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Tangent A1: Duran Duran

We’re likely to be snowed in for several days, so in hopes of entertaining some other snowbound folks, this is the first of five daily releases on some tangents I followed when I stumbled onto something with rich connections. Tangent … Continue reading

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Crystal Caves and Moon-Spinners

Mary Stewart was a British novelist, born Mary Florence Elinor Rainbow in 1916. She taught in grade schools and lectured part-time at Durham University before moving to Scotland with her husband in 1956. After nearly dying from an ectopic pregnancy … Continue reading

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My Cultural Ignorance

There are several cultural touchstones I remain rather ignorant of, despite countless references to them throughout my six decades of existence. Peter Pan, for example. As a child, I ate plenty of his peanut butter, saw the animated Tinker Bell … Continue reading

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Simplifying Our Home Theater

A lightning strike prompted me to simplify our home theater. The bolt early one morning struck quite close to our house, disrupting our next door neighbor’s telephone landline wiring and one of its attached telephones. I had to reboot both … Continue reading

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Treks Not Travelled

“This is not your father’s Star Trek.” —2009 ad for a movie reboot My friends know that I am a big fan of Star Trek, the original series television show that was broadcast from 1966 to 1969. However, I didn’t … Continue reading

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