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Pi Day!!!

(NOTE: This is a repost of last year’s Pi Day post. I didn’t get a chance to generate any new content–i.e., shoot a new video in which I get a pie in the face in the midst of a lesson … Continue reading

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The faces of accomplishment

Here’s what people look like when they’ve just landed a spaceship on Mars. This is a hell of a thing. Well done, NASA!

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Thankfulness in 2018

So we’re nearing the last phase of 2018, and today is Thanksgiving. Today will be a day of food and drink and rest and, I canna lie, feeling wistful that we’re not in New York City for the day. Here, … Continue reading

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Something for Thursday

Well, that was quite the day that America just had, wasn’t it. In times like this I retreat to the stuff that endures. Like Astaire and Rogers. Oh, and for the record? I believe her.

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Two hundred forty two

It’s the Fourth of July. I knew that it would be this way, but damn, America is really making me work for it right now. I keep thinking, not of American things, but of this moment in a movie made … Continue reading

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Larry Havers, and other Memorial Day thoughts

An annual reposting of some things pertaining to Memorial Day. First, a remembrance of a soldier I never knew. Fifteen years ago I wrote the following on Memorial Day, and I wanted to revisit it. It’s about the Vietnam Veteran … Continue reading

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Three One Four

It’s Pi Day, everyone! It is also Albert Einstein’s birthday and, sadly, this year’s edition marks the passing of Stephen Hawking, about which I’ll have more to say later. But for now, let’s celebrate Pi! Calculate Pi yourself! NASA’s Pi … Continue reading

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Thankfulness 2017

I remember it being very difficult to summon up true thankfulness a year ago as it seemed as if a darkness was settling over everything. And it has, to be honest–but it’s not an all-encompassing darkness. There have been encouraging … Continue reading

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22 November

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The Final Victory of JR Ewing, and other thoughts on one year of Trump

One year ago today the American people, by virtue of the country’s very odd system of voting for President, committed what might wind up being known as the greatest act of electoral malpractice in the country’s history. I. Donald Trump … Continue reading

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