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How about a book review?
I’ve just decided that I have to put in a plug for Michael Chabon’s The Yiddish Policemen’s Union. It’s a combination of writing styles that I just love and it works really well. First, it’s science fiction, of the alternative universe variety. I won’t tell you exactly how because I think it would spoil the…
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Where have I been?
Oh, you know. Around. No, really I’m still here, just been lazy lately. Let me contemplate a spell, and I’ll try to do a little posting soon.
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Such a surprise!
Is anyone out there honestly surprised by this: Justice Department Says F.B.I. Misused Patriot Act I mean, just how stupid do you have to be to think that law enforcement would not abuse the powers given to them by the Patriot Act. The writers of our Constitution really were smart guys and really did know…
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Like Mysteries? (As in books?)
I have to put in a plug for one of my all time favorite book stores. The Sleuth of Baker Street is a mystery book store located in the heart of old Toronto. Actually, that’s a bald-faced lie. Even though it should be in the heart of the old city (does Toronto have an old…
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Fun Pictures
Photoshop strikes again! These are fun pictures, but the one below is definitely the best! Via Neatorama.
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Another New Look
Yes I’m back and trying to blog again. For an initial entry, note another new look. I think this one may be the keeper of keepers. It’s a nice color, a nice font, there’s room for the banner, I can do all the editing I need to do right from the front page (you can’t…
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Reading My Youth
Lately I’ve been re-exploring the books of my youth. This is great fun. As I told someone the other day, the best part about reading a book you’ve already read, is that you know it’s going to be good – otherwise you wouldn’t be re-reading it, right? And if you’ve got a crappy memory (like…
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Enter, Smiling Sheepishly
A friend who lives in another city emailed me today because she was worried that something had happened to me. She pointed out that I had done no blogging in month. I guess that’s a pretty big hint. So let me apologize for my laxity in writing. I have no good excuse. Yes, I have…
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John Snow, Henry Whitehead, and the Broad Street Pump
It’s been a while, hunh? Well here’s a short post on what I’m reading. I’m reading The Ghost Map by Steven Johnson, and it concerns the cholera outbreak in the Soho area of London in 1854. If you’re an epidemiologist, you’ve heard of John Snow and you know about the Broad Street pump. This outbreak…
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