Wednesday, January 26, 2005

Brevity Is the Soul

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Dear Reader, I forgot a bill. I ate a banana. My cat says "yow." Ow. Yours truly, Rick
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Dirt

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Dear Reader, Dumb as Dirt. Dirt-poor. Dirt-cheap. Dirty. Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition, defines "dirt"...
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Sunday, January 23, 2005

Kaze no Tani no Naushika (Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind)

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Dear Reader, I recently re-read Kaze no Tani no Naushika ( www.nausicaa.net/miyazaki/manga/nausicaa.html ), translated into English as Na...
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Sunday, December 19, 2004

Things Are Not What They Seem

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Dear Reader, Heraclitus wrote "Eyes are more accurate witnesses than ears." Polybius, a later Greek writer, summarized this as ...
Saturday, December 18, 2004

Logos and Cosmos

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Dear Reader, Though I do not believe in an afterlife or reincarnation, or God, or Heaven or Hell, neither do I believe in science's e...
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Saturday, December 11, 2004

Precious

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Dear Reader, I do not believe in God, nor an afterlife, nor reincarnation. I believe we each get just the one life, starting more or less...
Thursday, December 09, 2004

"Bronchitis"

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Dear Reader, For the past week I have been teetering on the edge of a new round of "bronchitis." I have stayed home resting, g...
Wednesday, December 08, 2004

Land Words

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Dear Reader, I enjoy that Tolkien wrote The Lord of the Rings (LOTR) as an afterthought, that he developed the cosmology and history of M...
Tuesday, November 30, 2004

Chasing Big Cats

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Dear Reader, I planned to be in Washington, DC, yesterday, staying with friends, preparing to give a short presentation at a conference t...
Monday, November 29, 2004

First Dose

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Dear Reader, Welcome to my weblog. I must say a few things before I begin in earnest. First, my friend Mike Ryan (The Fictioneer, www...
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