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I put in some contacts and I cannot remember ever seeing so clearly. Alas, this is my last pair from this set. I can’t get another set because it’s based on a prescription that’s over five years old. Apparently, none… Continue Reading →

If there’s been one surprise about parenthood – and it really shouldn’t have been a surprise, and there’s been more than one – it’s that it makes things more complicated. Every day things. I have had to re-learn how I… Continue Reading →

I learned a long time ago that part of what makes people of different faiths about to get along together is to not mock one anothers’ beliefs. If I wish tolerance for my own world view, I must offer it to… Continue Reading →

A friend invited me out to go shoot nine yesterday, and I had a fantastic time. Given that I hadn’t actually swung my sticks in anger on a real course for nearly a year, I was pleased with how well… Continue Reading →

Let’s say a man is working with a woman in a professional capacity. Let’s further say that, without necessarily wanting to pursue a romantic, sexual or any other sort of personal relationship with her, the man finds the woman physically attractive.… Continue Reading →

World: [W1] An exciting jailbreak in Canada… involving a hijacked helicopter! [W2] China is throwing its lot in with Ubuntu Linux. Or at least their own version of it. Culture: [C1] Teachers are ignoring the stigma against student grouping/tracking. Barry… Continue Reading →

Some bloggers wonder what would happen in a post-sleep world. Garrett Jones thinks that work ours would go down because, as work-hours become less valuable, people would work less (as a percentage of awake-time). Matthew Yglesias argues that those at… Continue Reading →

The Journal-Gazette of Fort Wayne has a good write-up on The Cancellation Bear. The website TV By the Numbers is making sport out of predicting which television series will survive or disappear, and the first weeks of a new TV… Continue Reading →