Year: 2014

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06-Sep-1425-Feb-26I Am the Roux, Work

I Am The Roux!

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I Am The Roux. I am a loud basset. A proud basset. A messy basset. A hungry basset. A loving basset. A force of nature. As a puppy, I got lost and couldn’t find my way home. I was very, very hungry. And scared. I ended up in a sad place. The concrete was very...

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06-Sep-1425-Feb-26Stories I Tell Myself (SITM), Work

Bad Beginnings

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I’m sitting in a chair in an airport. Waiting on yet another flight. Taking a drag on a cigarette, trying to read the States-Item. Hard to concentrate since it’s been such a long day. The best routing at the best price the travel agency could give me home to Minneapolis is a Braniff hop via...

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27-Aug-1425-Feb-26Entertain Me, Meaningful Labor

Space is Tedious, But Fascinating

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Love this and have needed to blog it for awhile. «If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel: A Tediously Accurate Scale Model of the Solar System» is a brilliantly creative work that represents graphically the massive amount of space in space. On the page, 1 screen pixel corresponds to 3,474.8 km, “which is the diameter...

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20-Aug-1425-Feb-26Bayley Murphey Beagle, Beagles

Happy 20th Bayley Murphey!

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Hard to believe today is Bayley Murphey Beagle’s 20th birthday. Such a wonderful part of our lives for over 12 years, he left us in March 2007 and we do miss him. But the wild thing is that it’s been 20 years. Where did that go?

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19-Aug-1425-Feb-26History, Quotable

Sassoon and Gaza: A Hundred Years, An Unchanged Mankind

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In Palestine “On the rock-strewn hills I heard The anger of guns that shook Echoes along the glen. In my heart was the song of a bird, And the sorrowless tale of the brook, And scorn for the deeds of men.” —Siegfried Sassoon, 30-Mar-1918 An interesting story of the month Siegfried Sassoon spent in Palestine...