Sense
Things don’t have to make sense. And it’s okay.
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Cutting Blades
Yesterday marked the first lawn mowing. I much prefer the simple push reel mowers to mowers with engines because rather than your sense of smell being assaulted by gaseous fumes, it is instead offered the organic green scent of fresh cut grass. I was pleased to see that the moss survived the winter and is…
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Feeling Ill
H5N1 is disconcerting because its name implies that there also exists H5N2, H5N3, H4R9, and the millions of other alphanumeric combinations. If ever I find myself lacking things to worry about, I have only to read an article on virology. If their child has been diagnosed with a life threatening disease, sometimes parents will, in…
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Strategy To Be Recognized
If you are charged with a task that, when complete, will profoundly alter an obvious aspect of the unit being dealt with, it may be better to finish the task quickly than to work at it in installments over a longer period of time. For the purposes of this post, consider that finishing the task…
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News And Paper
BCD: barrels, courts, disasters. I find the term ‘barrel’ as in ‘barrel of oil’ to be unique in that it strikes me as an unrefined and crude (sorry, fuck puns) word and yet it is used heavily in news publications and broadcasts to describe an aspect of the economy. It’s a word I would more…
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Airports, Airplanes, And Made In Japan
There is a category of comedy that is funny in part because it isn’t supposed to be. Many examples of this type exist subtly amid the multitude of material outputs of a developed or undeveloped country and, when found, might make you smile. On the reverse side of a red ink rolling ball pen twin…
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Academic Status Entry
I made it through the year alive, though not unscathed. I dropped EE 354 Engineering Signal Analysis because I was afraid I was going to fail. It’s a cool class, I just wasn’t giving it the time it deserved. I’m going to learn it on my own over the summer. I’ll have to take it…
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Entertainment
“…and finally, we’d like to remind you to turn off your cell phones if you haven’t already.” Right. But coughing and sneezing are potentially equally distracting to the performers on stage and to the rest of the audience, yet you wouldn’t expect to hear the person introducing the concert to ask that you refrain from…
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Animals Know So Much We Don’t
When the family dog is lying on his side in an effortless display of sublime relaxation, I can’t help but crouch down on my knees and pet him. If the sun is shining through the living room windows and onto portions of the floor, he’ll choose a spot where he can sunbathe. If you start…
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You Look Vaguely Familiar
After reconsideration, and a couple recent wicked dreams, I’ve decided to embark on a second attempt to document my dreams. This time, however, rather than write with as much detail as possible, which in my experience has led to the mutation of recollection, I’ll limit myself to a couple short sentences. Just enough to convey…