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ADMIN: Weekend Peregrinations
I’m going to be away from the computer on any reliable basis for a few days — probably for the last time in what feels in retrospect like a very scrambled 2011. You know how careless my attendance (let alone participation) has been for the last few months at your blog, whoever you are? Yeah. More [...]
When Non-English-Speaking Sp*mmers and Roget Collide
Sp*m comment o’the day: I’m not lily-livered of facts, I welcome facts but a congeries of facts is not match to an idea. This is the primary error of the pretended “scientific” mind. People who howler facts for ideas are undone thinkers; they are gossip. I’m not scared of facts, I appreciated facts but a [...]
On the “A” Word
[Image: "Left-Hand Rule." For an explanation about something other than the subject of this post, see this page at the University of Maryland's Department of Physics site.] …or: what It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World has to do with Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. (Well, no, not really. The post started out to connect [...]
Midweek Music Break: “Bad Moon Rising”
Creedence Clearwater Revival’s classic gets most of its airtime around Halloween, maybe for obvious reasons: its association with John Landis’s great 1981 horror film An American Werewolf in London. Interestingly, in the film the song doesn’t get played in its entirety. Instead, the soundtrack plays just a few lines from the opening — almost as [...]
When Cats and Boxes Converge…
…the boxes lose. [hat tip: Eschaton] _____________________ P.S. A follow-up video is called “The box which Maru can’t enter.” Oh, yes, Maru can.
Make Your World
[Above: an image designed to induce binocular rivalry: an attempt by one's senses to forge a single thing from two conflicting images. See here for instructions on how to use.] From whiskey river: When you have lived as long as I, you will see that every human being has his shell, and that you must take [...]
Looking for a Writing Prompt?
Long-time RAMH friend Marta has started a new blog. It’s based on something other writers may have thought, from time to time: I bet in another world I’d be appreciated more than I am in this one…! Marta’s taken it a step further: writing the blog as if her famous-mirror-counterpart — called simply “M.” — were writing [...]
Emerging, Blinking, into the Sunlight
If you’ve been visiting RAMH for more than a few months, you probably know I’ve been a bit… distracted recently. And it’s probably going to happen again in a few weeks, when I again take up my rock hammer, rope, and lanterned helmet, wandering back into Seems to Fit for the Nth and final time.* In the meantime, [...]
Midweek Music Break: “Michael Meets Mozart”
Longtime visitors to RAMH know (as I have said) what I don’t know about music could fit, barely, into a large stadium. (A roofless one, so that the heap of facts and sensibilities inside can actually rise higher than the walls.) So for me to claim that some musical performance awed me — well, that [...]
Pottermore
From The Atlantic: In a much-anticipated press event this morning, J.K. Rowling announced the launch of Pottermore, a new website meant to bring all-things-Harry Potter to the Web. It was revealed in a leaked memo yesterday that a central focus of the site would be an online gaming experience developed by the company Adam & [...]
