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It Is Time For a Change. A Rededication.

It Is Time For a Change.  A Rededication.

I have lived the last six years of my professional life trying to serve two masters, pursue two paths, to eat my cake and still have it. I’ve been advised many times this is a fool’s errand, that it will

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Monday Meme #51 — Intellectuals in America

Monday Meme #51 — Intellectuals in America

  This is the final Monday Meme in the series.  I’m shifting my focus to a more fully realized webcomic series, which I call Musings In Grayscale.  The first comic in the series will be published October 15 and future

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Monday Meme #50 — Harry Potter

Opening line of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

My penultimate Monday Meme honors the way the whole Harry Potter phenomenon got started: the opening line of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, published just 20 years ago.

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Monday Meme #49 — Political Convictions

Monday Meme #49 — Political Convictions
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Monday Meme #48 — Treasure Everything

Monday Meme #48 — Treasure Everything

Hayao Miyazaki (IMDb page) is a Japanese film director.  His 2001 animated film Spirited Away is the highest-grossing movie of all time in Japan, and won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature in 2003. He is widely considered to be

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Monday Meme #47 — Geralt of Rivia on Monsters

Monday Meme #47 — Geralt of Rivia on Monsters

Geralt of Rivia is the protagonist of a series of fantasy stories and novels by Polish author Andrzej Sapkowski. He is a witcher, a monster hunter often perceived as a monster himself. Geralt is still best known in the English-speaking world as

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Monday Meme #46 — Colette on Writing

Monday Meme #46 — Colette on Writing

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette (1873 – 1954)  was a French writer author, perhaps best known for her novella Gigi, the basis of the Lerner and Loewe musical.  She was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948; after her death she

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Monday Meme #45 — Blessed Are the Peacemakers

Monday Meme #45 — Blessed Are the Peacemakers

Jon Carroll (b. 1943) was a columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle from 1982 until his retirement in 2015.  He still writes in his own blog, Jon Carroll Prose.  His style is both fun to read and very quotable — this

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Monday Meme #44 — Script Kiddies

Monday Meme #44 — Script Kiddies

This quote is the best description of script kiddies I know. It is at least a decade old, as one might guess from the source: a LiveJournal admin. School’s out.  Beware the script kiddies.

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Monday Meme #43 — With All Due Respect

Monday Meme #43 — With All Due Respect

The most memorable quotes perfectly capture a thought you’ve often had but never quite knew how to express.  This one, from the Star Trek: New Frontier book series, fits that category for me.  If memory serves, Admiral Jellico was all too frequently on the receiving

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  • It Is Time For a Change. A Rededication.
    I have lived the last six years of my professional life trying to serve two masters, pursue two paths, to eat my cake and still have it. I’ve been advised many times this is a fool’s errand, that it will never work, that it is a waste of time and energy. And yet, I have
  • Monday Meme #51 — Intellectuals in America
      This is the final Monday Meme in the series.  I’m shifting my focus to a more fully realized webcomic series, which I call Musings In Grayscale.  The first comic in the series will be published October 15 and future installments will appear twice a month, on the 1st and 15th. Thanks for sharing this
  • Opening line of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    Monday Meme #50 — Harry Potter
    My penultimate Monday Meme honors the way the whole Harry Potter phenomenon got started: the opening line of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, published just 20 years ago.

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