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Halloween was yesterday. We gave away full-size candy bars and toys. Helen had a costume, but none of the rest of us did.
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Helen has a cold. She has a runny nose and has been sleeping extra and fussing extra (when not sleeping). But with the sleeping extra part, I got some pictures put together.
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I guess it's good I didn't end up at RPI
Helen Marie was born this morning! She was not silent about the birth process. Her weight was entirely normal ( Read more... ) -
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Poll Guess 2/3 of the average
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"I tell you it is the vilest baseness to use horses in this war"
The best book I've read all year--and probably this decade--is All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. It's hauntingly beautiful and horrific at the same time. The descriptions are so vivid, and yet they are all about death, depair, living death of people without hope ( Read more... ) -
Are you a woman in science or engineering?
A friend of mine is interviewing women for a book on women in science in engineering. I don't particularly know what type of person she's looking to interview at this point--it seems she has a lot of interviewees and is now being somewhat selective, I would assume to make sure she has a diverse group ( Read more... ) -
Of Paul Bäumer and Frodo Baggins
Paul Bäumer is the protagonist of Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front. Frodo Baggins is the protagonist of the Fantasy adventure series Lord of the Rings by Tolkien. The two books are very different, yet I think Frodo and Paul would understand each other way. There is the same sense of being wounded without a wound, and a ( Read more... ) -
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I've now figured out why I always see pool rules posted next to tables. People play very differently than the rules I learned, and they seem to be unaware that there are big differences. I was unaware only a few days ago, until I was shooting pool with someone from India, who assumed what I thought were novel rules. So, a poll ( Read more... )