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An outrageous poem
This is a poem I uncovered while paging through a Google search on my great grandfather’s name. I make no...
Dad • Connections • 01/25/11 • 0 commentsParabolas
Parabolas from RadioLab
David • Connections • 01/14/09 • 1 commentsMadden Nation on ESPN
Madden Nation has made it big, while Maddenation remains our own private thing.
Patrick • Connections • 12/17/06 • 0 commentsLiterary Characters Named Madden
How many Maddens can we find in literature?
Patrick • Connections • 10/10/06 • 4 commentsSchool Spirit
We are N D.
Dad • Connections • 03/18/06 • 2 commentsToxic Seaweed
It has become another example of an ecological disaster wrought by humans tampering with the natural order.
Dad • Connections • 08/05/05 • 4 commentsComputer Train 2
"Can we get to Convent in 30 minutes, or would it make sense to try for another station closer to here?"
Dad • Connections/News/Observations/Puzzles • 07/24/05 • 3 commentsA conversation with Lorraine Howard
I got a strange phone call tonight after mom had gone to bed early.
Dad • Connections • 05/20/05 • 0 commentsFirst Impressions
The thesis of Gladwell's book is that first impressions, snap judgements if you will, are better than you think.
Dad • Connections • 03/12/05 • 1 commentsLive fast, die young
From bacteria to blue whales, all obey the same equation!
Dad • Connections • 02/25/05 • 14 commentsIt’s definitely Luca Brassi
Who is that thug?
Dad • Connections • 02/17/05 • 0 commentsAncestors, big and small
Like nanotechnology that's alive!
Dad • Connections • 01/22/05 • 1 commentsAtomic Spies
...a classic case of code breaking by a top-secret project called Venona.
Dad • Connections/Histories/Observations • 01/06/05 • 0 commentsThar she blows
I know from past experience that you can't just leave the cover loose because the wind blows it off.
Dad • Connections/Puzzles/Questions • 12/09/04 • 5 comments“Looking it up” to save your life
Use those reference books. They may just save your life. They saved Neil Peart's.
Patrick • Connections/Words • 10/03/04 • 1 commentsVa-cay
Hey, yo. I’d like to know what the plans are for Thanksgiving and Christmas. I’m proposing that we perhaps go...
Kathleen • Connections • 09/10/04 • 6 commentsBig Fish
As boring and staid as it sounds, all of my stories have been completely true.
Dad • Connections/Ideas/Observations/Reviews/Stories • 09/09/04 • 6 commentsBest Movie Lines
Amazingly, the first four entries in this Entertainment Weekly list of "Best movie lines ever" are from _The Princess Bride_.
Dad • Connections/Movies/Quotes/Stuffs • 08/04/04 • 2 commentsThose little serendipitous confluences
Don't you love when something subverts itself, almost unwittingly?
Patrick • Connections • 07/13/04 • 1 commentsThe Meaning of Relativity
In other words... the fact that light speed is everywhere the same leads irrefutably to the conclusion that E = mc2.
Dad • Connections/Ideas/Observations/Reviews • 04/07/04 • 0 commentsPetroleum
Petra=rock, oleum=oil. Why did this never click before?
Patrick • Connections/Words • 03/18/04 • 1 commentsWith a name like Smucker’s
What does it mean to have a name like Smucker's?
Patrick • Connections • 02/24/04 • 6 commentsPhone tag
Tonight, we wanted to talk to Patrick and Karina because we still hadn’t finalized our plans to visit them for...
Dad • Connections • 01/30/04 • 0 commentsSpeedwell
I’m still writing my talk for Church tomorrow. Woe is me. I came across some interesting information, though. You know...
Patrick • Connections • 11/23/03 • 1 commentsPolythene Pam
You should see Polythene Pam. She’s so goodlooking but she looks like a man. You should see her in drag...
Dan • Connections • 08/28/03 • 9 commentsSix Degrees of Separation
I read an interesting article in the Star Ledger today about “six degrees of separation,” that well-known conjecture about how...
Dad • Connections • 08/08/03 • 3 commentsHi and Lois and Apple
Some recent revelations, connections in my brain of things that have been there all along, one independent, one read: After...
Patrick • Connections • 07/22/03 • 3 commentsSynchronic Workings of the Intelligence
Writing about Charles Darwin’s view of the people of Tierra del Fuego (“he lapsed into that common failing of naturalists:...
Patrick • Connections • 07/16/03 • 0 commentsSinging
Anyway, Dad was talking about how Dan did a good impersonation of Neil Diamond live. Then we were talking about...
Patrick • Connections • 06/15/03 • 5 commentsVituperation
In Episode 21 of my Fulbright Diaries, I used the word vituperation, which means something like violently harsh, abusive criticism....
Patrick • Connections • 05/31/03 • 0 commentsLa Rochefoucauld
I just wanted to register here another of those “see it once, then see it everywhere” moments. Do we have...
Patrick • Connections • 05/13/03 • 4 commentsPoetry and Meaning
Dad and I were talking a little bit about the meaning of poetry because I gave him a poem to...
Patrick • Connections/Funnies/Observations • 05/13/03 • 6 commentsMonth Names
Holy moley! Add this to the collection of things that have been around you all your life, but which you...
Patrick • Connections • 04/03/03 • 0 comments“OK” Signs Interlocked and Moved Back and Forth
I am a Jedi Knight, like my father before me. I always wanted to say that! And that’s how I...
David • Connections • 03/15/03 • 1 commentsSee How They Run
Stockings needed mending? See how they run? Stockings? Run?
Patrick • Connections • 03/13/03 • 8 commentsMundane Behavior
He talked about a "rapidly expanding genre" that could be lumped together under the rubric "mundane studies."
Dad • Connections/Funnies/Ideas/Recommendations • 03/08/03 • 2 commentsOzzie and Ozzy
I was talking with Dad tonight on the phone and, in that way that things go easily from one topic...
Patrick • Connections • 03/01/03 • 0 commentsContest
Patrick and I were having one of those rambling conversations today where we touched on everything, but each kept returning...
Dad • Connections • 02/28/03 • 3 commentsLa Villa Strangiato/Cartoon Network
I was overhearing a self-promoting Cartoon Network commercial just today and suddenly it clicked that I was hearing part of...
Patrick • Connections • 02/21/03 • 3 commentsThe Dutch People
An AP article on p. 2 of the Star Ledger on 2-17-03, describes a recent change in plans for the...
Dad • Connections • 02/19/03 • 1 commentsAn Essay
"God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it." An essay about why atheists are wrong.
Patrick • Connections • 09/06/20 • 0 comments