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RadCon schedule
I have my schedule! For the curious: Fri, Feb 18 4:00 to 5:00 pm Violence and Dueling in Political History Representative Gohmer recently introduced legislation to allow Congress Members to go armed on the chamber floors. What is the true nature of violence, dueling, and the ultimate effect on politics? Frey, Ruth Garrison, Miki Held,…
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Lessons learned
So I had an Adventure in car maintenance this weekend. My car had a headlight out, and I mistakenly got the wrong kind of bulb at first, only to find the right one wouldn’t light. I eventually got help and discovered that the reason the problem wasn’t fixed was that I’d carefully replaced a working…
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Conservation of flatware
Still recovering today from an early morning being airport taxi for my sister, after travel adventures with missed flights yesterday. Now I’m back at work, and she’s probably partying in NYC by now (the lucky dog!) Either that, or passed out from travel exhaustion… I’ll be posting a little less for a while, as it’s…
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Name-dropping
I read this the other day, and it has been bubbling around in my head since then. Ignoring the second half of the article, which seems to be focused on novels being about the internet in our lives, and going back to the internet appearing in stories about other things, I’m not sure I agree…
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Acronyms
Today was a day full of looking up information on the DAHP web portal, and it got me to thinking about the randomness of rules for how people end up pronouncing acronyms. That one up there is the Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation, or “dap”. It’s the state agency that oversees our company’s work…
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Choir lols
You end up with some rather humorous mistakes, when you’re in a choir. Singers will know exactly what I mean, but people without much singing experience are often quite surprised how you have to change things to make it sound good when sung versus when you’re talking. If you don’t do it right, that’s when…
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Iron Chef I am not
I just discovered that Hulu has some Iron Chef America episodes up and so I’ve been working my way through the current season on and off. I’m a fan of competitive cooking shows in general, and they’re in my binge rotation. (Watch a whole season! Watch nothing cooking related for a month!) Today is the…
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Maps
Today, the boundary of construction ground disturbance I am transferring onto a map looks exactly like a baby triceratops (I know they’re not a real dinosaur, but it’s my childhood, man!) missing its front legs. Poor amputee triceratops baby. 🙁 Will no one donate for prosthetics? Ladies and gentlemen: what you get when you cross…
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Science!
Today, a quick mystery for all of you to ponder, as I am pondering it. I will probably continue somewhat quiet thereafter as I’m in a period wherein my sleep cycles are screwed up, so I have to ride it out somewhat zombie-like. (In a doctor’s office, I once read one of those women’s magazine…
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Property assessment
Things normal people do not find humor in: county property assessment websites. I know what causes it, of course. It’s that once you spend too much time in one, delving it its inner workings, you start to discover its soul. From there, you can find the humor of it truly on its own terms. Either…
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