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Wearing a Polite and Conciliatory Mask

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I woke this morning at 3:30 and I was determined that at least for the next four days, I was not going to make anyone angry, or hurt, or disappointed. While most of my fellow webloggers from the USA were stuffing themselves on turducken, I was, instead, going to regale my […]

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Use the board, Luke

What’s the best way to get a man to fall over? It isn’t by hitting them with a board, and hoping you have enough strength and they have enough vulnerability to fall over. It’s by finding the board that they’re leaning against, and then pulling it away. I wrote that in a comment to the […]

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Oh Boys? Boys! No fighting now

Dvorak’s on the loose again blowing blogs out of the water but this time he’s better prepared, or at least he reads a bit more thoughtful. And fancy! He didn’t mention cats once. Among others, Steve Gillmor takes him on with: I’m not sure who John is referring to when he bemoans “the emergence of the professional blogger working […]

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To the challenge but first, before I go…

I’m off to walk two trails today that have been long-time nemesis. But today, today, the relationship between us will fall, or rise might be a better word, from animosity to amicability. We shall part by day’s end, these trails and I, as friends. Before I go, I did want to point out two stories […]

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Neighborhoods

Last night a massive late fall storm hit our area, causing flooding and even generating funnel clouds not far from where we live. Today the trees are stripped bare for the most part, leaves littering the ground like summer’s last soldiers felled honorably on the field of battle. Except for one tree. One tree on […]