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My favorite Russian songs
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Context I’ve been sharing some of these off-and-on with people, I thought I’d spend half an hour and sit down and make the list. “Don’t tell my mom I’m in Chechnya” The most hummable of all these,…
Summer walk downtown
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Just something about this lamp-speaker
Malfunctioning speaker had a sort of electronic wail to it: [wpvideo h9DYHG2m ]…
Guided drawing with Tara
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Writing with constraints
This might be an extreme example of a maxim. I was dimly aware of a novel written without the letter “E”. Recently saw a mention of it and looked it up. "Gadsby" is a novel written by Erne…
Social Network Scores
The shape of things to come: (As seen in the Economist, April 13th edition)…
The many Nostalgias of Harry Potter
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(an old draft!) I first read the Harry Potter books when I was a teenager. I revisited them when my daughter read them recently. There are, as I realized, several layers of nostalgia within them.…
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Backyard bird
Recorded this birdsong https://videopress.com/v/Bf4uxas6?resizeToParent=true&cover=true&preloadContent=metadata&useAverageColor=true Perhaps linked to this new bird feeder 🙂…
Hiking
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El Corte de Madera Creek open space preserve That three-pronged flower was a nice surprise at the end.…