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All-New Super Friends Hour
When I was four or five years old, I loved the Super Friends cartoon. I remember the All-New Super Friends Hour, which ran from 1977 to 1978.
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Does Information Want to Be Free?
It's been a long time since I checked in on #opensource publishing software. I learned perl and then PHP by using tools like WordPress, Drupal, and others I'm sure I've forgotten about. Like going back to a place you saw as a child, the
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Wanting to Die in Space
I didn't sleep well last night, but I always seem to dream somehow. I only write down the weirdest, and last night's dream was pretty odd, and I remember the dream starting in the middle of a total adventure.
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2014 in the Rear-View Mirror
Most of my 2014 was pretty geeky. One of the coolest things I did in 2014 was test my DNA through 23andme.com. For a quick refresher on genomics, check out these videos. I am, unsurprisingly 99.8% European. However, I’m also 0.2% Sub-Saharan African. This totally made
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It All Goes By So Fast, Matthew
A few years ago, Nana and I were talking about how life was when she was a kid. It was a very different world on the farm where she grew up.
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The 20 Things I Learned in 2013
That sleep helps clean our brain. Or in the words of the journal Science, “Observations showed that when mice sleep, channels between neurons in their brains expand, allowing cerebrospinal fluid to flush out detritus, such as proteins that in human beings are associated with Alzheimer’s disease.” (Source) How truly
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Here We Shall Drag Them
The Harpies’ first appearance in Greek literature is incongruously charming. For Hesiod, they are goddesses of the scudding storm clouds, “lovely-haired,” keeping pace “on their swift wings with the blasts of the winds and the birds.” Later the nastier implications of their name “Snatchers” take over. The classical Harpies are
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I Died On the Operating Table Last Night
I was being wheeled into the operating room. The hospital staff was running alongside the gurney. I had sustained a massive injury to my head, and I was unconscious, probably in a coma.
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20 Some Books for 2012...
I managed to tackle around 20 books in 2012. Mostly for work but some just for fun. Looking back, it looks like 2012 was about acquiring new analytical skills for business. I enjoy my work so most of these were also great to read. I’m pretty sure my favorite
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The Valley of the Shadow of Death
My family and I were at my Nana's house watching TV when I had this strange feeling that the air was becoming pressurized - like on an airplane. I yelled for everyone to get down on the floor and then covered them with blankets.
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Folie à Deux
What happens to a shared memory when it's only shared by two people? The only evidence that it even happened at all is contained within the mind of another.
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Where Dreams are Made Of
When I was in 1st Grade, my family moved from Lexington, KY to Long Island, NY. We rarely went into the city - Manhattan was a different place then. On those rare occasions we did venture into the city, I marveled at the gigantic buildings, the subways, and how fast everything moved.