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My parents’ wedding photos

As noted in my previous entry, I now have digitized versions of a large number of old family photos, including...

Jed

January 8, 2015
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The mystery of the untended blog

I don't know why I haven't been posting here lately. Been busy, and sick, and tired. But have been posting...

Jed

January 7, 2015
Filed under: Life Updates
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Solstice

Winter solstice in the northern hemisphere is due to occur about seven hours from now. I'll be on a plane...

Jed

December 21, 2014
Filed under: Nature, Time, Verse
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Torture apologism

In the wake of the US Senate report on the CIA's use of “enhanced interrogation techniques,” plenty of prominent people...

Jed

December 13, 2014
Filed under: Improving Society, Law, Politics
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Oakland encounter

Yesterday evening, after leaving Kam's place in Oakland and putting a bunch of stuff into my car in the dark,...

Jed

December 1, 2014
Filed under: Identity, Improving Society, Race/Ethnicity
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First-person plural, indeterminate

I've now encountered this interesting and unusual PoV in multiple works of fiction: The narration is in first-person plural. It...

Jed

November 23, 2014
Filed under: Books, Short Stories, Writing
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iPhone 6 Plus thoughts so far

I bought an iPhone 6+, mainly because it's almost exactly the size that I've been wanting for an ebook reader...

Jed

November 23, 2014
Filed under: Apple, Gadgets
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Nifty squaring technique

I just encountered this nifty way to easily square numbers in your head: To calculate n2 for n between 40...

Jed

November 22, 2014
Filed under: Science
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Techno-renewal and other life updates

Last week was fairly difficult for a variety of reasons, but it ended pretty well. After difficult-family-anniversary stress on Tuesday,...

Jed

November 18, 2014
Filed under: Life Updates, Movies, Writing
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More from my father’s FBI files

It was over a year ago that I received a copy of my father's FBI file, 272 pages of photocopied...

Jed

November 12, 2014
Filed under: Family History, Peter FBI File
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Harold and Maude

(I wrote this entry in July, but was reluctant to post it at the time. Now that I'm ready to...

Jed

November 12, 2014
Filed under: Death, Humor, Movies, Reviews
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The Changeling

Among my favorite books as a kid were a few by Zilpha Keatley Snyder: Black and Blue Magic; The Egypt...

Jed

November 12, 2014
Filed under: Books, Reviews, Speculative Fiction
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