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The Supernatural vs. the Supersensible: ‘Bones’ and “The Pathos in the Pathogens”

No crime scene this week, no body dump … we begin with biohazard containment. A blogger has been killed by an unknown pathogen and dumped in a pile of veterinary waste. Her fiance, a source in the pharmaceutical industry, and … Continue reading

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Good: Escher and Blog … an Infernal Golden Opportunity, or: Welcome to the Wonderful World of High Technology

The blog post is titled “3D Print the Impossible! Turning Escher Drawings into Read 3D Models“. As the first paragraphs states, “The researchers […] have used their own Objet 3D printer to re-create the impossible Escher Drawings as real, tangible … Continue reading

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Poppy: “Act one beginners, please!” … or the Three-Act Structure

A couple years ago when reading some television criticism something stuck out at me that had always just floated below the surface for so long: that TV episodes and movies were structured around three acts. And everywhere I went I’d … Continue reading

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2013.03.16: Waffling

Ms. S. worked an extra shift and sleeps mightily. For breakfast/brunch she gets a waffle; since Clinton at the least and a certain Doonsbury strip we taken “to waffle” as synonymous with “to flip flop”, “to vacillate”; and the waffle … Continue reading

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Szechuan Saturday, or: What I’m Reading but not Eating

A couple weeks ago Ms. S. and I stopped by our favorite local Mexican restaurant for a treat, and this led to a discussion or the origin of several supposedly ‘authentic’ ethnic dishes. And this led Ms. S. first to … Continue reading

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A Forgettable Friday

Not much accomplished today; still recovering from the holidays.

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Sunday Sitting Around

Sunday is brunch-promt time, and today as I wrote the cats decided that my lap and forearms were a good place tot settle down and nap … who am I to argue?

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Thursday Themes

Let’s treat today in several parts, one of which is narrative, one of which is merely descriptive, and one of which is abstracts from actions to pop culture.

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Freewheeling Friday

It may be December, but we’ve still had temperatures north of 70 down here. That translates to humidity and warm nights, as well, and so at 3am I had to turn the bedroom ceiling fan on ‘high’. I wanted to … Continue reading

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Sunday Sortings, or: Turtles all the Way Down

Sometimes I like to details what I’ve done. It’s empirical, a bottom-up affair. It could be replaced by a numbered or bullet-point list (the chronology being implied by implicit order of the points) … or even a definition list, a … Continue reading

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