Phlogiston

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  • I’m preparing for the Pod, HAL

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            Date:        July 11, 2008 6:11 PM Topic:        I’m preparing for the Pod, HAL I’ve been tossing around a few ideas like the contents of wooden bowl full of greens before vinegar and oil. The one that has most recently topped the salad is I have been imagining putting together a periodic podcast. (Yes, it is true that…

  • Sunday Morning in the Backyard – Early Spring

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    For the last two weekends I have dragged out the water hose and the big blue bucket full of cleaner soaps high density drying clothes shining rags, to clean the car. It is spring. A pine tree in the rear of the house gathered all the pollen in the area and slowly deposited it all…

  • Fetch the Blog A Tone

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    I think of my life, reflections stuffed between the million of minute mundane minutes, in episodes. Not very deep, I fear, but there you have it. I don’t think of it as some four dimensional time line growing like a fat worm through the years. Past Present Future. Nor do I think of it as…

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    Gee–Sus Look at that guy That guy right over there Bet half a billion I could fall         faster in a well of gravity a twinking twirling                 decay a bloated supergiant depleted of hydrogen way above the main sequence Think about it They say my name is Raimundo Can anyone believe that A    squall…

  • My mother teaches me a lesson

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    My mother worked at the corner of Sixth Street and Penn Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh. A waitress. If you visit there today, you are most likely on the way to a performance of the Pittsburgh Symphony or some other event of high and cultural significance. Visits in my younger days were more practical, less high…

  • QED CSS enhances HTML

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    This is not about jargon. Not much anyway. How can you possibly poke good fun about a subject that is by definition and deep in its very own existence both important and ludicrous?I found myself asking the other day, “What was the TD of the superheat on the TXV?” I didn’t even give me pause.…

  • Hey, you, in the corner over there, please lower your hand!

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    When I was a kid I used to be accused of spoiling everyone’s fun. Had I been a little more glib, I would have squawked. Had I pondered it a little longer, I would have shrugged my shoulders, realized the truth. Everyone was trying to spoil my fun. I heard an interview with an author…

  • Does this mean we need to put an asterisk by your name on the family tree? – Steve Coluccio

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    About a month ago I had this great idea. The muse called to me. Assemble a family tree. Come to understand your ancestry. It is time to confront your lineage. -What the hell, I thought. Who am I to fly in the face of the daughters of Zeus? After all wasn’t it Mneme, who in…