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Am I a grown-up yet?

By alex | Published: 11/3/2003
When do you become an adult? An article on CNN claims that grownups are getting older by the decade. The number 26 came up, an age I considered the start of middle-agedness! When did I first think of myself as a grown-up? I think there is some part of me that would never want to […]
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Día de los Muertos

By alex | Published: 10/4/2003
Neat site for all of your Día de los Muertos needs. Why is it that this makes me feel so cold. The temperature in San Diego today is 64°; here it is 48°. Only a difference of 16°, but that makes all the difference.
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But for the grace…

By alex | Published: 10/2/2003
I often like to check out writing in fields entirely unlike my own to see what I could be doing instead; e.g., “A novel application of speckle interferometry for the measurement of strain distributions in semi-sweet biscuits.”
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Practical superheroics

By alex | Published: 9/15/2003
Angle Grinder Man sports a cape and tights and travels around London releasing clamped cars for free. Wow, that’s tuning in to one’s calling. What other microsuperheroes do we need? I’ll have to think of this a bit. Off the top of my head: Pooper scooper man, the Florinator, and Helping-with-bags-man.
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