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After six years, I'm journaling again... but now I'm doing it at https://thoughtspiral.dreamwidth.org/ . The new journal is friends-only, but if you're reading this, you're more than welcome to follow and comment there; shoot me a message if you need access. -
SCIENCE! fundamentals
If I were a science teacher, the first test I gave the students would have the following question at the end of the test:
ESSAY QUESTION (worth 10 points):
In 2006 the International Astronomical Union re-classified Pluto from "planet" to "dwarf planet." What does this imply about the nature of science?
The point I'd be looking to drive home is this ( Read more... ) -
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Laura Ann and I went to dinner with Candle and Lori tonight. Good seeing them both again; I'd always wished I'd known them better the first time I lived here. -
True story!
Last night, at about 8:30, I heard an insistent series of knocks from the apartment landing. I was not really in the mood to receive sudden visitors, so I chose a cunning method for dealing with it: I hoped it was somebody knocking on somebody else's door. Twenty or thirty seconds later the knocking came again, so I opened the door, peeked around ( Read more... ) -
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So, last night I met a new friend. We've been talking online for about two weeks, and this was our first face-to-face meeting. Everything went quite well, and she's highly awesome. I hope to see her again this weekend, so more updates may be pending ( Read more... ) -
Love wins
I haven't read this guy's book, and frankly I know very little about him, but I already like his message:
Love wins. I'm not religious, but I do believe that. I'm not Christian, but I do believe in the ideals I was raised to see as the fundamentals of Christianity. Temporal power isn't real power. Compassion is power. Love is power. Caring for ( Read more... ) -
In which our hero sends a communique from Nuthinhappenistan
Nuthinhappenistan is actually not too bad a place to be, actually. I spent February mostly settling in and getting accustomed to the new status quo. And status quo is good, very good, after a long spell of confusion and chaos ( Read more... ) -
Wherever I go, there I am
Ugh. I know I promised a status update, but I'm a filthy liar, and also feeling fairly gloomy, so this will be short ( Read more... ) -
Well, I'm back.
First week in a new job and a new home in an old familiar city went well. Woohoo!
Random thought: The insipid Randroids who bored me in college with sermons from The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged have apparently become a serious political force in the last few years. How the heck did that happen ( Read more... ) -
OH MY AZATHOTH!
I just discovered Christine O'Donnell, the Palin look-alike nutbar who won the GOP primary in Delaware, is the same Christine O'Donnell of "The SALT" ("The Savior's Alliance for Lifting the Truth"). If you, like me, are one of the MTV generation, you may remember her appearing on MTV and in other teen-culture venues to smile blissfully at us and ( Read more... )