So I was going to add this clever thing to my post below about the softball game where I show you the x-rays of my knee and ankle (long story but there are injuries in both places). But when I popped in the CD, I found that the images were in a proprietary format that’s …
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Sweet Victory at Last
Coach Greg predicted it. Yesterday, the rain gave way to sunshine and as the clouds began to part the False Consciousness took the field against a team from Chemistry and Physics known as the Otto Masochists, which is no doubt some kind of disciplinary in-joke I don’t understand. As a bagpipe player droned on in …
Yesterday
was a hot and unpleasant day, to be sure (1), but also a wonderful Montreal summer day in many ways. I wrote a little, I had a French lesson where I got my head around indefinate pronouns, I strummed my acoustic bass guitar for a good hour, I did some self-care around the house, and …
Graduations
I find this Steven Rubio post rather touching. I didn’t skip my high school graduation, though I did cross the stage with my shoes on my hands (loafers — easy to slip on and off). Needless to say, the vice-principal or whoever was on the other side refused to shake my enshoed hand. The previous …
Shrewdness of Apes
This morning’s discussion with Nan concerning the etymology of “murder of crows” led to this search. The Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center and the San Diego Zoo are the most fun. Then I went and looked up “murder” in the OED, only to find that for the “group of crows” sense, there are references from …
A Little Academic History
So I was over at the website for the Society for the Social Study of Science to see if this year’s program had been posted yet (travel arrangements, you know — Westjet has some direct flights to Vancouver) and stumbled across their historical programs, which includes the program from the first meeting at Cornell University. …
Italian Design Exhibit at the Musee de Beaux-Arts
We just hit the exhibit today and I found it very engaging. I hate to say it but I think the coolest stuff was when the fascists were on the upswing in Italy. Futurism looks really neat, as do Italian riffs on Art Nouveau. I’m sure that reveals something deeply disturbing about my psyche, but …
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