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Aftermath
I had to motor into Huntsville, Nawth Alibam’s Shining City on the Hill, this morning to under a particularly unpleasant ritual - the removal of “barnacles” from the roots of some of… more »
Simple Country Physicist
Aftermath
smpctryphys wrote 1 week ago: I had to motor into Huntsville, Nawth Alibam’s Shining City on the Hill, this morning to under … more »
Insight
smpctryphys wrote 1 month ago: One of my colleagues, Total Angular Momentum Coupling, and I have been jesting about the “dumm … more »
Choice of End
smpctryphys wrote 1 month ago: I am saddened to note the incidences of suicides among those in the military service of the Yankee r … more »
Repetitive Sense
smpctryphys wrote 1 month ago: Those bugs are back! Cicadas, not the ones in the movies about aliens and secret service guys. I hav … more »
Test Optional
smpctryphys wrote 1 month ago: I note an article in the New Yawk Times [Link] describing how colleges are increasingly making the s … more »
Endings or Beginnings?
smpctryphys wrote 1 month ago: As I review some of what came through the feeds this week, I have noted a theme, presumably accident … more »
Stannous Audio
smpctryphys wrote 1 month ago: I note in CNET a lament for the demise of the “true audiophile”. [Link] As is often the … more »
Observation
smpctryphys wrote 1 month ago: There are four kinds of tyrannies: The worst are religious tyrannies, for they destroy the spirit o … more »
Petroleum Thoughts 2
smpctryphys wrote 1 month ago: I don’t mean to harp on the “too many people” theme but it is a fact that tends to … more »
Climate Denial
smpctryphys wrote 1 month ago: I was listening to the Guardian’s Weekly Science Podcast this morning in gym - Tuesdays have e … more »
Dirtier than thou
smpctryphys wrote 1 month ago: Dirt as a word holds rather a special pride of place in the Sowth. Despite its dictionary definition … more »
Stercus in urbem
smpctryphys wrote 1 month ago: If one listens to/reads carefully the verbal/printed works of Garrison Keeler, one hears/reads a cou … more »
Return of Amazing
smpctryphys wrote 2 months ago: I was a bit amazed this morning to read in the feed of the Huntsville Times that an Alibam justicer … more »
Concrete and Thought
smpctryphys wrote 2 months ago: The traditional media have been making a bit of a “do” (the American English usage of th … more »
Modern Augustine
smpctryphys wrote 2 months ago: Astronomy is probably as old as humanity, regardless of whether we do it for science or religion or … more »
Evidence of Intelligence?
smpctryphys wrote 2 months ago: Much of journalism is about people, people who have momentary fame thrust upon them by the fickle fo … more »
Family Trys
smpctryphys wrote 2 months ago: The National Science Foundation, a semi distinct component of the Yankee government, has established … more »
Gone to Glory
smpctryphys wrote 2 months ago: We note the publication [Link] of schedule for memorial service and internment of our late colleague … more »
Groping
smpctryphys wrote 2 months ago: The emergent theme this morning is groping. The tenor here is inept searching but without a sexual c … more »
