Category: General
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If you’re interested in reading short fiction online, you can find a collection of read-in-one-sitting stories at Noon Spool. My short story “Dragon Hunting” made this month’s edition. Check it out sometime:-)
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Okay, this isn’t as good as Briggy, but I can’t help it. I’m a GIMP newbie:-) If you look closely, the guy has Bert hair. My only regret is that I couldn’t easily move Hillary’s head closer to the guy. The original image, by the way, is located at Flickr, and the Sesame Street pic…
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I don’t usually like to do the meta-link thing, but here is one that is worthwhile From the article: Men deciphered female voices using the auditory part of the brain that processes music, while male voices engaged a simpler mechanism, [a Sheffield university study] said. [Emphasis mine.] So apparently, it really is more difficult to…
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Recently I’ve been reading a few books on Celtic mythology, including Rees’ Celtic Heritage and Peter Ellis’ A [not so] Brief History of the Druids, and one thing that was touched on at least briefly in both books was the importance of various numbers in the Celtic worldview. For instance, five and nine supposedly referenced…
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Cass and I took a walk down to Yonge/Dundas square yesterday, hoping to check out the Street Festival a little. So what do I have to say about it? Wow, how insanely disorganized! I completely didn’t expect it to be so badly done. We had hoped to see some of the street musicians and acrobats,…
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In one of those great ironies of life, apparently at approximately the time that I was writing the post below dealing with fire, an apartment at the top floor of my building actually caught on fire. Fortunately, it was contained and the only damage was apparently to the originating unit and some smoke damage on…
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I’ve been reading the old Myths and Legends of China by ETC Werner and the second-to-last chapter deals with fox legends. One of the superstitions mentioned by Werner was that foxes were believed to be able to start fires by striking the ground with their tails. This reminded me of the old bible story about…
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I’m a big fan of the Firefox web browser, but lately I noticed something strange. Under Windows, if I click a scroll wheel button on a tab, it will close the tab. If I click a link, it opens a link in a new window. Under Linux, when I click a link it opens in…
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I was looking for music online to supplement my collection and decided to check out some of the more interesting new software available. A bit of searching around, and I stumbled over Moodamp. The premise is good, at least. You tell the software what mood you’re currently in, and then rate each song as you…
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According to this article, a “rose by any other name” might actually not smell as sweet. From the article: British neurologists report that the naming of an odor strongly influences a person’s perception of that scent. For example, individuals were asked to sniff a cheddar cheese odor that was labeled either “cheddar cheese” or “body…
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