Category: Random Thoughts & Idle Chatter
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Circa December 2006, a new meme started creeping around the blogosphere. It’s hard to pinpoint the originator, but it is lost in the mists of the hoary internet past. No one is willing to take ownership of the first time this game of Blog Tag was started. It is simple: Tell five secrets about yourself…
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Depending on the topic at hand, our writings frequently reflect our personal feelings, opinions and experience to varying degrees. But that does not necessarily make all our stories "personal." In my inaugural post I had promised readers that Accidental Blogger would serve mostly as a conversational tool between its author [there was only one author at…
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It’s funny that Brian Leiter was wondering about Dadahead recently. I too thought of this blogger when I found myself lethargic and extremely reluctant to blog. (Except when I travel, I have never gone this long any time previously without posting fresh material.) Dadahead used to be on our blogroll and we exchanged links and lively…
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All over the city, stands and tents have sprouted up hawking Phantom Fireworks. I can’t even go to my local grocery without seeing piles and piles of tempting displays of assorted sparklers, Roman candles and small rockets all packaged together and tempting me as I rush to grab a carton of milk. (Location, location is…
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Found this useful internet tool – it measures the cussing level on blogs by comparing the number of pages containing cuss words to the total number of pages published on the website. The average rate of cussing on blogs is 10%. A.B. rates low at 3.2% – registering around the "Darn It" region. (We cuss…
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See George Will’s column in today’s Washington Post and then see my post of June 4 and comments below.
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The Memorial Day weekend at the Paul household was TV and Internet free. Early Saturday morning our cable service went out of commission and so did the two amenities dependent on it. Our cable provider Comcast blithely informed us that no technician could come out to restore connection any earlier than next Friday, the 30th…
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Cross-posted from Fluff-n-Stuff ——————————————————– A few days ago, I opened my morning paper to a surprise news item crowing about a plan to distribute free ‘Pittsburghized’ New Testaments to over 250,000 subscribers. Now, I am well used to eating my morning cereal from the little sample boxes that I pick up with my newspaper, or…
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I will be leaving town tomorrow for a few days. Unless someone else posts in my absence, the blog will not be refreshed after Tuesday, possibly until early next week. In fact I foresee a spotty blogging schedule during the entire month of May and perhaps the whole summer. My co-bloggers too will get busy…
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I am currently in the throes of a blogger’s block and a fading but persistent back ache. Hopefully I will be able to write something thoughtful in the next couple of days, instead of just fulminating about the Democratic primaries in the comments section of my co-authors’ posts. Today I will leave you with a…
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Last night during a half hearted attempt at organizing a cluttered cabinet, I came across a couple of old roadside photographs taken during family trips to India. They show two modest hotels with worthy names that caught our eyes. Both pictures were taken en route to more interesting places. Hotel Kant was photographed by my…
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Everything in Texas is big. Also a bit dangerous … and complicated. As Bill Clinton recently reminded voters here, "Texas is the only place in America where you can vote twice in the same election without going to jail." How does that work? Here is a primer. (or if you’d rather, watch this video for…
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Sometimes the most interesting conversations between A.B. bloggers take place behind the scenes – in e-mail threads. Occasionally some of them make it to the pages of the blog as posts and at other times not. Over the weekend, I had forwarded a couple of articles in mainstream publications to my fellow authors. Dean and…
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Fellow blogger Elatia Harris of 3 Quarks Daily recently suggested that I should display all my art work in one place on the blog. Agreeing that it is a good idea, I have created a new page for the purpose. There are not many more paintings or sketches that I plan to post beyond what…
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