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James
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Dad. Husband. Butler to dogs. Epidemiologist. Science & risk communicator. Lover of books, music, board games, and assorted nerdy stuff. Buddhist?
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GenX mixed-tape memories
TDK SA90 blank cassette tape.
November 22, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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By Zeus's ... beard, yeah beard... that was FUN! And perfect for the headspace I'm in and the time of year. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
#SlayersOfOld
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Book cover for Jim C Hines' "Slayers of Old". Showing the lower half of a person in yellow-orange pants, black shirt, and cane. A black cat with tentacles and too many eyes at their feet.
November 1, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Solid steel ovaries on that pilot. Flight engineer on the throttle wearing a train engineer cap. And appropriate nose art.
Nose art on NOAA hurricane hunter plane Kermit, showing Kermit the Frog in goggles and boots.
October 30, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Whatever chromosome it's on, this one has a strongly expressed copy of the gene.
Dachshund mutt standing on a kitchen chair, pondering his next act of mischief.
October 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Post by Anton Gerashenko: Russia is amassing nuclear weapons and attack submarines in the Arctic Circle as it prepares for war with NATO, Norway's defense minister has warned, the Telegraph reports. Post by WarshipCam Picture of aircraft carrier USS Gerald Ford Caption: USS Gerald R Ford (CVN 78) Gerald R Ford class aircraft carrier leaving Split, Croatia for assumed Caribbean deployment - October 26, 2025
October 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Today I learned...
Chart showing difference between chipmunks and ground squirrels
October 17, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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Amused by timeline synchronicity this morning.
October 17, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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According to wiki, you're spot on with the Old Norse root of ghyll. Looks like they both come from Old Norse but not the same root word.
Entry for the word kill from etymonline. kill(n.2) "stream, creek," 1630s, American English, from Dutch kil "a channel," from Middle Dutch kille "riverbed, inlet." The word is preserved in place names in the Mid-Atlantic American states (such as Schuylkill, Catskill, Fresh Kills, etc.). A common Germanic word, the Old Norse form, kill, meant "bay, gulf" and gave its name to Kiel Fjord on the Baltic coast and thence to Kiel, the German port city founded there in 1240.
October 9, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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Last part of a Calvin & Hobbes comic. Calvin, standing over Hobbes, says "Despite that amazing display of cunning, reflex and physical prowess, your tail still has a death grip on your butt." Hobbes, lying on the ground, says "could you stop the room please? I'd like to get off."
September 29, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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1st meeting of the day opened with a big picture of a kissing bug. Should be an interesting day.
Kissing bug
September 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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Haudenosaunee flag. Field of purple with two white squares, a white eastern pine tree, and two more white squares connected by white lines.
September 2, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Both positions.
Garden kneeler in kneeling position vs sitting position.
August 30, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Guitar tab showing A chord
August 23, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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Those look fun. For me the Sanborn fire maps were a surprising discovery that I've had to explore for work.
Index page from 1892 Sanborn-Perris Co. fire maps for Albany, NY
August 2, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Sign reading "Coffee! The emotional support elixir. Because murder is frowned upon."
July 27, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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First hummingbird sighting in our new native pollinator garden!!!

Photo from allaboutbirds.org
Female ruby throated hummingbird with a white chest and green back eating from a red flower
July 23, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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Whether Democrat, Republican, royal, oligarch, rich, or poor...

if they're on the Epstein list they deserve to go down.
Scene from Firefly. Shepherd Book telling Captain Reynolds "you're going to burn in a very special level of hell."
July 22, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Can't wait!
Order thank you note
July 16, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Backyard raptors are so great!
2 of 3 red tailed hawks fighting over the catch of the day
July 15, 2025 at 2:14 AM
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Saturday morning with coffee, a good book, and a good boy.
Dachshund mutt basking in the morning sun.
July 5, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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According to this one, we live in a wretched hive of scum, villainy, and murderers.
Petey the dachshund mutt murder alerter.
July 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Looks like someone had a successful hunt early this morning.
Fox carrying the results of a successful hunt trotting through the back yard.
June 29, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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To save people the search, On Beyond Bonkers
Overview for the book On Beyond Bonkers: This collection of plays for grown-ups offers a wide selection, from scripts that would run roughly ten-minutes in length to up to an hour on stage, from all points of the of the satirical spectrum-with some being very, very dark indeed and some being quite naughty-plays about work and relationships and aging and sex and childbirth and artificial intelligence and space travel and racism and misogyny and spiders and vampires and time travel and what it means to be a puppet.
June 27, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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Book cover for Martha Wells' "Network Effect" showing SecUnit standing on a spaceship while another flies above. Navy blue book cover for Edwin Coddington's "Gettysburg Campaign: A Study In Command"
June 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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January 24, 2024 US Embassy London Press Release "Today's media reports of an American Professor's recipe for the perfect cup of tea has landed our special bond with the United Kingdom in hot water. Tea is the elixir of camaraderie, a sacred bond the that United our nations. We cannot stand idly by as such an outrageous proposal threatens the very foundation of our special relationship. Therefore we want to ensure the good people of the UK that the unthinkable notion of adding salt to Britain's national drink is not official United States policy and never will be. Let us unite in our steeped solidarity and show the world that when it comes to tea, we stand as one. The US Embassy will continue to make tea in the proper way - by microwaving it."
June 19, 2025 at 4:57 PM