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Category Archives: Wry
3 Ninja Fight
It happened almost a week later when both the Fairway Mall was closed and Near Absolute Hero was away fighting a fire. Tail and Modern Ninja waited less than a block away from the mall, with Mother Earth on the … Continue reading
This is a Work of Fiction
Janna was a broad consumer of books of fiction. So it was no surprise that she entered Epimenides Bookstore. What might have been surprising is how quickly she passed by the displays, not even reading a word. She was on … Continue reading
Posted in Humour, Language, Writing, Wry
Tagged book prices usually are the cover price or less, books, can a disclaimer affect price, can a disclaimer invalidate copyright, copyright military industrial complex, disclaimers of reality don't have much of a place in SF, Epimenides paradox, Fiction, historical fiction needs a strong disclaimer, out of season sale, sale, self referential paradoxes, This is a work of fiction
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Time Traveling Like an Animal
Certain earth animals can time travel two different ways. They are both methods of what I call ignorant time travel. If you can somehow ignore time’s ordinary passage and “wake up” in the future – that is ignorant time travel. … Continue reading
Posted in Science, Science Fiction, Wry
Tagged animals, bears, blood freezes first, can now fly like animals, corpsicles, could skip winter in future, cryogenics, experimenting on humans, freezing and thawing, Futurama, hibernater and human hybrid, hibernation, human and wood frog hybrid, ignorant time travel, Larry Niven, liver fills cells with glucose, science fiction authors, suspended animation, time travel, time travel to the future only, tropes, water sucked out of cells, wood frogs
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Why We Won’t Find Aliens by SETI
Those aliens, precisely because they are intelligent, are in hiding, of course. What else would you do with the human race and its addiction to violence? Transmitting higher technology to us just sounds insane. We are violent when we are … Continue reading
Posted in Humourless, Science, Science Fiction, Wry
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Irrational Bias in the Guardian
This recent Guardian article whines about today’s children not being able to use a pencil properly because all they do with their hands is press buttons and screens. But of course they had to make a large point of holding … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Social Science, Writing, Wry
Tagged "x"es and a check, 5 fingered grasp exercises 5 fingers, Bass, crokinole, dynamic sounds positive, dynamic tripod, dynamic tripod only exercises 3 fingers, fine motor skills, five fingered grasp, get a grip - The Guardian, grasp sounds negative, guitar, I can get likenesses of people while not using the dynamic tripod method, keyboards, musicians and precision games don't need the dynamic tripod method, neatness is probably in the wrist, people who hold their pen in other ways are just as fast and have as much stamina and are just as neat, recent Guardian article, The Guardian, today's children can't hold a pencil properly
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The Good Cop – Bad Cop of Rainforest Preservation
So far the rainforest preservation arguments have all been given by good cops. You know at least some of the arguments for preservation: Don’t cut down the rainforest because it produces a large percentage of the world’s oxygen supply. This … Continue reading
Posted in Geography, Humour, Politics, Wry
Tagged Afghanistan, African rainforest, agent orange defoliates, animal habitat, bad cop, biodiversity, Brazil, carbon dioxide capture by trees, carbon dioxide release by burning wood, cleared rainforest makes poor farmland, climate change, Columbia, deserts, global warming, good cop, medicinal plants, mountains, oxygen supply, plant habitat, preservation, rainforest, the US military is mighty except in rainforest and mountains, USA, Vietnam
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How to Increase the Number of Canadian Hockey Stars
I was first pointed out the selection bias in the NHL by the writings of Malcolm Gladwell. He noted that more NHL caliber players were born in the first three months of the year than any other three months. The … Continue reading
Posted in Business, Social Science, Sports, Wry
Tagged 14.5 % of players were born in last quarter of year, 36 % of NHL players were born in first quarter of year, any community with 2 teams the same age should divide by half years, birthday in first quarter of year, birthday in last quarter of year, if we don't start this some other country will, long time for pay off, Malcolm Gladwell, NHL caliber players, not a hard sell to parents of kids born in 2nd half of year, players start at 4 or 5 when months matter, selection bias, should lead to more good players, two hockey systems
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See! 1984 Didn’t Happen!
I am just old enough to have gone through high school in 1984. Being science fiction literate, I was aware of George Orwell’s prognosis for that year. But Big Brother didn’t show up that year, at least not as heralded … Continue reading
Posted in History, Politics, Science, Science Fiction, Wry
Tagged 1984, 1984 as guidebook, AIs are good enought for limited things, album, big brother, book, Cameras are really cheap, Canada has secret trials, David Lee Roth, dictatorships, facial recognition software works now, fake news, free countries, George Orwell, Trump, Van Halen, watchdog media
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A Letter to the Editor of the Kitchener Post
I have written this letter to the editor in response to a letter in the Kitchener Post (a newspaper local to me), Climate Change Gurus Have No Evidence published on January 11, 2018 in Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. I think you … Continue reading
Posted in Announcements, Politics, Science, Wry
Tagged .4 m ocean level rise, .8 degree celsius temperature increase since 1970, Al Gore, Antarctica, average surface temperature of earth, better hurricane projections, big oil, big tobacco, board up house because of hurricane, climate.gov, Europe, flee hurricane, global warming, Greendland, Kitchener, Kitchener Post, leading climate change advocate, Lloyd Fex, more hurricane deaths in early 1900s, NOAA, severity of hurricanes by deaths, severity of hurricanes by unadjusted dollars of damage, spot hurricanes by satellite, US Weather online, we're supposed to notice a .03 sq. mi. increase in the total polar ice cap., YouTube
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The Moon is Not an All Night Nightlight
Poets, songwriters and prose makers beware that if you don’t observe carefully enough, you might be taken to task for sloppy writing. In this case I’d like to call out songwriter Jason Mraz for his song “Shine”. There was a … Continue reading
Posted in Language, Music, Science, Wry
Tagged crescent shaped moon, daylight sky, farmers, first quarter, full moon, Harvest Moon, harvesting, Jason Mraz, Moon, new moon, nightlight, poets, prose writers, Shine, songwriters, stars are far away suns, Sun, the stars, the zodiac, third quarter, Yes
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