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I Always Have Something In My Eye

August 15th, 2009 · No Comments · Potpourri

What did the Goldsteins say when their homework crossed the street?
Our dog ate it.
Yesterday was not fun. When the worst was over I poured two glasses of wine, and we toasted both of our sweet little rats, as Grace likes to call them. B had to remind me to clink the glasses, which is further [...]

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Changes In Gratitudes, Changes In Platitudes

July 16th, 2009 · No Comments · Potpourri

This entry needs pictures, but I don’t have any that fit. When you reach a point where you need an image in your brain and I haven’t properly painted it, go take a look at Revjim’s blog entries or B’s photostream from the week following July 11 and just pick one.
I took off for a [...]

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Part VIII: Fire and Ice

June 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Potpourri

WordPress is acting wonky. I upgraded it a few days ago, and have posted a few things here since then. However, every now and then it (or my browser) just won’t let me type anything in the content field. When that happens, I click frantically for a while and then give up.
Dashboard Widgets to the [...]

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Part VII: Lexicography + Steganography = Telepathy

June 24th, 2009 · No Comments · Potpourri

I am no less skeptical today regarding the possibility of paranormal and supra-natural activity than I was the day I had my own personal revelation about God and the Infinite. Mind-reading is not a verifiable, tangible concept, insofar as there will never be a non-artificial method of detecting the electrical patterns in another human being’s [...]

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Part V: The Poetry

May 27th, 2009 · No Comments · Potpourri

I’ve never deleted stuff from a blog or online texty-thingee unless it was actually causing someone undue harm. I’ve been causing someone undue harm recently, but I’m also not the type to delete myself. I’m an editor. I fix things to the best of my ability, but once it’s published I don’t have the power [...]

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