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May 12, 2019 / Houses

The Winter of Feline Discontent

A small plastic ball with a bell inside it makes an excellent alarm clock, especially if your alarm has been set for 4:35 in the morning. Kind of like buying a drum kit for a three-year-old, buying toys for cats that make a noise is ill-advised at best and sleep-depriving at worst. I just got …

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May 12, 2019 / Middle Age

Now I lay me down to sleep

Dorm rooms are built for function over form, kind of like conference room chairs are built for stacking not sitting. Dorm rooms are not interested in your enjoyment of anything. You are not here for aesthetics, you are here to wallow in the austerity that breeds great work. Or at least that’s what I tell …

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May 12, 2019 / Middle Age

Four in the morning

There is something about four in the morning for my cat, especially when he is at the cottage. His internal clock says, no matter how comfortable his sleep on my bed and no matter how dark it is outside, it’s time to go out and roust out the creatures of the forest. Earlier in the …

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Book Cover: How I Invented the Internet
How I Invented the Internet
Book Cover: Nowhere like This Place: Tales from a Nuclear Childhood
Nowhere like This Place: Tales from a Nuclear Childhood

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