, 2024 by ksedinger

On the occasion of his 71st birthday, here are The Beatles as channeled through the instrument that was Joe Cocker: May Roger have another 71 trips around the sun in store, at least!  

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