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Review. Since this is what I’ve been doing for most of my free time this week, I’d better post one. *A Short History of Nearly EverythingBy Bill Bryson. It’s time to scrap our science textbooks. Not only are they wrong–and they know they’re wrong–but they’re bad. Electrons do not swirl around the nucleus of an […]

Gravity’s Angel. By Laurie Anderson. …Well he was an ugly guy. With an ugly face.An also ran in the human race.And even God got sad just looking at him. And at his funeralall his friends stood around looking sad. But they were reallythinking of all the ham and cheese sandwiches in the next room.And everybody

Bleah. Given that I’ve never installed a tile floor and there are probably practical reasons for this, still, bleah. I can’t find M C Escher floor tiles anywhere.

Another Ray Story. We took Ray to the mall last week because she was DRIVING US MAD. One of the you’re-not-being-bad-it’s-just-too-much-now-stop-it-stop-it-I-said-stop-it-now-go-to-your-room days. So we took her to the play area. First, a note: the two other kids she was playing with ended up lying on the floor panting, too tired to play any more, while

I got a present for you…! On occaision, especially before asking for reciprocation, Ray will bring me gifts. “Momma, I got a present for yooo-ooooou!” “What is it?” I’ll ask. And she’ll give me something, like a doll or a truck or a DVD. Today it started out with a picture of a head. No

Captain 11. “Wave one hand. Wave both hands. Wave both hands and one foot. Wave both hands and both feet!” Dave Dedrick, Captain 11, was the first voice heard on television in South Dakota, in 1953. He worked as a news announcer, weatherman, and host of a children’s show, “Captain 11!” You can’t hear the

Bittersweet. Here is the story of my boss’s adoption trip to the Ukraine. He and his wife adopted two children, a boy and a girl, two years ago, and decided to return for two of the girl’s friends this year. They left just after the recent re-election in Ukraine. They’re returning with one of the

The Five Irregular Men. My cousin Heather taught me this song. Her parents gave her THE LOOK and said it was INAPPROPRIATE. CHORUS: * There were five, five constipated men in the Bible, in the Bible.There were five, five constipated men In the holy books of Moses. Oh, the first, first constipated man Was Cain,

Victory! I have completed Ulysses, by James Joyce. Dude. Plot: A day in the life of Leopold Bloom, in such detail as to make you realize — with as many things that he must have done, said, or thought, or things that affected his actions, thoughts, or words, in addition to the material included in

Da Law. I happened to look up Murphy’s Law the other day. Interesting stuff. Here’s the origin of Murphy’s Laws: [Murphy’s Law] was named after Capt. Edward A. Murphy, an engineer working on Air Force Project MX981, designed to see how much sudden deceleration a person can stand in a crash. This website has a