Four roundtrips to Starkville this weekend! The occasion was and as Daughter C and The J-Man no longer live here on the Farm…, I was obligated to do those 3*45 minute trips between the Mill and the Farm in order to run and feed the dogs, let Tiger out, etc. 3*45 = 3 hours. Of
For every observable property φ conceived by us to be an objective feature of the world, we must concede the possibility that φ be sensorily detected by means other than the particular means used by us. Paul Churchland, Scientific Realism and the Plasticity of Mind, Cambridge University Press, London, 1979. Looking for something completely different, I
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I left the World-Wide-Web to venture out into the real world. Twelve hours. Twelve measly hours and Van der Leun has three new posts. That’s on top of the three new ones I saw this morning which I barely had time to glance at before we left The Farm to make our way to the
For the record. There is no such word as “informographs.” It is not in any of my dictionaries. Therefore, it do not exit. Say, “informographs” our loud. What a jumble! How inelegant. Now say, “information graphics.” See what I’m saying? Some idiot editor actually asked Mr. Big Food and others for a list of Textboxes
How to Critically Look at a Simple Graph Source: US Department of Education. Let’s pick this apart, shall we? Not in a snarky, negative way, but in a way to keep my brain in practice and to give you a few pointers on how to critically look at graphs. While I find it somewhat unbelievable
“Pardon me, Marica,” Missy began, “Do you have a moment?” “Why certainly, girl,” Marica replied, “What’s up?” “Ruff?” Rocky asked. “What are your thoughts on in me-dI-us rez?” “Ruff?!?” Rocky scoffed. “What?” “Me-dI-us rez. Surely you know that term, Marica,” Missy answered. “It’s a literary devise meaning ‘to being in the middle of things’.” “Ruffruffruff,”
A while back, Mr. Big Food forwarded to me an email he’d received from Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press. “For ‘Phen?” Mr. Big Food queried, “He needs to add some cell biology to his current educational regime.” I couldn’t agree more. I am not kidding– and this has been independently confirmed in the flesh by
And by far THE best…
I do! Really, I do. I have a few minutes among the returning from travel day to the preparing for the next tailgate days to the preparing to travel days to just sit and think. Here are a few random thoughts, which technically speaking are not all that random as they are all mine. I
I get the sentiment. The gulf coast is a lovely location for a wedding. The sand is firm, the water is blue, there’s a breeze. But. There are spectators from conferences. Makes the whole spectacle sort of sacreligous.
I doubt whether we are sufficiently attentive to the importance of elementary textbooks. C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man, 1944 I share this concern, but I have a question. Who is “we?”
How did this happen? How could I possibly have written over one thousand posts with no category? Here’s how. First, I wrote a post and forgot to categorize it. Then I did the same thing with another. After seven years of doing this, they start to add up! I don’t so much mind that I
That white stuff you see is snow, folks! And before the snow was freezing rain. 🙂 We stepped out to go to breakfast this morning and turned right around and ordered to go from the hotel restaurant. Fortunately, we have taken to traveling with out handy dandy mini electric kettle. And our own coffee, a
Via Powerline’s The Week in Pictures
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This was Daughter C’s idea. We had, up in the workshop, a perfectly nice old enamel topped segment of kitchen cupboard that we brought with us from Cincinnati. It was in the basement in Cincy and we thought enough of it to tote it to Miss’ippi. Daughter C suggested that it might find purpose in
Over the next few months we– collectively all of us and our distant relatives, there is a wedding, afterall,– are going to be doing a lot of traveling. Kat just forwarded to me her American Airlines receipt email. It said Menu: Food for Purchase The first airplane ride I ever took was a short flight
I am over-run with books right now. And I have not, regrettably not, finished Spring Cleaning. That’s essential. That and the list for Daughter C. But Daughter C has caught the gardening bug. And so I am thinking about the garden, and trying to supplement Daughter C’s reading with some experience. Here we go. Miss
No animal has been subjected to a more careful study within recent yea than than the house fly. The reason for this is that the house fly distributes the germs of various diseases, thus causing the death of thousands of human beings every year. Practical Zoology. Robert W. Hegner. The Macmillan Company, New York. 1915. And