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Writing

The Crystal story is back online

I was able to recover the hard copy pages of the Crystal Story, fomerly known as “A Girl and her Rocks”. Somehow in all the moving I made a few months back, I blew away the MT database for the site, and have to hand edit the pages. Eventually I’d like to move these into […]

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Weblogging

And now a word from our sponsor

I’m working on converting the last of the old Dynamic Earth articles I plan on salvaging: the four-part Tale of Two Monsters, covering the Loch Ness Monster, and the giant squid. A lot of work to port these– they are large articles. Sorry. Couldn’t resist. I’ve always been rather proud of ToTM and pleased with the connections […]

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Political

Dick Cheney and the F Word

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. All this use of the euphonism, the F-Word, and references to potty mouth since the newest Dick Cheney fooflah. It’s ‘fuck’ people. F-U-C-K. And if you’re worried about being filtered at libraries and in grade schools, ask yourself: do you want to write something that’s equivalent to a G rating from Disney? Say the word, […]

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Burningbird

Some science coming up

I have several science-based essays I’ve salvaged from Dynamic Earth that I’m going to post. Without their domain, the writings have been cut adrift but they’re still good. Well, ‘good’ is relative – the science discussed in them is still valid. Going through these, I’ve forgotten how long I’ve been online, and all that I […]

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Weblogging

With thanks from a lady

Though my own participation has been based on pleas expressed both in anger and sadness, and the circumstances tended to distort the message, I did want to send a quiet thank you to some folk who wrote in response to the issues raised about gender and perceived bias in weblogging. Then I will drop the […]