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Shifts Under Food

Given some significant departures at work, things are shifting around and I’m involved in many of them. My daily schedule might be different than it has been, with some more responsibilities and things to run. It’s fine. On Sunday I … Continue reading

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whew

Hi all, sorry for the late and inconsistent updates. It’s been a race-around week. To ponder: randomness in a system is necessary for its survival. Take a trail of ants following each other to a food source. Though the trail … Continue reading

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standby

Update coming a bit later today. Busy morning. In the meantime, this will brighten your day:  

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Teryx. teryx.       teryx.       Last night I spoke at a conference on sustainable peace. Small turnout, but we had a nice conversation about pedagogy in emerging fields that suffer from the theory-to-practice gap. Key point … Continue reading

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whew

As a hater of politics and both parties supposedly running our country, I hate psychopathic religious nutjobs who think they have divine mandates more, and I’m happy that the party increasingly under the influence of such groups has handedly lost. … Continue reading

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Updater

Sorry for the missing days, time was very short. Because of the power outages around town last week I invited some coworkers to crash at my place so the apartment was very full. Two in Hollow Way Studio, one in … Continue reading

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Bathe in the Hurricane!

So there was indeed a hurricane, in case you were starting to doubt any part of it. As soon as it “began”, and in this case that means when the sky turned to grey pearls and the water levels in … Continue reading

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urgency

I went home and wrote most of last night. I was in bed by 3, but barely slept anyway. The levels of my discontentments rise. As my advisor continues to battle and die from cancer, I’m being asked to race … Continue reading

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Janus Knows

The debate about whether it’s possible that a “whole” of something can be predicted by the properties of its parts is timeless. It stretches back. Think about the arguments of determinism and causality versus human free will. I could go … Continue reading

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