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Split and Crazy
[For information about this image ("Mirror Mask"), see the artist's statement at the foot of this page. Clicking on the image above will enlarge it, if you want to experiment.] From whiskey river: This writing stuff saved me. It has become my way of responding to and dealing with things I find too disturbing or distressing [...]
ADMIN: Subscription Options?
I just added a little Subscription Options widget over there on the right, just above the Categories list. No idea if this will work, or not. Currently there are two options: subscribe via RSS or via email. The former was already available — see the little orange-and-white icon at the top of the sidebar menu, [...]
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 [...]
Ruminating in Place (with Company)
[Image: cartoon from Bizarro, by Dan Piraro. Original (in color!) here.] Sigh. After an unexpected and almost complete Internet blackout Monday through Wednesday, I couldn’t get to it from home at all this morning. So… In lieu of a regular Friday post, then, I thought I might just share with you — anyone who’s reading this — the [...]
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 [...]
Admin: Clearing Up Some RAMH Clutter, Part 3
Sometime in the next couple of days, I’ll switch Running After My Hat over to its new look. For anyone interested in such matters, I’ve prepared some screen captures to give you an idea of what to expect. Below, I’ll include an annotated version of some of those screen captures in this post, highlighting various features. If [...]
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 [...]
