This topic has been on my mind for a while, and the fact that I'm going to be a father soon makes it a bit more relevant. In a roundabout way. It's really a cluster of topics, and hopefully there will be a common thread when I'm done with them. So bear with me ( Read more... )

This is a very good article that all of you should read regardless of whether you already have a good diet.

I Hate Poets ( Read more... )

Ten years ago tomorrow I started this journal. My hope had been to write something typically verbose and pointless to mark the occasion, but tomorrow I'll be on a cruise ship, and this morning all I have is my iPod and not much time to kill. So self-aggrandizement will have to wait ( Read more... )

In a couple of weeks, Maddy and I will be going on a cruise to Cabo San Lucas. This is partly because our sister and soon-to-be brother-in-law, Christa and Ryan, will be getting married on said cruise ship before it embarks, and invited us to go with them on the cruise that followed, and partly because it's an excuse to spend the better part of a ( Read more... )

(This is a continuation of my ongoing series of poems about different parts of the body. So far, for example, I've done poems on Feet, the Tongue, Skin, and so on ( Read more... )

E.A Poe to e e cummings ( Read more... )

Generally, I don't consider myself a gun enthusiast. In fact, I generally try to distance myself from people who are, figuratively as well as literally. On the other hand, I don't think that enthusiasm for weaponry is bad in and of itself, and while I do strive to be non-violent in my personal life, I'm not exactly a pacifist, either ( Read more... )

Remember when I posted that drawn out explanation of the taxonomical nightmare that is the campsis genus ( Read more... )

people doing amazing things

on a bike

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by themselves

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on tetris

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with a ball

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