Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Middle-earth links
I've mentioned before that I play one of those massive multiplayer games... Lord of the Rings Online... Here will give you a further idea about it... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZbA6nMqV1g http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sak6lycABKo&feature=related
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Tuesday, October 13, 2009
The thing about chickens,,,
is that poultry has not forgotten when they were dinosaurs. In fact, they don't acknowledge that they are not today, strictly speaking, dinosaurs. I have not kept chickens, but I have kept turkeys, and have encountered geese and swans and can nod vigorously in agreement with the dino-theory. Birds...
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Saturday, September 19, 2009
Playing It False
It's such a short, snapped out accusing word: lie! Nothing sets match to social or political tinder more dramatically than "You lie!" as we have seen in recent days. What if the guy had blustered out, "You utter falsehood!" What kind of reaction would that have provoked? Or, " What you say is...
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Friday, September 4, 2009
Teaching kids about truth and lies
Between child and parent truth is extra-ordinarily important. Every lie is a wall that comes between them and becomes harder and harder to get around or take down. Every kid discovers that life is full of greys: rules and exceptions. Growing up takes us from the simple world of strict...
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Thursday, August 27, 2009
Kids Lie
I just heard a promo for an upcoming NPR program about what makes kids lie, and how punishment 'makes kids lie better and more often.' It's part of a program called What Parents Get Wrong. In my growing-up family, lying was the only spanking offense. I got spanked a few times, and once when I had...
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Monday, August 24, 2009
Legalize pot? Maybe not...
Yesterday was that sort of diffuse but bright sunlight that makes it hard to keep the eyes open. That, and when we took Davy for a jaunt by the lake downtown, we found the Hemp Fest going on. At first I thought it was maybe Bon-a-dori, but pretty fast it was clearly Stone-a-dori. All I can say...
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Friday, August 21, 2009
Why get married?
I saw a clunky old car, a little Volvo station wagon, cruising down the highway yesterday. On the back window, the words JUST MARRIED! It got me thinking, why do people get married nowadays? Living together doesn't have the stigma it used to, people do it--as they have done for ages, regardless of...
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Saturday, August 8, 2009
I've heard that...
...in Japan there is silence, even side-by-side with conversations of others. The ear does not hear, the thought does not note what's said or done, what stimulates laughter or fires anger or causes expressions of wonder. Perhaps in Japan it's thus even in Starbucks which I do not doubt are there....
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Wednesday, July 29, 2009
They take a lot for granted...
the People of the System, the doctors, nurses, et al... With their happy assumption of their own sublime autoritas, they also assume that we are all on board their ship, just waiting to be directed. So they direct. They don't ask, they don't consider, they whisk you along at their pace, regardless...
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Saturday, July 4, 2009
I find the high pitched whining of mosquitoes most unpleasant.
Neither am I much liking that of these sonic skeeter-discouragers. I haven't decided if it's working yet, but I wonder if skeeters care, seeing as they are making such a similar sound themselves. What if they like it? Well, I could put it across the room, if they do.
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