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Moonset over Mohonk Tower

I have fantasized over this shot for years, but was never able to put it together on my own. Then I find The Photographer’s Ephemeris, I look it up, the next opportunity is in a couple of days, that was … Continue reading

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Gotta love the ASCII-art 404 page on a modern web site

https://2.python-requests.org/404

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Bertrand Russell on life and death

Make your interests gradually wider and more impersonal, until bit by bit the walls of the ego recede, and your life becomes increasingly merged in the universal life. An individual human existence should be like a river — small at … Continue reading

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Rotating tessaract

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesseract#/media/File:8-cell.gif

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Squirrels up a tree

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Outside my home office window is horizontal tree branch, just the right size for a squirrel to hang out on, but it was always just a little too busy, a little too much traffic for them to be comfortable there … Continue reading

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Internal Critics

This is a response to an article from brainpickings, about how our internal critic holds us back from realizing our full potential, and becoming our true selves. This article was first published in the spring of 2016. It resonates with … Continue reading

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4 minutes before sunrise

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First Memorial Day

https://www.history.com/news/memorial-day-civil-war-slavery-charleston

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Climate change denialism

https://dailycaller.com/2014/03/04/top-5-failed-snow-free-and-ice-free-predictions/ In a Facebook discussion, I was recently provided this article as evidence that scientists have made failed predictions about climate change, therefore they are not to be trusted. Here is my response. Thanks for the link. But it doesn’t … Continue reading

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New Party, Who Dis?

https://nypost.com/2019/02/26/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-will-star-as-superhero-in-new-comic-book/ “slated for release May 15”

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