Category: daily drivel
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just another nerdity
Did anybody really think that pro football was on the way out? That was the first of “Five Myths about 2014” published in this morning’s Washington Post. Where’d that idea come from? I won’t lie: I think it would be very cool if I was never again stuck in an elevator with someone who asked… Read.
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chintzy
We were figuring out how to split the bill at the Denny’s on Tau Ceti Prime when Spock called. Distress signal, naturally. Can hardly finish a cup of coffee and a slice of pecan pie in this sector before you have to fly off to stop some crazy Romulan warlord from attacking an outpost of… Read.
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merry
My Darling B and I traveled to the fair metropolis of Dodgeville to spend Christmas eve with Auntie Soup and Uncle Jim and family. Well, really we ate Christmas eve with them. Seriously, I haven’t eaten that much in many moons. We noshed on crackers and sausage and cheese, we sampled cookies and cakes and… Read.
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longer
They said the days would get longer. Why is it still dark outside? Why aren’t the days getting longer? WHAT THE HELL? Sorry. I’ve been up half the night. I’ll probably be a little grumpy today. Also: I’m ready for it to stop raining. It’s been raining since November. I could stand a little less… Read.
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silly
Hello, boys and girls! Welcome! Welcome to Story Time with Unkle Knuckles. Gather round and I’ll tell you the story of how Silly Putty came to be banned from our Christmas stockings. Ready? Let’s begin. This would’ve been so many years ago that Sean was still a toddler and Tim was no more than a… Read.
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maybe gray
Yesterday was my birthday, and the only reason I note that here is that we had some friends over and they tried to guess how old I am and they overcharged me by two years. That’s the first time anyone’s ever guessed that I’m older instead of younger. Maybe it’s all the gray in my… Read.
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shards
A bit and a piece of the last dream I had this morning: A drainage ditch filled with carrots, a river of carrots, running under the bridge I’m standing on and inexplicably emerging from the other side as an orange slurry that rushes like a whitewater rapids away from me. A teddy bear wearing a… Read.
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natatorium
Bits and pieces of the dream I was having came back to me while I was washing up this morning. None of it made sense. Climbing onto the roof of a beat-up old brownstone building. Walking through empty, dusty rooms until I found the stairs. Peering over the rail to see how deep the stairwell… Read.
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Pluto
“So what do you think,” I asked My Darling B the other night, over the dinner table, “is Pluto a planet, or isn’t it?” I’ve tried many times to engage B on all kinds of different subjects that flip my space geek switch – the vastness of cosmology, the mind-blowing revelations of physics, the just… Read.
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inevitable
What do you think of the idea that life may very well be inevitable? I first ran across this concept about three years ago as proposed by the astrophysicist Neil de Grasse Tyson and it blew my mind: Are we alone in the universe? We’re made of the most common ingredients there are! Our chemistry… Read.
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