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Guess I'm Not the King of Bad Puns Anymore.
"Well, even a cracked pot is right twice a day -- or something like that."
-- Scott Bieser, in LeftLibertarian2.
I can't help but admire someone who can speak the Alice-in-Wonderland language equally well as I do.
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Let's See if I Can Still Do This...
Please don't laugh too hard. I haven't done this kind of drawing since high school -- and I still had the full use of my fingers. This is my first mouse drawing project.
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Little Verse on Molecular Evolution.
When I was just waking up today, I composed this poem in my head. Unfortunately, due to my fingers and other joint problems, I can't just jot things down when I think of them. So, now that my fingers have loosened up enough to type a little, I've been trying to recall the exact words ( Read more... ) -
This One Scared /Me/.
Phoenix made this flash icon showing Teen Adolf morphing into my 10th. grade ID card photo:
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Wonderful Quote by Richard Feynman.
Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars - mere gobs of gas atoms. Nothing is “mere.” I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination - stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern - of which I am a ( Read more... ) -
Poem: What Can the Meteor Say?
What can the meteor say to the dinosaurs?
Only this: you will become stone.
Enduring bedrock, sheer mountain's rampart,
Foundation of plains and mesas,
High pediment and apex of piled aeons.
While I, heaven-soaring rock,
A mere hole, a hollow sink,
Only a declivity in the future's sands.
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That ol' Pyramid-Scheme Meme.
Okay, I've been tagged by two different people already, so I'd better do this before I forget.
1. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself.
2. Tag seven people to do the same.
3. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it."
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I Told You So: Article on Intercultural Coexistence.
The Zeitgeist likes me BUNCHES today.
My previous post, on September 10: On Coexistence.
Article, World Science, September 13: Good Fences Make Good NeighborsI would post the article itself, but the format doesn't copy very prettily. It contains, at any rate, pretty much the same theory I came up with a while ago: namely, that different cultural ( Read more... )
