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My LiveJournal is a smattering of mostly impersonal expositions of stuff like science, art and religion, but it's sometimes plagued with wordplay and occasionally steeped in silliness. I like people who wield language in a way that gives me pleasure. If you're capable of that I may add you as an aid in my attempts to balance out the horrors of ( Read more... ) -
R.I.P. Fr. Matthew Kelty
This is an excerpt from an essay on the man who was Thomas Merton's last confessor.
"Both men seem to me now the product of a different age and a different time, and more to the point, both men were the result of a different way of inhabiting time-a monastic, a poetic, and ultimately a rather silent way. Both men came of age in postwar America, and ( Read more... ) -
Follow up
I bought the robin some fresh berries when I went to lunch, and when I started getting ready to try to give her some, she scrabbled around the box and chirped, looking pretty strong and lively, so I took her outside. At first she was only able to run along the ground and jump into branches a couple of inches above the ground. Her left wing was ( Read more... ) -
Strange birds
What a strange thing. A few minutes ago this female robin flew full velocity into the second story window of my office. I went downstairs and outside to she if she'd been killed instantly or was badly injured, and she was sitting on the sidewalk, stunned. She wasn't bleeding and didn't appear to have any broken bones. So I brought her inside and ( Read more... ) -
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Does anyone know if it's possible to turn register_globals off for one domain and on for another using a php.ini, or an .htaccess file on a shared host ( Read more... ) -
apes and laughter
Scientists Tickle Apes & Conclude Laughter Is at Least 10 Million Years Old
excerpt:
It’s hard to imagine having more fun in the name of science: In a new study, researchers tickled young chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans, and even a few human babies, and recorded the vocalizations that resulted. Primatologist Marina Davila Ross wanted to ( Read more... )
