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Mnemonic Loa Loa
I am imagining a parasite that preferentially feeds on neurons containing a specific concentration of acetylcholine. Too little or too much of the neurotransmitter makes a brain cell distasteful to the parasite and so it is left intact. Just the right amount of acetylcholine, though, is like wasabi on sashimi and the parasite devours the neuron, ( Read more... ) -
Memoryland
Dad and I visited Marceline, Missouri in 2011 as we both happened to be in the state in June that year. Dad would spend weeks living in Branson to see the latest in old-time county music shows, and that year I was in St. Louis while Hanna attended an international librarian conference.
Marceline gave the impression, to me at least, of being a ( Read more... ) -
A Year Ago
Beatrice Cassidy Adams texted last week to ask if I am still posting on LiveJournal and e-cheered "yay!" when I replied. The gap since 2015 creates a peculiar feeling. "Time moves strangely," she added.
I read through an article on Carlo Rovelli's work last week that was promoting his recent book The Order of Time and only understood the things I ( Read more... ) -
Cities
Intercontinental cities I have visited: Beijing, Shanghai, Brussels, Paris, Venice, Florence, Palermo, Rome, Manila, Bangkok, and Tokyo.
That's actually not a bad looking list of cities. There were actually seven others in China, but I don't count them. If I can't even remember their names (Wu Xi? Ching An?) then I shouldn't count them. What I ( Read more... ) -
Starting Stories
As I mentioned, April 28, 2018 was Amandi's first EPL Book Sale, and she enjoyed the event as much as I do. Twice a year, the Edmonton Public Library sells off surplus and low-circulation items at bargain prices: hardcover books and DVDs $2, paperbacks $1, special items as marked. And apart from the prices, because the source is a library, not a ( Read more... ) -
Asia Tour 2018
My sister, Donna-lee, had a mile-stone birthday this year and observed it with a tour of rural Sri Lanka. When she invited Amandi and I to come along - as she had joined in on the 2015 Myles-Stone birthday in Las Vegas - we wound up deciding to meet for four days, post-Sri Lanka, in Bangkok, Thailand.
Amandi and I flew into Suvarnabhumi Airport ( Read more... ) -
"You should write a post"
That's what Amandi said before she slipped through the door to the bathroom. She returned to the main room of our studio apartment a few moments later to ask if I had moved the bubble bath to a new heuristic and arcane location.
"Like goes with like," is one of my rules for organizing space, along with, "everything has to fold or do two things" ( Read more... ) -
A Strategy for Culture
I scrolled back to July 2015 looking for a story set on an office building floor where I worked. Going back that far means that the building would have had to have been the Baker Centre on 106 street south of Jasper Avenue because my Branch moved to the Forestry Building in February 2016 in advance of a Divisional re-organizations in April that ( Read more... ) -
Reaffirming the Name
I've been staring at my blog title; thinking about how it should be changed. "The Ephemeral Strategist". Does that still say what I am about? I am still take my ephemera as seriously as I ever did, but things have deepened ( Read more... ) -
Molar 38
Azusa valued all of his teeth. But molar 38 suddenly became a little more meaningful.