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A link I didn't click on, seen on the ABC News site earlier today: "Is Your Bladder Trying to Tell You Something?"
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I don't know why this makes me laugh.
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…on the Chinese publication of his book, A History of the Low Countries. It's been out in English since 2005, apparently–I didn't know. Looks right interesting.
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A Facebook friend mentions there that she has acquired a new dog, a dark-colored retriever sort, and that he is so hyper-active that she thinks he may be a meth lab.
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My wife has a couple of bird feeders in the back yard. Two of them hang from poles, and she had a problem with raccons pulling them down (see this post). She ended up attaching one of them at an angle to the railing of a deck, so that it was out of the coons' reach.…
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So where is it? Here. I was thinking on the way home yesterday that I needed to take some pictures of the beautiful spring green of the cypress trees in my yard and round about. Then I remembered that I had posted one last spring–almost exactly a year ago, in fact. Then I thought I would…
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I gripe a lot about people using the word "irony" when they really only mean "coincidence." Sportswriters are especially bad about this, as in "ironically, the two teams have the same colors." And sometimes people use it when they're referring only to chance or luck, usually bad luck, as in "ironically, it began to rain…
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When someone’s Facebook status is “Icy wind of night be gone, this is not your domain” and in your mind you hear it sung, not spoken, you’ve really probably spent too much of your life listening to pop music. (Explanation.)
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I'm supposed to be offline today, because it's a Friday in Lent. But it's also a feast day, so I'm allowing myself brief visits. I always think of Fra Angelico's Annunciation on this day. I am far from a connoiseur of the visual arts, and often feel a little guilty that I don't respond very fervently to…
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This sheds some light on the way the media covered it. But seriously: these workers are heroes.
Light On Dark Water 