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December 18, 2007
i find data entry to be the most challenging part of my job because i just don’t want to do it. It is hard to find the motivation to just get in there and copy a book onto the computer.
Sometimes i satisfy myself by learning something about geography or history, and that makes it all […]
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December 13, 2007
Perfection has both the conventional idea of trying to be the best, and under healthy conditions adjusting those scales when necessary. In the more neurotic sense the definition changes:
Neurotic perfectionists - never feel that they have done their job well enough. They are very intolerant of mistakes and extremely self-critical” (BBC Science & Nature)
I would […]
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December 10, 2007
The world’s governments and scientists have been meeting in Bali, Indonesia to talk about climate change, and what plans should be on the table for the near future as well as beyond the end of this phase of the Kyoto protocol in 2012. In light of all that I’ve been doing some thinking on climate […]
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December 6, 2007
Kentucky is home to Licking River.
I am starting to think everything funny has already been made up, we just have to find it. Apparently it’s pretty easy to find Lioplax sulculosa there.
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December 5, 2007
I have always been fascinated by cetaceans. They were my first in-depth animal study, along with learning everything I could about dinosaurs. By the time I went on my first whale watch, I was calling species on the basis of fin markings, back hump profiles while sounding, and facial characteristics. My family went on a […]
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December 4, 2007
I had a moment of laughter at work today while going through the database. I’m cataloguing a lot of material that was collected in the 1930s from the Bahamas, which is not so funny. No, it was the particular locality in Nassau that had me cracking up at my desk.
Old Sponge Pier
Now, what would this […]
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December 4, 2007
I find politics frustrating at best, but I do not understand why so much of this positioning matters enough to people to become news. It has come to my attention that the Hillary Clinton camp has a new famous supporter: Fabio. Now, given that I’m an educated person with opinions on many national and global […]
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December 2, 2007
It’s December, time for holiday cheer, Oldies 103 to only play Christmas tunes, me avoiding all possible stores, eggnog, cider, hearty stews, and strong beers. Most notably, I think of December as the beginning of the seasonal reign of barleywine.
If you are not a beer drinker, but you like liquers or other fine desserty strong […]
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November 30, 2007
So once upon a time i could fancy myself a singer as something I did for some modicum of income. It’s a funny thing for me to think about because I love singing and getting paid for it seems weird in some ways. I get to have fun and enjoy myself while making some […]
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November 29, 2007
Thoughts from listening to defending jezebel (on point 6 Nov)…
The book is Lesley Hazelton’s Jezebel: The Untold Story of the Bible’s Harlot Queen.
Jezebel was “framed” according to Hazelton, and she spends a lot of time setting up this concept. Infidelity here is actually religious infidelity rather than sexual infidelity. The story is told as the […]
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