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When Babies Become Grown-Ass Men March 5, 2024

My son, who was born almost three weeks early and a scant six and a half pounds, is graduating from college in May.  His plan is to go on and get his master’s degree, a plan I am in favor of.  Being a Big Boy, he has done all his applications and whatnot with no…

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Do You Reply All Without a License? February 27, 2024

In 1675, Sir Isaac Newton said, “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.”  What this means is several things.  One, that by quoting people who have been dead for over three hundred years you don’t have to worry about copyright violations.  And two, if a certifiably inarguable genius…

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FOMO? Nope. FOBI. February 7, 2024

I remember being in my early twenties and becoming aware of how much larger the world was than the one my parents had showed me.  I wanted to see all the things.  I wanted to see them now.  I feared nothing greater than that one or more thing might occur without me witnessing it.  I…

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Ode to a Forty-Five Year Old String Bean January 23, 2024

In first grade, we did a science experiment where we turned ordinary looking beans into bam-wham-zam! plants.  Those plants, you might be surprised to learn, grew long string beans on them that contained—will wonders never cease—beans that looked exactly like the beans we started with.  The circle of life, boys and girls, a whole two…

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One Bite at a Time January 10, 2024

One day I will be dead, and I find this a comfort.  Part of that is the oft-told, off-color joke, “I’ll rest when I’m dead.” And part of that is a reminder: the Earth turned for a long long time before me and it will continue to turn a long long time after me.  There…

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Predators Gonna Predate December 28, 2023

I have to check myself from my predator instincts, but my dog doesn’t. We got our dog, Lincoln, from a shelter when he was three months old, so I can’t say what the first three months of his life were like.  I have no idea if he was born in the shelter, if he was…

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Separating the Art from the Artist December 24, 2023

It feels like such a tired old thing to say that the internet and social media is both a curse and a blessing.  But every day I think it’s truer. On the one hand, I like sitting on my sofa and being able to shout at Alexa and ask her whatever random thing about whatever…

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Schrodinger’s Corpse November 30, 2023

Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you to Schrodinger’s corpse. For those of you unfamiliar with Schrodinger’s cat, in a vastly oversimplified nutshell, Erwin Schrodinger was a quantum mechanist who proposed a thought experiment in which a hypothetical cat is in a box with a hypothetical vial of poison gas.  The vial of gas is…

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The Stress At Your Desk Exercise Plan November 15, 2023

I’ve always been easily startled. I think it’s a function of how deeply engrossed I get in whatever I’m doing.  I’m truly not in the room that I’m in, not mentally.  Details around me disappear and all I can see is what I’m doing.  Sometimes it’s not even what I’m doing, just what I’m thinking. …

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In Defense of Lying November 2, 2023

Most of the time, I think we should tell the truth.  But not always.  And, if done correctly, I think you can lie a lot and still consider yourself an honest person.  Yeah, I’m doing it.  I’m writing an article In Defense of Lying. If you disagree with me and say you don’t lie, well,…

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