These are (currently) things which have appeared in print somewhere, in some cases quite a long time ago. I’ll be adding to them as I get the time and inclination to type them in from their print sources or, in a few cases, harvest them from elsewhere on the web. In time I’ll be adding…

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This is a test of the page facility. Link to another page?

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In celebration of the temporary resolution of the blog "issues," here is the uncharacteristically cheerful Frank Zappa tune from Hot Rats, played by an ensemble led by his son Dweezil. http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js

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Comments seem to be working now in a somewhat consistent if unsatisfactory way. In Firefox, if you come to the main blog page, you see "2 comments" or whatever at the end of a post. If you click on that, you get taken to a page with only that post, and, again, "2 comments". Click…

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I'm not sure whether I've mentioned it except in passing in a comment, but I finally gave in to curiosity and joined Facebook a month or so ago. I did mention back in January that I'm reading Thomas Howard's book about Eliot's Four Quartets for Lent. Last night I created a Facebook group for that…

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(because, like I said, I’m too distracted to think about any one thing for very long, and will be until the blog transition is done) For cat lovers, or anyone who thinks cats can be nice to look at: Anja (who is a cat lover) sent me this video by a woman who apparently specializes…

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There are several things I'd like to post about, but I'm so busy trying to figure out what to do about the Blogger and HaloScan changes that I don't have time for much else. As of now it's probable that lightondarkwater.com will remain where it is, and the blog up to some date in the…

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Should have Blogger commenting enabled…? Yes, see the "Post a comment" button. http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js

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What a pain…I'm trying to decide whether to switch to WordPress or continue with Blogger. I won't bore you with the details but there are a lot of arguments for and against each one. One big one for WordPress is that I don't care much for Blogger's native commenting system (see Pentimento and Castle By…

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I promise, my reaction to this song has nothing to do with the fact that my name is part of the title. It’s the refrain that gets me. Nobody knows, darling… This is one of those albums that moves me so much that I can’t listen to it very often. Lyrics here. http://js-kit.com/for/lightondarkwater.com/comments.js

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