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Octobeard 2011 Check-in: In The Shadow of a Beard
There is an order to things. Gravity drags apples from trees and hurls them bodily at innocent proto-physicists who lay sleeping off mid-day mead. Sunshine blazes through scattered droplets of...
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Octobeard Check-in: The Itchy Revenge of Neck Beard
Regular patterns are hard to maintain, until they become self-sustaining… How is this possible? Laws of physics (as written to date and relatively stable) suggest that objects at rest tend to stay at...
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Octobeard 2011 Check-in: The Final Transformation!
There are changes to our bodies every day. Most are simple, gradual, non-dramatic. Sometimes, we don’t even see them unless we carefully take note. Some mark down their weight every day. When we are...
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November traditions: NaNoWriMovember!
I’m not sure why this year has marked so many changes to me. Perhaps it is the reeling and rocking reaction to the changes that have come external to me, the changes I initiate as course corrections in...
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A Dressing Up, A Dressing Down: RIP My NaNoWriMo 2011, Long Live Movember!
First: let me admit that there really wasn’t much hope for me to do NaNoWriMo this year. In fact, it was really a doomed proposition, given that I’ve felt that I’ve had no free time lately, and really...
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Movember Update: I Have Unlocked “Rocked A Vest” Achievement
It’s official: vests rock! I now look upon a collared shirt with no vest or no tie as somewhat lacking. It’s like it lacks structure and form. A collared shirt alone is a void. Like space without...
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Movember update: mighty fine stache
Once you have broken the overwrought pattern, the ends of it wave back and forth, madly trying to connect to other things. New patterns form, weak and unsupported, very tenuous and temporary. Strange...
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Movember check-in: Seein’ Things
I'm Seein' Things, believe me, you ain't never seen before... Perception is a tricky thing, and it’s often wrong. Well, not wrong as such, but rather it depends a lot on the perceiver, including their...
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Life advice: Add enough flour until ready; bake until done.
Doesn't a bat-shaped molasses cookie scream "Christmas!" to you? I like to cook. I don’t often have the time these days, and I don’t have nearly enough experience to make anything grand, but when I do...
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May the Fourth brings forth: A Geek Prayer
Years ago, when gathering in the infamous Blue Room student lounge at the Student Union Building at UNB (which is in the building I still work in!), gamers and geeks of all stripes would gather just...
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