Boo!
tl;dr!? Happy Halloween! On Sunday, October 27 between 1 and 4 PM in the afternoon, I was visited by all manner of ghosts, goblins, Spider-Mans, Super-Mans, a dinosaur, beautiful princesses and their kin in attendance. It was a...
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Circus Maximii
Rome, Italy – Long ago, there was a huge stadium called Circus Maximus which was used for...
Read MoreLife, I. The magazine.
tl;dr? Imma blogging on Life — the magazine between now and the new year. Specifically the March 31, 1972 issue. Enjoy! Or not. A note. I republished this post about 3 minutes after first hitting publish....
Read MoreAn exclamation of points! A sundry assortment.
Before we get started, in mathematical notation, n factorial is written n! For n > 1, n! is the product of all the integers between 1 and n. Example: 4! = 4 x 3 x 2 x 1 or 24 Wowza! Factorials get pretty big, pretty fast....
Read MoreHow times change: Rocket Arugula
Me, a child looking at some green salady thing Mom was dishing up: “What’s this?” Mom: Rocket. Mom goes on to explain she found it growing wild between the garden and the cornfield and washed up, it will be...
Read MoreAging & Music
Not long ago, Frood¹, Mr. Viva and I watched U2 perform on Saturday Night Live². And what a wonder that 40 years after U2 started making music, they still make new music! And still with the social commentary! And Bono shouts...
Read MoreA Sundry Assortment: Winter Olympics 2018
Before I start on my sundry assortment of 2018 Winter Olympic observations, I must say that after Mueller’s indictment of Russians meddling in the 2016 election, I tripped across the comment “It is still possible...
Read MoreA sundry assortment of tidbits.
Credit where credit is due.  My father loved the phrase “sundry assortment” with its embedded redundancy. An assorted assortment with its, oh, I don’t know, je ne sais quoi quality to it.  This post feels like...
Read MoreA sundry assortment of snapshots.
Here’s a sundry assortment of snapshot thoughts taken over the last week. Enjoy! Or not. Where I was on 2001.09.11. The radio announced the plane hitting the first World Trade Center tower on the drive to drop my...
Read MoreNASA’s commitment to diversity in photo.
As proof of NASA’s commitment to diversity, they included an old white guy in a photo with doctors, scientists, engineers, pilots and military officers. Whoa! And my first thought: Â what is Mike Pence doing in that photo?...
Read MoreTilting toward windmills …
Ah! Finally a post on something other than politics. Recently I tripped across an article on a new small output, small wind turbine whose design is meant to resemble a tree! And so I was thrown back down memory lane to the set...
Read MoreWhat a difference a vowel makes …
Whilst a-skimming and a-scrolling through the Huffington Post headlines on Monday, I read “Trump defends World Maternal Health Organization.”  What!?  Whoa.  And so I scrolled back up and the headline resolved itself...
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