Campaign for the Mundane
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Like almost everyone else I know, I lined up this weekend and saw the Big Geek Movie Of The Year. I didn’t have the investment that my cohorts did, although I did read it the first time back when it hadn’t been out too long. I was just 13 and totally didn’t get it. So […]
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Recently Genie pointed me to a post on finslippy that reminded me of an apocryphal story I often tell from my youth. I shall immortalize it here, and perhaps my mom will comment and tell her side of the story or tell me I’m full of shit. As a kid I was the kind of […]
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This weekend I set about getting ink all over some “Eco” paper of two different stripes. I have heard, over and over again, tales of the Staples Eco-Friendly paper. I learned about how they make the paper from the remnants from sugar cane production (“80% sugar cane waste”), the pros and cons of that. Around […]
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Please note that chewy Spree is an abomination. Anyways. I don’t have much to show you today, no fancy pictures of my junk. Yesterday I found a large, sturdy shopping bag sitting in the bedroom from Christmas shopping or something. Rather than just throwing it away, I ran around the house grabbing obvious things I […]
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Question 25 bested me with semantics: “List all the possible [emphasis mine] subshells of the 5th shell of an atom” with the options I couldn’t decide between being: a) 5s 5p 5d 5f b) 5s 5p 5d 5f 5g So, does possible mean “hypothetical” in this context, or “actually possible”? And Jack pointed out that […]
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It’s not often that I’m near a radio and simultaneously actually using it. It just so happened that I caught what was probably the best hour of radio listening all week on Saturday when Jack and I tuned into This American Life on the way out to Leesburg. The episode was about making the banking […]
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For Genie’s latest challenge she asked her readers/fellow bloggers to write up a post about what we love about our bodies. “Oh, what a lark!” I thought. “I won’t be doing that!” I thought. But loyalty got the better of me, so here goes. I’m not one for spending a bunch of time listing my […]
